A Villa Fan in Canada

Ah FFS. I thought the poxy international break wasn’t until next week. Positive spin is it’ll be over sooner than I expected, I suppose

He likes a goal in Europe does Ginny!

You never know, maybe they’re actually as rubbish as they were under Martin and you stuff them!

I have no interest in Scottish football, but saw that Russell Martin had been sacked, so checked the table. Yeah, that’s not a sacking offence - that’s a lifetime ban issued by FIFA for all levels of the sport offence 😂

How could an actual living breathing human have Rangers 8th in the SPL?!

Looks like the bats are all on fire at just the right time. Alejandro Kirk is fast becoming my favourite player, mainly because I get to roll out the “this is peak male athletic physique and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it” line every time the tubby bugger is on screen

Villa, Jays and Lions combine again for another winning weekend in the Villa Fan in Canada household!

I’d take that right now to be honest

All things considered, if we were to beat Spurs and GAE, would we have edged ourselves into “reasonable start overall” territory ahead of the international break?

Gotta take the bargains when they show up!!

Close - 6’6” 😂

I almost exclusively buy footwear at Marshall’s/Winners these days. I’m somewhat hamstrung on choice though because I’m a 14/15 depending on brand so have to just grab whatever appears most of the time

My wife sends me memes all the time, and I’m usually looking at them with blank faces saying “I don’t understand”

Then she has to explain who the people are and what it’s all about 😂

Same. The amount of TV shows and movies I’ve never seen that appear in best ever lists is never ending. I also have no idea who most celebrities are or what they look like, same for most modern bands/musicians. I know some, sure, but I do nothing to keep up with that stuff - it’s just noise.

Palace the last side to lose their undefeated record this season in GW7. That's the quickest since 2020/21

2024/25: GW10 (Man City)
2023/24: GW11 (Spurs & Arsenal)
2022/23: GW11 (Man City)
2021/22: GW11 (Liverpool)
2020/21: GW6 (Everton & Villa)

I swear to god if any of you even think about putting Malen in your FPL sides after today I'll be very upset. We all know the rules, Lucas Digne is the only Villa player you're allowed to use in FPL.

You can tell how much he appreciates your vote from the photo too 😂

Growing into a very useful player!

Clean sheet would’ve been nice, but 3 points is all that really matters. Putting a bit of a run together now despite not firing on all cylinders yet

But that's the thing, I don't necessarily think the way we're trying to play really suits him. I'm not entirely sure it's about service to him, I think we just need someone who does things a bit differently than the way he operates. Obviously he's been great, but we need to evolve a bit.

Something very much not right with him. Was ripe for cashing in on him this summer IMO. Overall I think we need to evolve things a bit up top, with Ollie we have to try to play in a specific way to make use of him, with a change we might be open to more flexibility.

Will Ange make it to the other side of the international break?

He'll always be Hector to me!

He's done well in his role as Donyell Malen though

Might have to listen to audio commentary rather than watching the game all the time after this 😂

Been begging for us to do this for ages. It works, we’re good at it, and the players know it inside out. We don’t have the players for the tippy tappy total football thing Unai has as his ideal. Have to play the system the players can play, rather than trying to force something they can’t.

Correct. Hence Asensio playing for us in the CL, and getting a winners medal because PSG won it (he played 4 times for them in the competition while also playing for us against them)

Hopefully it sorts itself out soon mate!

I went to see the Indy car a few years ago and had a flare up where my right leg, arse and, I kid you not, my old chap, went numb for about 4 hours. Freaked me out 😂

Wow…. That touch from Wirtz

MARCO. BIZOT.

Oooooof that was a peach from caicedo