Winnersaint

Nothing the Altright say or do is right.

Hmmm the ever so helpful Altright view.

Reading the comments below just makes me cringe! Some nasty people in this country of ours.

I have to confess when Black was appointed to the coaching staff my heart sank somewhat. Villa were boring and predictable and not very good, but they went into a nosedive with him in temp charge. It doesn't speak highly of his people management skills that he wasn't able to inspire a 'dead cat bounce' last season. Don't know anything much about the guy, we may just all be speculating for no reason for all I know, but I'd sooner he wasn't part of our club.

Nah. Won't vote! Don't give a **** anymore. Election is and always has been a foregone conclusion and debate about it on a football forum is just pointless.

That's always their answer. In the past I was told to go on gentle walks with the dog 'after all you're nearly sixty so what do you expect?' My most recent GP is a cyclist, he gets it! Good luck WSS.

I suspect Timmy you and and I are very politically very close. Just giving a viewpoint of a small part of the NHS. No politics involved, so don't be t-oss-er!

Just giving one person's experience tbh. Hopefully it doesn't mirror the elsewhere in the NHS, but it does have a 'culture' issue.

With regards to the NHS, two very close family members are currently receiving brilliant care from our beleaguered health service. That said, I have a certain level of second hand inside knowledge as my wife worked in the NHS. Her experience to that point had been in the private sector, in retail and in financial services. During her time in the NHS she was determined to bring in levels of practice she was familiar with from the private sector but was pretty much universally blocked from doing so by existing non-clinical managers. The wastage of resources both human and financial in the NHS bordered on the criminal. It is easy to put a headline in a right-wing rag bemoaning the bloated managerial structure and outdated practices but that was a reality I'm afraid in her experience. There are people that can see right through it, but they are effectively bullied and discredited by the NHS 'lifers' in the back office.

Hate to say it but A3 B3, but that's only because of the way the question has been posed effectively turning it into an election of personalities not parties. Had question B included B1 Labour not Corbyn my response would have been different.

I don't work Fridays!

Why is it I don't give a s-h-i-t any more? Been going since 1963, never felt this disinterested!

Would be a good watch Though. Pay good money to to see those fresh air thieves expire! Especially the frog faced Brexit k-u-n-t.

What an arse!

Mixed fortunes for UKIP, they've lost every council seat in the local elections, will be decimated in the general election, whilst the same time gaining overall control of the Tory party.

It's the way of the world! F**k me sometime in the near future we will be relegated. How the f*** are you entitled m**gs going to react then

Stop with this rational, sensible talk LDH.

Sportsmen/women are in it for the money, I accept that, but their prime motivation is winning. VVD will win nothing at Saints, however at Chelsea..............? As some have pointed out it will take years to grow our club into the club we want it to be.

Quite frankly I don't give a tom-tit anymore. If he goes he goes. Thanks VVD. shame you couldn't play out the season, but that's football, and we need to sell assets like you to grow the club.

I work with three Liverpool fans (only one's a near Scouser from the Wirrell btw) they don't laugh at us nor does my neighbour who also support Liverpool. I work with a couple of Man U fans also they don't think we're a laughing stock either, nor do the Chelsea, Arsenal, West Ham and Spurs fans. The Reading and QPR fans would cut their own right arm off to be in our position. The only ones who don't quite get it are the kids. They've been fed the modern Sky branded football and are also, by nature, rather immature. If the OP is similar in age then his bleats are a little understandable if not then he is a tool.

Oh well! It was a fun day.

Come on LDH stop talking so much good sense we don't expect it of you. A dismissive, 'pony' and a few insults are what we expect!

Indelibly imprinted in memory Jan to May 76. From Hughies last minute saver against Villa, through Paul Bennett's pile driver against Blackpool, an aborted trip to The Hawthorns ended by a broken radiator and the excitement on the Milton as we made short order of West Brom in the replay. There we were two games from Wembley pinching ourselves that we were up against a 4th Division team in Bradford. The days when the excitement wasn't just on the pitch. Twas a lively day on the terraces. Jim McCalliog's goal and the reaction from the Bradford fans gives you a taste of the atmosphere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc49wdiFXYA Then it was the semi-final. Palace under Malcolm Allison with his feckin stupid Fedora, but I wasn't there that day. Cheers BWS, Salisbury for organising an A Level Geography field week in North Wales. We even manged to make the best of that. Atop Cader Idris we listened to the faint radio broadcast of Rag Trade winning the National' before descending into a radio black hole back to Llyn Cau, only at the bottom to be able to pick up the Radio 2 commentary of Man U v Derby. The afternoon erupted and no more fieldwork was done when the broadcast cut to Stamford Bridge to say we were two up. We didn't even know we were one up. Some of you may read this and have been there, stuck in North Wales the following day trying in vain to find somewhere we could see 'The Big Match'. And so to the day itself, a coach from Whiteparish because it was cheap and half way between Salisbury and Romsey. Getting to Wembley and it swarming with MU fans like some kind of Zombie apocalypse. Getting in the ground and waiting while Lawrie Mac and the team came out. The game began and almost immediately our worst fears were almost realised as Ian Turner flapped like a demented bird just managing to put something in the way of a Coppell shot with Macari and Stuart Pearson way to close to comfort in the first minute. In the end Macari's feet were high and a free kick was given. Turner spilled another from a shot on the turn by Pearson and batted the ball away shortly after and by the time he saved again from Gordon Hill when he was clean through you began to feel that at least we might be in with a fighting chance. Saints might not have shown too much as a threat but Bobby Stokes and Mick Channon made the runs and all of a sudden we were containing 'the bright, young' Man U side rather than being under the cosh. It wasn't pretty, we broke the game up, stopping United sweeping fluid game with fouls that would have resulted in yellows these day. The second half started pretty much as the first ended. Saint's defending resolutely without being stretched with the only moment of panic being when an in swinging near post corner was headed on to Sammy McIlroy who nodded it on to the bar. Hearts in mouth time. We'd just played the game so well that far it would have been an injustice if we'd gone one down then. The moment Gordon Hill was substituted was a plus in the afternoon. He'd terrorised Division 1 defences the whole season and with him out the way and Saints coming more and more into the game you began to sense something was on the cards. It was a heavy, humid and very warm day and United were beginning to flag as our more experienced heads took control. The run up to the goal is lost to time. Man U weren't looking like scoring and we really didn't pose much of a threat going forward and I think a lot of us were thinking of extra-time. I've looked back on those last ten minutes on YouTube to see if anything really stood out but it is all a blur. Even now all I can see is Bobby with a march on Brian Greenhoff hitting a left foot shot across Stepney which he was never getting to. Anyone that was near to where I was could see the moment that the ball left his foot it was in. Euphoria, disbelief even before the ball hit the back of the net. Offside! Not a bit of it Martin Buchan was playing him on. I can remember that the crazy celebrations on Wembley's Tunnel End upper tier were cut short as United went close, but those last seven or eight minutes are just lost. Nothing registers apart from the nervous anticipation I felt as the minutes ticked away. Suffice to say it just seemed to drag. We knew it was done when United were offside in the last minute and again in injury time, that much I do remember. Then the whistle went!!!!

Believe you me it's been an awful lot worse than this

Don't go then.