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Barca, Utd, or anyone else who might fancy themselves as the biggest club in the world take note.

Real Madrid have upped the stakes.

Ah, April. One day you'll be a source of endless entertainment, I'm sure.

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Dudley

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Aston Villa statement: "Our long-standing captain Stiliyan Petrov has been diagnosed with Acute Leukaemia"

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BBC Sport fucked up the reporting on that, all it said on the BBC news site was "BBC Sport : Petrov has Leukaemia".

My mind went straight to F1.

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but if he is there would be no time to prepare once the season ends. Redknapp will know nothing about who his best team is and would know nothing of his opponents. He'll go to the Euro's blind ...

To be honest, the last few who have had time to prepare didn't exactly do phenomenally well. Maybe that's just what is needed?

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To be honest, the last few who have had time to prepare didn't exactly do phenomenally well. Maybe that's just what is needed?

Maybe they could borrow camelots lottery machine that chucks the red balls out. Instead of numbers you can have the names of the entire currently available england squad. Then it's random selection till the places are filled :)

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Sounds like there was an amazing game in the Bundasliga tonight. Dortmund (top) against Stuttgart (5th) and it ended up 4-4. Dortmund were 2-0 up with twenty minutes to play, Stuttgart then scored three goals in ten minutes to go 3-2 up, their third goal looks like it came about 15 seconds after Dortmund kicked off after conceding the second. Dortmund made it 3-3 a minute or so later and then took the lead again with three minutes to play. Stuttgart then made it six goals in the final twenty minutes with a 90th minute equaliser. Amazing scenes!

Highlights

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Liamness

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Couple of things:

- Torres has scored.

- Wolves' hopes of staying up are all but gone.

- City scored two goals within moments of each other in the last ten minutes at Eastlands, but still drew to Sunderland.

- Tarrabt done a goal, and apparently his celebration involved the wearing of the fez, which he somehow already had on his person?

Definitely watching MOTD tonight then.

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...and can Mcleish take both Birmingham teams down in successive seasons?

It's looking increasingly likely. We have a six point cushion, but are in rotten form and have an incredibly difficult run in. Liverpool away next, and we also still have to play Stoke, Man Utd, Sunderland, West Brom, Spurs and are away at Norwich on the last day. The rearranged game against Bolton (postponed because of Muamba) is going to be a genuine six pointer. Said it in the Villa thread too, but if we do go down then there will be plenty of Villa fans only too happy to tell Randy Lerner and Paul Faulkner "we told you so"

I guess if we do go down and get rid of McLeish then the question has to be asked that will he go to WBA next season and attempt the hat trick?

Also Real Madrid in crushing win shocker, but two more for Cristiano Ronaldo takes him to 37 goals in 30 league games this season so barring injury he is going to beat last seasons record of 40 league goals. He has a total of 103 in 93 league games since signing for Madrid. With those incredible exploits

It's weird how Cristiano Ronaldo is almost in danger of becoming a forgotten man of the game. He is incredibly unfortunate be playing at the same time as Leo Messi and to have a namesake who absolutely lit up world football.

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I don't think c.ronaldo will be forgotten. He's one of the best technical footballers the game has seen where as Messi is just effortlessly sublime. The problem is more the other good footballers who are forgotten in both teams, higuain and benzema were both superb tonight as well and benzema scored a superb volley.

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It's looking increasingly likely. We have a six point cushion, but are in rotten form and have an incredibly difficult run in. Liverpool away next, and we also still have to play Stoke, Man Utd, Sunderland, West Brom, Spurs and are away at Norwich on the last day. The rearranged game against Bolton (postponed because of Muamba) is going to be a genuine six pointer. Said it in the Villa thread too, but if we do go down then there will be plenty of Villa fans only too happy to tell Randy Lerner and Paul Faulkner "we told you so"

I guess if we do go down and get rid of McLeish then the question has to be asked that will he go to WBA next season and attempt the hat trick?

From the Chelsea side, that game was night and day compared to every Chelsea-Villa match I've seen in the last decade. They've almost always been close but yesterday if Chelsea had a slightly less nervous number 9 that could well have been a 7 or 8-0 tonking. I've NEVER been able to say that about a Villa match. In another thread I used the phrase "Are you league 2 in disguise" around the time of the first goal.

Admittedly this wasn't even Villa's 2012 starting line up but they just didn't look like the same club.

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It was a hugely inexperienced side yesterday, the "old men" of the front six were Ireland and Agbonlahor who are 25 years old. We had Wiemann, Herd, Gardner, Bannan, Lichaj and Baker in the starting XI, they have about 20 first team appearances between them and Chris Herd has about 10 of those appearances to himself. We are down to the bare bones. Bent is out for the season, N'Zogbia, who hasnt exactly set the world alight but was our big summer signing is out for a month and of course the plight of our captain Stan Petrov was headline news yesterday. It's weird how much goodwill a team will get when you half a dozen twenty year olds in the starting XI, people are generally charitable when they get outclassed by experienced campaigners but we could find the same happens to us when we play the likes of Liverpool, Stoke, Manchester Utd (etc) and if the teams beneath us continue with their current good form then we might be in the bottom three by the end of the month.

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So I see that nobody is up in arms that the ref awarded City a penalty for a blatant dive yesterday.

There was an article on the BBC as well (I'm on my phone, so can't link) that basically says United don't get favoured at all, as somebody checked through the Opta stats.

Funny, eh?

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So I see that nobody is up in arms that the ref awarded City a penalty for a blatant dive yesterday.

There was an article on the BBC as well (I'm on my phone, so can't link) that basically says United don't get favoured at all, as somebody checked through the Opta stats.

Funny, eh?

Maybe that's because it wasn't a blatant dive.

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