The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[Lineker]

Some "stats" someone posted by someone else at a Villa forum I use..

18 - goals scored at home

4 - league wins at home

1891 - the last time we won fewer matches at home

Wolves - the 'list' of teams to win fewer games that us this season

Stoke - the "list" of teams with fewer shots on goal than us this season

Stoke, Swansea - the "list" of teams with fewer shots on target than us this season

Stoke - the "list" of teams with fewer successful passes than us this season.

Blackburn, Stoke - the "list" of teams with overall possession stats this season lower than Villa.

17 - the number of months since we scored from a corner in the league

1 - our longest win sequence in the league.

Lower gates than David O'Leary's final season.

McLeish is useless and on current form we're going down.

Clearly you need O'Leary back!!

Also, thank you for reminding me of Fashwash Roy. Amazing.

[brenchill]

But O'Leary was just as bad.

Clearly we need John Gregory back.

Just done a bit of research. Maybe not...

On 13 June 2011, Gregory was appointed the manager of Kazakh club FC Kairat from Almaty, Kazakhstan.^[6] Kairat were relegated at the end of the 2011 season to the second tier of Kazakhstan football.

[MJB]

This is the man Villa need:

[Cheeky Hughes]

So according to Twitter RVP has won Player of the Year, while the Young Player of the Year award goes to Kyle Walker. I'm sorry, but that second one is a joke.

[MJB]

Walker over Aguero?

Oh dear, oh dear.

[brenchill]

Over Aguero?

[Lineker]

Walker has been bad for the past two months or so.

Then again, which of our player's hasn't been. Astonished he's actually gone and won it though.

[Summers]

Walker was better last season.

[Matt]

That's pretty dumb, I think 23 should be too old for the YPOTY anyway but that's by the by, Aguero qualifies, he should've won.

[IAceI]

But O'Leary was just as bad.

Clearly we need John Gregory back.

Just done a bit of research. Maybe not...

On 13 June 2011, Gregory was appointed the manager of Kazakh club FC Kairat from Almaty, Kazakhstan.^[6] Kairat were relegated at the end of the 2011 season to the second tier of Kazakhstan football.

He got accused of being homosexual as well I believe and pretty much chased out of a club - may have been FC Kairat but I'm not sure.

[brenchill]

Gregory gay? No chance.

He's a real man. He wears brute and everything.

[Cheeky Hughes]

PFA Team of the Year: Hart; Walker, Kompany, Coloccini, Baines; Silva, Yaya Toure, Parker, Bale; Rooney, van Persie.

[Colly]

Niall Quinn said his nominations tended to be swayed by what he'd read in the paper on that particular day, and given he's intelligent (certainly by football standards) I wouldn't place much faith in everyone else.

[Cheeky Hughes]

On a stranger note, found this via @OddsChanger on Twitter:

Tottenham's Kyle Walker wins PFA Young Player of the Year. He was 33/1 less than a week ago backed into favourite. Somebody knew something.

[IAceI]

A lot of firms suspended the market as people were putting thousands on when he was at the 33/1 long shot.

[Summers]

Sounds.. convenient for those betters.

[Liam]

That kinda shit always happens.

[IAceI]

Probably just slipped out to someone that the result had been confirmed and Kyle Walker had won it, so they acted accordingly a put big money on it. The real inquisition needs to be on WHY Kyle Walker won it.

[Liam]

It also wouldn't take a huge amount of money to take a 33/1 shot in a fair bit.

[DavidMarrio]

I haven't seen any of the games so watching MOTD now, all I can say is that Fellaini had a stormer from the looks of things.