I’m tempted to apologise for the cynicism as it’s generally not my style… but no, forget it, the timing is little better than MON’s resignation.
I appreciate that information will be coming from the club in due course, but pumping out silly bits of PR guff as if nothing has happened is a little insulting. I’m sure it’s not as bad as I’m portraying in this cartoon, but it certainly feels a little like that.
However, my jadedness to one side,
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If you’ve followed the James Milner storyline close enough you will have been aware that Randy Lerner flew into Birmingham ahead of last weekend, setting tongues wagging that the overly drawn out transfer would be wrapped up post haste. Then he flew back to America, on Sunday I think, and the conventional wisdom was that the deal was done, more or less, it was just about crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s.
Then the international break got in the
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…he has now.
I’ve heard it said a lot in the last season. And the season before that actually. “MON has taken us as far as he can” the clairvoyants said. The evidence, for as much as evidence is worth in football, suggested the opposite to be more likely. Turns out those with physic powers were correct. The record books will forever record that this is indeed as far MON will take us.
It’s probably about 11
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Big shock. That’s all I know right now, but it’s absolutely confirmed. Not a joke.
Martin O’Neill has resigned with immediate effect. Kevin McDonald has been named as caretaker manager ahead of the game against West Ham on Saturday.
I’ll drop links in here as they emerge.
This is the club statement in full:-
AVFC
Aston Villa can confirm that Martin O’Neill has resigned as manager of the football club with immediate effect.
Kevin MacDonald, reserve team manager, has assumed the role of
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First it was Gareth Barry.
Then it was James Milner.
Now it’s our training gear…
…and our ex-players…
…and tomorrow they play Valencia.
They just love our sloppy seconds!!
I noticed that they already have a man with the microphone, but I wonder if they might be interested in this little deal…
…one careful owner, an absolute broadcasting legend.
I can’t claim it was a 37 to 1 shot since there were only six possible opponents once the groups had been created. However, although there was probably a little geography involved in the grouping procedure, it could easily have been Austria Vienna, not Rapid, in the group for instance, I don’t know what the chances were of Rapid being thrown into the same pot as Villa.
Maybe not quite lightning striking twice, but the odds of this being
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The full draw for the UEFA Europa League Play Off Round with the ties being played on 19th and 26th of August:-
(Teams will be added below as drawn after 12.30pm – you will need to refresh the page to see the latest)
You can also watch the draw live here. Teams on the left will play at home in the first leg.
Aston Villa have been drawn against Rapid Vienna Again!!
1
Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA)
vs
Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC (ISR)
2
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER)
vs
SC Tavriya Simferopol
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Following on from the preview yesterday, UEFA have now divided the 74 teams into 7 pots and Rapid Vienna have been placed in Group 6 along with Aston Villa, so there’s now a 1 in 6 chance of a rematch.
The 6 unseeded sides that we can be drawn against in Group 6 are:-
SK Rapid Wien (AUT)
FC Sibir Novosibirsk (RUS)
CS Marítimo (POR)
ŠK Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
HJK Helsinki (FIN)
The New Saints FC (WAL)
The 7 Pots in full:-
Seeded
Unseeded
Group 1
PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS)
Anorthosis Famagusta FC
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Almost all of the final Europa League 3rd qualifying round games are coming to a close and by the end of the night we’ll know the 35 teams joining us in tomorrow’s draw for the play-off round ahead of the group stage.
A few ties have been decided already, among them Rapid Vienna, who beat PFC Beroe Stara Zagora from Bulgaria 4-1 on aggregate. So, is it possible that we could get a rematch against our opponents from the same
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