I've decided ... my favourite Prem team is Villa!

[goldstone]

1. Intelligent manager who hails from these islands of ours.

2. Squad with more English players than any other team in the Premier League. FIVE in the latest England squad.

3. Seem to be breaking the Chelsea/Man U/Arsenal/Liverpool stranglehold at the top of the Premier which must be good for English football.

Villa's rise up the table is in many ways the best thing that has happened to English football this season.

 

[Gully]

Good choice, I have always liked O'Neill as a manager...would quite happily have seen him given the England job...the key to his, and Villa's, success this season may prove to have been managing to keep Gareth Barry at the club...how that man hasn't had more England caps is a complete and utter mystery to me.

Agree with you completely about it being nice to see a club breaking the stranglehold of the big four, Everton aren't far off achieving the same feat under Moyles, the Premiership is certainly far more interesting this year than it has been for ages.

 

[Jesus Gul]

screwed us over Gareth Barry payments!!

 

[Marc]

my mates a Villa fan and I just know he's got the biggest most smuggiest grin on his face in all the world right now! I do like their fast attacking football and it is a credit to O'Neill to get 5 lads in the England Squad.....and people LAUGHED when I said he should take over from Sven

 

[Timbo]

screwed us over Gareth Barry payments!!

I think we screwed ourselves to be honest! Anyway £1.5m for a lad who'd played about half an hour for the youth team wasn't too bad.

Would love to see Villa finish maybe second and also Everton in the top 4. I can see Arsenal and Chelsea missing out on champions league. Then watch Roman disappear!

 

[goldstone]

Good choice, I have always liked O'Neill as a manager...would quite happily have seen him given the England job...the key to his, and Villa's, success this season may prove to have been managing to keep Gareth Barry at the club...how that man hasn't had more England caps is a complete and utter mystery to me.

Agree with you completely about it being nice to see a club breaking the stranglehold of the big four, Everton aren't far off achieving the same feat under Moyles, the Premiership is certainly far more interesting this year than it has been for ages.

Yup, would be great to see Everton up there competing. Moyes is another manager who is doing a good job.

The better teams like Villa and Everton perform, the less likely the Premier League will end up as a four-team version of the joke that is the Scottish Premier.

 

[NMH]

I think they are a LOT of people's wish to take the Prem trophy - but I doubt they will quite pip United at the post.

O'Neill is an excellent manager, and I can't see how anyone could not like him (from his interviews and general attitude).
Of current managers at the top, Steve Bruce, David Moyes and Phil Brown are others who behave with decorum and respectability imho. Bruce especially because of the way he was treated by Birmingham City and went through it without a bitter public tirade. In turn, karma came to Brum's house to give them 'the blues' and relegation.
Not that they are doing particularly poorly now, but that episode with the Thai takeover was the debacle that made me happy we weren't going to get Gold down here for Falmer.

 

[Simon Morgan]

villa have done well, but they are overrated and wont win the league. I think their success owes a lot to the underperforming big 4 this season.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Always had a soft spot for Villa, they were the 1st 'glamour' club that i saw dropping into our division in the early 70's and it was the 1st really big ground i went to and i've always rated Villa Park as somewhere special.

I don't have a lot of time for the Prem but i like to see an entertaining team and Villa are certainly that. O'niell has always been a bit special as a manager too.

 

[Slough Seagull]

villa have done well, but they are overrated and wont win the league. I think their success owes a lot to the underperforming big 4 this season.

with the exception of Merchandising United the entire premiershite is overrated...

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Why do you need a favourite Prem team?


Don't try and tell me that the Premier League is the most exciting it has been for years. Man United will walk the league and two of the promoted teams will go down. If someone other than 'the big 4' finishing in the top 4 quantifies a successful season for English football then it shows how far modern football has come.

 

[Taybha]

Ile just wait till we are in the prem b4 i divulge mine

 

[Slough Seagull]

Why do you need a favourite Prem team?

I've never understood this glory hunting second team bollocks either...

Don't try and tell me that the Premier League is the most exciting it has been for years. Man United will walk the league and two of the promoted teams will go down. If someone other than 'the big 4' finishing in the top 4 quantifies a successful season for English football then it shows how far modern football has come.

very wise words

 

[Giraffe]

Don't like the premiership at all but yes Villa are doing it the right way.

 

[defrocked priest]

Nobody likes a bandwagon jumper.

 

[Taybha]

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[goldstone]

Why do you need a favourite Prem team?


Don't try and tell me that the Premier League is the most exciting it has been for years. Man United will walk the league and two of the promoted teams will go down. If someone other than 'the big 4' finishing in the top 4 quantifies a successful season for English football then it shows how far modern football has come.

I don't NEED a favourite Prem team ... excuse my choice of words. What I was trying to say is that, for the reasons given, I hope Villa do well this season and they are the team I would most like to succeed.

And no, I don't believe it's the most exciting for years, but at least the top four have become a top five and Arsenal and Chelsea keep dropping points which is a good thing. And Liverpool can still mount a challenge to Man U, but I agree that their chances of winning it are slipping.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Why do you need a favourite Prem team?


Don't try and tell me that the Premier League is the most exciting it has been for years. Man United will walk the league and two of the promoted teams will go down. If someone other than 'the big 4' finishing in the top 4 quantifies a successful season for English football then it shows how far modern football has come.

I would like to voice my support from this particular post.

 

[severnside gull]

Home v Villa was the first game I saw Brighton play (in the old Div2)

Now my son supports them (born after I moved from Brighton and I've never been able to make him see sense).

I've a sneaking regard for the job O'Neil is doing (and a small bet on them finishing in the Champions League places). If it carries on as is I fancy them to finish 2nd

 

[Stoo82]

Glory Suporter.