Rombling - Mistresses, Smugglers & Blatter
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- Created: Sunday, 22 February 2009 21:06
- Written by The Rome
I wasn't surprised to see Aston Villa lose 1-0 to Chelsea yesterday. I had a feeling that Hiddink would provide them with a bit of fresh impetus, and we've had a tough week. I'm sure people will go overboard and say that this is the beginning of the end for the Villains, that they're overrated and not top 4 material. Let the Villa bashing commence, come on, I can take it.
Chelsea completely controlled the first half - probably their best performance since they beat us earlier in the season. Villa came back into it second half and I'm sure you'll be climbing over yourselves to rip off my rose tinted spectacles, but I thought we were worth a point. Chelsea held on though and it seems that they save their best displays for us, rather like my 90minutes colleague Darren "Smuggler" Douglas keeping his pool 'A' game for when he takes me on.
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Anyone watching ‘outsiders’ CSKA Moscow entertain Aston Villa this week will hopefully have picked up on something: Villa are nothing special.
