🔴⚪️ River Plate have reached 105 consecutive sold-out matches, with more than 85.000 fans in attendance at the Mâs Monumental.
This was the team’s reception at the latest Superclásico against Boca Juniors. ⤵️🎥
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Don't want to overstate this but 20-minute highlights of every Premier League game in history, free and on demand, means that this should be a national holiday.
https://t.co/nmvkmFEy7J
A while back, I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This gets wild.
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When results are not going your way, it’s natural to see things through a more negative lens. Many #AstonVilla fans right now are understandably frustrated. They see a flat team, with players lacking confidence, and results are not good.
So an alternative, more positive, perspective may not be the one they most want to hear. But here it goes
The team, limited by the finances everyone knows about which cannot be forgotten, collapsed after their regular centre midfielders got injured. But McGuinn might return for the Lille game and Tielemas for the second leg or even before. And when they do, Morgan Rogers can stop doing everything as he is trying now, and focus, which will bring a much better Rogers, #AVFC best player.
I feel Unai Emery looks at difficulties as obstacles to beat, challenges. So his energy multiplies. He is convinced the solutions he has applied in the past, with their multiple variations, still work for this team. And so far, that way of working has worked for him at Villa
Europe will be for this next round (and I am sure more rounds) a place of excitement and success.
That for the short and medium term.
And for the long term… It is clear this team has given a lot, some recycling might be needed. And if that happens, I am sure Olabe/Emery have identified players, half a dozen, perhaps even more, that can come within budget, with new energy, new traits that can help the structure. It is important to play in the Champions League next season to bring those of higher quality.
And with that, Unai will also renew his own energies and continue the adventure in Birmingham, which I am convinced is the best for him and for the club.
Can you look at the picture from a little bit of emotional distance and apply some logic? Not easy, I know, but you have enough reasons from past experiences to trust the process
Please help us spread the word, share in your group chats, on social media and by word of mouth to those who aren’t online.
Bring your scarf tomorrow and hold it aloft and outstretched when the players enter the pitch.
We are Aston Villa Football Club.
#avfc#utv
The only negative of Villa being near the summit is coming on here and seeing every Gen Z football illiterate saying how much bigger their club is and damning Villa with faint praise like some puppy.
In the history of English football there's Liverpool and Manchester United who are significantly bigger. The rest are either corrupt rich, or stat padded minor European trophies and who haven't won the European Champions Cup as Champions of England.
In 151 years, Aston Villa Football Club have spent 70% of their existence in the top half of the top flight. For comparison, Leeds United have spent 50% of their existence in tier 2.
Any start to finish ( of English football, not 20 arbitrary "corrupt rich" years) historical top 4 includes Aston Villa Football Club. And it would take 50 years outside ghe top flight to change that.