Becky

My flat mate was stuck in holding on the website for half an hour at 7am Monday getting his ticket I have my ticket as well, and we're at Birmingham Uni so it's a pretty easy trip for us getting to Villa Park

Never nice to see a player get injured, particularly one who brings so much to the Prem but am glad that he'll be missing against us The Croatian FA's president is being ridiculous though, saying that he thinks there could be a conspiracy that we're trying to injure the Croatian players, with Modric's injury following Eduardo's horrific injury just before we played them last time (both of those injurys occurred when playing against Birmingham, do B'ham even have any English internationals in their team? And they are currently being managed by a Scot so I somehow doubt he's trying to help England out)

We've got Atletico Madrid Looks like Man Utd may have a bit of travelling to do for their away games

Well done JT, and liked his little grin after we got drawn with Porto

When John went up to life the FA Cup, we were there, we were there!

Come on you blue boys! What a day! Thank you Guus Franky, Ash and Malouda in particular were absolute quality today Thanks for the pics as well

I didn't see it live when it actually happened so I don't know if they saw it even worse there, but I've seen the pics and it is horrible, intentional or not the tackle was horrendous. The players reactions when they saw it shows just how bad the injury was and any prejudices because he plays for Arsenal should be forgotten- football takes a back seat here and I wish him all the best in his recovery

Unless I'm mistaken they're giving it as an own goal but at least the little man put pressure on him. What a game from SWP, the finish for the first goal was just beautifully done. Atmosphere was great, same as Elliott, still buzzing which isn't useful as I'm actually supposed to be finishing my AS Biology core practical instead of being online but I couldn't stop myself All we need is for Pizarro to get a goal or 2 and get his confidence up but from the way he's playing at the moment I can't really see it happening. Why the hell did Shev have to be injured now? Bloody hell the ref tried as hard as he could to give Everton the game! I haven't seen a replay of Mikel's challenge but it did not look a straight red to me (or anyone sitting around me). And if that was a red then surely Carsley and Neville should have been off as well if the ref was gonna show any consistency in his decisions. Bring on Goodison EDIT: Forgot to mention that Belletti did brilliantly tonight, he was far more attacking than Malouda, the most defensive attacking midfielder I've seen in a while

Corners- just give them to Belletti. He seems to be the only one with a good and fairly consistent delivery each time he takes set pieces, his corner and free kick against Fulham helped set up both goals for example. Free kicks in shooting distance- Ballack, he has more precision and (although the wall was poor, they did leave a huge gap for him) he scored one against Villa and I can't remember the last time Frank scored a free kick. If it's further away then Alex. Just don't give it to SWP. Or there's no point our defenders going up into the opposition penalty area at all because it won't pass the first man.