So, what do we think of Villa’s pitch invasion?

[Ashberto]

I expect some will approve, citing that the game needs more ‘passion’, but three things really…

1. It’s a bit lower league, surely?
2. It was only a quarter final.
3. Doing it while the match is still underway :-|

And the Villa captain claims he was bitten. I think it has been established that biting is not cool on a football field.

Four things.

It also gives certain elements the chance to get on their high horses and bang on about stuff (eg Jonathon Pearce).

FIVE things.

[Luis Anaconda]

7 Why did no one punch Sherwood

8 Really, really why has no one punched Ryan Mason yet

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I didn't actually see it. Was there actual violence in the form of fisticuffs?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What would you expect from a pig but a grunt? Hmm?

[Ashberto]

although the players didn't feel comfortable. Some Baggies fans were ripping out seats and chucking them.

[Monty91]

Especially at clubs located in ****holes where people have nothing to live for.

Just a bit of high jinks. Harmless, really.

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

Where would the empire have been without Birmingham?

I used to live in a very reasonably-priced flat in the cheaper end of the fine, leafy, victorian suburb of Moseley. To get something similar in London would probably mean Hampstead, where you have to be an oil prince or a World Class Premier League footballer to afford anything.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Erdington. To find something similar in London, you'd have to go to Mumbai.

[Berni]

Like most of our provincial cities, however, it's really just a slightly larger Croydon.

That sounds like a cheap insult, but is actually meant as a comment on the absolutely enormous disparity between our biggest city and the rest.

[Ashberto]

Does it have a Test match ground? A stately home called Highbury? A famous chocolate factory?

[Berni]

Howard of Effingham, a Premiership football team (for the moment), the Payne's Poppetts factory and Croydon Aerodrome. Plus a Gilbert Scott parish church, a medieval alms house and much, much more.

Anyway, that isn't really the point I was making. I was pointing out that Croydon (a London Borough within the 020 phone prefix area) is a town not a great deal smaller or less populous than some of our larger provincial towns. That alone sort of makes clear the enormous gulf between London and other UK cities.

[Supermac1976]

[barrybueno]

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