Marc Mccool

@simonlines I've been going to villa park since 1992 and it has nothing to do with hospitality. Th atmosphere is poor at most games unless its an exciting game or we're playing certain teams e.g. blues 🤷

The end to any hope of generating consistently good atmospheres at VP came when they turfed fans out of the North for ‘The Cells’, stopped fans using The Holte Suite for the Lower Grounds & introduced a form of hospitality into our famous Holte End. Not like nobody warned them.

@J_Tanswell @TheAthleticFC Cause villa fans are miserable 😂

Unai Emery and senior figures have tasked #AVFC to look at ways to improve the atmosphere at Villa Park. Fan groups are engaging, with Villa open to suggestions. So what are the reasons behind the perceived decline in atmosphere? @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/70676…

@avfcbreaking I'm fairly sure You're was injured via contact as well

The Pattern Behind Villa’s Injuries Under Emery Injuries are rarely random when they cluster by position and tissue type. Aston Villa’s recent issues — knee and ankle problems in midfield, a hamstring strain in a wide role, and chronic knee irritation for a striker — point less to bad luck and more to systemic load. Under Unai Emery, Villa play with compactness, pressing triggers and rapid transitions. That creates repeated accelerations, sharp decelerations and constant directional changes. Over time, that stress accumulates. Midfield: Rotational Stress Emery’s central midfielders operate in tight spaces, pressing, pivoting and reacting. They absorb heavy rotational torque through the knees and ankles. Unlike centre-backs, who move more linearly, midfielders live in constant 360-degree movement. Knee and ankle problems in that zone are often products of cumulative braking and turning forces rather than impact trauma. Wide Roles: Sprint Exposure Wide players and attacking full-backs are repeatedly asked to sprint forward and recover quickly. Hamstrings are most vulnerable during high-speed running, particularly under fatigue. In a high-transition system, that risk naturally rises. The Striker: Repetitive Load Villa’s striker is not static. Pressing, channel runs and explosive take-offs create repeated joint stress, particularly around the knee. Chronic irritation is often the result of microstress layered over minutes. Why Others Avoid It Fixture count alone doesn’t explain injury patterns. What matters is sprint frequency, deceleration load and tactical intensity. One team accumulates distance. Another accumulates torque. Villa’s injuries cluster in high-transition, high-rotation roles — suggesting the stress flows through the pressing spine. That is the trade-off of Emery’s intensity: structural control on the pitch, but elevated physical demand in the engine room. #AVFC

@avfcbreaking Kamara got injured via contact it has nothing to do with load 🤦 PCL injuries are so rare in football mainly because the mechanism doesn't occur in football unless there's contact.

@eurofootcom If van Dijk is so good why did he have to play for mid table teams or lesser leagues for 7 years? If he was that good wouldn't he have been playing in the top league for 20 years like Terry did? 🤷

🗣️✨ Virgil van Dijk: "People have been questioning whether Virgil Van Dijk or John Terry is the better Premier League centre-back. For me, Van Dijk is just a Rolls-Royce and the two of them go in the same category." "Van Dijk delivers all the time and has started to make Milos Kerkez look better with his organisation. It was a tough game against Forest but he stood up and delivered." (BBC)

@Omahh_11 Don't you find it embarrassing that arteta has spent over double what Emery has at villa and arsenal are only 7 points ahead 😂😂

Unai EMERY, ladies and gentlemen. He has been a manager for 22 years.😌 Let's forget about the 2 years he managed the Division 1 side. He has 20 years of management experience, and in that time, he has finished in the top 3 only 5 times, and in the top 2 just twice — and that was nearly 15 years ago. Emery’s average league position at Valencia is 4th, at Sevilla is 6th, at Villarreal is 7th, and currently at Aston Villa, it’s 6th. That’s the level Emery can operate at. Some Arsenal fans feel the club’s board didn’t back him, especially considering he almost sold Saka in exchange for Zaha. Emery managed PSG, one of the richest clubs in the world. PSG winning the French league is as common as Eba from Garri. But what did Emery achieve? He lost the league to Monaco, which was quite embarrassing — he lost by about 8 points and scored 24 goals fewer than Monaco. Disgraceful. Aston villa has been eliminated in both FA cup and Carabao cup Tell your club to sign him if you think he is a world class manager Manchester City needs a manager Tottenham needs a manager Liverpool need too

@5Pillarsuk Crazy how immigration gets confused with religion. Any British person could be Muslim and follow the teachings of islam. It has nothing to do with race. Whilst a high % of those in and around the Aston area of Birmingham were born there. Meaning they are British 🤷🤦

Speaking on TalkSPORT this morning, ex football club chairman Simon Jordan raged against the Muslim community. The right wing commentator brought up several far right, Islamophobic talking points, including Shari'ah law, first cousin marriages and Jew hatred.

@TyBracey Probably something like. The threshold for a push was not reached. Even though you're not allowed to push anyone at anytime anywhere on the pitch 🤷😂

How the fucking hell did VAR look at this and say no penalty?! 😂

@Porsalin @AVFCOfficial We're 3rd 🤦

A point on the road ⚖️

@TacticallyMatt @_kjs1874 Not better, about the same.

@_kjs1874 Because he's better

If I'm Tuchel I'm starting both. Pickford James, Guehi, ??? (up for grabs), Hall Rice, Anderson Saka, Bellingham, Rogers Kane

@russkyd11 So sell players who get injured? Is that your solution?

Kamara & Onana are reportedly responsible for around £15m per year in wages. Fantastic players when fit, but is that REALLY sustainable in our financial position? #AVFC

@Blackstaffdog @villareport @J_Tanswell Bad as he now has two different knee injuries and not just one 🤷

@villareport @J_Tanswell Is this good or bad?

🚨 The extent of the issue was a tear of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in Boubacar Kamara’s left knee & not a recurrence of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture he sustained in 2024. @J_Tanswell #avfc

@TouchlineX @Ramon_AlvarezMM Absolutely no way real Madrid fans would enjoy Emery's style of football. It's too structured and slow 🤷

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: If Real Madrid decide to change managers after this season, Unai Emery will be the top candidate. Conversations have already taken place in recent days to assess his readiness. — @Ramon_AlvarezMM

@cymru_sport @AberystwythTown @YAFCthebuns Can they understand your accent in wales sam? 😂

"𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘂𝘀..." @AberystwythTown defender Sam Paddock reflects on the 4-0 win over @YAFCthebuns in the Cymru South yesterday cymrusport.cymru/post-match-22-…

@deutsch_richter @FPLFella Yeah you're right living in a house you don't own spending your cash in hand that you get from cleaning toilets is such a good lifestyle. I bet they get given a penthouse in cannery wharf as well 🤦

@mccooltherapy @FPLFella ... living in social housing properties and working on the side unregistered and not paying tax (restaurants, drivers, construction) were most definitely better off. Sadly not an uncommon scenario in London.

I've been paying Tax and NI for over 20 years now. Never had a day, week, month unemployed. I've been consistently working, only moved jobs when I've had one to go to. Never claimed ANY benefits at all. Am I lucky, probably but are UK taxpayers in a similar position continuously getting screwed over and over again? 100%

@deutsch_richter @FPLFella If you think someone on benefits is better off than someone with a good job who earns enough to pay tax then you have never shopped in farm foods 🤷🤦

@FPLFella Wait until you do the math of what a family of unemployed adults claiming benefits for multiple children,living in social housing and working cash in hand jobs on the side clear each month.Not millions,but more than two average hard working adults.Literally makes no sense to work

@RealDannyTommo Not sure you understand that you can be both English and Muslim which is better than being English and a massive dickhead 🤦

BIRMINGHAM BELONGS TO THE ENGLISH NOT THE ISLAMISTS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 THIS IS ENGLAND ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The masked mob does NOT speak for the city of Birmingham. WE ARE ENGLAND. WE DO NOT BOW. ✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@ribbobobs From the 90s? What? No cause it was the 90s that you were talking about 🤷🤦

@mccooltherapy 😂😂😂 any more recent case you can think of? No.

This response from Healey is an utter disgrace. In a civilised country peaceful, law-abiding citizens shouldn’t have to be ‘vigilant’. Is the presumption now that we are no longer one of those?

@ribbobobs @owenjonesjourno @AaronBastani I bet Steven Lawrence would argue otherwise 🤷

@owenjonesjourno @AaronBastani The depths people will sink to justify the vandalising of our society by importing the third world is staggering I remember the 90s. Safe to walk around at night save for a few dodgy areas.Gangs were for inner cities and zombie knives were unheard of. No 50,000 terror watch list

@RafHM So what you're saying is that NHS need to spend more money on supporting ethnic groups with mental health funding. Almost as though there is an inequality in services for these populations. Maybe we could do something to focus on these groups of people what could we call it 🤔

Yes, the stabbing IS about immigration Britain needs an honest conversation about the high degree of mental illness in certain ethnic communities Black people are 4 x more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act than whites Black men are more likely to have had a psychotic disorder in the last year than white men Black people are diagnosed with schizophrenia at a rate of approximately 2.4 to 4 times higher than white people Asylum seekers have more mental health problems than the native population British Pakistanis account for 3% of births but 33% of children with genetic birth defects. Why we are importing so many people who are a risk to the safety of others, contribute hugely to anti-social behaviour on our streets and are a burden on our failing mental health services? It appears to be one of the few remaining taboos no one is willing to address. From the murder of the Ukrainian woman in a American train to the mass stabbing on the Huntingdon train - to the daily evidence we see on the streets of our biggest cities - the mental health crisis within black and certain other communities is an issue we can no longer ignore. We must have this conversation urgently without fear of causing offence. British lives depend on it.