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@AVFCStatto @espenstrand any relation to melburg ?

Glenn Nyberg from Sweden will be the referee for this week's Europa League semi-final fixture between #AVFC and #NFFC. Nyberg has produced 100 yellow cards and 3 red cards in 27 games refereed in 2025/26. Jérôme Brisard from France will be on VAR duty.

@AVFCStatto @espenstrand He HATES Villa! We’ve definitely lost now. Isn’t that what we’re supposed to say on here when the ref is announced?

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Every team has 38 games to stay in the league. If your team goes down because another team puts 8 12 year olds in the team, that's on your teams inability to try hard enough, be good enough in December or February or September. Villa's performance last night was disgraceful considering the golden riches of league and European success that could await and Mings "we didn't fight" comments should raise the alarm bells because you can't turn Thursday on like a magic tap. But Villa after 5 games of the season dug themselves out of their own trench and frankly earned the right ( which I think will backfire) to put out any team they liked last night. So to supporters of those clubs crying foul about a team who's results or performances are none of their business, you've had 35 match days to get your shit together. You didn't. You bottled games in regulation season time, you were booed off, you gave up and were given up on. Only now, at 11.59pm and 59 seconds enough players "care" enough to do what they were contracted to do all season. Villa's start was equally as bad as anyone's in the league. Their character, personality, bottle to turn 5 without a win at the start got them into the position they are in today. In professional football we say " earned the right". They have. They earned the right ( once more for those at the back, I believe will backfire Thursday and in league games to come) to play whatever team they liked last night. My gripe with Villa is the 1% of games that matter to win something. The same criticism Arsenal have faced in recent years. Not the ability to get to that point. Every Premier League club has around £120m a season to use to buy players. They have the worlds best academies and talented kids that often they chose not to blood. 90% of European clubs don't get a fraction of English club revenue, so if you can't put a team together having banked 5, 10, 20 years of that level of cash, then your organisation must be absolutely fucking rotten. Want proof? Some of the worst English club teams I've seen have won European trophies in recent seasons, that's how much of a gap £120m a season buys you. Villa have a major problem with one off, must win games when favourites. A glass ceiling if you will. We'll find out of they have the minerals to break through it. But if your team is in a relegation scrap still, them cast your mind back to September, October, December, February. How many games did they bottle? How many star players were on the treatment table or went missing when the going was hard to return like lions with a handful of games left? Anyone can be a good player for 5 games at the end of a season when you've bottled 70% of it. It's like a team that puts in a great second half performance when 4-0 down. Easy. Villa have put themselves under pressure week in, week out and have delivered right up to the line. They then choke. Fairs. But give me that over some of the teams at the bottom who's kidded their supporters on week in week out only now to blame Villa for their own lack of effort, fight and bottle. You've had 35 games. Your players bottled it. Don't blame other clubs for your own lack of fight, desire and administrative failures.

@NFFC Disgraceful lineup. Devaluing the premier league or maybe they’ve got a big European Semi Final in three days.

Today's XI. 📋

@_WokeNonsenseFC What’s not fair is West Ham performing disgracefully for the first few months of the season. Villa can do as they please. They’ve done their hard yards. Bigger fish to fry in Europe for them. It’s completely on us, no one else.

@MailSport If we played West Ham last night instead of Spurs everyone would’ve loved us for it.

'Absolutely STINKS': Angry fans claim Unai Emery's second-string line-up against Spurs 'needs investigating' for 'integrity' issues - as relegation rivals West Ham and Nottingham Forest pay the price for hosts' 'abysmal' display trib.al/EAyZFHs

I can see us beating Forest on Thursday then losing in the final. It would be the most Aston Villa thing ever. It would be more Aston Villa than John McGinn scoring one of the best goals Villa Park has ever seen in a game we lost. #AVFC

@larterlia1957 @Villamad5 I’d give it less than two years until the Iraona out or Glasner out tweets start showing up. I’m as pissed off as anyone but there isn’t anyone better than Emery out there for us and in my 30 plus years of following Villa, Emery is the best manager I’ve seen at Villa.

@Villamad5 Iraona, Glasner for starters

Emery will be gone in the summer and Villa fans will regret it. #avfc

@ClaretBlueTrain We’ve been bottlers for 30 years. 2019 playoffs aside, how many finals and semi finals have we bottled during that time?? I counted 10 off the top of my head, not to mention bottling UCL qualification last season and in the 2009.

We are bottlers If Spurs didn't throw their game against City 23/24, they'd have finished top 4 UECL, bottled in semi FA Cup last season, bottled Bottled UCL against United away last season Probably bottled Europa Doing our best to bottle UCL Fucking bored of it #AVFC

If we get knocked out on Thursday for me it will be worse than Bradford. Also, I don’t think the majority of our fanbase - me included - will ever see Emery in the same light again. Just like Martin O’Neill post CSKA Moscow. #AVFC

@RH_AVFC @AVFCOfficial Also, thanks for pointing that out as I probably never would’ve noticed.

@MattGamingFooty @AVFCOfficial You should really sort the grammar out in this.

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@RH_AVFC @AVFCOfficial Missing a comma isn’t as retarded as thinking Spurs are going to put 5 past us.

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@AVFCOfficial Jesus Christ. Spurs gonna put 5 past us.

It's been said before, but bears repeating. If you're a UK citizen and live in Dubai/Spain/ anywhere not the UK, then you're not an "expat". You're an immigrant. Fucking double standard Daily Mail cunts.

@AV95x @TheVillaTalk_ Crazy thing is if we’d had the first leg at Villa Park and won 1-0, they’d be saying we didn’t do enough and Forest will turn it around .

Some of you are defo overly angry, losing 1-0 in the away leg isn’t the end of the world at all. System was correct just let down by a couple of individuals (Digne & Buendia). Villa Park next week an entirely different prospect.

@goal_villa46296 Fuck off then you clown. 🤡

Sums up Emery. What's he telling them to save their energy for. Fucking boring, walking pace, backwards, non energetic football. Absolutely atrocious to watch all season #avfc

Please beware of posts on X from someone purporting to be Villa journalist Rob Bishop. His account has been hacked and he has no control over it. Thank you! UTV 💜💙