ajthefox

Why was it so expensive?

I feel like there is some cognitive dissonance here. I'm reading people having a go at the club for not renewing his contract and at the same time there are thousands of posts about how we've blown money on wages and shit contracts. Maybe it's not the same posters but we can't have it both ways. Vardy is not every other player and deserves more grace than most, but given how tight it appears things are financially, surely it makes sense that if we're continuing to tighten our belts, there would be a point Vardy won't go below that we simply wouldn't match? I have no faith in this board and I can't bear the thought of him playing for Wolves or West Ham more but to me this just feels like a lot of contributory factors culminating in something none of us "want" but was always a possibility.

You've got a proper bee in your bonnet about anything American, haven't you?

Statistically it's pretty difficult for anyone to be worse. He has the worst run of top flight home games of any manager, ever. Sack the twat. The board are useless but keeping this twat on cannot be an option.

I'm sure they'll say no, but the bounds of what defines professional is completely arbitrary. I did paid work more than 10 years ago with an entry level DSLR. I'd bet you can take photos that are just as good on a new iPhone now.

My new baby. I'm definitely a little out of practice as I don't do much winter riding but I'm looking forward to a summer with plenty of rides on it.

Personally I think giving it Vards would be a pretty hollow gesture. He doesn't need the award and doing it just because he's retiring feels wrong.

Feels a bit weird that he's fronting up now when it's too late.

He defines the last and most successful decade of this club. What a sad way to go out. Gutting.

Actions speak louder than words, and they can't even acknowledge relegation properly. There's no excuse excuse this, we all knew it was coming. We're an absolute shitshow and it continues to get worse.

Yemen? Iraq? Jordan? Qatar? Decisions, decisions.

So depressing that this is how it ends.

Yeah it was pretty obvious. There wasn't much contact but he was clearly trying to obstruct him.

Don't know if you're aware but we just got relegated...

Smiling with his Dutch buddies at FT. Get this clueless bloke out ASAP.

And Neville saying no-one is unhappy with the board despite a fvcking plane flying over earlier...

He really has offered absolutely nothing.

Feck sky

Boring the tits off me this 2nd half.

Can't believe he's given a red for that. Bad tackle yes but it's not wreckless, it's not serious and it's not dangerous. Yellow certainly, but red for that is well over the top.

We'll never know so it's all moot really, but I don't recall us ever fielding any bids for him. If memory serves there was some interest from Arsenal but never a formal bid, and as far as I recall none of the big six showed much interest when he was a free agent either. Granted his stock had fallen by that point but I'm not sure on what basis you think we'd have gotten £60m for him.

Not a chance anyone was ever paying that for him. The only clubs that could afford him at anything around or above what we paid for him didn't really want him.

Always seems to just get on with it as well, never see him acting up like so many do. Villa deserved that, much better. I was thinking they were running the risk of being shithoused around 65 minutes but 4-1 was a fair reflection of the game. Newcastle just passengers for most of the game.

What is with that disappearing collar on the Newcastle kit by the way. Very odd.

Speaking of the little gremlin, seeing Youri and Barnes in this game just reminds me of how criminal it was we got relegated in the first place. Still makes me angry.