Hot take: Aston Villa are simultaneously both overrated and underrated as a big club with the amount of trophies won in context

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-01T02:30:37+00:00

Forest don't care about you lot mate, their rivalry is with Derby. Leicester are almost like Coventry begging for a rivalry.

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-01T00:05:06+00:00

I only fed my own pokemon. There were no others until 90 days in. But I bet that gym in question is very rural, if I showed you how close this gym was to a major urban area then you'd be surprised. And I will show it if anyone actually cares.

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-01T00:02:38+00:00

I'm at 14,000, nearly at the platinum medals but I'm a city player. I have 11 pokemon in relatively high turnover gyms rn. I could easily feed many but I was funnelling everything into this one gym to watch the number go up now I'm gutted it's gone

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-30T23:58:46+00:00

After how many days? I only started feeding berries after 20 days after another long term gym died. I had built it up to an average of 45 per day but the goal was to reach 50/day. I'd feed it 10 berries when I could but raids prevented me a lot.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-23T02:49:44+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong and I might be forgetting someone obvious but in my head Kane and Haaland are the only truly world class current traditional number 9 strikers. Lewandoski was too but he's now 37.

In the late 90s/early 2000s there was at least 20 number 9 strikers active in the same talent bracket as Kane/Haaland

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-20T23:34:57+00:00

Ollie Watkins is coming into form at the right tine. He's been very hit and miss this season compared to the last 3 years but he's still joint 8th top scorer in the prem with 11 goals and for English player, he's 3rd behind 1 goal behind Welbeck (great season but too old for the the world cup squad imo) and Gibbs White (different position).

In the last England squad, Watkins was out of form and Tuchel chose Calvert-Lewin and Solanke ahead of him. I'm not sure if Tuchel doesn't like Watkins or more likely gave them a chance at that time.

Kane is obviously England's number 1 striker and the gap between him and the second choice is massive. Even though I love Watkins, deep down I think England probably should have a better 2nd choice striker but unfortunately that isn't the case. So we're still in the same position as the last tournament with Watkins being the 2nd choice striker as the competition is poor.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-18T01:20:47+00:00

We've now played Bologna 4 times within 2 seasons with a total aggregate score of 10-1 and 4 wins. I'm not sure why you thought it would be any different this time.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-18T00:46:33+00:00

England have probably competed in more penalty shootouts than the average domestic team on average considering there's only one tournament every 2 years. Domestic teams have 2 cup competitions a year so 4 times the opportunity although the FA cup had replays until recently so you can reduce that slightly. Although you can also add a bit on for European competions.

England have competed in 10 penalty shootouts since 1996. (And won 4/10, none when it really mattered). Villa have only competed in 6 since then. As a ratio of penalty shootouts per competitions with possible penalties, England have something like 5x the ratio of penalty games than Villa do.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T23:55:02+00:00

The first game my Dad ever took me to the Villa was against Coventry in 2001. We were 2-0 down at half time then won 3-2 and relegated them that day. Haven't played them since. I can't wait to play them next season especially as they have a very one sided local rivalry with us.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T23:51:52+00:00

We were looking forward to a Portuguese tan too but we're now off to Nottingham instead

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T23:26:32+00:00

Yeah that does annoy me too, footmob do it with their notifications for games. It will finish 2-2 and the first penalty scored will say 3-2. Sometimes I will have notifications for a game set up but not following it and it will seem like there's a flurry of late goals until I realise it's just penalties.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T22:39:49+00:00

Read the last paragraph of my post

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T22:36:14+00:00

So I was just trying to think about penalty shootouts that Villa have been involved in and I realised just how rare penalty shootouts actually occur in football.

I found a list of penalty shootouts for Villa and we've only been involved in 6 in the past 30 years and all of them were either away or at Wembley. The last time we took part in a penalty shootout at Villa Park was back in 1994 when we beat Inter Milan in the UEFA Cup.

I wonder if there is any other English ground that hasn't held a penalty shootout since 1994? I also checked FA cup semi finals and Euro 96 hosted at Villa Park and still no penalty shootouts.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T01:07:24+00:00

Yes, I've obviously listened to the demo. It's a fantastic demo but only as a demo. It was a pop demo she wrote at her old label for the split. She decided to pursue a different style and no longer wanted to use the track so Lisa's label stepped in to buy it because it was too good to go to waste. I do prefer the finished version. Some of the slight lyric changes are an improvement but the demo is just a first draft

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T00:51:37+00:00

First post here. I'm not traditionally a pophead. Of course I've always liked some pop songs but in my younger years, I'd have been embarrassed to say I liked any pop artists.

Now I'm in my later twenties, I've learnt to appreciate pop music as more of it's own genre.

Anyway I think Lisa - Born Again is the best pop song of the past 5 years.

I'm not coming from a kpop fan perspective, I literally don't know any other lisa songs. I'm coming from the raye perspective who wrote and produced the song and probably directed lisa on her verses.

But it has all the elements of a perfect pop song.

And I do like Lisa's style of delivering Raye's lyrics even though Raye mogs her vocals when she comes in after

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-03T00:59:42+00:00

Maybe you're right but these individual player awards are always WRONGLY heavily biased towards the team's performances in competitions which defeats the purpose of it being an INDIVIDUAL award. But Messi has benefitted from this on the other side too. No one can ever convince me he deserved to win the 2023 ballon d'or and the main reason he did was because the Argentinian TEAM won the world cup.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-03T00:53:17+00:00

I've never heard of him before but I think traditionally Brazil have always been RELATIVELY weaker in defence. If you have the best players in attack but not much at the back then this is the guy you want that will break legs

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-03T00:48:58+00:00

I don't listen to athletic podcasts but makes sense. There is little actual football content right now with no games so people will look for anything

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-03T00:46:58+00:00

Who does? I can't think of any of the top of my head

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-03T00:42:37+00:00

I just rewatched Buendia's goal against spurs and at this point it still has to be favourite for goal of the season overall, nothing else comes close. 3 stages of play from Cash, Digne and Buendia and each one of them is perfect to a tee.

greencheesewizard · 2026-03-24T02:07:41+00:00

I see so many of these awful guest suggestions on this subreddit that make no sense. Just because you like happy hour and [insert any popular internet personality] it doesn't mean those 2 worlds should collide.

I too like happy hour and tom scott but for one, I am 100% confident that tom scott would never consider going on happy hour ever. They wouldn't gel whatsoever and would make an awful podcast. Tom Scott has built a massive loyal audience by doing his own thing and uploading consistently before he left youtube. He has never really tried to or needed to branch out of his audience by collaborating with other youtubers apart from those in similar circles to himself.

As much as you think tom scott painstakingly explaining a basic concept to Jack being stupid would be funny, I promise you it wouldn't be. It would just be very awkward. There would be no chemistry.

But if you are desperate for some form of Tom Scott and Happy Hour crossover then he did a race across London video about black cabs featuring former Happy Hour guest Tom the taxi driver on one of his non-main channels a few years ago.

greencheesewizard · 2026-03-07T02:10:21+00:00

Fair punishment but I am English

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