Just imagine how brilliant Run-D.M.C. Vs Pat Nevin would have been. #totp

These episodeS making the late nineties seem as exciting as a stay in hospital with a pulmonary oedema. #totp

Even now, the best part of 40 years since it was broadcast, mention Hale and Pace and the words microwave and/or cat to anyone in the UK over 50 and, depending how much they like cats and how depraved they are, they’ll either look horrified or start smirking. Halcyon days!

Still doing pre-season drills here. #avfc

Yeah, this is going to be a fucker of a season. #avfc

Jesus Christ, take me back to mid-April. #avfc

This is a sulk made up of eleven players. #avfc

Oh my God. #avfc

Brentford couldn't get worse than last week. But Villa could. #avfc

I hope all these people who flagged Watkins as getting 20+ G/A this season hadn't put the mortgage on it. #avfc

Makes me laugh, people expecting changes at half time. The only time Emery will do that is if he soils his trousers. #avfc

Just realised we're wearing the cursed away shirt. #AVFC

Rogers has checked out of Aston Villa, hasn't he? #AVFC

Fuck off, Villa. Do it faster than you did anything today. #avfc

That wasn't frustrating. Frustrating is when you try really hard and nothing goes your way. That was just fucking shit. #avfc

I cannot believe we've spent the entire summer scrabbling around trying to improve a squad like we're at a jumble sale. McGinn as a winger. Two left footed centre backs. Players bought and loaned. It's absolutely off the wall and it was never going to work.

I hate to be reductive, but Villa fans need a really big signing this week to feel we're moving forward. Unfortunately this can only come with an equally big sale, making it something of a double-edged sword. #AVFC

#darkages #avfc

Well, that's one cup gone. #avfc