Caution: Villa tailing off again.....

Exactly the same!!
First 45 minutes Villa literally dominated the game. They didn't create an enormous amount of chances but enough to have been going in at half time a couple in front. Liverpool had shown nothing.
Exactly the same!!
Second half = complete no show from Villa, allowed Liverpool back into the game and it came as no great shock when Fernando Torres, easily inside the Top 10 World Strikers, took the opportunity presented to him by keystone cop like defending in the 93rd minute.
Exactly the same?
Is this the beginning of the end for Aston Villa's bright start to their push for Champions League football yet again? I think it could be and should be avoided against other top 6 sides for the remainder of the campaign.
After demoralising myself watching Villa and James Milner fritter away two of my bullets, I began to watch the recorded highlights of Bolton v Hull, just waiting for Phil Dowd, possibly the worst Premier League official ever, to start dishing out yellow cards, left, right and centre back. When the first one arrived at the 65th minute, having seen some of the challenges he had let go, I had resigned myself to losing more ammunition, until the white knight known as TmsWinners piped up on TWITTER with a four star NBA play tipping off in less than 15 minutes.
Oklahoma City Thunder -1, should I stick or should I twist.
Pulled the market up on BETFAIR, only to find them offering OCT +2.5, BANG.
Straight on it leaving me wondering what book he was playing with that made the bookmakers at the 'fair look like part-timers.
A couple of tweets later and I'd fired the rest of my rounds at this glorified netball match I couldn't even watch!!
Washington 98-110 Oklahoma! I tip my ten gallon to TmsWinners for the full reload.
Small mention to the England cricket side who wrapped up their first test win in South Africa this morning with relative ease, with confidence up and the better bowling attack, look for them to start well this coming Sunday in the third of four tests, and hopefully clinch a decisive win. *wait for weather and pitch reports before investment.
After basking in the glory of picking a winner I didn't back this morning, I get a text from this blog's resident horse tipster, who, over the festive period had developed a decent strike rate with his naps.
"no nap today but backing overlaw in 1:40 at Taunton."
Perhaps I should have paid more attention to the first three words of that text.
Gary Megson sacked by Bolton Wanderers. Next manager market, Paul Jewell heads the market, closely followed by Peter Reid and inevitably Mark Hughes. At a fancy 14.5 on BETFAIR, I'd be with Darren Ferguson.
Two more of the Big Four play tonight in Premier fixtures.
Manchester Utd v Wigan Athletic.
Portsmouth v Arsenal.
Odds on doubles not really great value for money, but at around 5/6 for Arsenal and Man Utd to take maximum points from vastly inferior opposition, I'll be using it to reload from this afternoons disappointing equine effort.
MAN UTD + ARSENAL WIN DOUBLE.
C'MON!!