Two Points Behind Villa!

That shows what a crazy season this is! Villa are not a team who should be within a millions miles of being relegated. I know they lost Milner, but in Young, Ivebonkedawhore, Downing, Bent, Petrov, Collins and Friedel, they have the basis of a top 6 team. But instead, they are hovering above the precipice, staring over the edge.

Part of the problem is Houllier. They have also suffered from injuries, but not as badly as we have! When they murdered us on the opening day of the season, I thought they were an outside bet for a Champions League place, but then the Premiership went crazy, starting with Villa's 6-0 thumping at Newcastle.

I don't think Villa will go down, I simply use them to illustrate how crazy the division is this year. But, whilst we are on the subject of teams in Claret and Blue being too good to go down, Villa might like to think back to our last relegation: Carrick, Cole, Kanoute, Di Canio, Defoe, Johnson, Sinclair...is Villa's team any better than that?

One more thing. Ahead of our Cup game at Stoke, Grant might like to keep in mind what happened to Villa yesterday after Houllier decided to play a weakened team in the cup at Man City. Momentum is important and Cup success feeds success in the League; sacrifice momentum by picking an understrength team and the reverse may well happen!