Football Daily | Plastic fantastic for Villa, Bayern show no mercy and penalties galore at Preston
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Listening to John McGinn reflect on Aston Villa’s win over Young Boys after the final whistle on Tuesday night, it was clear how much playing in Bigger Cup meant to him. As a young player making his name with St Mirren and Hibs, occasionally playing on the plastic pitches at Hamilton, Falkirk and Kilmarnock, the midfielder hoped that one day he might move on to more prestigious, metaphorically greener astro. And while making his Bigger Cup debut in a stadium with a name ripe for schoolboy sniggering against a struggling side is hardly the stuff of young footballers’ dreams, you can only beat the team in front of you while burning the skin from your knees and elbows on the pitch underneath you and Villa accomplished that in fine style. Their win was due in no small part to another masterstroke from Unai Emery’s hirsute assistant coach Austin McSet-Piece, some schoolboy Young Boys defending and the latest strike from unlikely goal machine Amadou Onana.
His size, his goal-scoring talent and his fighting spirit will certainly help the Navy and White this season. We can’t wait to see him on the pitch!” – Bordeaux, who are now a non-league club in the French fourth tier, trumpet the arrival of Andy Carroll after the 35-year-old ripped up his Amiens contract so that he could head south.
Re yesterday’s email malfunction: ‘They also said most of the mail going to the inbox was junk’ – sometimes the jokes just write themselves, don’t they?” – Chad Thomas (and 1,056 others).
You lost all the emails? It’s like Noble Francis never existed. I’m struggling to wrap my head around that” – Gareth Rogers.
Difficult day for the Man family on Monday then? Big Website Man deletes Football Daily’s inbox, Bigger Cup Man is accused of not consulting players and poor Dennis Man’s Parma lose to Udinese despite being two up at half time” – Richard Prangle.
The winner is always The Man. The only way of resisting is by watching Big Vase instead where actual football teams (with great names) play actual football with lots of mistakes in contrast to the tedium of nation state projects playing friction-free, xG-based videogames. And … breathe” – Joe Mercer (retired Big Cup viewer).
In response to Niall McVeigh’s question in yesterday’s Football Daily: ‘Will Bayern shut up shop at 3-0, or go for five or six goals to boost their goal difference?’ It seems the correct answer was ‘neither’” – Richie Philpott.
