Who needs Barry when we've got boozy Bannan

I still don’t understand why Barry Bannan has been suspended by the club though as players have pulled Premier League shirts on with wifebeating, roasting, rape, racial abuse, affray and all manner of other heinous crimes hanging over their heads.

Rumour has it McLeish was furious because he found out former Villa player James Collins was in the passenger seat and the Scotsman hates two up front with a passion.

I don’t mean to pander to Scottish stereotypes but is braindead Bannan too tight to hire a full time chauffer so he can get a booze on when he likes without the risk of killing a family on the road.

Perhaps the wee man fell into a pint of Stella by mistake when he bought a round. Who knows. All we know is that our creative midfielder wont be playing on Saturday.

But joking aside the fact that John ‘I didn’t ask for black coffee’ Terry will be playing for Chelsea this weekend and Boozy Bannan wont be shows the gulf in class between our financially differing clubs.

The Albion game gave us a healthy spot on the telly on Saturday night but of course all the royal Match of the Day smugnesses talked about was the referee.

With full blooded tackles flying in all over the place it seemed a bit weird that Herd was sent off for that tangle.

But he was warned by a notoriously card happy ref to stop feeling up Ollson 10 seconds before he got sent off so in my book he did let the team down. But playing him in such a high pressure match was the manager’s call, obviously the wrong one.

However, the tattooed buff-head’[s red card has been rescinded so the referee must have got it wrong, but we’ll never get the three points we should have won back.

Tomorrow is a visit to Sunderland. After splashing the cash they were seen as the favourites for the enthralling Race for Seventh but Bruce’s team got off to a shaky start. Needless to say they’ve turned the corner just before we play them, most teams do.

Our Goal Machine will have mixed feelings playing against his old club. It must be like bumping into the ex mrs who you left to take up with your current mrs, whose hair and teeth promptly fell out after three months into the relationship.

I hope he gets a whiff of goal tomorrow, if he’s starved of anything up front and they go on a scoring spree, it will be another nail in the coffin of his glorious Villa career.

But hopefully we will get a result, even a draw because we don’t want to lose three in a row because we will be plummeting down the table like a hippo on a waterslide.

But who knows perhaps the high stakes of an all important Race for Seventh clash might inspire our boys in claret and blue.

Lets just hope they all keep off the claret if we manage a win because we might not have a team left by Christmas.

Up the Villa

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