I’d have been livid if one of ours was sent off and a penalty given for that; though Huttton should’ve had a straight red for his first challenge on Long. McLeish needs to be investigated as well … it seemed like Hutton had been given his orders (i.e. cripple Long) – disraceful tactics and Villa got what they deserved.

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As no2 said. Maybe Herd’s should be receded and a ban given retrospectively to Hutton.

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It seems after watching the tv of the game, that Shane Long was a marked man,and there should be a investigation of this.Villa were a disgrace in there tackling.

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Wombourne, I do agree with you, in fact I think it should happen to every player who gets away with it on the pitch.
KP, there aint a Villa fan who would argue your point on either the sending off or Hutton s challenge, though I cant agree that he was under any orders from anywhere.
Hutton is not that good a player, in fact he’s rubbish, but he tries to make up for his lack of skill and his shortcomings with over exuberance and the end result is tackles like that one.

However, you Braggies broke the Villa Park Voodoo and walked away with all three points and the bragging rights, so a well done from me.
Congrats to your fans too, they out shouted us again, you are a credit to your and my 2nd favourite club, so well done.

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PaulVilla – Are you having a laugh mate, Hutton went over the top of the ball. Should Long’s leg have been grounded we would of seen another horrific injury!

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Red card looked a bit harsh, but we havn’t had the luxury of seeing it from the linemans angle ? how about giving his 3 match ban to Hutton instead,for his disgusting attempted leg breaker !

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Paulvilla-where in the rules does it say that it’s ok to take a player completely out as long as you get the ball first?! Long is just lucky he hasn’t got 2 broken legs!

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Sadly paulvilla when the challenge is committed against their player supporters yell for a return of the death penalty. When one of their own make the challenge it is a great tacklle. I played football at a decent level when a challenge like Hutton made was considered a tremendous challenge. No complaints from anyone, but sadly those days are gone. Tackling has effectively been taken out of the game, you are only allowed to intercept. FIFA, Platini etc have got their way and sadly turned our once great game into a non contact sport for overpaid prima donnas, and therefore Hutton’s challenge was not acceptable ( I note even Tony Bomber Brown thought initially it was a very good tackle) and could well have seen red. As for Herd’s sending off? Complete and utter nonsense.
No wonder attendances are dwindling

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6 paulvilla if olson would have done that to bent would you still be saying the same thing

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I got invited by a mate of mine who`s a villa fan to go on saturday.
I would say as a neutral that Herds red was baffling and Huttons tackle was basically assault. Shane Long was always going to be too quick for him all game so he decided to let him know who`s boss.
As it happens I think it backfired because none of villas back four could handle that enormous Tchoi bloke that replaced him.
It was an enjoyable game and wba definitely deserved the win as they outpassed villa and created practically all of the chances.
As my mate said villa have gone backwards under McCleish and I think their in for a long hard season.

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I have watched Albion since 1944 and the games with Villa were always ‘special’. Hard, but fair. No fair-minded Villa supporter would want to be associated with that sort of tackling carried out, assassination style, by Hutton. Quite obviously ‘under orders’. I wanted you all to accept McLeish in spite of the Blues association. Now ? You are welcome to him! Villa Board should be dragging Martin O’Neill back a.s.a.p.

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hope the idiot with the ginger wig takes the vile down,he is one big prat……………tchoyi tchoyi will tear you apart again!

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It’s a pity that Long will be out for up to 6 weeks . Hopefully it will not be that long .
Obviously #24 believes in hard tackles and revenge . So the WBA team will be hard ? Or will they show all of us the way to fair and great play !

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Enough stupidity and good luck to WBA .

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