Fans from both sides probably gained more excitement from the smoke bomb in Witton Road after the match and the over head helicopter than they did from anything which took place on the pitch. Certainly I did, although I could have done without the grunge character sat behind us on the North Stand who repeatedly told his girlfriend how boring the game was for the entire 95 minutes. When you're watching a crap match there's nothing worse than some clever ass behind you commenting on every bodged pass and wasted chance of the entire game in the most winging glass-half-empty moaning Villa fan drone you've ever heard.
Aside from a couple of incidents involving Villa's captain Nigel Reo-Cocker and ex-Villa player Craig Gardner, which saw both yellow carded, there was little to talk about in a match that both teams were clearly playing to draw. Which strangely enough would have been Bradley the Octopus's prediction (typical that the one he would have finally got right was the one we forgot to post up on the website!)
Perhaps this was the warm-up for the clash between Blues and Villa in the Carling Cup quarter final at St Andrews on 29th November? At least someone has to win that one, so who knows, the players may actually get out of bed for it.
In any event, the draw means Villa go top of the Braggers' League with 4 points from 3 local derbies this season. Blues gain their first point of the season from 2 derbies so remain rooted to the bottom. But with just a quarter of this season's derbies played so far this season, it's all still to play for.
The results so far:
Wolves 2 Stoke 1
Stoke 2 Villa 1
Albion 3 Blues 1
Wolves 1 Villa 2
Villa 0 Blues 0
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