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When you start relying on a Steve Bruce side to play expansive football, then you know you're in a desperate place. That place is the place I am at.

Football without fans is exposing what an amazing leveller those fans can be, whipping up adrenaline and inspiring players to run that bit harder, pull off an impossible shot or save, or make that last ditch tackle when your body says it can't. 

The end result, predictability. This predictability is bad news for Villa, as we go into most games as underdogs, but joyfully it is creating a similar effect for the other relagation threatened teams.

Last night I decided Villa have a only a 30% chance of survival, not good odds, but now that  I'm settling down to a sequence of games that could see Villa cut adrift, I'm actually glimpsing a tiny slither of hope. Bournemouth and Norwich are both losing 2-0. West Ham play a vibrant Chelsea later. If things turn ugly for them then their goal difference will plummet to bear Villa levels and the bizarre prospect of us climbing out of the relegation zone by virtue of being less calamitous than our rivals become a very real one.

So this is me now; an as-it-stands table constantly refreshing on my phone and my tablet beaming me bad teams losing, whilst I will then to lose by even more. 

Meanwhile things are happening at the other end of the table and at some point, once I can afford the mental energy, I will take a look at that! 

Oh football, it's good to have you back.

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