Right, we've got Intertoto football for next season and with a little help from a few forum users, we've sort of figured out how it's all going to work.

We've kept checking the official club site, but honestly, was I that stupid to think they'd be up to date or helpful?

Goals from Ashley Young and Gareth Barry were enough to get a point in London and four goals from Birmingham City were enough to confirm our Intertoto spot for next season.

Surely somebody will mention that they did us a favour today, even though in the end it wasn't needed.

It's been rumoured these past couple of weeks but now it's now confirmed; Mellberg has given the travelling supporters of Aston Villa a free shirt upon arrival at West Ham.

They're not signed, which was the other part of the rumour, but rumour has it he ran out of ink.

Following his comments the other day, Patrik Berger, who really probably doesn't care one way or the other, will not be included in the squad that travel to West Ham this weekend.

Martin O'Neill has told the club web site that he was disappointed with the comments Berger made and surprised.

Quite a few players from yesterday are probably never going to play in claret and blue at Villa Park again and it was quite a sad day.

One of those particular players, Patrik Berger, is now using his free time to coax current Aston Villa players out of Villa Park.

We lost today probably because the team we were playing wanted Premier League football next season more than we wanted a hope of automatic qualification to UEFA Cup football next season. Nothing more, nothing less.

In fact, I could say we were poor but that might be an over statement, but if it was, it wouldn't be by much.

It's his last game at Villa Park in claret and blue this weekend and I've got a sneaky feeling that he's going to get a pretty big send off.

To put the icing on the cake of this website for this season, we've been given the green light, by the man himself, to ask him a few questions and seeing as I'll have difficulty coming up with them all by myself, I'm asking for some help.

After scoring the number of goals he has scored this season, Cristiano Ronaldo was always going to win the PFA Player of the Year award, so I guess congratulations are in order.

The big news from the awards, for us Aston Villa fans anyway, is that Webcam Ashley has made the team of the year, along with other midfielders Gerrard, Ronaldo and Fabregas.

Basically, it was a battle but a battle that Aston Villa met and stood up to. The only negative thing is, Aston Villa never really went out to win it until they had to.

We went behind twice and came back to equal the score twice and apart from a free kick after thirty minutes we never really looked like we were going to take the lead.