We're going to sum up a few things very quickly for you today as we know we've not exactly kept our end of the bargain with daily news as of late.

Patrik Berger has declared himself ready for the bench today and it looks like Wilfred Bouma is making himself available for our trip to West Ham on Sunday also.

Liam 'Future England Captain' Ridgewell is calling for calm but at the same time for Villa to keep up the good performances from this season.

It's going to be hard for Mr O'Neill to drop this player when Laursen is fully fit and I hope he doesn't just on reflex but I don't think he will and frankly Mr O'Neill can do whatever he wants as I'm convinced it will be the right decision.

Stiliyan Petrov arrived at Bodymoor today for his first training session and Juan Pablo Angel and Gareth Barry seem to like him a lot. I don't blame them but it was quite strange listening to a Bulgarian with a slight Scottish.

I think that's about it for today apart from a rumour doing the rounds that Mark Delaney is injured again which could be a concern if the other rumour is true that Hughes might not make West Ham on Sunday as he picked up a knock while away on International duty.

If I've missed something it wasn't that important and if it took you more than 60 seconds to read this you're either a Blues fan confused with which colour website to go and visit or you should learn to speed read. Up the Villa.