Aston Villa v West Brom: Live text, don't use Lacie, banter and links

End Of Match: That was a very nervous few minutes at the end. 2-1

90': 3 minutes to go.

86': Sidwell is coming off for Carlos. We've gone 5-4-1, or maybe reo-Coker goes into midfield.

79': 10 minutes to go. It would be nice to get another goal as West Brom look like they could steal something here.

71': I'm still here, just not much happening.

62': We're starting to get more into the second half. A little scare the last 10 minutes with West Brom pressing, but we're taking control again.

54': We could have had two more. A good save from Carson after some nice play from Young and Barry had set Sidwell up and a good save from a header by Barry. We'll get a few more today. I can smell it.

51': Nice ball from Milner to Young. He shot but good save from Carson.

48': 2-1. James Morrison for West Brom.

46': Here we go. Attacking the Holte End.

Half Time: Interesting stat for this season; we are third from bottom in the completed passes table for the season so far. we've got 4455 (I hope that is right), while Chelsea have something like 9,000. The two teams below us are Bolton and Stoke. We don't play long ball!

Half Time: Half time. 2-0. Happy. I'm going for beer.

41': Want a good reason why Scott Carson isn't at Villa this season; Gabby knows. He is down the left nobody to cross to, so hits low at Carson. It goes under his body. Muppet.

41': 2-0 Gabby.

36': We are bossing this now, but West Brom can sense something, they're fighting.

31': Sidwell is going to score today. He just had a nice shot go wide and he's getting forward. He really is a class act. 8-2 in goal attempts, to us.

29': Milner gets a cross in. Nice.

25': Young shoots from 320 yars out -beats the first man but it just goes wide. Nearly.

24': Milner tries to cross. Doesn't beat the first man.

18': Nice touch. Davies doesn't want to celebrate. This from a Barry cross after his corner where Laursen had two headers cleared off the line.

18': 1-0 Curtis Davies!

12': It's actually a 50/50 game so far and they are clearly here to fight for every ball. Still, out quality will shine through in the end.

10': We're starting to take a little control. Movement is good and people are looking up. Guess what; I can smell a goal.

5': And for the record, we're started 4-5-1.

5': The game needs to calm down a bit. We will win, but it's just a bit scrappy opening 5 minutes.

1': Here we go. Attacking the North Stand.

Before Kick Off: We are just about to kick off. It sounds like a good atmosphere!

Before Kick Off: Right, I've put a tenner on us and Bolton. It would be a great afternoon if that came in, for more than one reason.

Before Kick Off:

Friedel; Reo-Coker, L Young, Laursen, Davies; Milner, Barry, Sidwell, Petrov, A Young, Agbonlahor. Subs: Cuellar, Guzan, Knight, Shorey, Harewood, Gardner, Delfouneso.

Before Kick Off: Martin Laursen plays. That is a bit of a surprise.

Before Kick Off: Anyway, have you seen where we will be if we win today? Third place, a point behind Chelsea who are likely to lose tomorrow. Hopefully Arsenal will also lose today, but if you were to put money on it, you'd fancy they're not going to.

Before Kick Off: Now, sorry about that Lacie post, but I'm angry at the moment as they're telling me it's going to be 'a few weeks' before I get a power supply. Now to the match.

Before Kick Off:

What is Lacie? Lacie are a company that manufacture storage. You can have hard drives, network stoarage, external storage - loads of things and they look nice.

The thing is, they may look nice but if they break - don't expect any support from them. So my messsage this morning is, buy Lacie if you've got money to throw away or you don't mind losing all your data.

If you want to keep your data and feel confident that if your device does stof to work, that you'll get it fixed, then buy something else.

Before Kick Off: Okay, this isn't the actual match centre as that will be coming soon but this is the page that will turn into the match centre. If you have anything to say, say it below and as soon as we have any team news or links - we'll add it here or in the match centre too.

Before Kick Off: Morning all. Or actually afternoon and welcome to the match centre for the West Brom match.