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By Jonathan Stevenson
2145: That brings us to a close for tonight then and it's all to do for Man City and Queen of the South in the second legs in two weeks' time. Good display from Villa though, albeit against much weaker opposition. It gives me much joy to tell you that we are now only 39 hours away from the start of the Premier League season. Get in there.
2140: "Babajide Babatunde (see 2100) is a Nigerian name and both means almost the same thing. Babajide means "Father has risen from the dead" while Babatunde means "Father is back" (presumably from the dead). Baba means father." Gunning4Honours on 606 Join the debate on 606
Thanks for clearing that up mate.
2138: Full-time Man City 0-1 FC Midtjylland
2138: Full-time Queen of the South 1-2 FC Nordsjaelland
2137: Gheorghe Florescu is played through down the inside right channel and Joe Hart has to be alert to punch away his right-foot shot. Gee, City have been rubbish tonight.
2134: Michael Johnson is a silly, but lucky boy after he lashes out with his arm following a tussle with a Midtjylland player. He could have gone there Johnson, but he's not even shown a yellow card.
2134: "Well Man City fans can't complain. Mark Hughes said he would take Man City forward and he has. Gone is the boring boring football and in is the moderately unattractive football." Angry Rich, via text
2131: Valeri Bojinov gets on the end of a a ball into the box, but his left-foot half-volley on the turn sails over. Nice try from the Bulgarian.
2130: Mark Hughes looks like he's just been told he forgot to sign a contract and City are replacing him with Brian Horton. Oh, and he's got to go back to Blackburn. And sell Roque Santa Cruz to City. He looks devastated - you know what I mean.
2125: By the way, from the silence coming from our Scotland desk, I can assure you there is not much going on in the Queen of the South game. About 10 minutes to go both north and south of the border.
2124: "Gheorghe Florescu is a spitting image of Tony Almeida from the TV programme 24!" Chris from London, via text
2122: Martin Petrov curls a quite magnificent free-kick against the crossbar from 22 yards, with Lasse Heinze nowhere near it. That really was textbook free-kick taking from the Bulgarian, who throws his arms up in disgust.
2120: Michael Johnson lets fly from outside the box, but the midfielder apparently being targeted by Arsenal hits a powerful effort straight down the throat of Lasse Heinze.
2118: "Is it just me or is anyone else missing Euro 2000 And Great? All the games so far this season have been a bit dull. Oh for the Dutch, or the Russians, or the Spaniards..." Jinadine on 606 Join the debate on 606
Mate, I think a part of me will always miss Euro Two Thousand And Great. It was quite simply glorious.
2116: Winston Reid flashes over a cross from the left and Daniel Sturridge's flick on towards his own goal is cleared away from danger at the far post by Martin Petrov. Could have been 2-0 there.
2113: Kelvin Etuhu comes on for Elano as Tal Ben Haim is booked for a clumsy tackle. Not sure about the Israeli - is he really worth �5m?
2110: City badly need a goal here. These boys are no mugs and they will not be a pushover in Denmark either. Problems already for Mark Hughes. Some hesitant defending gives Babajide Babatunde a half-chance but his shot is deflected wide for a corner. Hughes looks very, very unhappy.
2108: The frankly disappointing Felipe Caicedo makes way for Valeri Bojinov, who is now in his first competitive match since last August. Welcome back son.
2106: "Ha ha. Last night someone amused AND provoked debate by getting the venue of the Arsenal game wrong. How we laughed. I forget who..." Anonymous, via text
Damn you anonymous, you nameless...
2105: "(See 2056) We all know where the line is? You should have told the linesman at Liverpool's match last night!" Andy H, via text
A good example of something worth publishing. Full marks.
2102: Officially, there were 2,200 at the Villa game. There are about 40 Danish fans in Manchester tonight. I love being able to hear the players. Martin Petrov's volley is cleared by a defender before Elano flashes a shot across goal and wide.
2100: Oh for heaven's sake. Babajide "Baba" Collins Babatunde is coming on for FC Midtjylland. Is this some sort of wind-up?
2058: "Funny anecdotes are also helpful. One time I told a long story about missing the net from on the line (don't ask) and being shoved in goal for the next match. That got me on." cheese666 on 606 Join the debate on 606
What is this, UK Gold? Usually it's the BBC who get nailed for too many repeats...
2056: Over on 606, there's a debate about how best to get a comment on this page. If I may be so bold as to stick in my two-penneth worth, maybe something amusing, something interesting, something that provokes debate, but clearly doesn't cross the line. And I think we all know where that line is, don't we?
2051: Full-time FH Hafnarfjordur 1-4 Aston Villa Job done, big time.
2050: Under way at City again.
2046: "Fair to say the atmosphere among Man City fans has not been this depressed since ooh... the last game of last season." BBC journo Ollie Williams, wishing he was doing an Olympic nighter, via text
2045: "Rest assured, Icelandic is the most impossible language to learn. Been here two-and-a-half years, learned it for three years before that. Still get tongue-tied asking for a whisky and coke." matti76 on 606 Join the debate on 606
2043: Wayne Routledge, who came on for Ashley Young earlier, hammers in a right-foot volley that forces a really good low save from Gunnar Sigurdsson in the Hafnarfjordur goal.
2040: Cries of "Hafnarfjordur!" reverberate around the Laugardalsvollur Stadium as the Icelanders try to shout their team on to another goal. Or maybe they're just jumping up and down to try and stay warm.
2034: Man City are booed off and Mark Hughes storms down the tunnel. He will tear into his players in the next 15 minutes, you can be sure of that.
2034: Gabriel Agbonlahor is taken off in Iceland and Nathan Delfouneso comes on. You know, with all these enormous names, I really could have done with Jo playing tonight. Ho hum.
2031: Half-time in Scotland and Queen of the South are 2-1 down to FC Nordsjaelland.
2029: Daniel Sturridge, who is lively to say the least, rifles a shot against the Midtjylland crossbar with a left-foot piledriver from 20 yards. The bar, I believe, is still shaking. Cracking hit kid.
2027: Sean O'Connor sends a header across the face of goal as Queen of the South go for another equaliser with half-time approaching.
2024: Keep the texts coming in on 81111 by the way. Especially Man City fans. Vedran Corluka is booked for a silly shirt tug.
2021: GOAL FH Hafnarfjordur 1-4 Aston Villa Ashley Young floats over an outswinging corner from the right and jumping highest is Villa centre-back Martin Laursen to power a header past Gunnar Sigurdsson. Normal service is resumed.
2020: Daniel Sturridge is fed by Gelson Fernandes and he slams a right-foot shot just wide from outside the penalty box.
2019: GOAL Queen of the South 1-2 FC Nordsjaelland Patrice Bernier, somehow, puts the Danish team ahead once again in Scotland. A massive apology for lack of details once again. Nordsjaelland have also hit the bar, by the way.
2017: Gareth Barry heads a great chance over after Ashley Young picks him out from the left wing.
2013: Villa's Marlon Harewood outmuscles his marker down the inside right channel and fires in a shot that the keeper gets a touch to to tip it wide.
2012: GOAL Queen of the South 1-1 FC Nordsjaelland Sean O'Connor gets an equaliser for the Doonhamers.
2011: Daniel Sturridge mis-kicks a left-foot volley at the far post after a deep cross from the left by Martin Petrov. City coming into it a little bit more now.
2009: Big chance for FH to pull another one back, but after taking a long ball beautifully down on his chest in a crowded area, Tryggvi Gudmundsson can only lash over the bar.
2007: Much better from City. Michael Johnson plays in Martin Petrov and he gets a lucky rebound to get a scoring chance, but it wasn't easy and his lofted finish is a touch too high. Nice interplay though.
2004: By the way, they're up and running again in Iceland.
2002: Man City 0-1 FC Midtjylland Turns out the fan was right, you know. The Danes break quickly and with City wide open at the back, Danny Olsen creams a right-foot shot right into the bottom right-hand corner of Joe Hart's net. I've got nothing against Man City, but boy I love football.
2001: City are getting outplayed at the minute. You should see the blind panic on the face of the fan in the office. The great Adigun Taofeek Salami is causing Mark Hughes' men all sorts of problems.
2001: TEAM LINE-UPS Queen of South: Halliwell, Reid, McQuilken, MacFarlane, Barr, Thomson, Kean, Tosh, O'Connor, Arbuckle, Burns. FC Nordsjaelland: Hansen, Kebebe, Kildentoft, Lundberg, Bernier, Karlsen, Bernburg, Fetai, Christensen, Petersen, Jonathan Richter.
1959: "Got 8/1 on Barry to score first, and I had a feeling he would do something after all the fuss, so I put a tenner on him! Off to spend my winnings now!" Ben, Leeds, via text
If there's one thing I hate, it's smugness. If only it was just the one thing I hate, mind.
1956: Benjamin Kebebe it was who scored against Queen of the South. Sorry for the delay. He's probably retired by now...
1954: George Florescu, Midtjylland's Romanian midfielder, spanks a shot over the bar from 22 yards. He's supposed to be quite useful, apparently. So says the Man City fan opposite me fearing the worst, as usual.
1949: GOAL Queen of the South 0-1 FC Nordsjaelland Now then, details on this goal are sketchier than an Etch A Sketch drawing of a goal I haven't even seen. Apparently there's only one camera at the game and all we know is that it was a poorly defended corner.
1946: GOAL FH Hafnarfjordur 1-3 Aston Villa Matthias Gudmundsson gets the hosts on to the scoresheet with a fine bullet header at the far post from Tryggvi Gudmundsson. And they are under way in Manchester and Airdrie as well.
1944: I always thought Marlon Harewood was better when he didn't have time to think about anything. He races clean through, can't decide how to finish and promptly smacks the ball straight at the keeper. Great chance.
1939: GOAL FH Hafnarfjordur 0-3 Aston Villa Gabriel Agbonlahor turns on the gas and with some lovely ball control races past two challenges and fires another left-foot shot past Gunnar Sigurdsson into the FH net.
1936: "Have to say I'm loving the band at the Villa game. Not sure I've ever heard Tequilla played at a football match before..." kirkthemag on 606 Join the debate on 606
1934: Much better from FH and Villa are in a bit more of a game now. Matthias Gudmundsson has a goalbound shot from 12 yards blocked by Curtis Davies before Matthias Vihjalmsson's volleyed effort flies over the bar.
1933: For those of you worried that the frankly pathetic August weather might cause a ludicrously early abandonment of Queen of the South's game against Nordsjaelland, I can inform you the game has survived two pitch inspections and does go ahead. In your face, rain.
1929: FH, who have improved rapidly after a shocking opening, send in a cross from the left and Atli Gudnason heads high and wide.
1927: "It's pronounced Haparfyorthur if that helps." Mark, London, via text
For typing? Not really mate, but thanks anyway.
1925: So Tal Ben-Haim makes his Manchester City debut at left-back and Michael Johnson, who has been linked with a move to Arsenal this week, lines up in the centre of midfield. Bulgarian striker Valeri Bojinov, who has not played a competitive match since a knee injury last August, is on the bench with teenager Daniel Sturridge and Felipe Caicedo up front.
1922: FH are having some joy down the Villa left, which is bad news for new signing Nicky Shorey who is looking a touch off the pace at the moment.
1920: TEAM LINE-UPS Man City: Hart, Corluka, Richards, Dunne, Ben-Haim, Elano, Johnson, Gelson, Petrov, Caicedo, Sturridge. FC Midtjylland: Heinze, Afriyie, Califf, Reid, Poulsen, Borring, Florescu, Thygesen, Olsen, Salami, Nworuh.
1919: Every time the hosts get forward, there's a lovely cheer that goes up from the fans in Reykjavik. Sadly, there aren't very good so it won't happen too often.
1915: "Look like Derby County, play like Derby County." Nigel in Oxford, via text
I said nothing. I'm saying nothing.
1913: "Stevo, as soon as Barry scored I bet my friend your update would include the words 'of all people'. I won 20p." Mike Martin on 606 Join the debate on 606
Only 20p? Did you bet in 1987?
1911: Incidentally, England manager Fabio Capello is in the crowd in Iceland. He's sure to be impressed with Ashley Young early doors, but probably not the guy trying to mark him.
1907: GOAL FH Hafnarfjordur 0-2 Aston Villa What a fabulous goal that is from the majestic Ashley Young. He gives his marker twisted blood yet again and hammers in a stunning left-foot shot from 25 yards that rockets into the net via the left-hand post and a slight touch from the goalkeeper. Might be a cricket score, this.
1904: GOAL FH Hafnarfjordur 0-1 Aston Villa Ashley Young wins a corner by turning his man inside and out down the left and from the set-piece he curls in a cross that Gareth Barry, of all people, stabs into the bottom corner from six yards. Script written etc.
1904: "It's time people forget this whole Barry move to Liverpool so he can play with Gerrard. How much would it cost to tempt Stevie G to Villa Park? We've got a better manager and chairman than where he's at now." Paul, Brum, via text
1901: We are under way in Iceland.
1900: Someone in my office has done a story on the Gareth Barry situation. It's big news you know. Villa name Barry in Uefa line-up
1858: "I live in Iceland and everyone's going insane over this game. Aston Villa! Here!" IcyBlueCFC on 606 Join the debate on 606
1855: "Re:1832. After yesterday's performance against the Belgians, will they still be in the CL come Feb?" Cen, via text
1852: So, what do we know about Hafnarfjordur, apart from the fact that they make me so happy there's a copy and paste option? Well, they were Icelandic champions in 2004, 2005 and 2006. The famous Icelandic twins Arnar Gunnlaugsson and Bjarki Gunnlaugsson have played for them. And their manager is called Heimir Gudjonsson. Anyone got anything else?
1844: "I don't think it will knock down Barry's price tag. Simple thing is Liverpool can't afford him. How funny. Top marks to MON." BreakItDown on 606 Join the debate on 606
1840: So Gareth Barry is in and so are summer signings Brad Friedel and Nicky Shorey, while Marlon Harewood gets a rare start up front. This one kicks off in 20 minutes in Iceland. Get involved on 606 and get your texts coming in on 81111. It's smashing it down around the country and there's no point watching Olympic highlights when we didn't win any medals today, is there? Join the debate on 606
1832: Big news coming into us here at Television Centre, with Aston Villa naming Gareth Barry in their starting line-up. Now we all know what that means, don't we? That if he still moves to Liverpool, he won't be allowed to play in the Champions League until February. So how much does that knock off his �18m price tag?
1830: I'll have a consonant please Carol. And then a vowel. And then 20 of each. What's that? Hafnarfjordor? Midtjylland? Nordsjaelland? Welcome back, to Unpronounceable Uefa Cup Thursdays.
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