Sometimes it snows in April. Sometimes, when I walk up to my car it will open as it's supposed to. Never when it's raining or very cold. But that's what you get I suppose when you order a car before anyone has even driven it.
But enough about my stupid decisions, lets talk about the bet of the day. Okay, we're not doing that either. I don't remember the last time a five fold bet I placed came in but I remember the first time and that was nearly 30 years ago, like it was yesterday.
And some things are supposed to be remembered, like it was yesterday. But this post isn't about yesterday or even today. It's about tomorrow.
And there isn't really much to write about tomorrow that isn't covered by the match facts from the BBC below but we can look at what has happened this season and what is about to come to help for tomorrow.
Next week we have Bayern Munich coming to Villa Park and while it's naturally something we should be quite excited about, I mean if we beat them it will put us in a very good place, we really have to start to get excited about that, around 5pm on Sunday but we can use what is happening next Wednesday as a reminder of the importance of matches like Ipswich tomorrow.
We can also look back at some of the performances from this season to help us approach the match tomorrow. To say we've not been as prepared as maybe we could have been, I think is okay. I'll hold my hands up and say at half time last time out I thought it wasn't going to be our day.
And it was our bench that turned it around and that's not something we've been able to say for a long time. But there was also Everton and tomorrow is another potential banana skin and it's more of a banana skin, if we are not fully prepared. Win tomorrow and it's another step closer to more of Wednesday next season.
A win tomorrow puts us firmly in the top four after 15% of the season. I'll be back when I've sobered up.
Match facts from the BBC
Head-to-head
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Ipswich Town have won just one of their 10 Premier League games against Aston Villa (D2, L7), with Gavin Johnson scoring the only goal for the Suffolk side at Villa Park in March 1994.
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Villa are unbeaten in 10 league games at Portman Road since a 3-0 defeat in September 1984 (W5, D5).
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Ipswich's 1-0 victory at Villa Park in the Championship in 2017 is their only win in 14 attempts in this fixture in all competitions.
Ipswich Town
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Ipswich can remain winless in their opening six matches of a top-flight season for the first time since 1982.
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The Blues have won just one of their last 18 Premier League games, a 1-0 home victory against Middlesbrough in April 2002.
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They can lose more than one of their opening three home fixtures of a league campaign for the first time since 2011 in the Championship.
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Ipswich have had 14 Premier League shots on target this season, five fewer than Erling Haaland.
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The Tractor Boys have not scored a Premier League goal between the 16th and 94th minute in the current campaign.
Aston Villa
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Aston Villa have won their last three Premier League matches, their best run since five successive victories between March and April 2023.
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They can win six consecutive matches in all competitions for the first time as a top-flight club in 15 years.
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Villa could equal their longest away winning streak from the beginning of a league campaign of three, last set in 2020.
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Under Unai Emery, they have won nine of their 10 Premier League games against newly promoted opposition.
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Ollie Watkins has scored three goals in Villa's last two Premier League matches, as many goals as he netted in his previous 13 top-flight appearances.
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Jhon Duran has netted eight of his nine Premier League goals as a substitute, including coming off the bench to score in four of Villa's five Premier League games this season.