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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Abbeyfealeavfc on February 17, 2017, 10:23:43 AM
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Bluenose currently working as social media executive at AVFC and his anti-Villa posts
He has been investigated
He remains in role
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They weren't several years old, the last one was in April 2016, but let's move on.
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He will never change to be a Villa Fan, it would be like me working for that lot, I would take the money but there is no chance that I would support them!!!
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seems a fair enough response
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Burn him
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If he's the best person for the job why does which team he supports matter?
We don't apply the same logic to players, why should it apply to staff? It's just a job.
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It matters to me.But then,I'm irrational with anyone supporting that shower.
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Grassing somebody up over tweets? Fucking hell, I'd have hoped we were better than that.
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If he's the best person for the job why does which team he supports matter?
We don't apply the same logic to players, why should it apply to staff? It's just a job.
It matters not a jot what team he supports. But as recently as last summer, he has publicly stated he hates Villa and enjoys nothing more than seeing them lose. How long does anyone think they'd last in their job if they'd published derogatory comments about their employer on a worldwide platform? In fairness, if their employer had been anything like thorough and professional, they probably wouldn't have been offered the job in the first place.
To be honest, I'm more disappointed (though not surprised) in Villa than some congenitally bitter, hate-filled and obsessed knuckledragger. Half-arsed indeed.
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If he's the best person for the job why does which team he supports matter?
We don't apply the same logic to players, why should it apply to staff? It's just a job.
It matters not a jot what team he supports. But as recently as last summer, he has publicly stated he hates Villa and enjoys nothing more than seeing them lose. How long does anyone think they'd last in their job if they'd published derogatory comments about their employer on a worldwide platform? In fairness, if their employer had been anything like thorough and professional, they probably wouldn't have been offered the job in the first place.
To be honest, I'm more disappointed (though not surprised) in Villa than some congenitally bitter, hate-filled and obsessed knuckledragger. Half-arsed indeed.
Precisely. Does he need to be a passionate Villa fan? No. But funding a social media manager without a very public record of strongly anti-Villa opinions should not have been beyond us.
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There will be plenty of non Villa fans working at the club that do a fantastic job. However the bloke responsible for official club communication with us hates us with a passion, to me that doesn't sit right.
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It doesn't sit right with me either. I know he's not on the playing staff but how can we all be pulling in the same direction when we employ someone behind the scenes who wants us to lose every week?
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Support who you like, BUT bite the hand that feeds you, and I say remove the offending bile before it affects others.
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I'm more concerned that they clearly didn't check his twitter feed beforehand. This is a social media position for McGraths sake so that's a pretty poor show.
It doesn't sit well with me either but after what feels like decades of ongoing incompetence at the club this is probably the least of our worries.
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There will be plenty of non Villa fans working at the club that do a fantastic job. However the bloke responsible for official club communication with us hates us with a passion, to me that doesn't sit right.
It doesn't sit right with me either. Unlike the previous' of that grubby meeja type, the club have been eminently reasonable & mature with their response. He'd have been on his bike if it were down to me.
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There will be plenty of non Villa fans working at the club that do a fantastic job. However the bloke responsible for official club communication with us hates us with a passion, to me that doesn't sit right.
This. If he was in almost any other role at the Club then I don't think that this would be a significant issue, but now that we all know how insincere all of 'his' communications have been, how can the club allow him to carry on doing it?!
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I'm more concerned that they clearly didn't check his twitter feed beforehand. This is a social media position for McGraths sake so that's a pretty poor show.
It doesn't sit well with me either but after what feels like decades of ongoing incompetence at the club this is probably the least of our worries.
For me this sums up Villa's problems - mediocrity and incompetence tolerated everywhere. Even when an issue is identified the club put out a statement to ensure the person who made the initial mistake is protected in their job when in fact they should be disciplined. This must be going on throughout the club in every department.
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I'm more concerned that they clearly didn't check his twitter feed beforehand. This is a social media position for McGraths sake so that's a pretty poor show.
It doesn't sit well with me either but after what feels like decades of ongoing incompetence at the club this is probably the least of our worries.
For me this sums up Villa's problems - mediocrity and incompetence tolerated everywhere. Even when an issue is identified the club put out a statement to ensure the person who made the initial mistake is protected in their job when in fact they should be disciplined. This must be going on throughout the club in every department.
I suspect this complacency and lack of vigilance is at the root of many of our problems as a functioning organisation, never mind as a football team on the pitch. We still need shaking by the lapels.
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Dont particularly care but I might seek the little shit out on twitter and troll him.....
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I'm more concerned that they clearly didn't check his twitter feed beforehand. This is a social media position for McGraths sake so that's a pretty poor show.
It doesn't sit well with me either but after what feels like decades of ongoing incompetence at the club this is probably the least of our worries.
For me this sums up Villa's problems - mediocrity and incompetence tolerated everywhere. Even when an issue is identified the club put out a statement to ensure the person who made the initial mistake is protected in their job when in fact they should be disciplined. This must be going on throughout the club in every department.
from the way the statement reads, the posts were "posted" prior to him being employed by the club. He is a young lad. He has been warned as to his future behaviour. Correct response
the response would obviously need to be stronger should he continue posting in the same way after his employment has started, until then, give the young man a chance, life is tough enough for young people these days as it is. He can carry on supporting that lot if he likes as long as he is professional and does a good job in his position at the club
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He's a young lad. Pretty sure if the likes of denney joined us we would embrace him In other words nothing to get our knickers in a twist about
In a way I don't mind that kind of banter better than being pc
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There will be plenty of non Villa fans working at the club that do a fantastic job. However the bloke responsible for official club communication with us hates us with a passion, to me that doesn't sit right.
It doesn't sit right with me either. Unlike the previous' of that grubby meeja type, the club have been eminently reasonable & mature with their response. He'd have been on his bike if it were down to me.
Me too.
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Remove the little shit and the idiot who employed him.
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Burn him
Burn him with fire!
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Remove the little shit and the idiot who employed him.
why don't we remove all the other little shits who stroll around the pitch every week who don't support villa while we are at it, rolls eyes emotion thing
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Captain of the Ladies 1st team is a Wolves fan.
Do we have have to burn all folk who support another team?
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Captain of the Ladies 1st team is a Wolves fan.
Do we have have to burn all folk who support another team?
No, just the ones who openly hate the club will do.
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It's not about them supporting another club, it's that he openly hates us and yet is now employed to communicate us, the people he hates.
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If I hated a club as much as he clearly does I certainly wouldn't work for them. They're a strange lot in Small Heath, so many of them claim to hate us with a passion yet they all want to be part of us.
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Captain of the Ladies 1st team is a Wolves fan.
Do we have have to burn all folk who support another team?
In this situation it obviously depends on how divs they are. Duh.
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It does seem odd to employ him. When, I think it was Ian Taylor, either tweeted something or said something that was deemed anti-Lerner he was removed from the Villa Tour and replaced by Lee Hendrie in whatever is capacity was. This a dyed in the wool Villa fan. Now we have an openly anti Villa person being employed by the club. I believe he would still be able to his job professionally but he is going to be compromised at some point doing this job and so it was a mistake to employ him.
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Can't see him lasting much longer now the cat's out of the bag and He'll probably be trolled out of the door. A bit daft to employ a Nose with an obvious dislike of the club in such a high profile job with supporters.
Things like this never really used to happen at Villa. It's all quite amateurish.
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Of course it is not right, he is in a job to manage communications with and for the people he hates.
Hopefully he will get trolled out.
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So people want the poor bloke to lose his job.
Has he proved unable to do it? No.
Has he been caught nicking socks from the club shop? No.
Has he used his position to undermine what's left of Aston Villa FC? No!
Some people have the same obsession with BCFC as they accuse them of having with us!
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So people want the poor bloke to lose his job.
Has he proved unable to do it? No.
Has he been caught nicking socks from the club shop? No.
Has he used his position to undermine what's left of Aston Villa FC? No!
Some people have the same obsession with BCFC as they accuse them of having with us!
I think you're missing the point. This is a guy who is employed as an expert in social media and yet he didn't have the sense to remove old messages from his profile slagging off the club before he accepted the role. That comes very close to being proof that he doesn't know how to do his job or what effect his personal messages have.
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I cannot believe we have employed a social media executive that supports the Blues. How can he sincerely interact with our fans on a level is beyond me.
This would explain why the facebook page/twitter feed often contains articles that leave us scratching our heads, cringing and almost appear like someone from Small Heath is taking the piss.
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So people want the poor bloke to lose his job.
Has he proved unable to do it? No.
Has he been caught nicking socks from the club shop? No.
Has he used his position to undermine what's left of Aston Villa FC? No!
Some people have the same obsession with BCFC as they accuse them of having with us!
He claims to hate the Villa yet we've employed him. Fuck him out the door I say.
If I had publically bad mouthed my employers they wouldn't be happy either.
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I believe this is exactly how we should hunt her down bugger it with fish forks.
you understand I have absolutely no problem with her being a dirty snivelling nose wipe.
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So people want the poor bloke to lose his job.
Has he proved unable to do it? No.
Has he been caught nicking socks from the club shop? No.
Has he used his position to undermine what's left of Aston Villa FC? No!
Some people have the same obsession with BCFC as they accuse them of having with us!
Put it another way, would the RSPCA employ someone that hates animals to interact with the public on social media?
For me its gross misconduct and I want him gone.
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So people want the poor bloke to lose his job.
Has he proved unable to do it? No.
Has he been caught nicking socks from the club shop? No.
Has he used his position to undermine what's left of Aston Villa FC? No!
Some people have the same obsession with BCFC as they accuse them of having with us!
Can you not see how his integrity as the person who does the club's social media might have been compromised? There's no suggestion that he can't do his job, but now everything he tweets or posts will get some kind of negative reaction from trolls. That won't exactly engage fans in the way the club intended.
It's not that he's a fan of a rival club, I'd imagine the vast majority of our employees are. The thing is, he openly hates us and wants us to lose. He broadcast this fact on social media - the very platform he's supposed to be an expert on - less than six months before joining the club. And he didn't have the sense to delete his comments. Yet he's supposed to know how Twitter works?
I don't want to see him lose his job, but sometimes your job becomes untenable because of outside factors, and I suspect the fuss surrounding this lad could make his job impossible.
The real culprits here are the club for not checking his Twitter. At the very least they could have told him: it's all very well and good that you hate us and love it when we lose, and all that, but you might want to delete your comments broadcasting it to the world.
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just looked at his twitter account, his obviously cleaned it up, but he has left interpretable comments, when weve lost, now I say he should be sacked, as he will (now outed) never be given any licence to comment.
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If he's the best person for the job why does which team he supports matter?
We don't apply the same logic to players, why should it apply to staff? It's just a job.
It matters not a jot what team he supports. But as recently as last summer, he has publicly stated he hates Villa and enjoys nothing more than seeing them lose. How long does anyone think they'd last in their job if they'd published derogatory comments about their employer on a worldwide platform? In fairness, if their employer had been anything like thorough and professional, they probably wouldn't have been offered the job in the first place.
To be honest, I'm more disappointed (though not surprised) in Villa than some congenitally bitter, hate-filled and obsessed knuckledragger. Half-arsed indeed.
I agree...I doubt he was the only reasonably qualified person in social media land to qualify for and apply for the job so disappointed he seems to have got it when a quick search of his twitter handle would've revealed the tweets.
Bigger issue for me is our social media is average at best.
I assume he's in charge of our twitter and youtube content. It is very mediocre compared to not just prem but many championship clubs.
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It just doesn't sit right with me seeing our social media man posting #KRO on Twitter. I mean for fuck sake get rid!
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Club who doesn't do background checks in lack of background check shocker.
Whisper it, but there are some Noses who don't actually hate the Villa. I used to drag one down to Villa Park for the odd game. A shame we couldn't find one of them, and instead employed a numpty who not only hates the club, but has told the world he hates us. Though I suppose the odds of finding one of That Lot who was rational and who could type were quite remote.
I'm intrigued if he was the 'best in class' too. His class must have resembled a PG Tips advert.
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Bigger question to ask....is our social media really as good as it can be?
If the question is no (which would be my response) then he's not doing the best job he can (same as Steve Bruce) so that to me adds to the anti-villa tweets.
Get rid.
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Doesn't bother me who he supports but it does bother me that he so openly hates Aston Villa and I assume Aston Villa supporters. It is quite staggering that somebody applying for a position such as his either didn't think to either delete his Twitter account or anybody tasked with selecting applicants for interview didn't look on his social media activity. It's simple enough.
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Bigger question to ask....is our social media really as good as it can be?
If the question is no (which would be my response) then he's not doing the best job he can (same as Steve Bruce) so that to me adds to the anti-villa tweets.
Get rid.
if the question is no, then what is the answer? presumably that is you out of the running to replace him :-)
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Burn him
Burn him with fire!
Burn him
Burn him with fire!
The question is, does he weigh the same a duck? And a duck that's extremely jealous of geese, and more interested in geese affairs than ducks, and a duck that believes that all of the other water fowl in the pond are ducks too, and a duck that believes the council should build them a bigger pond, despite the pond being deserted most of the time?
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Let's all go round his house and lay fists on him
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Let's all go round his house and lay fists on him
Is it in Small Heath? I don't fancy it.
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I wonder how long I'd last if I slagged my firm off on social media?
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I wonder how long I'd last if I slagged my firm off on social media?
Your firm probably employs competent people (or failing that, people who can do a basic google search) in key positions to avoid that sort of thing altogether.
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I've just sid a tweet for season tickets next year.
If that isn't tekkin' the piss I don't know what is.
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Doesn't bother me who he supports but it does bother me that he so openly hates Aston Villa and I assume Aston Villa supporters. It is quite staggering that somebody applying for a position such as his either didn't think to either delete his Twitter account or anybody tasked with selecting applicants for interview didn't look on his social media activity. It's simple enough.
I was going to put this. Then Chris did it for me.
This. :-)
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My boyhood best friend and lifelong role model has a son who became the Catering Manager at the Sty. I am his Godfather but I took him aside and told him I expected plenty of gastro enteritis and swine fever to strike Bordesley Green. He nodded because he knows my wrath hath no bounds. He is a good lad and knows he only exists because I insisted that his Dad asked the gorgeous redhead for a dance at the Locarno Ballroom.
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He's probably just trying to do first-hand research for the list of achievements in Small Heath's 2018 diary.
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Sack him. Unfit to perform the job.
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So people want the poor bloke to lose his job.
Has he proved unable to do it? No.
Has he been caught nicking socks from the club shop? No.
Has he used his position to undermine what's left of Aston Villa FC? No!
Some people have the same obsession with BCFC as they accuse them of having with us!
Put it another way, would the RSPCA employ someone that hates animals to interact with the public on social media?
For me its gross misconduct and I want him gone.
I get your point. You're saying that Aston Villa fans are animals ;-)
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Doesn't bother me who he supports but it does bother me that he so openly hates Aston Villa and I assume Aston Villa supporters. It is quite staggering that somebody applying for a position such as his either didn't think to either delete his Twitter account or anybody tasked with selecting applicants for interview didn't look on his social media activity. It's simple enough.
I was going to put this. Then Chris did it for me.
This. :-)
Delighted to announce I now handle all social media for CT.
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Doesn't bother me who he supports but it does bother me that he so openly hates Aston Villa and I assume Aston Villa supporters. It is quite staggering that somebody applying for a position such as his either didn't think to either delete his Twitter account or anybody tasked with selecting applicants for interview didn't look on his social media activity. It's simple enough.
I was going to put this. Then Chris did it for me.
This. :-)
Delighted to announce I now handle all social media for CT.
And me please?
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I was a manager for a company for a number of years and did discriminate when it came to football. Well it wasn't illegal. If I had a short list of 2 and one happened to support the villa...well they got the job. It will come of no suprise that after a few years nearly everyone at work was a villa fan. Great place to work !!!
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Burn him
Burn him with fire!
This isnt the dark ages . Chop off his Goolies !
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So people want the poor bloke to lose his job.
Has he proved unable to do it? No.
Has he been caught nicking socks from the club shop? No.
Has he used his position to undermine what's left of Aston Villa FC? No!
Some people have the same obsession with BCFC as they accuse them of having with us!
Put it another way, would the RSPCA employ someone that hates animals to interact with the public on social media?
For me its gross misconduct and I want him gone.
Reminds me of an independent report on the RSPCA AGM several years ago (my other half was secretary of a local branch and attended) which said something like:
"In the morning the executive committee discussed the welfare of animals; at lunch time they sat at table and ate them."
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I visited the offices of the RSPCA today. It's tiny: you couldn't swing a cat in there. I'm also against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.
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I visited the offices of the RSPCA today. It's tiny: you couldn't swing a cat in there. I'm also against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.
For my holidays, I like to Club 18-30 seals a day.
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Matters as he is slandering the company he works for but, if I am a nose who hated the villa I simply wouldn't work for the villa. In short, I don't care as much as if it was a player doing same.
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To be fair, I work at the Sty regularly as a contractor and carry out my duties professionally as I would for any other client, there's a lad in the ticket office who is Villa fan and another girl in admin that I know of.
But this is back office stuff. I'd say the role he's undertaking is a fair bit more sensitive, and given the shit he's displayed to all and sundry, it really should put him to the back of the pile of candidates in the first place.
I don't blame him, a job is a job and everyone has to work, but you have to ask questions of the recruitment. It's the kind of appointment Trump would make, giving the job to someone diametrically opposed its existence.
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The relevant point for me is someone at Aston Villa employed someone to "do" social media without checking into their social media history and profile. That person who made the decision to employ the person with no basic checks is terrible at their job. Not only are they terrible at their job, the club has defended employing the person. The club believes it is more important to justify a mistake in hiring the person in the first place rather than disciplining the person who fu**ed up. This is what failing organisations do.
If this is typical and acceptable behaviour at Villa then its all starting to make sense. If some office bod can't be bothered to do a job at a rudimentary level and gets away with it what's happening on the training pitch?
Forget noses on the payroll - its the incompetents on the payroll that are killing our club.
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The relevant point for me is someone at Aston Villa employed someone to "do" social media without checking into their social media history and profile. That person who made the decision to employ the person with no basic checks is terrible at their job. Not only are they terrible at their job, the club has defended employing the person. The club believes it is more important to justify a mistake in hiring the person in the first place rather than disciplining the person who fu**ed up. This is what failing organisations do.
If this is typical and acceptable behaviour at Villa then its all starting to make sense. If some office bod can't be bothered to do a job at a rudimentary level and gets away with it what's happening on the training pitch?
Forget noses on the payroll - its the incompetents on the payroll that are killing our club.
And the tea lady. If the way we start the 2nd half is anything to go by, she's dropping arsenic in the half time brew.
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If only you knew
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Difficult to comment on this one. It leaves a nasty taste in the mouth knowing we have a nose running our social media, especially after seeing some of the stuff he's posted as recently as he has.
But if we sack him now it will quite rightly look a bit small time, as the club clearly didn't do the necessary background checks on him (you'd have to assume they wouldn't have employed him if they had done their homework)
He's had his warning, let's just hope he trips himself up and does something similar again soon, so they can say: right you've had your chance, now cheerio Jeavons.
It's a minor issue in the current scheme of things to be honest, but I can fully understand why so many are pissed off about it. There's enough things going wrong at the club at the minute and we could fully do without this shit.
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Burn him
Burn him with fire!
This isnt the dark ages . Chop off his Goolies !
And burn them!
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Fair does LeeB. Work is work. In fairness, it is just that. However in this instance it is an odd choice. Might be a better idea to employ a villa fan?
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The relevant point for me is someone at Aston Villa employed someone to "do" social media without checking into their social media history and profile. That person who made the decision to employ the person with no basic checks is terrible at their job. Not only are they terrible at their job, the club has defended employing the person.
Aye. Bad enough that they didn't carry out a basic check initially, but all this bobbins about 'it happened years ago' when it happened less than 12 months ago makes them look even more shoddy.
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If it wasn't a problem I wonder why he deleted all the worst stuff.
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Fair does LeeB. Work is work. In fairness, it is just that. However in this instance it is an odd choice. Might be a better idea to employ a villa fan?
Not necessarily a Villa fan, but definitely not someone that has disparaged the club through the very medium he's employed to manage.
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If he's the best person for the job why does which team he supports matter?
We don't apply the same logic to players, why should it apply to staff? It's just a job.
It matters not a jot what team he supports. But as recently as last summer, he has publicly stated he hates Villa and enjoys nothing more than seeing them lose. How long does anyone think they'd last in their job if they'd published derogatory comments about their employer on a worldwide platform? In fairness, if their employer had been anything like thorough and professional, they probably wouldn't have been offered the job in the first place.
To be honest, I'm more disappointed (though not surprised) in Villa than some congenitally bitter, hate-filled and obsessed knuckledragger. Half-arsed indeed.
I have to agree, if you, me or anyone else published derogatory comments about our employers on any sort of social media, or anything else for that matter, we would be taken down the disciplinary procedure and sacked in no short order!
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I agree Lee. If I slag the company I work for, I would be on my way to the dole office
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This has been posted on the official Facebook page. Is it just me, or is this us being trolled by this bloke
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Get rid of him .
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Surely his previous "work " should have been more thoroughly vetted in the first place. Sack his recruiter, too.
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A nose who spends all day on the internet talking about Villa, who would have thought eh?
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Maybe he can now talk all day tomorrow about Newcastle and Fishy people on our behalf as the Twitter " Hardman " that he obviously is.
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How do we know that this fellow is only masquerading as a Nose to hide the fact that he is a Trumpist agent sent to undermine Doctor Tony X and Chinese investment in the UK?
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Burn him
Burn him with fire!
This isnt the dark ages . Chop off his Goolies !
And burn them!
Are they edible?
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How do we know that this fellow is only masquerading as a Nose to hide the fact that he is a Trumpist agent sent to undermine Doctor Tony X and Chinese investment in the UK?
But surely Mr Trump has already acknowledged a One-China policy going forward ? No undermining on the agenda therefore ?
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Dr Tone needs to tweet that ' this is fake news and designed to undermine our club by inferring we are in chaos when the truth is we are running like a well oiled machine'. Well maybe not exactly those words but some form of pigeon english with sums.
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This is FAKE NEWS from the failing Aston Villa (which I hear is overrated). Disgraceful. Apologize!
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Who is this and what has he done?
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This is the latest tweet from our Bluenose.
He must be loving this, getting paid to read all the responses to this tweet.
Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial)
17/02/2017, 22:30
Injury news: @MicahRichards back in training.
💬️⚽️ Steve Bruce: “Micah is terrific around the place. I could do with him on the pitch.” pic.twitter.com/1WNqIlNOw9
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This is the latest tweet from our Bluenose.
He must be loving this, getting paid to read all the responses to this tweet.
Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial)
17/02/2017, 22:30
Injury news: @MicahRichards back in training.
💬️⚽️ Steve Bruce: “Micah is terrific around the place. I could do with him on the pitch.” pic.twitter.com/1WNqIlNOw9
Is that what we're getting angry about?
Who is this bloke?
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@jeavons24
He is our Social Media Executive.
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Is that it?
Honestly, who gives a fuck who he supports just so long as he does his job properly.
If only we had something bigger and more important to worry about than this.
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Thats hardly damning evidence, is it?
Honestly, I am always up for a bit of righteous indignation, but is that it? Man reveals he's a Blues fan on social media then 3 years later gets a job at Villa?
Am I missing something else?
This is the sort of thing Small Heath or Albion fans would get annoyed about - it's small time.
He's a nose yet
1. He can read and write.
2. He's got a job.
You've got to be impressed by that.
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Oh, and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone whose paid work is to, in front of the whole world, try to put a positive spin on anything - anything - which has come out of this club in the last year.
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He deleted a bunch of them that aren't on that screen shot.
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Not really. Screen shot was taken at the point when the majority of tweets had been removed. I think Jimbo put it most eloquently earlier in this thread and I won't repeat all he said, but the issue is clearly with the muppets already employed at Villa Park who employed him without undertaking appropriate due diligence. Now he is employed, and has been spoken to on this matter, then I am sure he will learn quickly and I notice he has now removed reference to #BCFC on his 'front page'.
I'm afraid the media department at Villa Park is a joke and has been going downhill for a good while and certainly well before this guy was employed. I am aware of someone, well qualified, having previously applied for an advertised position within the department and having been dealt with very poorly when they enquired on the telephone as to the status of their application. I emailed the department, per the address on the official website, in January last year on a media matter and never received a response.
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It's not great from a few angles but I'm not going to call for this lad to lose his job. He's a nose, some of my family are noses, he'll learn. If he doesn't he won't last.
Now he has the job he should keep it if he's performing, it's the people who recruited him that should feel the embarrassed.
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It is, as has been said correctly, very small time but it is a perfect little example of what a sloppy arsed anything-goes club we had become in the final days of the Lerner ownership.
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To be fair, I work at the Sty regularly as a contractor and carry out my duties professionally as I would for any other client, there's a lad in the ticket office who is Villa fan and another girl in admin that I know of.
But this is back office stuff. I'd say the role he's undertaking is a fair bit more sensitive, and given the shit he's displayed to all and sundry, it really should put him to the back of the pile of candidates in the first place.
I don't blame him, a job is a job and everyone has to work, but you have to ask questions of the recruitment. It's the kind of appointment Trump would make, giving the job to someone diametrically opposed its existence.
My son also works there. He loves the villa as much as i do. They all know who he supports but its not a problem as they know he's damn good at his job.This whole thing kicked off after I mentioned my son in a previous thread. We're better than this. This lad should only be judged on his ability to do the job the club has employed him to do. I suspect if we were running away with the league this wouldn't have even got a mention. Can we not just show some class as I've always believed that's what sets us apart from our rivals?
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I changed jobs last year and before I could start, my new employer conducted a full background social media check on me. My job has nothing to do with social media - they just wanted to see if I'd posted anything inappropriate in the past.
To think that a company looking to employ someone in their, you know, social media department didn't do likewise is actually quite mind- boggling.
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As a social media exec you would hope he had the brain cells to consider his own profile before going for the job.
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I would have thought answers to a few questions like, "what are your favourite Villa games/goals/players of the last 5/10 years", would have been enough to rule him out of a job that is supposed to connect with Villa supporters, and increase our fan base.
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My line manager has a couple of fake social media accounts which she uses to look at applicants' social media activity for some roles. If someone makes their anger about any topic clear on social media, ie, a quick Google search returns lots of hits, she's immediately anti them.
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This is the latest tweet from our Bluenose.
He must be loving this, getting paid to read all the responses to this tweet.
Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial)
17/02/2017, 22:30
Injury news: @MicahRichards back in training.
💬️⚽️ Steve Bruce: “Micah is terrific around the place. I could do with him on the pitch.” pic.twitter.com/1WNqIlNOw9
I was pretty much on the fence but this has tipped me over the edge, who can tweet positively about Micah Richards and not be taking the piss?
To the stocks with him.
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I would have thought answers to a few questions like, "what are your favourite Villa games/goals/players of the last 5/10 years", would have been enough to rule him out of a job that is supposed to connect with Villa supporters, and increase our fan base.
He doesn't have to be a Villa supporter, just the best candidate for the job.
This is all getting a bit childish now. He's been kicked up the arse so let's move on.
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We'd better not sign Messi or Ronaldo. Neither of them are lifelong Villa supporters.
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We'd better not sign Messi or Ronaldo. Neither of them are lifelong Villa supporters.
But neither of them have posted anti-Villa stuff on their own twitter accounts.
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Silly thing to do , but it's a bit of a non story for me. If hrs good at his job , that's all that really bothers me.
I was booked at the Sty for our match earlier in the season. I was very careful not to mention anything about my allegiance on my social media, but if someone looked hard enough historically, they'd have probably found something taking the piss out of that lot. If they'd have cancelled me on the basis of that I'd have been annoyed.
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Embarrassing thread.
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We'd better not sign Messi or Ronaldo. Neither of them are lifelong Villa supporters.
But neither of them have posted anti-Villa stuff on their own twitter accounts.
'Disappointing result against PSG tonight but we'll give it all we can in the second leg and anyway SOTV KRO.'
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This is the latest tweet from our Bluenose.
He must be loving this, getting paid to read all the responses to this tweet.
Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial)
17/02/2017, 22:30
Injury news: @MicahRichards back in training.
💬️⚽️ Steve Bruce: “Micah is terrific around the place. I could do with him on the pitch.” pic.twitter.com/1WNqIlNOw9
Is that what we're getting angry about?
Who is this bloke?
Got him from Manchester City on a free transfer. Terrible player, you must remember him surely?
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My line manager has a couple of fake social media accounts which she uses to look at applicants' social media activity for some roles. If someone makes their anger about any topic clear on social media, ie, a quick Google search returns lots of hits, she's immediately anti them.
That's not right in my opinion. I would not want to work for her.
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It gets worse:
@DorisOfficialTeaAVFC 13/2/15: "Tea is the Devils spunk!"
@DorisOfficialTeaAVFC 22/10/16: "Earl 'Gay' get it?"
@DorisOfficialTeaAVFC 2/11/16: "Lapsang souchong is Chinese 4 cat piss."
@DorisOfficialTeaAVFC 25/12/16: "Them cucumber sarnies with the edges cut off r 4 pufs."
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We'd better not sign Messi or Ronaldo. Neither of them are lifelong Villa supporters.
But neither of them have posted anti-Villa stuff on their own twitter accounts.
'Disappointing result against PSG tonight but we'll give it all we can in the second leg and anyway SOTV KRO.'
I like to think some bluenose is reading this and getting excited at the prospect of Messi and Ronaldo being secret bluenoses.
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I would have thought answers to a few questions like, "what are your favourite Villa games/goals/players of the last 5/10 years", would have been enough to rule him out of a job that is supposed to connect with Villa supporters, and increase our fan base.
He doesn't have to be a Villa supporter, just the best candidate for the job.
This is all getting a bit childish now. He's been kicked up the arse so let's move on.
I don't think he does, but he's supposed to be communicating with Villa fans who should at least assume he is vaguely supportive. He's clearly unable to provide that illusion now. I don't particularly want to think we are employing someone that positively hates us. Small Heath didn't hesitate to get rid of the celebrating ballboy, nor should they have.
If a Labour/Tory/Lib Dem candidate was found to have posted loads of Nazi propaganda he'd be sacked. If someone working an animal welfare had loads of pictures posing with slaughtered animals, he'd be sacked. In fact if anyone working for a major company had a record of publicly condemning said company and didn't even have the intelligence to remove the evidence prior to his employment with them, he'd be sacked.
Get him to fuck, the little gobshite.
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Another 2 pages on this thread & he'll have is name installed in their legends lounge .
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It's quite a reflection on the age that when we next read a positive tweet from the Villa we absolutely know that the person making it doesn't believe it.
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This is the latest tweet from our Bluenose.
He must be loving this, getting paid to read all the responses to this tweet.
Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial)
17/02/2017, 22:30
Injury news: @MicahRichards back in training.
💬️⚽️ Steve Bruce: “Micah is terrific around the place. I could do with him on the pitch.” pic.twitter.com/1WNqIlNOw9
I was pretty much on the fence but this has tipped me over the edge, who can tweet positively about Micah Richards and not be taking the piss?
To the stocks with him.
And burn the stocks
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This is the latest tweet from our Bluenose.
He must be loving this, getting paid to read all the responses to this tweet.
Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial)
17/02/2017, 22:30
Injury news: @MicahRichards back in training.
💬️⚽️ Steve Bruce: “Micah is terrific around the place. I could do with him on the pitch.” pic.twitter.com/1WNqIlNOw9
I was pretty much on the fence but this has tipped me over the edge, who can tweet positively about Micah Richards and not be taking the piss?
To the stocks with him.
And burn the stocks
And grind the ashes into the dirt
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So was this nose working for us during the twitter spat with Virgin Trains or was that before he started?
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why hasn't this turd been sacked yet?? I understand care in the community but
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Must be difficult tweeting while at Touchwood
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Zola appears to be on our payroll.
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He's employed as Social Media Executive and during the recruitment process no-one thought to look at his social media presence? I should be used to this sort of complacency and/or incompetence by now but I'm still surprised at just how slack they were with this.
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I always thought Villa fans were a cut above the rabble - obviously not. He has done nothing criminal, has not made a racist remark simply stood his ground as a supporter of a football team (loosely speaking of course).
As long as he does his work to standard I don't think there should be any discussion.
People looking to have him sacked hang your heads in shame, as pointed out there are a number of employees at AVFC who are not naturally born Villians.
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It's not about being a naturally born Villlan though, is it?
The big tit had it plastered all over his own social media account how much he hates the Villa, and didn't think it prudent to take that down whilst working for the club. He is young, and clearly a bit thick. So leeway there perhaps (or perhaps not). No leeway for the chimps teaparty of a HR department who couldn't do a 2 minute google search and vet suitable candidates in the first place.
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and we were all sensible at 18/20 years of age?
He may have been a dick, but this is turning into blueshit behaviour.
I am more worried about the likes of fat Gabby robbing us silly.
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Fat gabby who has for what I have Seen tried harder than rossgate or a Few others in the games I have seen
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The point that he is a nose is nothing to do with his ability to carry out his duties, his ignorance of social media by not removing his thoughts reference Aston Villa prior to him applying for the job is a concern, the person or persons responsible for appointing him, if they are still here have been negligent and should be sacked.
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Fat gabby who has for what I have Seen tried harder than rossgate or a Few others in the games I have seen
We are setting the bar fairly low
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Johnc bar has to be set low, so he can get his fat arse over it, no chance going under it.
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The point that he is a nose is nothing to do with his ability to carry out his duties, his ignorance of social media by not removing his thoughts reference Aston Villa prior to him applying for the job is a concern, the person or persons responsible for appointing him, if they are still here have been negligent and should be sacked.
If this lad was working as an admin back office I would agree it is not worth mentioning but he is one of the foremost ambassadors of our club. The fact he is given authority to speaks on behalf of our football club to our supporters and the public whilst all the time harbouring thoughts of hatred instilled in him since childhood says that it does affect his ability to carry out his duties.
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Bottom what I meany by carrying out his duties, if he had not slated the Villa prior and since working for us had not slated us, most would not even be aware that he is a nose, so him being a nose is immaterial to him doing the job. What has since come out because of his own inability to wipe what was there before (incompetence) and also the lack of attention to this made by people who employed him at Villa park (further incompetence through lack of vetting) will always lead to the view point that he is a twisted nose and should not be in situ and is what he is saying (here goes) is Fake News.
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Fat gabby who has for what I have Seen tried harder than rossgate or a Few others in the games I have seen
yes fat gabby who has ripped the club (and hence us) off for millions over the last few seasons when he hasn't been fit enough to actually do the job he is payed handsomely for. And you are prepared to excuse him for that because he has run around a bit in 2 or 3 games this season, while still looking shit and not really giving a damn
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It doesn't matter if he is a bluenose as long he do the job properly and learn about the club and be positive about Aston Villa and doesn't slag off our team. It is not like he play for Aston Villa and doesn't give 100% unlike some players.
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Agreed. He has slagged off the team though. He should be sacked.
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It doesn't matter if he is a bluenose as long he do the job properly and learn about the club and be positive about Aston Villa and doesn't slag off our team. It is not like he play for Aston Villa and doesn't give 100% unlike some players.
Didnt you see his tweets?
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If hes seen this thread, he'll laughing his tits off, 10 pages! Should'nt be in employment here.
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Sneak in and sneak out again.
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Most Employers now incorporate a strict Mis-use of Social media clause in their contracts - which most definitely includes bad mouthing your employers and is actually classed as a "Gross misconduct" (dismissal) offence, surely he has got some liability here somewhere.
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Didnt you see his tweets?
No but I don't use Twitter a lot compared to facebook and emails.
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the turd slagged us off, has tidied his twitter account up, but left interpretable comments there when we've lost, why show him any concern , let him fuck off down to small heath and work on there equivalent.
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the turd slagged us off, has tidied his twitter account up, but left interpretable comments there when we've lost, why show him any concern , let him fuck off down to small heath and work on there equivalent.
Their equivalent of social media is two tin cans and a piece of string.