Villa In The Media

[not3bad]

No more likely to become a big force again than rattles and rosettes.

I am old enough to  remember rattles and rosettes quite well, but they were never a big force. 

I wonder what chances they'd have given Manchester City of becoming a major force a few years ago?

[Billy Walker]

Do you really think you're the only one who's thought of this? Or is it more likely that it's been thought of and discarded because it wouldn't work?

Has the idea been discarded?

EDIT:  (Just to add a bit more as I had to nip out mid-post.) I think the club has been working on pushing the McGregor angle over the past six years, no doubt.  I've read articles in the national press, local press and so on about him.  There's the statue, of course, and so on and they've even started using his portrait in the title sequence to the Football League Show- all brilliant stuff.  The idea is there and I'm certainly not alone in thinking these things and I don't think it's been discarded, just lowered on the list of priorities.

Going back to my initial post, my gripe is that we can do more in and around the ground to keep pushing this side of the club's identity because loads of people will see it.  We've just signed a deal with Eurosport Asia that will potentially have Villa matches shown in six million households on the other side of the world.  Why should they be interested in Villa?  Maybe they're not, but, clearly, we're going to try and get them interested.  The same applies to aspects of the Villa story: we need to keep getting it out there in my opinion.

[Percy McCarthy]

These lyrics have got to be about us haven't they?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5yEFbwnv0lk

I am the painter of the part that you don't see
The architect of all the beauty at your feet
The same one you choose to ignore
Who's in contact to the Olde Original

Can you hear me? Can you hear me through the wire?
Don't you know that, don't you know that I'm alive?
Can you respect the love I gave you all
For the Olde Original?

You scratch the surface of the moon to find a trace
I carved your bodies out of wood and gave the face
Someone who would question it all
And bring comfort to the Olde Original

O'er the rooftops and the plain
In the Sky there's only rain
All my children lost their way

Can you see me? Can you see me through the wire?
Don't you know that, don't you know you made me cry?
When you reject the love I gave you all
For the Olde Original

Look out Momma - the Olde Original
Comin' to getcha - the Olde Original.

It's obviously about Old Mac and Villa forming the league and what's happening now. See references to satellites andg Sky, and all our children - other clubs - losing their way. Nice positive note on which to end though. Nice tune too, kinda Mott the Hoople-ish.

Genius.

[Witton Warrior]

'Dangerously reasonable'?

I actually quite like that - look how reasonable we were with TSM until the Bolton game; how we gave Lambo time even when letting in an average 5 goals a game for a while ;-)

It's when we all turn - then it's nasty!
Happens about once a decade?

Thought this piece was quite fun really if you forget the nit-picky bits...