Farewell, then, Brian Doogan

[dave shelley]

Thanks Dave, PWS.

[Walmley_Villa]

I followed him on Twitter for the hell of it and he seemed to be permanently touring the world's great sporting events and telling everyone about them...

[andyh]

The clear out begins ??

[Comrade Blitz]

The clear out begins ??

One can only hope - perhaps there's a queue outside Tom Fox's door and Lambert is last in this line of nincompoops 

[joe_c]

*googles Brian Doogan*

*Doogans Brian Google*

[SashasGrandad]

Let's hope he can be replaced with somebody good at making silk purses out of pig's ears.

[Jon Crofts]

Andy Coulson is available.

[silhillvilla]

I had him earmarked for a job down Warwickshire CC.
Oh well good luck Brian.

[Chris Jameson]

I'm not sure we can recover from this. A new low for this once great club.

[Pat McMahon]

The only time I have seen him was on a Chinese focus on the Villa about 4 years ago.

They sent a team to Bodymoor Heath - fronted by a bloke from the Chinese team which played at the 2002 World Cup, losing all 3 games - and Dougan was the link man between the interviews. The programme was actually a Trojans Horse, as they interviewed Houllier, McAllister and Brad and pretty much focused on their Anfield experiences.

He seemed personable and professional, with a shit taste in tank tops.

[adrenachrome]

He was a co-commentator in one of the pre-season games in the USA; Houston, I think. Seemed quite knowledgeable and on message to me, but if you look at the match threads, several posters were not impressed with his performance.

[ciggiesnbeer]

He seemed to relish putting the press in their place which I appreciated. Like Dave though I noted he never really seemed to care that much about football and preferred other sports. I wish him well.

[silhillvilla]

He went on WM once I recall and just came out with club spin for 30 mins. Which I'm guessing was his job brief.

[dave.woodhall]

He went on WM once I recall and just came out with club spin for 30 mins. Which I'm guessing was his job brief.

This is yet another of the things that piss me off. We complain that club employees don't do their job properly then when the head of media/communications/PR or whatever the buzz word is today puts out a positive angle, which IS his job, we complain that it's all spin.

[aj2k77]

He went on WM once I recall and just came out with club spin for 30 mins. Which I'm guessing was his job brief.

This is yet another of the things that piss me off. We complain that club employees don't do their job properly then when the head of media/communications/PR or whatever the buzz word is today puts out a positive angle, which IS his job, we complain that it's all spin.

He didn't really have a leg to stand on. I think we'd just been dumped out the F.A Cup by Milwall, having just been knocked out over two legs by a fourth division side, just after getting twatted over Christmas and the New Year.