Sir Doug Ellis donates £1 million

[Tom_Mc9?]

He still goes to the games - he must have some fondness. There's absolutely no other reason to go and watch us at the moment.

[LeeB]

http://monash-sport-lifestyle.blogspot.ie/2014/12/the-doug-ellis-swimming-pool-is.html
https://www.dougellissportscentre.com/bcu_city_north/News
http://www.redbrick.me/news/doug-ellis-opens-university-library/


 
 am i the only one who thinks his egomaniac tendencies in all this is a bit sickening, and a little crass.

Hopefully yes.

He's not.

[Ron Manager]

I beg to differ Dave. Doug's greatest achievement was to give me the opportunity to see the worlds most famous player play at Villa Park.

I thank him profusely for that.

[saunders_heroes]

The more we have Lerner the more ai appreciate Doug. Much respect.

Too right. At least Ellis managed to get us relegated properly.

Say what you like about him but he has always had Villa's interests at heart. A true football man. Can we say the same about Lerner?

To repeat what I've said before. Doug Ellis's greatest achievement was to make Villa fans think he loves the club as much as they do.

Yes he relegated us but he did more good than bad at Villa, including giving us our longest unbroken run in the top division in decades. Something Lerner seems hell bent on destroying.

[LeeB]

Ellis was a self serving twat. Lerner is shit at running football clubs.

One man made his money running us, the other has sank money into us.

No matter how shite things are currently, I'm not going to don the rose tinted glasses.

[AV82EC]

Ellis was a self serving twat. Lerner is shit at running football clubs.

One man made his money running us, the other has sank money into us.

No matter how shite things are currently, I'm not going to don the rose tinted glasses.

Exactly, revisionism of the highest order. I've forgiven him for the pigs ear he made of the club but I'll never forget.

[saunders_heroes]

Ellis was a self serving twat. Lerner is shit at running football clubs.

One man made his money running us, the other has sank money into us.

No matter how shite things are currently, I'm not going to don the rose tinted glasses.

One was good at running a football club the other is absolutely awful.
If only Doug was 20 years younger and had Lerner's cash.

[LeeB]

Ellis was a self serving twat. Lerner is shit at running football clubs.

One man made his money running us, the other has sank money into us.

No matter how shite things are currently, I'm not going to don the rose tinted glasses.

One was good at running a football club the other is absolutely awful.
If only Doug was 20 years younger and had Lerner's cash.

I'd still want him nowhere near my football club.

[saunders_heroes]

Ellis was a self serving twat. Lerner is shit at running football clubs.

One man made his money running us, the other has sank money into us.

No matter how shite things are currently, I'm not going to don the rose tinted glasses.

Exactly, revisionism of the highest order. I've forgiven him for the pigs ear he made of the club but I'll never forget.

I'd take Ellis' "pig's ear" version of Villa over Lerner's any day.

[LeeB]

Ellis was a self serving twat. Lerner is shit at running football clubs.

One man made his money running us, the other has sank money into us.

No matter how shite things are currently, I'm not going to don the rose tinted glasses.

Exactly, revisionism of the highest order. I've forgiven him for the pigs ear he made of the club but I'll never forget.

I'd take Ellis' "pig's ear" version of Villa over Lerner's any day.

I wonder, if we do go down do you think Lerner would put the prices up?

[saunders_heroes]

I've no idea. I do know the price of my season ticket steadily rose under Lerner though. I don't understand the point you're trying to make.

[dave.woodhall]

The more we have Lerner the more ai appreciate Doug. Much respect.

Too right. At least Ellis managed to get us relegated properly.

Say what you like about him but he has always had Villa's interests at heart. A true football man. Can we say the same about Lerner?

To repeat what I've said before. Doug Ellis's greatest achievement was to make Villa fans think he loves the club as much as they do.

Yes he relegated us but he did more good than bad at Villa, including giving us our longest unbroken run in the top division in decades. Something Lerner seems hell bent on destroying.

Maybe he should take some advice from someone who managed it. European champions to relegation in five years, purely for his own vanity.

[saunders_heroes]

The more we have Lerner the more ai appreciate Doug. Much respect.

Too right. At least Ellis managed to get us relegated properly.

Say what you like about him but he has always had Villa's interests at heart. A true football man. Can we say the same about Lerner?

To repeat what I've said before. Doug Ellis's greatest achievement was to make Villa fans think he loves the club as much as they do.

Yes he relegated us but he did more good than bad at Villa, including giving us our longest unbroken run in the top division in decades. Something Lerner seems hell bent on destroying.

Maybe he should take some advice from someone who managed it. European champions to relegation in five years, purely for his own vanity.

True, but he got us straight back up again and we've been here ever since. Fingers crossed Lerner's incompetence and "couldn't gove a shit" attitude doesn't destroy that though.

[dave.woodhall]

Graham Taylor got us back up, and he appointed himself. Then we went closer to going down on more than once occasion than we ever have under Lerner. The greatest opportunity we ever had was destroyed because of one man's vanity - everything he has ever done has got to be judged against that. 

[Jimbo]

There's a lot of revisionist bullshit being spouted on this thread. Ellis was a terrible owner. Just because he isn't Randy Lerner, it doesn't make him Jack Hayward.