Stanley Victor Collymore

[Leicester_Villian]

I see the above character sees fit to have a go at the fans who found it amusing that he should be appointed to the board ......

This is a person who took Villa for millions while he was under contract at B6 - maybe he feels he should repay that now?

Sorry but he is simply a failed footballer who works for a second rate radio station ...only person who thinks highly of him is himself .....when people disagree with him on Twitter he simply blocks them

Afraid he is a nasty piece of work who uses Villa just to keep in the public eye

Everybody knows his past and he is not someone the club would want to be associated with ....... or am I being unfair on him?

[not3bad]

When I read the first line I thought he had been appointed to the board for a minute.

[bill]

I like him.

[walsall villain]

I see that you can't stand him. With regard to taking Villa for millions, wasn't he suffering from depression at the time?.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

He has been subject to some vile abuse on Twitter over the years, so while I can understand some of his reaction to people mocking/baiting him, he does seem hyper-touchy and a bit self-important these days and there's always been a bit of the pseudo-intellectual about him.
This is what he wrote after the AGM and after some people dared to disagree with him:

To some of AVFC "support"

38 years ago today i was given a very special present from my Sister. A ticket to my first Aston Villa game. A lifelong supporter, like many ever since.
 
So for highlighting for 5 years the continuing mess the hierarchy of the club have placed this great institution in i've been increasingly mocked, lied about, goaded and disrespected to the point that its time to set one or two things straight and end any campaign to highlight Villa in the national media ( good luck in finding someone else by the way).
 
According to one blogger at the recent AGM, when my name was suggested for the Vila board, the room "erupted with laughter".
 
That's interesting, as while i'm broadcasting at the European Championships this summer, plying my trade at a company i've helped go from League 2 to winning the Premier League within 5 years ( Sony Radio Station of the Year, Sports Journalist Association winner, the most respected and longest sports journalism awards in the UK), those laughing at the AGM will have taken a club who have spent 70% ( check the stats) of its existence in the top half of the top flight, into possible titanic battles with Walsall, Burton and Gillingham next seaosn. With those laughing jolly bloggers trying desperately, like every other club fans who's club have failed to get on phone in shows like mine to "highlight their cause".
 
As for the personal slurs from some sections of Villa's support, keep them coming, it only reminds me that a football fan base is a collection of individuals who come together weekly to support a team, you aren't my family, you aren't my friends, so i'll continue to treat you on social media with the same contempt that you show me.
 
It seems some make the suggestion that having several horrific years as a player at Villa means i cant be a true supporter of the club.
 
By that logic, Gabby, Jack and Joleon, 3 lifelong Villa fans would be at the top of the assists ,goals charts and defensive blocks at the club this season because they should be always more productive than any other player from outside? Because their support of the club should match their output ? Afraid football, just like life, isn't that simple.
 
To those Villans who appreciate trying to keep Villa on a national platform, feel free to give me a shout, i'll always offer my support in any way i can.
 
To those who laughed at the AGM at the thought of "Collymore" on a Villa board...
 
The current board are doing fine, aren't they?
Those holding the board to account are doing fine, arent they?
 

See you at the Bescot or Pirelli Stadium next season. Time for me to concentrate on the other 91 clubs.
 



Stanley Victor Collymore. Aston Villa fan for 38 years.

[Billy Walker]

I'm right behind him. He's the only high profile Villa fan in the media that we have at the moment who is prepared to give Lerner et al a tough time. 

[oswald funkletrumpet]

I see that you can't stand him. With regard to taking Villa for millions, wasn't he suffering from depression at the time?.

only when he got dropped against fulham, when he beat up ulrika and got caught dogging

[saunders_heroes]

I see the above character sees fit to have a go at the fans who found it amusing that he should be appointed to the board ......

This is a person who took Villa for millions while he was under contract at B6 - maybe he feels he should repay that now?

Sorry but he is simply a failed footballer who works for a second rate radio station ...only person who thinks highly of him is himself .....when people disagree with him on Twitter he simply blocks them

Afraid he is a nasty piece of work who uses Villa just to keep in the public eye

Everybody knows his past and he is not someone the club would want to be associated with ....... or am I being unfair on him?

Firstly he was not a second rate footballer, he was a bloody good one, also I don't remember anyone laughing at him at the AGM last night, so I think someone's winding him up there.
Actually I quite like what he says about our club and in general.
I don't get with the 'he's a nasty piece of work either'. What's that actually based on, is it something to do with him hitting Ulrika Johnson all those years ago?
Live and let live and all that.

[Chris Jameson]

Afraid he is a nasty piece of work who uses Villa just to keep in the public eye

Do you really think that?

[saunders_heroes]

I'm right behind him. He's the only high profile Villa fan in the media that we have at the moment who is prepared to give Lerner et al a tough time. 

Yep, me too.

[dalians umbrella]

I see that you can't stand him. With regard to taking Villa for millions, wasn't he suffering from depression at the time?.

only when he got dropped against fulham, when he beat up ulrika and got caught dogging

Two of these would normally preclude someone from being a Board Member.

[PeterWithesShin]

Yeah live and let live, he only hit a woman. Can't think why anyone finds that the actions of a scumbag.

[saunders_heroes]

Yeah live and let live, he only hit a woman. Can't think why anyone finds that the actions of a scumbag.

He was punished for it and as far as I know he's never done it again. Perhaps he's been rehabilitated. Has that crossed your mind at all?

[itbrvilla]

Yeah live and let live, he only hit a woman. Can't think why anyone finds that the actions of a scumbag.

He was punished for it and as far as I know he's never done it again. Perhaps he's been rehabilitated. Has that crossed your mind at all?

Haters gonna hate.

[PeterWithesShin]

Yeah live and let live, he only hit a woman. Can't think why anyone finds that the actions of a scumbag.

He was punished for it and as far as I know he's never done it again. Perhaps he's been rehabilitated. Has that crossed your mind at all?

I'll stick to thinking that anyone that punches and kicks a woman in the head multiple times and threatens to kill her is a scumbag.