Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: paulcomben on December 14, 2013, 12:29:34 PM
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Why didn't I think of this weekly topic before? Nor start taking notes? Villa have not been featured at all this season, as far as I have seen. Man United usually get at least 10 minutes a week. Not this week, obviously, because they are playing... Er, um...
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I never watch it anyway - gave up expecting anything interesting from the media years ago
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I sometimes flick it on if I'm around and not busy. A couple of weeks ago they had two blokes from some American band predicting some scores. They had us down to lose by a couple at Southampton then remembered we had an American keeper and changed their prediction to nil nil.
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Used to watch it when I was young but now they concentrate on the top 5 or 6 for the most of the show. Sometimes they will throw in something about a plucky lower league club so, I stopped bothering with it.
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Used to be ok in the days of bob Wilson - rarely watched it since.
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A while ago there was no choice other than FF but now it's a bit part player.
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I started to watch it today but turned off after about 10 minutes.
David Sullivan appeared and made a tit of himself, for a change.
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Stopped watching it years ago. Football is not a difficult game to understand - I don't see the purpose of Football Focus anymore, and its presented by people with the personality and presentation skills of a polished turd. The bleeding obvious is no longer a focus for my gaze.
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I prefer Saint & Greavesie.
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Thanks, fellas. Interesting if unexpected straw poll. If real footy fans aren't watching the BBC's licence fee funded flagship football preview show, what are they thinking? I feel a letter to the DG coming on.
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Dion Dublin mentioned Kevin McDonald,Tony McAndrew and Gordon Cowans as helping him through his goal drought of 13 games by telling him to keep doing what he was. He didn't actually say Aston Villa though, so we didn't get a mention, again.
Let's be honest we aren't really worth talking about at the moment, a mid table team that is inconsistent, we probably get as much air time as we deserve.
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Used to be ok in the days of bob Wilson - rarely watched it since.
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Dion Dublin mentioned Kevin McDonald,Tony McAndrew and Gordon Cowans as helping him through his goal drought of 13 games by telling him to keep doing what he was. He didn't actually say Aston Villa though, so we didn't get a mention, again.
Let's be honest we aren't really worth talking about at the moment, a mid table team that is inconsistent, we probably get as much air time as we deserve.
Well, yes, but our experiment in going from spending like an ambitious team to surviving in the PL on a budget with unknown players is interesting. If financial fair play is a serious plan from the authorities. And 16ish weeks in to the season, every team deserves at least one feature.
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Garth Crookes today presented a feature on the match fixing flare-up. He is so annoying that it was almost tempting to side with the corrupt cheats who are ruining our game. Now, he is on Final Score doing his usual over-sincere bollocks spiel.
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^^
Garth Crooks giving his expert analysis on another subject.
NSFW!
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And heres the remix
NSFW
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I like FF
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I like FF
OK. But for what reasons?
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The presenter Dan has no spunk about him at all.
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It used to be part of the long ago and far away Saturday experience - watch football focus, grab a bacon sarnie, head off for the bus and away you go. Now that the least likely time for a match is 3pm on Saturday, it has no place.
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I think it would have a place if it wasn't unmitigated drivel. Haven't watched it in ages, for a long time I've considered it the most inane and insipid football programme on the box, it's sort of like watching Newsround or an episode of Blue Peter where they get the UK keepy-uppy champion on to show us all how to kick. It's even more Top Four obsessed than MOTD. Anyway, I'm glad we never feature on it, it's always the kiss of death when we do - you can guarantee that the day they do a feature on one of our players he'll get sent off/break his leg and we'll lose about six-nil.
I would like to see an intelligent Saturday morning programme previewing the weekend fixtures though, I think there is a place for that. I'd have a panel of journalists and broadcasters (ie. people who speak in sentences as opposed to ex-footballers), even coverage of every game, and then there'd be a whimsical piece at the end (eg. one of the panel smashing Alan Green's teeth down his throat with the Simod Cup, or breaking into David O'Leary's house and shitting in his bed. Something heart-warming. A bit like That's Life used to do).
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I like FF
OK. But for what reasons?
Firstly, it's a Saturday lunchtime comfort blanket. It's always there for football news and highlights from the previous week. Plus, they always seem to hold the programme at different grounds and you get info on what's going on at that particular stadium (they did an excellent one at VP last season). They also do features on lower league teams as well which I find interesting.
There will always be a concentrated focus on the leading teams, because the top of the Premier League is where the interest is from a mass TV audience perspective.
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Essential viewing as a kid as it was one of the very few football programmes on TV. Last few times i've watched it has been pretty crap. Maybe it always was though, we just didn't care as there was sod all else to watch.
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This week the show was in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. David Cameron was there and was asked how he thought Villa were doing. He gave a simple assessment that we had probably expected to win at Fulham, Man U was always a difficult game, but he was hoping that we would get something from Stoke and went on to predict a 2-0 Villa win. He also said that with Prince William as a Villa fan we ought to be ok. He spoke as a normal Villa fan as he referred to Villa as "we".
He came across as a genuine fan.
So we got a mention this week.
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@AVFCOfficial: Fabian Delph's strike against Southampton is up for BBC Goal of the Month for December. You can vote tonight on MOTD2 from 10.25pm. #AVFC
Possibly wrong thread, but stunned with surprise.
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Did Fowler and Savage shuffle uneasily in their seats and try and excuse their homophobic actions from yesteryear on this weekend's programme? Something online I read seems to suggest that they did but FF isn't available on the i-player unfortunately.
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Fowler looked like he was going to start laughing.
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Did Fowler and Savage shuffle uneasily in their seats and try and excuse their homophobic actions from yesteryear on this weekend's programme? Something online I read seems to suggest that they did but FF isn't available on the i-player unfortunately.
Yes I caught it and you couldn't ask for a better week for these two to be on. Both tried to sweep their apparent homophobic traits in the dim and distant past. Worth a watch if you can get to see it.
Savage was referring to someone's book (I missed whose) but claimed to not recollect the incident although he didn't deny it. Draw your own conclusions.
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Only going from a report on the FF programme but Savage seemed to attribute the negative quote on him to a book by Le Saux when it's from the actual Times article he wrote this week where he named Savage.
Ironic that Savage should downplay the remark as being sensationalist-fodder by an ex-pro to sell his book when in his article Le Saux mentions how Fowler brushes off his horrible actions towards Le Saux in his (Fowler's) own book.
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Robbie Savage is just what he is, an absolute twat. A limited footballer and now it seems a limited pundit.
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Robbie Savage is just what he is, an absolute twat. A limited footballer and now it seems a limited pundit.
I think his only redeeming quality is he knows this as well.
He happily gives a cheeky grin to the camera, acknowledging he is talking bollocks but also getting paid to do so.
His eyes say "Look we both know what I just said is throw away trash, but what can you do? These fools pay me and you are fool enough to watch it. Lets all make the best of it eh?"
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Just voted for Delph's goal on MOTD2. Lawton seemed a bit nonplussed at the idea that there was more than one way of registering a vote.
It made me laugh, anyway.
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As much as I loved Delph's goal (probably our goal of the season so far) theres no way its goal of the month. (It should be Osvaldo, because he beats one of the best CBs on the planet twice and then lobs a 7 foot goalkeeper from outside the box)
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I voted for the Suarez goal that didn't win. So my opinion was the lame as Lawro!
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Well, Mourinho pretty much scotched any rumours of him considering the Man Utd job, as least if he was telling the whole truth.
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Robbie Savage is just what he is, an absolute twat. A limited footballer and now it seems a limited pundit.
Danny Mills dioesn't half spout some bollocks as well. Heard him on 5 Live stating ANY footballer signing for a club in the bottom three is a mercenary.
Danny Mills, the ex Norwich City, Charlton Athletic, Leeds United, Middlesbrough, Manchester City, Hull City, Charlton Athletic (again) and Derby County player.
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Anyone watching? They're at Goodison and they're giving some good respect to the Everton V Villa fixture.
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Missed it. Was it any good?
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Yeah it was alright. Mainly focussed on Everton as they were at Goodison, but there were some facts and figures on the fixture (Everton/Villa has been played 215 times), they showed the goals from Wednesday and talked about Villa's progress and how Bertrand was a good signing.
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was good today especially the clips of withe morley et al. love the commentary when we lifted the league cup at old trafford "and its won by one of the most famous clubs in English football...aston villa"