Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine

Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: AlexAlexCropley on March 06, 2015, 01:11:41 PM

Title: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: AlexAlexCropley on March 06, 2015, 01:11:41 PM: http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/31756575
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Dr Butler on March 06, 2015, 01:12:42 PM: just beat me to it Alex.....love it !

UTV
The Doc
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: dave shelley on March 06, 2015, 01:16:37 PM: Super.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Jon Crofts on March 06, 2015, 01:18:30 PM: That is quite lovely.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on March 06, 2015, 01:26:39 PM: Ace.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Brend'Watkins on March 06, 2015, 01:32:39 PM: It's going to confuse the inhabitants of Bordesley. "Ow can a peaky blinder be a viler?"
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Ian. on March 06, 2015, 01:34:00 PM: Excellent, thanks for posting.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 06, 2015, 01:36:24 PM: Made me really miss home. Beautiful.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: flybo on March 06, 2015, 01:49:24 PM: Love it UTV
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: HertsVilla on March 06, 2015, 02:10:09 PM: Absolutely incredible. Genuinely moving. I really do love The Villa.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: The Left Side on March 06, 2015, 03:02:44 PM: Wonderful stuff
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on March 06, 2015, 03:08:25 PM: Met him at a schools' do years ago...he was brilliant and very happy to talk about where we were both born, The Villa and vegan stuff.
I had to cuff several children out of the way to grab another minute or two of his time.
:D
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: aj2k77 on March 06, 2015, 03:12:06 PM: The bit where he reveals the badge and says the name. Love that badge, love that name.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Mister E on March 06, 2015, 03:21:52 PM: Excellent - I feel the heat really rising aorund this game: I hope the team can deliver.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: tommy smart on March 06, 2015, 03:22:40 PM: awesome
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: mr underhill on March 06, 2015, 03:25:19 PM: he drove a TR7 for a long time which makes him either totally bonkers or totally optimistic, or a bit of both.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on March 06, 2015, 03:44:20 PM: I had a piss next to him in the bogs in the away end at Upton Park about 10 years ago
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: charleeco7 on March 06, 2015, 03:49:34 PM: That is fantastic.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: usav on March 06, 2015, 03:53:44 PM: Quote from: Chico Hamilton III on March 06, 2015, 03:44:20 PM
I had a piss next to him in the bogs in the away end at Upton Park about 10 years ago
Did he break out into prose in mid-flow?
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: darren woolley on March 06, 2015, 04:36:50 PM: Brilliant.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: aev on March 06, 2015, 04:38:03 PM: The Villa.

Love that bit.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: somec on March 06, 2015, 05:02:57 PM: Love it!
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Smirker on March 06, 2015, 05:26:17 PM: Really, really looking forward to this now. Come on Villa.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on March 06, 2015, 05:40:15 PM: Quote from: Toronto Villa on March 06, 2015, 01:36:24 PM
Made me really miss home. Beautiful.

Same.

:'(
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Jimbo on March 06, 2015, 05:41:11 PM: He should be Villa's poet laureate.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Villan For Life on March 06, 2015, 06:06:18 PM: That is just beautiful. Sheer poetry.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Percy McCarthy on March 06, 2015, 06:23:43 PM: Beautiful. A great companion to that David Bradley piece. Both class. Benjamin's right.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: West Derby Villan on March 06, 2015, 06:45:52 PM: Pure class UTV
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: BC54 VFC on March 06, 2015, 06:50:40 PM: Brilliant; he and I have a bit in common apart from the Villa - both born in Handsworth in the same year, 1958, me 46 days before him.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: supertom on March 06, 2015, 06:57:39 PM: Top bloke. That's really got me buzzing (even more than before) for tomorrows game. We'll do those oiks.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: richard moore on March 06, 2015, 07:18:12 PM: Wouldn't we all love to do something like that! Fantastic, really classy, just like my beloved club
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: damon loves JT on March 06, 2015, 07:31:01 PM: He is proper Villa. Compare him to that cushion-faced arse Chiles.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: TopDeck113 on March 06, 2015, 08:09:40 PM: Love it. Says what we all feel.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: AV82EC on March 06, 2015, 08:42:42 PM: Magnificent, truly magnificent. Made the hairs on the neck stand on end. And that ground and those facades...........
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: steamer on March 06, 2015, 08:57:46 PM: My Hero
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Bad English on March 06, 2015, 09:28:30 PM: Class. Skill. The Villa. Claret and Blue.

Wonderful.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: aev on March 06, 2015, 09:35:33 PM: I watch that and I think to myself it doesn't matter who the owner is, it is MY club.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Deano's Mullet on March 06, 2015, 09:35:42 PM: Enjoyed that. I hope our players play with the same passion he has in the video
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Pat McMahon on March 06, 2015, 10:25:24 PM: Love the video. Don't like the long vowel in "class" though - has our Benjamin been living down south?
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: garyshawsknee on March 06, 2015, 11:15:09 PM: Absolutely perfect. Couldn't think of a better guy to represent us. UTV.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Godfrey Brian on March 07, 2015, 08:35:18 AM: From his poem 'Knowing Me'.

"With my Jamaican hand on my Ethiopian heart
The African heart deep in my Brummie chest,
And I chant, Aston Villa, Aston Villa, Aston Villa,
Believe me I know my stuff."

He knows what he is...................... ;)
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: class-of-82 on March 07, 2015, 09:52:21 AM: "he knows what he is
he knows what he is
hes aston villa he knows what he is"
come on villa
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Holte L2 on March 07, 2015, 10:03:16 AM: It's brought a tear to my eye and got the goose bumps flowing. Lets have a magnificent afternoon. Come on you Lions!
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: peter w on March 07, 2015, 10:24:15 AM: Quote from: Holte L2 on March 07, 2015, 10:03:16 AM
It's brought a tear to my eye and got the goose bumps flowing. Lets have a magnificent afternoon. Come on you Lions!

Don't.We are Aston Villa. We know how this usually ends up.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Holte L2 on March 07, 2015, 10:28:03 AM: Quote from: peter w on March 07, 2015, 10:24:15 AM
Quote from: Holte L2 on March 07, 2015, 10:03:16 AM
It's brought a tear to my eye and got the goose bumps flowing. Lets have a magnificent afternoon. Come on you Lions!

Don't.We are Aston Villa. We know how this usually ends up.

Indeed. Still can't wait to get down to Villa Park though. No idea when I last said that. Possibly Blackburn 2010.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Risso on March 07, 2015, 11:31:09 AM: Superb. You're not getting to get such eloquence from Frank Skinner or Adrian Chiles are you?
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: spartacuss on March 07, 2015, 11:41:08 AM: Those bloody onions...
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: usav on March 07, 2015, 03:15:21 PM: No dust here, it just put a bloody big smile on my face.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Risso on March 07, 2015, 04:20:34 PM: Quote from: spartacuss on March 07, 2015, 11:41:08 AM
Those bloody onions...

Eh?
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 07, 2015, 07:55:20 PM: Win inspired by Benjamin. Looking forward to your next words of inspiration for the semis sir!
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 07, 2015, 08:21:24 PM: It was ace seeing him at half time.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: JD on March 08, 2015, 09:01:37 AM: That is truly brilliant.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: SashasGrandad on March 08, 2015, 09:35:58 AM: Last year "the library was ours"

This year "the poet is ours"

I hope he writes something for Wemberlee
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: CJ on March 08, 2015, 10:03:59 AM: Thought he was brilliant and before this week I didn't even know he was a Villa fan! I noticed he climbed in to the Lower Holte towards the end of HT - did he stay there and/or was he there before HT?
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Gregorys Boy on March 08, 2015, 01:34:45 PM: Thought he was great at the game yesterday :)
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: john e on March 08, 2015, 01:51:54 PM: Love the bit where he leans into the camera and says ' and you know what, we have class'
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Salsa Party Animal on March 08, 2015, 01:52:43 PM: Any good books or web site for reading his poems, just to see what his work is like ?
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: brian green on March 08, 2015, 01:59:55 PM: And at the final, Abide With Me from a dias on the centre spot should be an instrumental performance by Nigel Kennedy. It will probably be against Liverpool so they can have a record of Pace and the Jerrymakers singing whatever it is they sing.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: BC54 VFC on March 08, 2015, 02:40:40 PM: Quote from: CJ on March 08, 2015, 10:03:59 AM
Thought he was brilliant and before this week I didn't even know he was a Villa fan! I noticed he climbed in to the Lower Holte towards the end of HT - did he stay there and/or was he there before HT?

He was there in the first half. I was standing next to him in the gangway, halfway back, immediately before he went on the pitch to be interviewed at half-time.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Smirker on March 08, 2015, 08:53:03 PM: Here he is at 53 seconds. Sorry if repost.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 10, 2015, 04:47:00 PM
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: Smirker on March 10, 2015, 05:50:10 PM: Enjoyed that.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: eamonn on March 10, 2015, 06:30:19 PM: Quote from: Risso on March 07, 2015, 04:20:34 PM
Quote from: spartacuss on March 07, 2015, 11:41:08 AM
Those bloody onions...

Eh?

Another blokey way of indirectly admiting to welling-up innit. It beats dustmites anyroad.
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: UK Redsox on March 10, 2015, 09:23:25 PM: Quote from: Gregorys Boy on March 08, 2015, 01:34:45 PM
Thought he was great at the game yesterday :)

The half time interview was cringeworthy. It was almost as if Jack didn't have a clue who he was or what he did.

If the other interview was done pre-match it makes the HT one more bizarre
Title: Re: Benjamin Zephaniah
Post by: lordmcgrath5 on March 13, 2015, 10:45:46 PM: Beautiful stuff, what a guy.