Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: The Laughing Policeman on September 20, 2014, 09:13:20 AM
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Got up at 7.30 this morning put 5Live on and in the last hour and half they've talked about us three times.
A Pat Murphy interview with Hutton.
BFR on our start.
Somebody else talking about the Keane effect.
Still to come Hutton is on Football Focus at lunch time.
Then the match is live on 5live.
All we need now is for us to be first on Match Of The Day.
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Got up at 7.30 this morning put 5Live on and in the last hour and half they've talked about us three times.
A Pat Murphy interview with Hutton.
BFR on our start.
Somebody else talking about the Keane effect.
Still to come Hutton is on Football Focus at lunch time.
Then the match is live on 5live.
All we need now is for us to be first on Match Of The Day.
and a win of course
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Got up at 7.30 this morning put 5Live on and in the last hour and half they've talked about us three times.
A Pat Murphy interview with Hutton.
BFR on our start.
Somebody else talking about the Keane effect.
Still to come Hutton is on Football Focus at lunch time.
Then the match is live on 5live.
All we need now is for us to be first on Match Of The Day.
and a win of course
Nah! Arsenal will be first on.
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Don't get too excited TLP - it won't last!
If we win today they will probably initiate an enquiry into how we dare achieve good results against the Skywank Superteams, bring all of our honest endeavours into disrepute and we will be banned for ever!
Evertheoptimist!
UTV!
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I heard Ellie Oldroyd talking to the Football Focus bloke (Dan something ?) and was shocked to hear that they had an interview with the Scottish Cafu. His turnaround has been incredible.
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To me this is the whole debate about media coverage. If you are worth it they'll cover you. For too long we have been a minor story in the PL popping up now and again due to controversy generally of our own making. But just like when we were last doing well under MON we started to see stories that put us in a good light. I genuinely think that journalists want to write about other clubs because writing about the same few top clubs over and again must get a bit boring. But stories like Hutton's tattoos or Richardson's place in life, while not earth shatteringly important, are just a bit different and interesting in their own way and a welcome change to the ongoing "strife" at Man U or Arsenal.
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To me this is the whole debate about media coverage. If you are worth it they'll cover you. For too long we have been a minor story in the PL popping up now and again due to controversy generally of our own making. But just like when we were last doing well under MON we started to see stories that put us in a good light. I genuinely think that journalists want to write about other clubs because writing about the same few top clubs over and again must get a bit boring. But stories like Hutton's tattoos or Richardson's place in life, while not earth shatteringly important, are just a bit different and interesting in their own way and a welcome change to the ongoing "strife" at Man U or Arsenal.
Im with this guy ^^^
Undoubtedly, we are often ignored or patronised by the media but ultimately 'lower/mid table side plays poorly, again' isn't much of a story. If we start playing really exiting football and winning games then the meeedja will pay more attention - see the 12 month wankfest over Southampton (not the best supported or most fashionable club).
Not that we should care about what the press says, but it is nice to read articles about your own club for once.
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Some fans moan when their club don't get the covenge they deserve, but I think Villa perform better when we don't get the hype machine behind us. There has been some good Guardian articles on us recently though. The Richardson interview in today's sports section was another good one.
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Lineker burst the BBC Villa love-in on MOTD with that quip about the Villa virus only lasting three and a half minutes. One of jugears smarter jokes in fairness.
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...which tells you everything you need to know about smarmy Tory twat Lineker.
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I'd like to like Lineker - he's considered a bit of a nice chap in the household - but almost every week when he opens his gob once too often he continues to convince me he is a complete, smug, self-important twat.
Nothing personal.
;-)
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...which tells you everything you need to know about smarmy Tory twat Lineker.
Tory? I never knew that, how so?
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I've no idea why.
Experience teaches me it'll be because he's a rotten, selfish pro-war scumbag.
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I'd like to like Lineker - he's considered a bit of a nice chap in the household - but almost every week when he opens his gob once too often he continues to convince me he is a complete, smug, self-important twat.
Nothing personal.
;-)
I may be wrong but from memory, Lineker may not have ever scored at Villa Park ?
That's probably a good enough reason for him not to like us
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I'd like to like Lineker - he's considered a bit of a nice chap in the household - but almost every week when he opens his gob once too often he continues to convince me he is a complete, smug, self-important twat.
Nothing personal.
;-)
I may be wrong but from memory, Lineker may not have ever scored at Villa Park ?
That's probably a good enough reason for him not to like us
Don't think he did.
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He didn't. He's mentioned it a fair bit over the years.
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I'd like to like Lineker - he's considered a bit of a nice chap in the household - but almost every week when he opens his gob once too often he continues to convince me he is a complete, smug, self-important twat.
Nothing personal.
;-)
I may be wrong but from memory, Lineker may not have ever scored at Villa Park ?
That's probably a good enough reason for him not to like us
I seem to remember him saying VP was his favourite ground because he always got a good reception there, and, i dont care what anyone says about him - what a player at every level he played, if only the rest had had his attitude, we`d have won a world cup again perhaps.
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I loved Lineker as a player.
He did one thing and did it very effectively. I also think he's not too bad as a broadcaster.
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Lineker should have been a Villa player. I'm positive he once said he fancied playing for Villa with us being the biggest Midlands club and all that. Jimmy Greaves was always advising Ellis to sign him, but he ended up at Tottenham and the rest is history. He was a great striker.
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That thing about Lineker never getting a yellow or red card is absolutely incredible.
Wasn't there also some story about the "great" Wolves side of the 1950s going years without a booking, too?
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...which tells you everything you need to know about smarmy Tory twat Lineker.
Lighten up you dull Trot.
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He should send a thank you card every year to Ian Bowyer.
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He should send a thank you card every year to Ian Bowyer.
indeed...oh what might of been :'(
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Lineker should have been a Villa player. I'm positive he once said he fancied playing for Villa with us being the biggest Midlands club and all that. Jimmy Greaves was always advising Ellis to sign him, but he ended up at Tottenham and the rest is history. He was a great striker.
I feel like I'm about to walk into why-didn't-Barry-take-the-penalty territory here but I'm sure I remember reading that Ellis agreed a deal with Lineker to sign for us from Barca but SGT put an end to it as his £10k per week wages would have upset the dressing room.
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Lineker should have been a Villa player. I'm positive he once said he fancied playing for Villa with us being the biggest Midlands club and all that. Jimmy Greaves was always advising Ellis to sign him, but he ended up at Tottenham and the rest is history. He was a great striker.
I feel like I'm about to walk into why-didn't-Barry-take-the-penalty territory here but I'm sure I remember reading that Ellis agreed a deal with Lineker to sign for us from Barca but SGT put an end to it as his £10k per week wages would have upset the dressing room.
I've heard that story before. I think it was Herbert himself who said it. But as with everything about Herbert, you have to take it with a very large pinch of salt.
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Mrs M thinks he is hot!!
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Mrs M thinks he is hot!!
Who, Doug?
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I've no idea why.
Experience teaches me it'll be because he's a rotten, selfish pro-war scumbag.
WTF?
What's the point of bringing this sort of shite to the thread? You sound like a parody of Rik in the Young Ones.
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...even if it is true.
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I've no idea why.
Experience teaches me it'll be because he's a rotten, selfish pro-war scumbag.
WTF?
What's the point of bringing this sort of shite to the thread? You sound like a parody of Rik in the Young Ones.
WTF yerself. That's exactly the kind of polemic I come here to read.
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Lineker should have been a Villa player. I'm positive he once said he fancied playing for Villa with us being the biggest Midlands club and all that. Jimmy Greaves was always advising Ellis to sign him, but he ended up at Tottenham and the rest is history. He was a great striker.
I feel like I'm about to walk into why-didn't-Barry-take-the-penalty territory here but I'm sure I remember reading that Ellis agreed a deal with Lineker to sign for us from Barca but SGT put an end to it as his £10k per week wages would have upset the dressing room.
Christ that's done it.