Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Mac on March 31, 2017, 08:32:43 AM
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I was a mere slip of a lad, cough, when I launched this website 20 years ago today.
No expections of what it would do, no idea that it would cause as many arguments as it has. Or how much time it would take up for so many people.
I may not be around as much as I used to but thanks to everyone who had helped make this the longest running Villa website in the world.
Happy Birthday heroesandvillains.net
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Well done!
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*like*
Thanks for setting it up, hours of pleasure spent following threads
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Good man, Mac!
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to keep it going.
Happy Birthday, H&V!
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Good man, Mac!
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to keep it going.
Happy Birthday, H&V!
This - a thousand times over.
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Thanks, Mac, and well done.
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Good man, Mac!
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to keep it going.
Happy Birthday, H&V!
This - a thousand times over.
I'll ditto this. A tremendous achievement and somewhere on the web that never fails to amuse, amaze, antagonise and enlighten.
Well done Mac et al and God bless all who sail in her.
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Thank you Mac
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Ruddy marvellous site! Thank you, Mac!
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Blimey, I'm fairly certain I'd never been on the Internet then, let alone been aware of what the hell a forum was! You were a visionary, sir. I tip my cap.
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I reckon I was 4 or 5 years late to the party, so that's only about 15 or 16 years of my life wasted.
Congratulations and "thanks."
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Cheers Mac.
I've been following the site for a large part of those 20 years and through various web platforms (not much of a poster as you can see). Certainly back to the days of 'mad Rob,' Malcolm Everall and the VT guys before they split. I still chuckle at some of the rows over the years.
H&V has undoubtedly grown to be by far the best fan site I have ever read. Although TBAR and Admin ran you close at one point...
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Good man, Mac!
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to keep it going.
Happy Birthday, H&V!
This - a thousand times over.
I'll ditto this. A tremendous achievement and somewhere on the web that never fails to amuse, amaze, antagonise and enlighten.
Well done Mac et al and God bless all who sail in her.
Those above have said it for me.
Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday to my favourite little corner of the web.
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nice one!
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Happy Birthday to us! My favourite corner of the interweb.
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Thanks Mac and a very Happy Birthday to this site
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20 yrs!!! Wow. Well done. And you no longer post that much, Mac. much missed! This is my 13th or 14th year.
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Wow! Congratulations and thanks.
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Thank you Mac
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Congratulations Sir. Here's to the next 20 then! 8)
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Well done Mac and a big thanks also to all those that help out behind the scenes.
I'm getting flashbacks of that horrible screeching sound from my dial up modem. Kids today don't know they're born.
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Very many congratulations
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H&V is exactly the same age as The Teletubbies.
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Thanks Mac I love going on here everyday keeps me sane Happy Birthday.
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Jesus, I think that I have been here for most of that 20 years! Certainly 18 of them. I was only thinking what ever happened to that Mac fella during the week! Congrats, Mac!
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Thanks Mac and everyone else who keeps the site running - don't know where I'd be without it (certainly not TBAR *shudder*)
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Is there a cake at all? Happy Birthday H&V and well done Mac.
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Happy Birthday to the best site on the internet
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Many congratulations, it's some achievement.
I think I first started following the site around 99 or so, maybe a little later but there or thereabouts. Speaking as someone who has no real links to birmingham this place has helped me feel "closer" to the club than i may have otherwise felt. Not to mention the everyone I've met directly through here, who have been to a person (almost, *cough*) great people.
Here's to another, hopefully more successful, 20.
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Congratulations H&V and thanks to everyone who runs it and those that breathe new life into it every week.
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Jesus, I think that I have been here for most of that 20 years! Certainly 18 of them. I was only thinking what ever happened to that Mac fella during the week! Congrats, Mac!
I started reading the forum when I was at uni in 98 so I reckon I'm at about the same. I'd love to see, if it exists, a screenshot from the original site.
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Congratulations and well done one and all who keep it running!
I've been here for 8 of them and that's gone by in the blink of an eye!
UTV
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Echo all the other sentiments. Pretty sure I've been using it for 18 of the 20 years, at least.
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Congratulations H&V and Mac.It's given me a stronger link to the Villa family and Brum. Learnt to post to say thank you too.Good on yer UTV
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Well done to Mac, Dave and everybody involved. Its a grand site and it turns out, having looked at my profile, that I've spent just over 10 years on here! Mental how quick that time has gone.
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Congratulations on reaching 20 - can I assume that this weekend next year we'll all go up town and get absolutely shitfaced in the Dome or Pagoda Park? That is what all 21 year olds do, right?
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Congratulations on reaching 20 - can I assume that this weekend next year we'll all go up town and get absolutely shitfaced in the Dome or Pagoda Park? That is what all 21 year olds do, right?
forum wide trip to mr egg?
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Congratulations on reaching 20 - can I assume that this weekend next year we'll all go up town and get absolutely shitfaced in the Dome or Pagoda Park? That is what all 21 year olds do, right?
Pagoda Park, fucking hell that takes me back.
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Congratulations, Mac.
Someone else said it above, but what a vision you had back then and how refreshing H&V is, in the world of football fan sites.
Superb achievement.
Huge thanks from me go to you and the team who keep it going, as well. UTV!
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Quite a legacy, Mac.
You should be proud.
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Ace.
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Congratulations Mac, once the novelty of the internet wore off H&V is one of just two sites I visit on a daily basis. Heavens knows how many hours I have spent on here.
Many thanks to you and the others who make this such a wonderful site.
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Well done, Mac! You can be sure that your efforts are hugely appreciated.
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Hmmm, must have been around 2001 when I became a H&Ver.
It's been brilliant (and frustrating, amusing, uplifting, irritating, obsessional, informative, supportive, petty, outrageous, angered, sarcastic, triumphal, focussed, campaigning, international, broad-minded, divisive ...).
Know what I mean?
Thanks to all that made it thus.
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Up until April 2016 it's been my sanctuary for many, many years. Thank you all.
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Mac,Dave,Leeg & all contributors,a massive part of my Villa supporting life.
Thankyou.
Marcus
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That's a lot of new manager threads!
Well done to Mac for starting it, the admins for keeping it going, and everyone for posting.
This forum is one of the few constants during the highs and lows of supporting the Villa.
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First website visited every day. Thanks.
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Happy Birtday H&V. And thanks Mac for making it happen. This site makes me laugh every day. Even the one in 10 of John Croft's jokes gets a laugh.
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Happy Birtday H&V. And thanks Mac for making it happen. This site makes me laugh every day. Even the one in 10 of John Croft's jokes gets a laugh.
Or even Jon Croft's.
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Congratulations and thank you all involved, in particular Mac and Dave.
There can't be many achievements over the last 20 years that Villa fans can look back on with pride, but this site is most certainly one.
Sadly my employers might not share that sentiment, as probably one of the main sources of distraction I can attribute my lack of productivity to. But who gives a shit, they've just paid me off so I'm off out on the piss to celebrate.
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Living for over two decades overseas, the site helps me feel like I still live down the road. Great job guys.
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I find more responsible comment from the contributors on H & V than most other parts of the internet. I know that's not saying much, but well done anyway.
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Many congratulations, I've visited other fans forums and without being biased, H @ V is the best by a country mile. Here's to the next 20 years.
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Thanks Mac!
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H&V - I was going to say that you're my favourite waste of time, but that does a great disservice to what you actually provide. The intelligence and erudition displayed on here make it a haven from other areas of the net. It's also funny and passionate; a place where opinions and differences are generally argued in a reasoned manner. I sometimes wonder if it would lose something of what makes it great if we had a successful team to follow...
Happy 20th birthday and thank you to everyone who keeps the show on the road.
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Happy birthday and thanks for letting me waste so much time here.
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It's not bad.
Happy Birthday.
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Well done Mac and to all that help keep and have kept it going. It's a fantastic site for so many reasons, from football, music, TV, politics, humour, a personal crisis to fixing your kitchen sink.
Happy birthday!
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I started reading the fanzine in 98 I think (first article I read was on Brian Little leaving) but only really started looking at this site in 2004.
Been plenty of highs and lows hasn't there during that time. I do long for the day we finally win something again just so I can read the glorious threads on here in the days afterwards.
Great site anyway, it does feel like a family on here even though I've only met the odd person on here face-to-face.
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Congratulations on reaching 20 - can I assume that this weekend next year we'll all go up town and get absolutely shitfaced in the Dome or Pagoda Park? That is what all 21 year olds do, right?
Pagoda Park, fucking hell that takes me back.
Romeo's and Juliet's before it was Pagoda Park- and it was named other thing before that so my parents said but I don't know what 🤔
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Mac thank you and to all those of you who help to run it well done. This is my favourite go to site whenever I have time to kill.
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Didn't use the site until around 2007-ish but read the fanzine from maybe 1989, can't really remember, there was the Witton Wisdom, Missing Sid and Holy Trinity, possibly some others but Heroes and Villains always stood head and shoulders above the rest when it came to Villa matters.
A real thanks to all those who have been involved both online and fanzine wise as it's been a part of my life for nearly 30 years. Here's to many more, Up The Villa.
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Thanks Mac. Happy Birthday H&V.
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Thanks Mac, an infrequent poster but I spend a lot of time on this wonderful site, important part of my life.
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Congratulations and thanks from an admiring friend.
Well done, Mac.
Norm.
Happy Birthday heroesandvillains.net
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Living for over two decades overseas, the site helps me feel like I still live down the road. Great job guys.
This for me as well. It's the equivalent of being in your local and talking for hours about Villa.
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I was a mere slip of a lad, cough, when I launched this website 20 years ago today.
No expections of what it would do, no idea that it would cause as many arguments as it has. Or how much time it would take up for so many people.
I may not be around as much as I used to but thanks to everyone who had helped make this the longest running Villa website in the world.
Happy Birthday heroesandvillains.net
<Nerdberg> Scoff, but this site is Heroesandvillains.info. That means two different sites so it doesn't count. </Nerdberg>
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This is home for me. Without it I'd be much younger, less stressed, better looking, but that's the good and bad of family. Thanks Mac for 20 years. I've seen a good number of those.
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Happy Birthday and well done for keeping going. I did run a Villa web site but packed it in about 10 years ago or whatever.
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Wow,time has gone so fast.
Thank you Mac for setting up the site, it is invaluable for those of us who live overseas and you and everyone involved with the site have done an amazing job. Just wished you posted more.
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Congratulations and well done!
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Happy birthday and thank you so much for bringing this site to us like minded souls. I view it every day.
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Thank you Mac. Great site.
So 1997, was it the first Villa forum on the net?