Spare a thought.

[Tom Sawyer]

Too right Doug sold to the wrong guy. If only he'd sold to Ray Ranson.

Don't ever forget that everyone's favourite money-laundering (allegedly) hairdresser Carson also approached Doug to buy the Villa...

Thank God we didn't sell to him... we'd have been financially ruined... and ...er... relegated.

[Ad@m]

Too right Doug sold to the wrong guy. If only he'd sold to Ray Ranson.

Don't ever forget that everyone's favourite money-laundering (allegedly) hairdresser Carson also approached Doug to buy the Villa...

Thank God we didn't sell to him... we'd have been financially ruined... and ...er... relegated.

But at least our owner doesn't turn up to games out of choice.

[Tom Sawyer]

Too right Doug sold to the wrong guy. If only he'd sold to Ray Ranson.

Don't ever forget that everyone's favourite money-laundering (allegedly) hairdresser Carson also approached Doug to buy the Villa...

Thank God we didn't sell to him... we'd have been financially ruined... and ...er... relegated.

But at least our owner doesn't turn up to games out of choice.

Thank God for Randy

[dave.woodhall]

I bet he's absolutely gutted. In between counting his millions.

Perhaps we can ask a few of his former players, employees and managers widows what they think. 

[QBVILLA]

Can't believe what i've seen this morning. Pro Houllier and Ellis posts? Is McLeish that bad that amnesia is spreading throughout the club? Whatever next? Steve Hodge to make the greatest Villa eleven of all time?

[Matt Collins]

I think there's a pretty stench-worthy amount of hypocrisy and revisionism on this thread!!

[Rip Van We Go Again]

He'd still have sacked Mcleish months ago

He wouldn't have employed him in the first place.

but he did employ Turner, McNeill and Venglos so that's not entirely true.

To be fair TV, none of them had a history of relegation or boring football.
Turner was lower league but played some good football under Shrewsbury, he was a bit like Poyet now.
McNeill had done okay with Man City and Venglos was a respected European coach.

They all had reasonable records prior to Villa, McLeish's CV was poor.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I notice that there is an extreme shortage of rose coloured spectacles on eBay; you lot haven't been buying them up have you?

[Greg N'Ash]

Oh i'll spare thought for him all right. Made a mint from selling the club after putting nowt in himself for 25 years. Sold it to the yank version of himself, presumbly advised Lerner to go for or selected MON himself. Must be pissing himself. i know one thing, however much he claims to love the club, if he was 30 years younger and Lerner offered him back the club for what he sold it for, he'd run a mile.

Probably still can't believe his luck.