New Villa video

[astonvilla82]

https://youtu.be/322PTtZ1WLs?si=YG4zoSsJtNtARrgk

This is beautiful. I love the pure Brummieness of it too.

I love the fact that they used the Peaky Blinders theme as the noses would hate that.Stephen Knight is desperate to write the noses into everything he does about Birmingham. There's nothing historically to connect them to PB and he did the same with the recent "This Town" series. He tried to make  a whole genre of music called Ska and Two Tone about the Zulus. It was nothing to do with them apart from a few skinheads who followed them at that time. Two Tone/ Ska was much more of a Coventry thing.

The Zulus didn’t even exist until 84.

As I said in another thread, Peaky Blinders was based on a Birmingham gang led by Billy Kimber, who lived in Summer Lane. Knight was so desperate not to include Aston that he portrayed Kimber as a cockney and an enemy of the Brummies. The only Brummie in the first series was Benjamin Zephaniah, a proud Villa fan.

All true. As for Stephen Knight it's such a pity that the BBC have finally woke up to the fact that the city actually does have a lot of interesting stories to tell and he's the effing storyteller. He's undoubtedly a talented writer but his insistence on shoehorning the noses in at every opportunity stops me from watching cos it's irritating and laughable. Next up will probably be a story about the great train robbery where a load of noses from Solihull famously held up a Royal Mail train and used the money to overthrow Fidel Castro and they all now own half of Cuba.

I always thought it was them,in the films about Great Train Robbery  starring Stanley Baker and later Phil Collins , weren't they Birmingham supporters if I am correct?

[Dave P]

Interesting to see the club embracing the 'Birmingham' identity.  I think promoting that identity could be really key in attracting commercial opportunities.

We always have. It’s just we have other facets of our identity too. We don’t have to be as try hard about it as blues do. 

[dave.woodhall]

There's one book about Birmingham's cultural history which is crying out to be made into a film. It's called Gangsters and something.

[Steve67]

Let's hope they don't get as far as......

Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Shit.

Applause, made we laugh.  Lead role made for Wayne Rooney of course.

[Percy McCarthy]

There's one book about Birmingham's cultural history whichbis crying out to be made into a film. It's called Gangsters and something.

Post of the millenium.

[LeeB]

There's one book about Birmingham's cultural history whichbis crying out to be made into a film. It's called Gangsters and something.

Post of the millenium.

Yeah but they'd give it to Stephen Knight, he'd make Percy a nose and none of the jokes would work.