The Martin O'Neill thread (with added sacking #2188)

[Brend'Watkins]

one really can't help but feel, after considered observation, that Villa's squad seems rather replete with the sort of cheap players, whose potential one can't help having doubts about

Complete and utter bosh young man.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Football fans were never well spoken back in my day, apart from Doug and Sir William Dugdale.
Is this going to turn into a fully fledged bust up with the well spoken newbie Villadroid or is it a mere Contretemps ?

If it's the latter, I blame MON.

[*shellac*]

I don't like Mondays.  I blame MON.

[Mazrim]

I don't like Mondays.  I blame MON.

Well they are named after him.

[Villadroid]

A villadroid argued with zeal.
And used flowery speech to conceal
That its really MONs fault.
That there's naught in the vault.
And his shabbiness now is revealed.


Step to me punk and you're gonna get served.

A Villadroid who had him some moxy
Agreed that his team's a bit poxy
But scapegoat's the game
When they hand out the shame
And he's not happy with that orthodoxy

[Mazrim]

A villadroid argued with zeal.
And used flowery speech to conceal
That its really MONs fault.
That there's naught in the vault.
And his shabbiness now is revealed.


Step to me punk and you're gonna get served.

A Villadroid who had him some moxy
Agreed that his team's a bit poxy
But scapegoat's the game
When they hand out the shame
And he's not happy with that orthodoxy

Scapegoat? Alas there's no sign.
Of a man whose MO is resign.
When the going gets tough
He is gone in a puff.
And his lawsuits ne'er too far behind.

So speak no more of this bolter.
Who left us adrift at the altar.
With a few days to go.
To the start of the show.
He was tanning his arse in Gibraltar.

[Drummond]

There was a young robot called VillaDroid,
Who could not be assessed by Sigmund Freud,
For he spake all in riddles,
And mostly all piddle,
Before he sat down too long and got haemorrhoids.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I don't like Mondays.  I blame MON.

Well they are named after him.

Monarchists, Money Lenders, Mongoose, Monasteries, Mongo in Blazing Saddles, Monkeys, Monosyllables, Monotheists, Monetarists, Monks, Monetarist Monks, Monetarist Money Lending Monks, My God he has a lot to answer for !

[Mazrim]

Mon kingdoms were political establishments by the Mon-speaking people that ruled large sections of present-day Myanmar (Burma) at various times in the last 1200 years. The kingdoms in chronological order are the Thaton Kingdom (9th. century–1057), the Hanthawaddy Kingdom (1287–1539), and the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom (1740–1757).

[Chris Jameson]

Where's that boss eyed bloke from That's Life when you need him?
Has he been implicated in the Savile scandal yet? He looked a wrong 'un.

[NeilH]

Anyone with any sense can see now, why he left, because he knew the truth Lerner and Faulkner never had the guts to share with the fans.

What the truth being that the club could not afford to bankroll his signings any more and needed to cut their cloth accordingly.

How dare they look at the finances of the club and make a rational decision. We should have just kept spending, spending, spending and ended up in administration. That's what MON wanted.

Why would we have ended up in administration? Randy's a wealthy man so could have afforded it if he saw fit. He decided not to and as it's his money he's within his rights but the truth is things changed.

Perhaps administration is a little harsh, but Lerner could not have continued to allow MON to spend money on frankly average players. It's his club and his decision to pull the plug. It was MONs decision to chuck his toys out of the pram just before the season started.
Frankly both MON and Randy were to blame. Randy for allowing MON to spend apparently unchecked and MoN for the reasons many times stated.

[Brend'Watkins]

There was once a not so young man named Martin
Who was lambasted for his sudden departin'
He said nothin' specific
'Cos he thinks he's teriffic
But we know he's a C***.

[Des Little]

Where's that boss eyed bloke from That's Life when you need him?
Has he been implicated in the Savile scandal yet? He looked a wrong 'un.

Doc Cox? 

[Chris Jameson]

Think he was called Cyril Fletcher.

[Villadroid]

A villadroid argued with zeal.
And used flowery speech to conceal
That its really MONs fault.
That there's naught in the vault.
And his shabbiness now is revealed.


Step to me punk and you're gonna get served.

A Villadroid who had him some moxy
Agreed that his team's a bit poxy
But scapegoat's the game
When they hand out the shame
And he's not happy with that orthodoxy

Scapegoat? Alas there's no sign.
Of a man whose MO is resign.
When the going gets tough
He is gone in a puff.
And his lawsuits ne'er too far behind.

So speak no more of this bolter.
Who left us adrift at the altar.
With a few days to go.
To the start of the show.
He was tanning his arse in Gibraltar.

That fairytale has some appeal
Because Randy he chose to conceal
He told loyal Villa fools
It's those financial rules
But has gone beyond that in his zeal