Why are the Media so Anti-Villa?

[Dave]

I'm shocked, genuinely shocked, by that crock of T-Rex shit masquerading as a story by Henry Winter. Really shocked. I can't even bring myself to list where and why it's so thoroughly, unequivocally wrong. It would take me hours.

I am surprised too because from my, admittedly distant, perspective Henry Winter has always been a lucid reporter showing a positive attitude and great respect towards Villa's standing, tradition and support.

Presumably that positive attitude ceased somewhere around mid-August 2010.

[Shrek]

Sunday supplement, Oliver Holte is a TWAT!

[MonsXI]

Holte is at it again on the Sunday Supplement on SkySports, he seriously needs to drop it now he's a cretin that slates us at every opportunity. We should seriously consider banning him from Villa park because I can't remember him saying anything positive about the club since his buddy walked out on us.

[citizenDJ]

Holt is a tit and no mistake. Of course he is entitled to his opinion and all that, but he just comes across as so wholly uninformed and, to my mind, he has something of a vendetta against Randy Lerner which comes across as very petty and, to be honest, makes him seem like a teenager having a bit of a tantrum. A very poor 'journalist' indeed, but not the only one.

[koreanmeatballs]

Holt is a right cvnt.

Did he get touched up by a Villa fan as a kid? He has a bit of an issue with us.

[Shrek]

He obviously watches these forums and is now just doing it on purpose,

Holt if your reading, your a prick.

[Chris Smith]

Flicking between this and the cricket and thought Holt is going to cause somebody on H & V to burst a blood vessel. He is a knob, an oddly bitter and twisted man. The other two are ok though, Sam Wallace always comes across pretty well on this.

[Jimbo]

I'd love to think that Holt actually reads this. If so, I'd like to say that he has a face like a deflated Yorkshire pudding. And he's a shit journalist.

[Lizz]

Henry Winter's article is incredible. That's not meant as a compliment. I don't think Alistair Campbell could have produced something so nauseating.

[treaders12000]

Hes making talking out of his anus an art. Plus to get paid to spout it too. A master of the art of talking shite.

[Ross]

Sorry, didn't see it.  Although I can guess, can someone sum up what Holt had to say? 

[Lee]

Holy Fuck!
That Telegraph article was written by O'Neills's mom yes?

Come on, somewhere amongst the journalistic dross there must be someone who thinks we have just pulled a transfer masterpiece, that we really are a better long term prospect than Slumberland, and that we might just survive as a club after Our Lord Martin.

I never really brought into this love affair that MON had with the Media, but Jesus H Christ on a pushbike, since he has gone, they have slaughtered us from every angle.

[Rico]

I remember Holt making a comment a few years back when O'Leary took over. It was something along the lines of, "Never thought of Aston Villa as a big club, but by the time David O'Leary has got through with them they'll be massive." Yeah right! Shows how much he knows. I think it's better anyway when the media ignore us. We can then go about our business quietly and when the good times come along we can can rub their noses in it! The media are obsessed with London and North West teams. They actually believe that Tottenham, Newcastle and Sunderland are all bigger clubs than Villa. Let em get on with it and just stop buying their rags!

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I read Winters article.

Sorry Jeff, The Villa hating madman is not the God you think he is.

[richard moore]

Winter is a twat of the highest order
 
I remember writing a vitriolic letter of complaint to him years ago when he wrote about us in very derogatory terms when it looked as if Brian Little might go from Villa to Newcastle to be their manager. He did, in fairness, write a letter of apology to me
 
My solution is just not to read or listen to any of it. I don't watch Sunday Supplement, never read the after match reports in the paper, never watch any pre- or post-match analysis and I go to the loo at half-time and catch up on here. H and V and, to a lesser extent, VT are the only sources of anything I read about the Villa and, in the case of the former, are about 1000% more reliable, informed and intelligent...