0% Villa-BBC drama on Munich air crash.

[dave.woodhall]

It's also the reason they started to get supporters from all over the country. They don't need any more.

I'd rather see a documentary about something that isn't already so well known. That bloke Friday that used to play for Reading or something like that.

My Mate wrote a book on William Garbutt, 'The Godfather of Italian football'
He went over there and radically changed the Italian game, because of him Italian players still refer to the Manager as 'Gaffer.'

That would make a good documentary.

Who was the bloke who used to manage us in the twenties or thirties who went across to Mainland Europe to manage? I think he went to an Austrian club. His would be an interesting story too.

Jimmy Hogan. He managed abroad before coming to Villa and his career was virtually ended by the war.

[SoccerHQ]

Anyone mentioned the Charlton documentary on BBC 2 on Thursday yet?...

[Holtenderinthesky]

it is my opinion that this topic has no place on this board.

Your entitled to your opinion my friend, but I would hope we continue to discuss other football related topics in addition to Ashley Youngs free kicks and Richard Dunnes waistline.

The accepted protocol is to mark the topic '0%Villa' which is what I did.
Having said that, one of our players Stan Crowther joined Man U as part of the need for them to field a 1st team for the rest of that season.

  Stan started out with Aston Villa, with whom he won the FA Cup in 1957, beating Manchester United 2-1 in the final. Less than a year later, in February 1958, Stan had signed for United for £18,000 in the wake of the Munich air disaster, and scored on his debut against Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup!

Stan’s signing was remarkable as he wasn’t too keen to leave Villa. Manchester United’s stand-in manager Jimmy Murphy recalls: "Eric Houghton was Villa manager at the time and he had told Stan that we were interested in him. He didn't want to leave Villa, but Eric got him to come to Old Trafford to watch the Sheffield Wednesday game.

“On the way up he told him he thought that he should help us out, but Stan told him he hadn't brought any kit with him. ‘Don't worry, I've got your boots in my bag’, Eric said. We met at about half-past five and an hour before the kick-off he'd signed!"

   

It's very kind of you to respect my opinion and I too, respect yours and would agree that other football related matters are suitable subjects for discussion. The red scum, beelzebub and all their works, the munich myth and all that surrounds it are not suitable for this board even labelled 0% Villa. Please keep it to the Board labelled Off Topic if only so that  everyone who is sick of their profile is not subjected to it. I come here for Villa related news and views not for updates on manc related lies.

The Munich air disaster was an awful, awful tragedy which killed a lot of human beings.  The fact that they played for Manchester United should make no difference whatsoever, they were kids who had their young lives cut short.  I hate Man United as much as the next guy but the Munich air disaster transcends my allegiance to the Villa and I hope to God it never happens again.  I'd suggest you stay clear of any thread title that doesn't indicate a Villa connection if it upsets you that much. 

[dave.woodhall]

Where do the lies come in?

[Holtenderinthesky]

Who's the bond villain with the Russian accent playing Matt Busby? 

[JJ-AV]

This is absolutely shite.

[spangley1812]

Who is the player smoking the pipe ??
 

[CJ]

How come no-one on TV can do a Midlands accent? The dialect of the bloke playing Duncan Edwards is laughable

[Holtenderinthesky]

How come no-one on TV can do a Midlands accent? The dialect of the bloke playing Duncan Edwards is laughable

It's bloody awful.  Why don't they just use an actor FROM the Mildlands? 

[The Man With A Stick]

That accent is all over the shop.

[Holtenderinthesky]

Matt Busby sounds like the KGB bloke played by Robbie Coltrane in Goldeneye. 

[spangley1812]

Good to see that the relationship between United and the footballing authorities has not changed much

[Holtenderinthesky]

Well that could have been better.

[villajk]

It was a bit of a disappointment.

[Villa'Zawg]

I didn't think it was possible to have a more boring 90 minutes that yesterday afternoon but they managed it quite comfortably.