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Offline jon collett

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2055 on: April 23, 2025, 11:31:02 AM »
Enjoyable interview on Chris Woakes’ love for the Villa with Brian Halford of WCCC.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reports-from-arbroath/id1802486205?i=1000704557255

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2056 on: April 24, 2025, 03:03:15 PM »
Enjoyable interview on Chris Woakes’ love for the Villa with Brian Halford of WCCC.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reports-from-arbroath/id1802486205?i=1000704557255

A genuine fan. Lovely bloke, lovely interview.

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2057 on: June 17, 2025, 11:48:36 AM »
Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but Amol Rajan (super cool presenter and journalist)mentioned on Radio 4 this morning how excited he was to get his first villa shirt (with AST on the front). When he was a kid

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2058 on: June 17, 2025, 11:53:58 AM »
Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but Amol Rajan (super cool presenter and journalist)mentioned on Radio 4 this morning how excited he was to get his first villa shirt (with AST on the front). When he was a kid

A bit of an odd one given he was born in India and raised in Tooting. Hope he is a Villa fan as I really rate him as an interviewer/presenter, and he's excellent on University Challenge.

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2059 on: June 17, 2025, 12:05:27 PM »
Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but Amol Rajan (super cool presenter and journalist)mentioned on Radio 4 this morning how excited he was to get his first villa shirt (with AST on the front). When he was a kid

A bit of an odd one given he was born in India and raised in Tooting. Hope he is a Villa fan as I really rate him as an interviewer/presenter, and he's excellent on University Challenge.

2:54 into the Today programme this morning:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002dnj2?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Plus bonus grudging mention of the Villa from Alistair Campbell later.
« Last Edit: June 17, 2025, 12:21:26 PM by thick_mike »

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2060 on: June 17, 2025, 12:20:38 PM »
The author of the book I think is a Villa fan too.

Offline Crown Hill

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2061 on: June 17, 2025, 12:40:04 PM »
Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but Amol Rajan (super cool presenter and journalist)mentioned on Radio 4 this morning how excited he was to get his first villa shirt (with AST on the front). When he was a kid

Interesting, I’ve played cricket with Amol but never thought for a moment to speak with him about the Villa!

Offline Russ aka Big Nose

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2062 on: June 18, 2025, 09:36:41 AM »
The author of the book I think is a Villa fan too.
Yep. Joey D'Urso has owned up/proudly stated he's a Villa fan: https://x.com/josephmdurso/status/1925461354594373907

Looks to be a really interesting book. UTV

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2063 on: June 25, 2025, 12:21:24 AM »

Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but Amol Rajan (super cool presenter and journalist)mentioned on Radio 4 this morning how excited he was to get his first villa shirt (with AST on the front). When he was a kid

A bit of an odd one given he was born in India and raised in Tooting. Hope he is a Villa fan as I really rate him as an interviewer/presenter, and he's excellent on University Challenge.

Interesting, I’ve played cricket with Amol but never thought for a moment to speak with him about the Villa!

He’s the same age as a mad keen Villa fan of 11 years old who I met in Essex in the mid 90’s. No family connection with Birmingham or the Midlands, he really stood out among the Hammers, Gooners, Spurs and yep, Manc U and Liverpool fans around him. I was his form teacher at the time and we both wore our Villa shirts with pride on non- uniform days!  He was a Villa fan mainly because his hero was Mark Bosnich and he was a keen goalie.

I wonder if Amol was focused on a particular player or just liked the team; we won the League Cup in 94, which would have been around then.


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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2064 on: July 01, 2025, 05:04:30 PM »
Brummie and Villa fan Dan Evans progresses in the Tennis. He even manages a bit of Emi shit housery too in the process.

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2065 on: September 18, 2025, 11:41:13 AM »
I notice Tom Hanks has given up on us.  Priced out like a lot of others.

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Re: Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?
« Reply #2066 on: Today at 12:49:24 AM »
I notice Tom Hanks has given up on us.  Priced out like a lot of others.

I've heard he is one of the people who is actually calling for Emery's head. The child blood loving c*nt.

 


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