AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[Dave Clark Five]

Who wrote it ? McLeish

Probably. Everything in there is lies.

[N'ZMAV]

That article said we played some great Football under MON, yes at times, we did, but it wasn't amazing all the time, and often it was less one-dimensional than we are now, if we couldn't get it wide and cross it then we was pretty fucked.

[regular_john]

Who wrote it ? McLeish

Probably. Everything in there is lies.

Such as?

[damon loves JT]

the bit where he describes the waterboarding, electic-shock therapy and mock executions at Bodymoor Heath as `cutting-edge man-management'

[caster troy]

Fantastic article in the Birmingham mail

Good effort that, well written and it's full of honourable sentiments.

Unfortunately it can't erase my memories of our inept performances at home to Swansea and QPR, nor our gutless attempts at competing with Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs. It doesn't change the fact that McLeish's CV provides no evidence that he has the capability to improve us. Football isn't a religion where blind faith can override everything else, I can't go home after a match pretending I enjoyed it if in fact I was bored out of my mind and frustrated beyond belief.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Fantastic article in the Birmingham mail

Good effort that, well written and it's full of honourable sentiments.

Unfortunately it can't erase my memories of our inept performances at home to Swansea and QPR, nor our gutless attempts at competing with Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs. It doesn't change the fact that McLeish's CV provides no evidence that he has the capability to improve us. Football isn't a religion where blind faith can override everything else, I can't go home after a match pretending I enjoyed it if in fact I was bored out of my mind and frustrated beyond belief.

You're supposed to forget all that now we've beaten Fulham.

[damon loves JT]

You ask any supporter of any premiership team whether they have had a good season or not. Only Swansea and Norwich fans would say yes.

How is that statistically possible? Has everyone had a bad season?

It becomes a question of whether you expect things to get better or not. And so it does become a matter of confidence, or faith if you prefer.

[Percy McCarthy]

Surely Man City, Man Utd and Newcastle fans are happy, up to now at least?

Spurs maybe?

[dave.woodhall]

Newcastle will be happy, old school City fans will still be delirious, but United didn't win the Champions League therefore their season's a failure.

[caster troy]

You ask any supporter of any premiership team whether they have had a good season or not. Only Swansea and Norwich fans would say yes.

How is that statistically possible? Has everyone had a bad season?

It becomes a question of whether you expect things to get better or not. And so it does become a matter of confidence, or faith if you prefer.

There's bad in a 'disappointing' kind of way and there's bad in a 'I couldn't even be bothered to go a couple of times when I have a season ticket and practically nothing else to do' kind of way. Most fans of other clubs I speak to pity us for what we've had to put up with this season.

[pedro25]

And Spurs and Everton fans also, as they both have their best chances in many years of finishing higher than their local rivals.

[VillaAlways]

Sunderland ? Now the Messiah is in charge

[damon loves JT]

Say United win the title scrappily, Tottenham drop out of the top four and Newcastle fade to mid-table. All perfectly possible.

United fans are vocal about what a mediocre side they have by their standards. Citeh will be pissed off that they let a title-winning position slip. Everything at Spurs has been geared to getting into the Big Cup. Even Newcastle will be tempted to moan that they flattered to deceive.

[Vanilla]

Surely your level of happiness at the end of the season is relative to your ambitions. Manure may win the league and the Europa Cup, but they wanted to win the CL. Citeh may come second, which is a massive achievement, but they wanted to win the league.

Villa fans just wanted to win more than one game a month, and . . . err . . . ummm.

[dave.woodhall]

You ask any supporter of any premiership team whether they have had a good season or not. Only Swansea and Norwich fans would say yes.

How is that statistically possible? Has everyone had a bad season?

It becomes a question of whether you expect things to get better or not. And so it does become a matter of confidence, or faith if you prefer.

There's bad in a 'disappointing' kind of way and there's bad in a 'I couldn't even be bothered to go a couple of times when I have a season ticket and practically nothing else to do' kind of way. Most fans of other clubs I speak to pity us for what we've had to put up with this season.

What exactly have we had to put up with that's so disastrous? Results and performances haven't been brilliant but we've never looked in danger of relegation, we haven't been hammered in any game and the club are in no financial problems. That puts us in a better position than all but a handful of clubs yet for some of our supporters it's as though the end of the world is nigh. Rather than pity us I would suggest other fans piss themselves laughing at the histrionics.