AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[claret and blue blood]

Wonder if he did go tomorrow a few thousand season tickets might be sold quicker than otherwise ?
Might be worth getting that message to Lerner just to encourage him?

[Tom Sawyer]

Wow. He shouted once on radio when Villa scored. That's me convinced.

Peter he is a Villa fan, you may not like it but he has allways been a Villa fan.

LOL, he supports Wolves!

Why would someone pretend to support one club and secretly support another? Get a grip.

Maybe you should ask him?

A Tweet from Stan Collymore:

"Who do i support? No ambiguity whatsoever.Aston Villa FC,since the age of 4. Want teams I've played for to do well,just not against Villa"

Stan Collymore, what a pious cu*t. He spent the whole shift trying to dig out Villa fans to call him today spouting his nonsense about loving Aston Villa and he would have civil war if those that called disagreed with him.

One question Stan, any chance of you returning the money from the club you love that you took whilst suffering depression after beating up a woman in a pub?

Horrible creature.

Careful... you'll get less stick for criticising Ian Huntley on this site.

[dave.woodhall]

Oh yippee. Another "You know what happens when you.... on this site." If you don't like being on here nobody's holding you against your will.

[Californian Villain]

Wow. He shouted once on radio when Villa scored. That's me convinced.

Peter he is a Villa fan, you may not like it but he has allways been a Villa fan.

LOL, he supports Wolves!

Why would someone pretend to support one club and secretly support another? Get a grip.

Maybe you should ask him?

A Tweet from Stan Collymore:

"Who do i support? No ambiguity whatsoever.Aston Villa FC,since the age of 4. Want teams I've played for to do well,just not against Villa"

That proves it: he obviously supports Wolves.

[Tom Sawyer]

Touchy.

[Holy Trinity]

is it true bookies have frozen bets on mcleish going, i cant find the market on william hill and im in self imposed exile from skybet

[Ad@m]

Careful... you'll get less stick for criticising Ian Huntley on this site.

Well of course he will - Huntley's an absolute scumbag!!!!

Slightly dubious ground though for VillaBobby - criticising former players who suffered mental illness is never particularly clever.

[ROBBO]

Not sure whether this has been mentioned but my eldest read or heard that when McCleish waved and raised his fist to someone in the crowd after the glorious 1-1 draw, it was to his wife and kids in the stand, and that it was after the abuse he recieved and would have been witnessed by his family that led to him meeting with Lerner and telling him he was pulling the pin, agreeing to see out the season. Has anyone else heard this explanation of events?

[Simba]

Sorry. No.

But it would not surprise me. It also suits us depending on contract.

However, notwithstanding his complete failure, and obvious (deserved) humiliation and undeserved salary- if he puts his Family first:

Good for him.

[villajk]

I understand that McLeish is a very, very strong family man.  That's not a bad thing and if he's throwing the towel in for the sake of his family, fair play to him.

[bertlambshank]

I understand that McLeish is a very, very strong family man.  That's not a bad thing and if he's throwing the towel in for the sake of his family, fair play to him.

Sounds about right from him,nothing to do with him being rubbish.To use his family like that is low.

[jembob]

The abuse which he got after the Bolton game would have been nothing like the vitriol which the Celtic fans would have given him as Rangers manager. If he wants to use that as the excuse to leave then I'm fine with that. As Simba says, his time at VP has been a complete failure and his excuse was always going to be that the Villa fans made his job impossible.

Also the interview he gave on Friday talked about abuse being part of the job and he had learned to live with it. Plus all of his outstanding experience and leadership skills would have helped him through!

[cdbearsfan]

is it true bookies have frozen bets on mcleish going, i cant find the market on william hill and im in self imposed exile from skybet

I think they tend to close at night a lot of the time anyway as they don't have staff available overnight to update them and wouldn't want to lose out as a result of being caught out by an overnight development. Also, if lots of Villa fans believe the MysteryMan rumours and bet on McLeish, they'll keep shortening the odds then eventually close the book just to be on the safe side.

[AlwaysAVFC]

is it true bookies have frozen bets on mcleish going, i cant find the market on william hill and im in self imposed exile from skybet

Think most didn't have a market for it online. Only one I found was whether he would be in charge next season which was on skybet 2/5. Do think he could well be gone. Although the fact that bet is still on he may not, yet.

[Holy Trinity]

is it true bookies have frozen bets on mcleish going, i cant find the market on william hill and im in self imposed exile from skybet

I think they tend to close at night a lot of the time anyway as they don't have staff available overnight to update them and wouldn't want to lose out as a result of being caught out by an overnight development. Also, if lots of Villa fans believe the MysteryMan rumours and bet on McLeish, they'll keep shortening the odds then eventually close the book just to be on the safe side.

thanks, i hope he does go and despite betting on us to go down i think we are safe now unless a very unlikely turn of events happen, bolton wont win twice out of there 3 games and qpr may have run out of legs but i can see them staying up, as soon as bolton loose on tuesday we are safe IMO so have nothing to loose by letting the moron go. i would go to the spurs game and i aint been near villa park all season because of him if he goes before the match, if hes still there the atmospher will be awful.