Stephen Ireland

[Exeter 77]

I've just had a look to check when Ireland last played. His last game was for Stoke in May 2018 when he was 31. He joined Bolton the following October, who were a far bigger shambles at that point than Vilia ever were, and didn’t kick a ball in anger for them in the two months he was there or indeed since.

[Risso]

Genuine lol right there. I just like his house and his pink Range Rover.

Point of order. It was only the wheels that were pink.

[adrenachrome]

Genuine lol right there. I just like his house and his pink Range Rover.

Point of order. It was only the wheels that were pink.

Pink tinged vehicle, yes.

I think the interior was also involved. Bespoke car, as they used to say.

[Axl Rose]

Quite possibly my least favourite Villa player of all time.

Nobody forced you to come and sulk on £70k a week, you gutless little wank

This

[BC Villain]

At a time when everything seems to be so positive about the club you can always rely on Birmingham Live to rake this sort of shite back up again

[Mister E]

Doesn't come as a shock at all. We shouldn't have touched him with a bargepole, felt that way when we signed him. To be fair from his perspective, we were the last place he needed to be - a club in massive turmoil where it was clear from the moment he joined that he wasn't the manager's choice of signing.

No hard feelings towards him personally, it was just clearly the wrong move for both parties, and that's not even saying anything in hindsight as I remember having the exact same conversation with my dad before he'd even kicked a ball.

I think you've called it right, algy.

[Percy McCarthy]

At a time when everything seems to be so positive about the club you can always rely on Birmingham Live to rake this sort of shite back up again

They do that with anything to do with Birmingham really. There’s an article about a new Birmingham skyscraper being built that, in the same piece, they say is too tall and not tall enough. I can’t stand them.

[Neil Hawkes]

At a time when everything seems to be so positive about the club you can always rely on Birmingham Live to rake this sort of shite back up again

They do that with anything to do with Birmingham really. There’s an article about a new Birmingham skyscraper being built that, in the same piece, they say is too tall and not tall enough. I can’t stand them.

That's why you employ a professional construction company.

[LeeB]

At a time when everything seems to be so positive about the club you can always rely on Birmingham Live to rake this sort of shite back up again

They do that with anything to do with Birmingham really. There’s an article about a new Birmingham skyscraper being built that, in the same piece, they say is too tall and not tall enough. I can’t stand them.

They've always been the champions of parochialism. The Mancs have The Guardian cheerleading on a national scale and we had these chumps telling us to know our fucking place.

[Monty]

If the Villa invented a cure for cancer they'd run a feature on out-of-work chemo manufacturers.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's not just Villa they are like that with, as Percy mentioned, they have a downer on the entire city.

I have genuinely never encountered another major regional newspaper / news organisation with such a downer on (easily) its biggest sport institution, though.

When it comes to the city, they're just so, so small time. "OMG! A Brummie is in the news!!11!!!!" etc.

[Nev]

I had to hold my nose and look at the website yesterday to get the news on the bus strike.

[OCD]

I only read the Villa stuff in there so interesting to hear that they're not just down on us, but the entire city.

And that website is shocking. Impossible to read on a phone or tablet. Yet they never do anything about it.

[trinityoap]

Many years ago I was with some journos enjoying a cup of tea when the topic of parochialism in newspapers came up. I suggested that the Evening Mail would win it with "Birmingham man injured as Russians invade West Germany". The local press has mostly gone downhill since then.

[pablo_picasso]

At a time when everything seems to be so positive about the club you can always rely on Birmingham Live to rake this sort of shite back up again

They do that with anything to do with Birmingham really. There’s an article about a new Birmingham skyscraper being built that, in the same piece, they say is too tall and not tall enough. I can’t stand them.

They recently had an "article" asking where the players were from a Euro defeat against Austria Vienna.

Not the win against Ajax, or anything else positive. A random Euro defeat...

Wankers.