Fabian Delph - Signed for Manchester City

[dave.woodhall]

Pat (we're on first name terms) is an old-school BBC broadcaster with a style that he isn't changing for anyone. This can make him seem pompous but he's one of the few in the press box who doesn't care how many feathers he ruffles and for that alone we should be grateful.

[brian green]

Unless you happen to be the person whose feathers are being ruffled and you consider that the ruffling is gratuitous.  Some take it, some don't.

[mr underhill]

I remember him gate crashing a do I was at with Don Colston, then head of West Midlands Travel, Bob Warman, and I think Michelle Newman, who my boss and I were entertaining at Edgbaston. He  gave Don a lot of stick over his support of WBA, which was embarrassing as Don  owned the company I was working for. A grade A knobhead.

[in exile]

Can't we fuck this thread off somewhere else?

[CT]

Can't we fuck this thread off somewhere else?

Seconded.

[Villa in Denmark]

Can't we fuck this thread off somewhere else?

Seconded.

Time Wasters?

[olaftab]

Thirded.

[Steve67]

Yeah, let's bench it!! Would seem the appropriate place.

[olaftab]

I agree adn we need an "On the Bench" thread in Other Football.

[CT]

Agreed. We can resurrect it for 10 minutes every couple of months.

[Villa in Denmark]

Agreed. We can resurrect it for 10 minutes every couple of months.

😁

[adrenachrome]

He's on, by the way. They are 1-3 down.

[Pat McMahon]

Pat (we're on first name terms) is an old-school BBC broadcaster with a style that he isn't changing for anyone. This can make him seem pompous but he's one of the few in the press box who doesn't care how many feathers he ruffles and for that alone we should be grateful.

I like him. Tells it pretty much as is, and echoes a lot of comments you read on here. I really don't believe he has an anti Villa agenda.

[aev]

Pat (we're on first name terms) is an old-school BBC broadcaster with a style that he isn't changing for anyone. This can make him seem pompous but he's one of the few in the press box who doesn't care how many feathers he ruffles and for that alone we should be grateful.

I like him. Tells it pretty much as is, and echoes a lot of comments you read on here. I really don't believe he has an anti Villa agenda.

I like him too. If we are honest, it would be pretty difficult to find too much positivity covering us over the last few years.

I remember he used to harangue Lambert quite frequently. He doesn't seem to be too bothered about ruffling feathers - the complete opposite of many of the sycophants that are in the media nowadays.

[Jon Crofts]

Bloody hell, Compo rations. That takes me back. They were the only food worse than whale meat (main dealer F Normansell, Bell St and the market hall) and snoek, some sort of fish traded by the same gentleman football club owner that civilians had to eat. Mutton Scottish Style (Mutton Jocks to the squaddies)'was the worst and universally loathed. Lumps of undercooked animal fat floating in slimy grey porridge. We had it in Berlin when the Jerries were starving and even they would not eat it.

As unpleasant as compo was in the main (biscuits fruit, spangles, bacon burgers excepted) you should try the American version MREs or Meals Ready to Eat.  We renamed them Meals Rejected by Ethiopia they were so bad.

Could never get any of my section to eat the cheese possessed we had cans all over the back of our 432 every time we came off exercise,

Here's a trip down memory lane for your guts Brian.
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