Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[Dr Butler]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-weve-been-wembley-9331813

love the comment at the bottom of the page...

Bluenose Brisbane • 2 hours ago
W. T. F what drivel who cares

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[Hookeysmith]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-weve-been-wembley-9331813

Is that for real?
Is it to try and even things up with the Bitters and The Blues?

OMFG  can they not just accept the fact we are in the FA cup final (God I love saying that)

[Tony Erdington]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-weve-been-wembley-9331813

Is that for real?
Is it to try and even things up with the Bitters and The Blues?

OMFG  can they not just accept the fact we are in the FA cup final (God I love saying that)

Surely that's a wind up to the noses, "blues writer BRIAN DICK"ffs this week just gets better and better

[warleyboy]

Is this a pissin wind up...

[Damo70]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-weve-been-wembley-9331813

"Blues put their division one struggles behind them to reach the FA Cup final for the first time in fifty years of trying".

Then lost.


To Albion.


Who were in the second division at the time.

[dave.woodhall]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-weve-been-wembley-9331813

"Blues put their division one struggles behind them to reach the FA Cup final for the first time in fifty years of trying".

Then lost.


To Albion.


Who were in the second division at the time.

I used to know the Albion keeper in that match, Harold Pearson. For a long while he was the oldest-surviving England international and even in his eighties shaking hands with him was a hazardous experience. To listen to his stories of playing against Dixie Dean and Pongo Waring was to see history come alive before your eyes.

[tomd2103]

2 days out from the FA Cup final and what do they go with as their main back page story?  Yep, you've guessed it - a piece about Benteke possibly leaving with the startling revelation that Bacuna and his partner think he is "cute". 

[manic-road]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-weve-been-wembley-9331813

The name of the reporter says it all really.

[Damo70]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-weve-been-wembley-9331813

"Blues put their division one struggles behind them to reach the FA Cup final for the first time in fifty years of trying".

Then lost.


To Albion.


Who were in the second division at the time.

I used to know the Albion keeper in that match, Harold Pearson. For a long while he was the oldest-surviving England international and even in his eighties shaking hands with him was a hazardous experience. To listen to his stories of playing against Dixie Dean and Pongo Waring was to see history come alive before your eyes.

Different final but I'm sure my late uncle knew Gil Merrick in his later years. I think he lived around Chelmsley Wood or Tile Cross.

[dave.woodhall]

Different final but I'm sure my late uncle knew Gil Merrick in his later years. I think he lived around Chelmsley Wood or Tile Cross.

If you ever get the chance to hear an old player talk, don't say a word. Just listen.

[curiousorange]

I bought the Mail today for the Villa pull-out, which is a few Kendrick pieces and the Cup match reports, alongside the coverage of the '57 Final. But they've interviewed some Arsenal fan who is less than complimentary about us, for no reason that I can really tell. He says we're seen as the Midlands Tottenham and are always banging on about how we should be counted as a big club.

He's also the founder of something I've never heard of, namely the Black Scarf Movement, which contrary to what you may think, is not anything to do with Balkan politics but is to do with fans being priced out of the game. The irony of bleating about that when you play in an enormodome like The Emirates and start crying when you don't make the Champions League semi-finals seems to be lost on him.

[aj2k77]

I bought the Mail today for the Villa pull-out, which is a few Kendrick pieces and the Cup match reports, alongside the coverage of the '57 Final. But they've interviewed some Arsenal fan who is less than complimentary about us, for no reason that I can really tell. He says we're seen as the Midlands Tottenham and are always banging on about how we should be counted as a big club.

He's also the founder of something I've never heard of, namely the Black Scarf Movement, which contrary to what you may think, is not anything to do with Balkan politics but is to do with fans being priced out of the game. The irony of bleating about that when you play in an enormodome like The Emirates and start crying when you don't make the Champions League semi-finals seems to be lost on him.

See I don't get this. If I were to buy a local paper with a cup final pull out then I'm probably not interested in reading what a Cockney Tarquin has got to say about my team. I want to hear interesting interviews, player insights, behind the scene stuff. Not some smarmy wankstain taking the piss, going on about Spurs and whining about money, aren't they the same babies that turned on Wenger after we twatted them and started chanting about spending more ''facking maney'' ? That game btw was something like only their second defeat in 20 odd matches.

I hope we take a massive shit on their sense of entitlement tomorrow.

[pauliewalnuts]

I bought the Mail today for the Villa pull-out, which is a few Kendrick pieces and the Cup match reports, alongside the coverage of the '57 Final. But they've interviewed some Arsenal fan who is less than complimentary about us, for no reason that I can really tell. He says we're seen as the Midlands Tottenham and are always banging on about how we should be counted as a big club.

I just read that and it made me really fucking angry.

In the week, me, Woodhall, Damon and Mac had a twitter exchange with Steve Wollaston of the Mail about how relentlessly down they are on the Villa, always running shitty articles (the likes of that Bill Howell "send us the bill" rubbish).

This is an absolutely *perfect* example of what we meant.

1. An "interview with an Arsenal fan"? How fucking cringemakingly small time is that? You're the newspaper of the second city, you're acting like a bunch of rural peasants in thrall at the big city people.

2. Why, oh why, would they feel the need to give a platform to some bloke to tell us how much he hates Villa?

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[Jimbo]

They're a bunch of sad, pathetic, Villa hating tools. I smell the sickening stench of bluenose envy.

[pauliewalnuts]

Honestly, it is staggering.

This is the day before an FA Cup final, FFS. So, so smalltime.