Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[kippaxvilla2]

It has been an amateurish paper for years.  Any half decent writers they ever had either retired (Leon Hickman) or were successful securing jobs with the nationals - (Ray Matts, Neil Moxley etc).

That Gregg Evans a ten year old student is now our official writer and praises our rivals' fans whilst Smethwicks writer and 'former Villa man' sneeringly asks us to send them the bill for damage those same fans caused just underlines their agenda.

[kippaxvilla2]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-comment---dont-9532630

We've said it before of course but these guys actually get paid for this.  I woke up this morning literally seething with rage at the lack of transfer activity.

[Steve67]

Truly crap sports journalism. Crap article by Gregg Evans.

[ozzjim]

He is the most useless journalist out there! Kendrick can write and tried to be positive but Evans is just awful!

[SoccerHQ]

He really is.

18 months ago Mail had Kendrick, Tattum and Lepwowski as the three long serving correspondents for each respective club, at least there was an air of professionalism about the match reports on a Monday, now you get that god awful what have we learnt bullet point report that's probably been typed up in 10 minutes.

It's a tough one, I can't see local media surviving that much longer but to not have a local paper every day would feel weird. The Post went weekly a while back and I always get it as it's pretty readable although they don't really cover Football aside from a business angle anymore.

[class-of-82]

Bring back the argus

[Damo70]

Bring back the argus

I've only recently got over it's demise and now you have brought all the memories back. Back in the day at wedding receptions or birthday parties in social clubs women would be dancing round their handbags and men would be crowding around the bloke who had bought the Argus.


There was always something teasing about seeing that Queen Of The South v Raith Rovers was a late kick off that made you really want to know what the final score was.

[pauliewalnuts]

Bring back the argus

I've only recently got over it's demise and now you have brought all the memories back. Back in the day at wedding receptions or birthday parties in social clubs women would be dancing round their handbags and men would be crowding around the bloke who had bought the Argus.

If there's one thing which makes me look back at the relatively recent past and think "fuck me, that was centuries ago", it is the memory of waiting at the newsagent for the Argus to turn up on a Saturday evening.

[silhillvilla]

My grandad would always go up the local about 615pm (off license hatch ) to get the argus , some crisps and chocolate and bring them all back ready for Motd .

[Damo70]

My grandad would always go up the local about 615pm (off license hatch ) to get the argus , some crisps and chocolate and bring them all back ready for Motd .

When I managed a pub in the nineties it took me a while to understand why when I appeared behind the bar the old boys used to ask me if I had been in the off licence. Then one of them explained my office was what had been the old off licence back in the day.

[pauliewalnuts]

When I moved to Newcastle to be a student in the mid 80s, I used to go on to people about the "outdoor" and get totally blank stares back.

The fucking phillistines.

[Lucky Eddie]

When I moved to Newcastle to be a student in the mid 80s, I used to go on to people about the "outdoor" and get totally blank stares back.

The fucking phillistines.

Remind me what they called their sports Argos up there?

It's pet name, something like The Pink.

[Damo70]

When I moved to Newcastle to be a student in the mid 80s, I used to go on to people about the "outdoor" and get totally blank stares back.

The fucking phillistines.

Remind me what they called their sports Argos up there?

It's pet name, something like The Pink.

I think a few regions had a 'Sporting Pink'. Although if I remember right from away trips with Villa in the eighties, Yorkshire had a 'Sporting Green'.

[kippaxvilla2]

And look at the sorry shit state of a local publication it's sister paper has become now.

[Percy McCarthy]

He really is.

18 months ago Mail had Kendrick, Tattum and Lepwowski as the three long serving correspondents for each respective club, at least there was an air of professionalism about the match reports on a Monday, now you get that god awful what have we learnt bullet point report that's probably been typed up in 10 minutes.

It's a tough one, I can't see local media surviving that much longer but to not have a local paper every day would feel weird. The Post went weekly a while back and I always get it as it's pretty readable although they don't really cover Football aside from a business angle anymore.

Maybe they should go free like the Metro and the Standard.