Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[ciggiesnbeer]

I am not sure whether I find it pathetic or respect the clear cut editorial policy of anti Villa. It is genuinely surprising though, I just don't know of other local papers that hate their biggest club so much.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/joey-barton-aston-villa-v-9819388#rlabs=1

[silhillvilla]

I am not sure whether I find it pathetic or respect the clear cut editorial policy of anti Villa. It is genuinely surprising though, I just don't know of other local papers that hate their biggest club so much.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/joey-barton-aston-villa-v-9819388#rlabs=1

That's not a genuine article surely

[dave.woodhall]

I am not sure whether I find it pathetic or respect the clear cut editorial policy of anti Villa. It is genuinely surprising though, I just don't know of other local papers that hate their biggest club so much.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/joey-barton-aston-villa-v-9819388#rlabs=1

Look at the writer, the last sentence, and ask yourself how he knew what the game was like if he wasn't watching it?

[PeterWithesShin]

I listened to game with the BBC commentary that Barton was part of and remember him saying that. To turn it into an article is fucking laughable though.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I am not sure whether I find it pathetic or respect the clear cut editorial policy of anti Villa. It is genuinely surprising though, I just don't know of other local papers that hate their biggest club so much.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/joey-barton-aston-villa-v-9819388#rlabs=1

That's not a genuine article surely

Our good friend Steve -Villa fans should be grateful to Delph and Benteke for leaving- Wallaston.

As far as I can tell he is not being ironic, nor mentions the obvious fact that Barton is not good enough to get into Bournemouths side let alone ours.

[silhillvilla]

I am not sure whether I find it pathetic or respect the clear cut editorial policy of anti Villa. It is genuinely surprising though, I just don't know of other local papers that hate their biggest club so much.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/joey-barton-aston-villa-v-9819388#rlabs=1

Look at the writer, the last sentence, and ask yourself how he knew what the game was like if he wasn't watching it?

Steve Wollaston ? Who the f..k is that ? And was he even at the match ?

[ciggiesnbeer]

A sample of Steve's previous work covering his local papers biggest club.

Why Villa fans should not be upset with Delph for leaving
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-comment-alternative-take-9683987

Why Delph should leave Villa, digging up the deranged zombie that is Rodney marsh for a quote.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rodney-marsh-aston-villa-going-9637672

In depth analysis on how Benteke would fit into Liverpool. While he is still a Villa player.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-transfer-news-liverpool-9674914

[saunders_heroes]

What a pointless rag the Mail is these days. Such a great newspaper in years gone by but now it's just pale imitation. Does anyone still actually buy it? Growing up my home would never go  a day without having a copy of the Evening Mail in it but I've barely bought a copy for the last 5 years.
Can't be long now till it goes out of business.

[dave.woodhall]

What a pointless rag the Mail is these days. Such a great newspaper in years gone by but now it's just pale imitation. Does anyone still actually buy it? Growing up my home would never go  a day without having a copy of the Evening Mail in it but I've barely bought a copy for the last 5 years.
Can't be long now till it goes out of business.

They're not exactly doing their best to stave off the inevitable.

[pauliewalnuts]

The way they've got some twat of an Albion fan who is even worse at hiding his disdain than Bill Howell was when he did the job covering the Villa, while Mat Kendrick is relegated to churning out "OMG! CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THE CROWD?!??!!" style witless fucking clickbait on twitter is just unfathomable.

The way regional titles have declined in terms of sales and importance is pretty sad, but it is nowhere near as sad as watching the management of the Birmingham Mail frantically thrashing around trying to keep afloat.

Why anyone would bother buying it any more is beyond me. Even going to their web site is an ordeal - it is basically awful content hidden in a massive amount of intrusive advertising.

[dave.woodhall]

A few years ago the Mail editor was an H&V subscriber, the sports editor was a Villa fan and the Post's sports editor bought one of our t-shirts.

[saunders_heroes]

The Mail's website is awful, it takes ages to download on an iPad and when you think the page is ready to read the bloody thing jumps and you end up clicking one of their shitty ads. I'm sure it's done on purpose.

[silhillvilla]

Doesn't bill Howells now edit our programme

[Damo70]

Personally I just thought Joey Barton's comment was the new scouse way of saying "Gissa job. Any job. I could do that".

[Diablo]

A few years ago the Mail editor was an H&V subscriber, the sports editor was a Villa fan and the Post's sports editor bought one of our t-shirts.

I take it they've all gone now?