Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[dave.woodhall]

Next time a Stripey or a Nose says the Mail is pro-Villa ask them to find a match preview that eulogises about the opposition as much as this.

[Clampy]

Is that meant to be the match preview?

[pauliewalnuts]

So many other things to pick up on, but i'll go with "A number of Villa’s summer arrivals could end up performing better than those who they replaced but so far the jury is still out." So after 2 games the jury is still out? Do they pay you enough to come up such insightful stuff.

And
"Villa went for Ligue One players who were determined to prove their worth in the Premier League, while Pardew landed a proven performer who oozes class." Did you have a trouser accident when writing about Cabaye? Let's see how long you think Cabaye is a better signing than Adama.

Send us the Bill Howell would be proud of that article it's so blatantly anti-Villa.

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Significantly improving certain areas such as the centre of midfield and up front by landing Yohan Cabaye, Connor Wickham and Patrick Bamford was also important.

We can only dream of signing "quality" up front of the likes of Connor Wickham, with his Sunderland goal scoring record of about 1 in 7, who is such a good, proven player, he's spent time recently on loan at Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday.

We can only dream of blowing £9m on that sort of player.

I also note how our signings are "unproven" and "the jury is out", yet that's not the case with Bamford, a player who has never played a single premier league game till this season.

[The Man With A Stick]

How can a so-called professional journalist get away with writing "Ligue One"?  It's either Ligue 1 or Ligue Un.

Mind you, he can't even spell the word "Greg" so expecting him to master basic French might be asking a little too much.

[Legion]

He's something starting with a T.

Terrible journalist?

[Clampy]

It's very possible that they've manged to find a journalist equally as bad as Baggie Bill.

[Diablo]

Christ! I didn't realise we were playing the 1970 World Cup winning Brazil team next.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Interesting write up from the Crystal Palace fanzine there. Rough around the edges but hey these people are football fans not paid writers.

I wonder what our professional local paper would say about the match from a Villa perspective?

Oh wait.

[Stu82]

I haven't bought the Birmingham mail for years, when did they move it to London?

[OzVilla]

Don't worry, they'll be out of business soon judging by the journalistic excellence they employ.

Pathetic.

[Villa in Denmark]

I haven't bought the Birmingham mail for years, when did they move it to London?

They move around from week to week.

Oddly enough it always seems to be a postcode that matches our opponents'.

They have two summer residences.

One in B9 and one in B71.

[Villa in Denmark]

Oh and did that dozy twat (was that the word you were looking for PWS?) really compare keeping Scott Dann, Jason Puncheon and James McArthur with selling Benteke and the yellow rat snake whilst the still injured Vlaar failed to sign a new contract.

I should be fuming but I'm too busy pissing myself laughing at it.  Not only is h a wank journalist, he's a shit wind up merchant.  It only works if it's just subtle enough to be barely visible beneath the surface.

Cock socket.

[Risso]

He really is such a horrifically poor writer.  Even ignoring his blatant anti-Villa bias, the standard of his English is terrible. "It shows that the club are moving places because when Bakary Sako left Wolves he ignored the advances of Villa and Albion to move to the capital instead."  'Moving places', since when was that a phrase?  It's 'going places' Gregg.


"On top of that Cabaye's arrival was one of the stand-out bits of business this summer. Villa went for Ligue One players who were determined to prove their worth in the Premier League, while Pardew landed a proven performer who oozes class." From Ligue 1.

[Tom Stewart]

Should be 'one fewer win' not 'one less win' as well. The guy is an absolute joke.

[curiousorange]

You do have to question the editing process here as well. The Mail is apparently a newspaper, not a blog, and so Evans must have to answer to somebody in terms of style and authorship if not opinion.