Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What a biased rag it is!

Yep, along with WM there seems to be an anti-Villa agenda which is becoming more and more obvious.  There is only ever positive articles about Albion and Blues and it is as if is aimed at fans of those two clubs in particular.

For me, it's not so much the biased reporting with the local media that bothers me, it's the fact they expect us to dumb down to the idiocy levels of our neighbours. The Evening Mail's football reporters could learn a hell of a lot from the Liverpool Echo where football is reported seriously and with knowledge. WM.. the less said about it the better. It's embarrassing. Both are missing a massive opportunity.

[brian green]

Me too.  What goes around comes around.

[peter w]

At their demise let's see how much they pander to us then.

[in exile]

At their demise let's see how much they pander to us then.

I couldn't bear it

[curiousorange]

Every dog has its day. When you're coming back up you remember who put the boot in when you were at your lowest.

[Percy McCarthy]

If you care enough to expose their ridicule of us, please care enough to stop posting their clickbait.

[Steve67]

I was rather pissed off that they reported that Deeney's mate is a blues fan than the fact that our local team had lost. Shit reporting who I cannot take seriously. The scouting reports are a joke too. Terrible sports coverage and I agree about the Liverpool papers, far better quality.  The Mail prefer to antagonize than report fairly.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Again, when things change at the club and we're back where we belong let's hope the club doesn't  forget the piss taking and sneering from the Mail when they come cap-in-hand and want to be our best friends again.

Couldn't agree more.

Thirded. We shouldn't forget these twats.

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

They're trolls - talking Villa down is the best method they have to get traffic to their website so they can sell ads. If they were kind to us we wouldn't care anyway. If they're mean to us we get outraged and post on their site and all the chimps that support the other teams share their tiresome stories on social media.

[brentastonb6]

 Isn't the Mail's circulation only 23,000 ? If so there are three time as many views of this topic than their paper gets, maybe Dave should start a hostile takeover of his smaller sister rag ?   

[chrisw1]

Has anybody had a serious discussion with these outlets?  There are some fairly influential fans on here and other forums, has anybody actually sat down with these reporters and discussed these genuine concerns? 

[kippaxvilla2]

I am serious when I say that the Mail has fast become (in terms of sport at least) nothing more than a students' blog and that from a position of fairly serious football journalism - back in the days of Matts, Hickman and Ian Willars.  The guy they get to cover the Villa looks like Adrian fcukin Mole and acts with similar maturity, whilst their only serious reporter, Mat Kendrick is confined to sitting in his car in a desolate outpost recording himself crying at our demise and stating the obvious, or, even worse doing the 'face in the crowd' crap every weekend. 

[kippaxvilla2]

Would any of these useless chumpers be able to come up with a line from a Villa Blues derby as good as 'The Atmosphere was as Electric as the thundery air'  I still remember that line by Leon Hickman back in the day.

[Chris Jameson]

I was quite shocked at how appalling their reporting and 'journalism' is, as Mark says the likes of the Liverpool Echo and I'll also add the Yorkshire Post report with knowledge and authority and don't read like a student rag.

[aj2k77]

Would any of these useless chumpers be able to come up with a line from a Villa Blues derby as good as 'The Atmosphere was as Electric as the thundery air'  I still remember that line by Leon Hickman back in the day.

''The half empty stadium, only 36,000 in attendance, rocked to the sound of keep right on bellowed out from loyal Blues showing their appreciation as their side romped to a fully deserved 0-1 defeat''

We'd get something like that.