Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[Duncan Shaw]

so Nathan Redmond's Norwich didn;t get relegated then, or has he already moved back to a PL club?

[paul_e]

I like the suggestion that Grealish will have been looking at Norwich player Redmond jealously because he's going to be in the premier league.

[adrenachrome]

Smegg is the bastard spawn of Wild Bill Baggy and Wampissjugmug Childs who both spat on a wall in Smethwick and the sun hatched him out. The Meaning Evil is the septic tank in which he wallows.

Smegg off and sink into the the cesspool of history with your wretched rag you scum sucking bottom feeder.

[Stirchley Villain]

I'm getting increasingly annoyed by Mail reporters calling us "the claret and blues." I have been Villa from birth and have never as far as I'm aware heard us called that before they started it.  It's either The Villa, The Lions or The Villains as far as I'm concerned.

[stuart r]

I'm getting increasingly annoyed by Mail reporters calling us "the claret and blues." I have been Villa from birth and have never as far as I'm aware heard us called that before they started it.  It's either The Villa, The Lions or The Villains as far as I'm concerned.

Absolutely agree. I can't stand that term.

[usav]

I'm getting increasingly annoyed by Mail reporters calling us "the claret and blues." I have been Villa from birth and have never as far as I'm aware heard us called that before they started it.  It's either The Villa, The Lions or The Villains as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe so, but on a list of things to get annoyed about, this is pretty low right now for me.

[PeterWithesShin]

Claret and cobalts is acceptable.

[AV89]

Not really Mail related, but Tom Ross has left Free Radio.  Not retiring though.

[big 1st serve]

Prehaps Twattum has got him a job at Small Heath? or he,s the new Front of House at Glyn Purnells cafe

[Gareth]

If we are going for the new broom approach then Tom would make a good head of media at VP

*dons tin hat*

[kippaxvilla2]

Yes it's another 'world exclusive.'

The Aston Villa ticket details that scream 'Championship'

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As if playing Middlesbrough in their showpiece Villa Park friendly wasn't a stark enough sign of Aston Villa's fall from grace, it has really hit home now.

No offence to Rotherham United or Huddersfield Town (or Boro for that matter), but Villa's ticket detail announcement for the Millers and Terriers games really did scream 'Championship'.

Of course, Villa fans knew these fixtures were coming up, but now it's all become real.

Anyway, the claret and blue faithful have had plenty of time to come to terms with it, and are still expected to turn out in force when the second tier season kicks off in August.

To get your hands on tickets for the Rotherham and Huddersfield matches at Villa Park, here's all you need to know.

[tomd2103]

Yes it's another 'world exclusive.'

The Aston Villa ticket details that scream 'Championship'

JS78708517.jpg
As if playing Middlesbrough in their showpiece Villa Park friendly wasn't a stark enough sign of Aston Villa's fall from grace, it has really hit home now.

No offence to Rotherham United or Huddersfield Town (or Boro for that matter), but Villa's ticket detail announcement for the Millers and Terriers games really did scream 'Championship'.

Of course, Villa fans knew these fixtures were coming up, but now it's all become real.

Anyway, the claret and blue faithful have had plenty of time to come to terms with it, and are still expected to turn out in force when the second tier season kicks off in August.

To get your hands on tickets for the Rotherham and Huddersfield matches at Villa Park, here's all you need to know.

Did they 'scream Championship' because Huddersfield and Rotherham are in the Championship?  What a bizarre thing to say. 

[The Man With A Stick]

They scream Championship in the same way "the Mail" screams "fifth-rate journalism" or "Ggregggg" screams "shit-haired arsebubble".

[Steve67]

No shit Sherlock, the Championship you say? Thanks Gregg, where would we be without your cutting edge journalism? How about you do something useful and tell us why the Gollini and Tshibola transfers haven't gone through.

[SteveD]

Maybe it's a reflection of the decline of local newspapers generally and lack of resources but the Mail was piss-poor over the weeks of the takeover.  Obviously no contacts within the club and not an iota of a clue what was going on, no insight, just happy with linking to content from elsewhere from "grown up" papers and clickbait nonsense. Whether it was partly issues at the club and its own poor PR, I don't know. But I can understand why the circulation is rock bottom even in a city Birmingham's size.