Bernstein and King Resign from the Board

[Comrade Blitz]

Intellectual property rights

Is Lerner going to patent his formula for ruining a football club?

[DaveD]

Intellectual property rights

Is Lerner going to patent his formula for ruining a football club?

Well there's the recipe for the balti pies...

[damon loves JT]

I've just remembered who Adrian Bevington is, and where I've met him before. I think Villa might manage to struggle on without him.

He's one of those like David Davies who became a `football administrator' and enjoyed a meteoric rise through the FA on the strength of his `knowledge of the media'.

In Bevington's case, he'd worked on a local newspaper in Middlesbrough and was plucked from obscurity by Steve McClaren to be a club press officer. He followed him into the England job.

The blazerati know so little about how the media work that anyone with an ounce of knowledge becomes like the one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

[Trinitymiddle]

I've just remembered who Adrian Bevington is, and where I've met him before. I think Villa might manage to struggle on without him.

Care to expand on that?

[damon loves JT]

I've just remembered who Adrian Bevington is, and where I've met him before. I think Villa might manage to struggle on without him.

Care to expand on that?

Just edited.

Met him at McClaren's first, deeply unimpressive, press conference as England coach where he unveiled my hero JT as national captain.

I think I remarked here at the time that the football writers were looking at McClaren like cats following the clumsy movements of a fat flightless bird. Bevington was McClaren's eminence grise. 

[Villa in Denmark]

Congratulations on Blazerati, that's a fantastic invented word.

Aren't we in a similar position, where anyone with half a clue of how to deal with the media is preferable to the never ending silence and blind acceptance of whatever shit the press wish to publish.

Mind you, I could almost believe that we've suddenly employed Malcolm f##king Tucker to brief against Gabby and get him at least knocked down a peg or hundred, if not drop kicked out of Bodymoor Heath in the general direction of Minworth.

[DaveD]

Congratulations on Blazerati, that's a fantastic invented word.

Aren't we in a similar position, where anyone with half a clue of how to deal with the media is preferable to the never ending silence and blind acceptance of whatever shit the press wish to publish.

Mind you, I could almost believe that we've suddenly employed Malcolm f##king Tucker to brief against Gabby and get him at least knocked down a peg or hundred, if not drop kicked out of Bodymoor Heath in the general direction of Minworth.

Malcolm Tucker ? Can we borrow his time machine ?

[damon loves JT]

I've felt desperately sorry for the people running Villa's press office this season. They've got nothing that anyone wants.

[Villa in Denmark]

Congratulations on Blazerati, that's a fantastic invented word.

Aren't we in a similar position, where anyone with half a clue of how to deal with the media is preferable to the never ending silence and blind acceptance of whatever shit the press wish to publish.

Mind you, I could almost believe that we've suddenly employed Malcolm f##king Tucker to brief against Gabby and get him at least knocked down a peg or hundred, if not drop kicked out of Bodymoor Heath in the general direction of Minworth.

Malcolm Tucker ? Can we borrow his time machine ?

We've been watching one.

Players with 1950's fitness levels ambling about trying to compete against modern day players,

And I use "compete" in the loosest and most charitable context possible.

[robbo1874]

Honestly, this news comes as more of a blow to me than saturday's confirmation of relegation. Without drastic changes over the next couple of months, we're going to be in footballing purgatory for quite some time.

my thoughts exactly Ger. All we can do now is wait and see what happens with a possible sale and new owners. My initial thoughts on reading this thread (which I've only just seen) was that King and Bernstein probably resigned due their non- agreement to sell to the prospective new owners. It seems that is not the case and they went due to recommendations re: overhauling the structure and regime at BH not being accepted by Hollis/Lerner. This is still very, very bad, waits clear that this major issue needs tackling, but I stil have a wafer of hope that a new buyer with a bit of nous will come in. What a complete and utter car crash of a club we are now.

[robbo1874]

There's a circus in the town.

Hurry up and piss off Randy.

that's a measure of how bad it seems to have got. That shower of ****** will probably be singing that next season and without a hint of irony.

[kippaxvilla2]

Can't say the source but it's as reliable and close to the situation as you can get.

They resigned in frustration but also to create a public outcry to force a quicker sale of the club.

Their frustrations with Lerner and the amount of times he would change his mind about major decisions to the point where he would go very far down a road only to change his mind at the last minute.  In the end they had enough.

In addition, story of players (not named) texting Lerner direct undermining the manager.  Described unsurprisingly as a shambles.  History now but all the same.

[jwarry]

Can't say the source but it's as reliable and close to the situation as you can get.

They resigned in frustration but also to create a public outcry to force a quicker sale of the club.

Their frustrations with Lerner and the amount of times he would change his mind about major decisions to the point where he would go very far down a road only to change his mind at the last minute.  In the end they had enough.

In addition, story of players (not named) texting Lerner direct undermining the manager.  Described unsurprisingly as a shambles.  History now but all the same.

If true, that's not good on so many levels. What the fuck happened to our club?

[Whiney MacWhineface]

At least it knocks one conspiracy theory on the head - that they resigned because of Our Tone buying the club.

[Edvard Remberg]

Can't say the source but it's as reliable and close to the situation as you can get.

They resigned in frustration but also to create a public outcry to force a quicker sale of the club.

Their frustrations with Lerner and the amount of times he would change his mind about major decisions to the point where he would go very far down a road only to change his mind at the last minute.  In the end they had enough.

In addition, story of players (not named) texting Lerner direct undermining the manager.  Described unsurprisingly as a shambles.  History now but all the same.

If true, that's not good on so many levels. What the fuck happened to our club?

Stuff like that only happens when the top allows it = shit leadership