RHM

[Neil Hawkes]

Also lets not forget that English is not his first language. I've lost count of the amount of arguments I have had with my Moldovan wife, who speaks 10 languages, only to find out in the end we both agreed on the same thing!

[Mister E]

Journos ask Stan the questions, and he answers. Granted at his age he should be wily enough to know he'll get misquoted but I don't think Stan loiters outside the offices of the mail waiting for someone to come out and ask his opinion on something. He was asked because of his connection to Scotland. I'm getting fed up of hearing from him too to be honest, but when you're an ex footballer the last thing you want to do is to start avoiding the media. You take any given opportunity you can to stay within the footballing public eye and pray to the Sky gods that you'll get the odd punditry spot.
I genuinely hope he's not bitter about being turned down in the summer. He worked bloody hard but he must have known the chances were incredibly slim. At his age and after what he's gone through he'll do well to play sunday league every week, let alone the Championship.

Given what we watched under a RdM, I'd imagine Stan would have been bewildered that he had been turned away.

[clash city rocker]

Stan could say 10 things to a journalist of which 9 would be complimentary of the club. However the journalist will always pick the one thing that isn't quite as complimentary. Never talk to the press as they won't print what you say !

[FatSam]

I think we should back off getting at Petrov. It's all ifs buts and maybes. He was our captain and a big character at a time when we had few on the pitch. He's entitled to comment on things if asked and we don't know what was genuinely said and what was taken out of context. Let's not become a Facebook type lynchmob.

Seconded

[ciggiesnbeer]

The characterisation of fans questioning why Petrov is off talking to the press about the club or its players as a "lynch mob" seems more than a bit overboard.

He shot his mouth off yet again and he knows better. Asking him to shut the hell up seems pretty reasonable. I dont see any of our other midfielders from his era off talking about us or causing trouble with our players contracts, why should he be?

[robbo1874]

I think it's fair. Who knows what he did or didn't say? Something gets published and all of a sudden everyone is on his case. He's entitled to say what he thinks.

[chrisw1]

The characterisation of fans questioning why Petrov is off talking to the press about the club or its players as a "lynch mob" seems more than a bit overboard.

He shot his mouth off yet again and he knows better. Asking him to shut the hell up seems pretty reasonable. I dont see any of our other midfielders from his era off talking about us or causing trouble with our players contracts, why should he be?

The point is did he shoot his mouth off?  Or was he asked a question and innocently answered it?  Who wouldn't think a loan to Rangers would be a good move for the player?

[Chris Smith]

The characterisation of fans questioning why Petrov is off talking to the press about the club or its players as a "lynch mob" seems more than a bit overboard.

He shot his mouth off yet again and he knows better. Asking him to shut the hell up seems pretty reasonable. I dont see any of our other midfielders from his era off talking about us or causing trouble with our players contracts, why should he be?

The point is did he shoot his mouth off?  Or was he asked a question and innocently answered it?  Who wouldn't think a loan to Rangers would be a good move for the player?

Precisely, it will make no difference to the outcome what Stan did or didn't say.

[john e]

I love Stan Petrov

  that is all

[Bottom Right 89]

Everybody just needs to calm down over this Stan thing and show the same sort of class we treated him with during his illness. He's an honest guy and I doubt very much whatever he said was meant with malice towards the Villa.

[Risso]

The characterisation of fans questioning why Petrov is off talking to the press about the club or its players as a "lynch mob" seems more than a bit overboard.

He shot his mouth off yet again and he knows better. Asking him to shut the hell up seems pretty reasonable. I dont see any of our other midfielders from his era off talking about us or causing trouble with our players contracts, why should he be?

The point is did he shoot his mouth off?  Or was he asked a question and innocently answered it?  Who wouldn't think a loan to Rangers would be a good move for the player?

When is RHM's contract up, soon isn't it, hence the requirement for a new one.  In what way then would a loan move be a good one?  The tone of his comments to the Scottish paper wasn't that it was a loan move, he just said it would be good for the lad to get away from Villa Park.  I also can't see that a Scottish paper would have any reason to misrepresent what he said, in any case.

[chrisw1]

The characterisation of fans questioning why Petrov is off talking to the press about the club or its players as a "lynch mob" seems more than a bit overboard.

He shot his mouth off yet again and he knows better. Asking him to shut the hell up seems pretty reasonable. I dont see any of our other midfielders from his era off talking about us or causing trouble with our players contracts, why should he be?

The point is did he shoot his mouth off?  Or was he asked a question and innocently answered it?  Who wouldn't think a loan to Rangers would be a good move for the player?

When is RHM's contract up, soon isn't it, hence the requirement for a new one.  In what way then would a loan move be a good one?  The tone of his comments to the Scottish paper wasn't that it was a loan move, he just said it would be good for the lad to get away from Villa Park.  I also can't see that a Scottish paper would have any reason to misrepresent what he said, in any case.

I suspect he hasn't got an encyclopedic knowledge of of youth team contract expiry dates at Villa.  And who knows what question was asked and how it was phrased.

I very much doubt Petrov would deliberately risk his relationship with Villa for something like this, so I'm prepared to accept it was a innocent mistake.  If you want to see the worst in everyone so be it. 

[Sexual Ealing]

The characterisation of fans questioning why Petrov is off talking to the press about the club or its players as a "lynch mob" seems more than a bit overboard.

He shot his mouth off yet again and he knows better. Asking him to shut the hell up seems pretty reasonable. I dont see any of our other midfielders from his era off talking about us or causing trouble with our players contracts, why should he be?

The point is did he shoot his mouth off?  Or was he asked a question and innocently answered it?  Who wouldn't think a loan to Rangers would be a good move for the player?

When is RHM's contract up, soon isn't it, hence the requirement for a new one.  In what way then would a loan move be a good one?  The tone of his comments to the Scottish paper wasn't that it was a loan move, he just said it would be good for the lad to get away from Villa Park.  I also can't see that a Scottish paper would have any reason to misrepresent what he said, in any case.

The paper that's unofficially known in Scotland as the Daily Ranger?!

[dave.woodhall]

The characterisation of fans questioning why Petrov is off talking to the press about the club or its players as a "lynch mob" seems more than a bit overboard.

He shot his mouth off yet again and he knows better. Asking him to shut the hell up seems pretty reasonable. I dont see any of our other midfielders from his era off talking about us or causing trouble with our players contracts, why should he be?

The point is did he shoot his mouth off?  Or was he asked a question and innocently answered it?  Who wouldn't think a loan to Rangers would be a good move for the player?

When is RHM's contract up, soon isn't it, hence the requirement for a new one.  In what way then would a loan move be a good one?  The tone of his comments to the Scottish paper wasn't that it was a loan move, he just said it would be good for the lad to get away from Villa Park.  I also can't see that a Scottish paper would have any reason to misrepresent what he said, in any case.

The paper that's unofficially known in Scotland as the Daily Ranger?!

And by Rangers fans as the Daily Rebel?

[pauliewalnuts]

The characterisation of fans questioning why Petrov is off talking to the press about the club or its players as a "lynch mob" seems more than a bit overboard.

He shot his mouth off yet again and he knows better. Asking him to shut the hell up seems pretty reasonable. I dont see any of our other midfielders from his era off talking about us or causing trouble with our players contracts, why should he be?

The point is did he shoot his mouth off?  Or was he asked a question and innocently answered it?  Who wouldn't think a loan to Rangers would be a good move for the player?

When is RHM's contract up, soon isn't it, hence the requirement for a new one.  In what way then would a loan move be a good one?  The tone of his comments to the Scottish paper wasn't that it was a loan move, he just said it would be good for the lad to get away from Villa Park.  I also can't see that a Scottish paper would have any reason to misrepresent what he said, in any case.

I suspect he hasn't got an encyclopedic knowledge of of youth team contract expiry dates at Villa.  And who knows what question was asked and how it was phrased.

I very much doubt Petrov would deliberately risk his relationship with Villa for something like this, so I'm prepared to accept it was a innocent mistake.  If you want to see the worst in everyone so be it. 

Isn't there a bit of a jump from being a bit disappointed in Stan to "seeing the worst in everyone"?