Kevin MacDonald

[Neil Hawkes]

I'm Brians' son!

Haha! "I'm Spartacus"? Well if so, it would be my pleasure and the offer stands (although I may have to resort to sending you a drink if you're in Cyprus?)

Cheers!
Yep, working/living in Cyprus; I'm up for a beer (or three) should anyone be passing through Limassol.

[brian green]

Sorry I have been doing other stuff.  I am not really allowed to divulge specifics about my children or my family, most of whom are on here to a greater or lesser degree in different guises.  My son Damon is a brilliant journalist with a first class Oxford degree who is honest and upright in every aspect of his life and his career.  He calls it as he sees it with the result that promotions in television have been denied him.  The Savile story was typical.  He refused to interview him, he refused to sit in his "throne" he refused to cover the story of the unveiling of his grave in Scarborough.  A more recent example was the story of the Derbyshire dam.  It was spun as wonderful heroics by the police and emergency services.  The real story was maintenance neglect of the dam.  My son left the PR spinners after five days on the dam to do a story about seagulls stealing chips in Blackpool.

[kippaxvilla2]

I always enjoy watching him do the sort of ‘and finally’ news items.  There was one report he did on oxford Street can’t remember what it was about but I remember him telling me on here the amount of times people had passed him calling him the W word.  He took it in great humour.

[Towser]

Ha, whenever Damon comes on TV my family state "your mates on the tv" even though I have never met him, just because he is a Villa fan who wears ties with our colours from time to time. I do love his reports and its nice to see a mix of serious and not so serious items (such as the seagulls and chips). I now have more to admire about the man for sticking to his principles. I actually know a heart specialist who was also denied promotions because he says it like it is, he is not afraid to tell the truth even when those superior to him think he shouldn't, another wonderful man.

[dave shelley]

No wonder players like Albrighton achieved so much more after moving away. Arseholes like MacDonald have obviously been a key part of the toxic atmosphere around the club for a while now, tarnishing our name and wrecking our ability to compete. Thank god he's out now, though not soon enough for lives and careers he ruined. Goodbye and go fuck yourself.

Didn't Albrighton get his first prem starts when McDonald was caretaker? I also remember likes of Clark, Bannan and Wieman all playing a bit in his six game caretaker spell which I doubt would've happened if MON had stayed.

Anyway that's all a moot point. Main thing for me is he actually went away for a spell to manage Swindon and we actually re-appointed him into the youth set up when he didn't last long as a manager. Wonder if the complaints were back in the 90s/00s or they were more recent ones?

One of the main complainants is Gareth Farrelly who was an apprentice back in 1994, so it goes back that far at least.