Quote from: gpbarr on July 06, 2017, 12:28:41 AMQuote from: PeterWithesShin on July 05, 2017, 11:32:01 PMSo you have an issue because he publicly stated he wasn't going, not because he isn't going?I thought I was clear the first time, but happy to try again. He can do whatever he wants, as we all can. But I reacted because he put it in the public domain - so he fully deserves the roasting many are giving him. Perhaps we should all start writing to the newspapers expressing every opinion we think matters about our Club.Why does he deserve a roasting? He's not comfortable with this issue, and his reservations are legitimate and shared by many; why can't people respect that?
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on July 05, 2017, 11:32:01 PMSo you have an issue because he publicly stated he wasn't going, not because he isn't going?I thought I was clear the first time, but happy to try again. He can do whatever he wants, as we all can. But I reacted because he put it in the public domain - so he fully deserves the roasting many are giving him. Perhaps we should all start writing to the newspapers expressing every opinion we think matters about our Club.
So you have an issue because he publicly stated he wasn't going, not because he isn't going?
Is Steve Bloomfield on H&V ?https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/05/aston-villa-fan-boycott-john-terry-racist-past
Quote from: UK Redsox on July 05, 2017, 02:41:43 PMIs Steve Bloomfield on H&V ?https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/05/aston-villa-fan-boycott-john-terry-racist-pastI don't get the chance to say this often enough but I was the match mascot for the Liverpool game he mentions. 10th September 1988. For a fee, Colinmac will pm you the back of the programme!As you were.
AVFC are no longer a serious football club having signed this arsehole. After over fifty years of supporting the Villa I now feel like giving up.
Fitting song choice
Quote from: anton hillman on July 06, 2017, 12:28:22 AMAVFC are no longer a serious football club having signed this arsehole. After over fifty years of supporting the Villa I now feel like giving up.We've not been a serious football club for a while.
Perhaps we should all start writing to the newspapers expressing every opinion we think matters about our Club.
The entire business of football is wrapped up in hypocrisy.Some people will opt not to support a team with John Terry in it, some people will put up with it, some people will give lip service to protesting it.The vast majority of us will just carry on as normal, because that's how football works.I hate paying for shirking fuckwits picking up 50k a week whilst nurses earn much less than that a year. I can't stand the forelock tugging to credit card billionaires or wealthy products of a restrictive undemocratic state like China, and I don't like having anything to do with the bombastic bullshit machine which is the premier league.I loathe the reduction of football from being about winning things to being about finishing top four because that's where the television money is.I hate all that shit, but I put up with, and the reason i do is because the whole sport is awash with fucking hypocrisy, and I am just as bad as the next man.
I like to think my club is not all about trophy hunting and silverware