Dean Smith - Confirmed

[andyh]

She’s got about 40 thousand kids now.

[KRS]

She's the "manager of Dean Smith"...excellent!

[cdward]

Brilliant, Deans mom, just popping up the Scott Arms shops getting a few bits.

She's one of our own.....

[Scratchins]

Brilliant, Deans mom, just popping up the Scott Arms shops getting a few bits.

She's one of our own.....

That would make a good chant.

[XXVilla]

I think families should be left out of football chants full stop

[dave shelley]

I think families should be left out of football chants full stop

I'm inclined to agree but, it would make a bloody good chant.  Brought back a lot of memories looking at that clip.  Our first house was off Booths Farm Road a few hundred yards to the right as we look and our second was about a mile to the back of where she stood and our kids went to school at the Scott Arms (not the pub).

[Rodders]

Absolutely love Deano's "mumager" (if you'll pardon the elision.)

Lame to fame... Our house was owned by three generations of the Great Barr Scotts. Lady Mahlah Scott had the tiny parish church restored and they lie buried in our churchyard.

May go and decorate their memorials with claret and blue flowers when we're promoted!

[Dave P]

A down to earth Brummie, salt of the earth. All hail Deano' s mum.

Unlike you as you would know it's 'Mom'

[robbo1874]

You're not wrong on the reality of how things work in modern football, but he is light years away from the likes of O'Neill in terms of his philosophy, style of play, approach to man management and coaching, his attitude towards the fans, public dealings etc.

We can say that now about O'Neill, but who was saying that when he first joined us? - the welcome he got at the Emirates for his first game was up there with Big Ron's first game in charge for us at Hillsborough - fantastic. He went on a 9-game unbeaten run (twice) in the first season and there were plenty of fans who were convinced he would be the right man for us for a long time. And the fans loved him for standing up to Benitez over the Barry affair. It all changed, of course, but let's not pretend that similar things weren't said at the time about O'Neill that some are saying now about Smith. I'm perfectly happy to live in the moment but bitter experience has taught me to be a cautious, miserable old cock in terms of looking further forward

i was convinced that  o’neill Plus randy’s Cash, would deliver success. I was wrong.

[AV82EC]

I think I posited on a thread a few days ago that O’Neill wasn’t the right choice and mea culpa didn’t include the words “in hindsight”, like pretty much everyone else I thought that MON plus Randys cash would be a winner, I was wrong.

[mike]

Yep, whoever would have thought O'Neill plus Randy would lead to disaster. If anyone thought it, they wouldn't have dared post it.

[robbo1874]

Seems insane now when you look back at it. A club (hate to say business, in this circumstance), the size of Villa, minimal corporate checks and balances in place.

[AV82EC]

I think the corporate checks and balances were in place in general for the club under Randy, the whole Football side of the club was under one persons sole control, which is how he wanted it. Unfortunately the two sides didn’t seem to speak much and when Lerner wanted to make things more joined up, MON saw this as a threat to his power and decided to leave.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Remember the deafening chorus of "USA, USA" from the Villa end at Arsenal. It was like being at the Ryder Cup or a Trump rally

[robbo1874]

Remember the deafening chorus of "USA, USA" from the Villa end at Arsenal. It was like being at the Ryder Cup or a Trump rally

was that the Barry header - first goal at the emirates game?