Quote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:18:30 PMRemember 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?
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
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.
Quote from: robbo1874 on April 30, 2019, 02:34:07 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:18:30 PMRemember 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? Mellberg weren't it?
Quote from: AV82EC on April 30, 2019, 02:17:53 PMI 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. A very generous way of saying that O'Neill spent a wedge of Lerner's personal fortune getting Villa to the heady heights of 6th and 5th without any trophies or Champion's League money to show for it... and when Randy decided to start trying to recoup some of that money Martin threw all of this toys out of the pram. I'm not a Randy apologist and by all accounts he wasn't a terribly nice guy in the end, but I'll struggle to ever look back on MON's years as anything but failure on all fronts.
Quote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:35:13 PMQuote from: robbo1874 on April 30, 2019, 02:34:07 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:18:30 PMRemember 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? Why didn't Barry head it?Mellberg weren't it?
Quote from: robbo1874 on April 30, 2019, 02:34:07 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:18:30 PMRemember 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? Why didn't Barry head it?Mellberg weren't it?
Quote from: AsTallAsLions on April 30, 2019, 02:39:03 PMQuote from: AV82EC on April 30, 2019, 02:17:53 PMI 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. A very generous way of saying that O'Neill spent a wedge of Lerner's personal fortune getting Villa to the heady heights of 6th and 5th without any trophies or Champion's League money to show for it... and when Randy decided to start trying to recoup some of that money Martin threw all of this toys out of the pram. I'm not a Randy apologist and by all accounts he wasn't a terribly nice guy in the end, but I'll struggle to ever look back on MON's years as anything but failure on all fronts.I was trying to be generous as they both hold the blame for wasting a third of a billion quid and achieving the grand total of fuck all.
Quote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:35:13 PMQuote from: robbo1874 on April 30, 2019, 02:34:07 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:18:30 PMRemember 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? Mellberg weren't it?Why didn't Barry head it?
Quote from: johnc on April 30, 2019, 02:39:37 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:35:13 PMQuote from: robbo1874 on April 30, 2019, 02:34:07 PMQuote from: Chico Hamilton III on April 30, 2019, 02:18:30 PMRemember 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? Why didn't Barry head it?Mellberg weren't it?could’ve been. Not the first or last time I’ll be wrong. Just remember it was a pretty decent header down the other end of the ground from the Villa fans in the corner.
What's Dean Smiths fathers name? Could be a nice gesture to add his name to the "My Lord" or "Claret and Blue army" songs. I dunno just an idea.
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