Not great at all but better than Lansbury and AEG who are/were awful.
Man, these photocalls get later each year! Used to love when Match or Shoot included them as poster pull-outs every August. Those and the free team-trackers and fixture lists ramped the excitement into overdrive. I seem to remember having a massive Nottingham Forest squad poster on my wall (may have been Clough's last season) so starved I was of TV coverage of the Villa. I even had a poster of Southampton journeyman Glenn Cockerill hung-up there. Despite clearly being in the Villa way, my 8 year old brain seemed to think that any posters in these magazines were fair game to be adorned in bedrooms regardless of your actual team. It was enough to celebrate the beautiful game, one in which there was even room for Glenn Cockerill.
Quote from: eamonn on November 20, 2020, 03:44:44 PMMan, these photocalls get later each year! Used to love when Match or Shoot included them as poster pull-outs every August. Those and the free team-trackers and fixture lists ramped the excitement into overdrive. I seem to remember having a massive Nottingham Forest squad poster on my wall (may have been Clough's last season) so starved I was of TV coverage of the Villa. I even had a poster of Southampton journeyman Glenn Cockerill hung-up there. Despite clearly being in the Villa way, my 8 year old brain seemed to think that any posters in these magazines were fair game to be adorned in bedrooms regardless of your actual team. It was enough to celebrate the beautiful game, one in which there was even room for Glenn Cockerill. Good days! There would often be a late signing who would be added in a square in the top corner, normally still in the kit of the team he’d left. ...and those league ladders from Shoot! magazine. I had loads of em and always left Villa at the top. One year it was genuine!