Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[brian green]

I think the way to save this thread is to put something really interesting on it.   I am just going to think up something really interesting that everybody will find er..interesting.

[Bad English]

A very original idea Brian. I do believe you may have cracked it.  :-k

[brian green]

An interesting true story.

A few years ago I went into the bank which has been bleeding me white for the last forty years.  The girl cashier asked me if I still ran the local boys football side.   I said that I did not do that any longer because they were all bigger than me now and had taken to beating me up and robbing me.   I asked her why she had asked.

She replied that her son played for the county Under 13s and they had very talented boy who wanted to play for Villa and could I do anything to help.   The next thing I knew I was on a windswept muddy cow pasture watching the county boys play Bedfordshire Under 13s.   The boy in question was fantastic.   Big, fast, athletic, two footed and a fearless header of the ball.

After the game I chatted to the boy and asked him why he wanted to play for the Villa so much.   He replied that his father was a player in the current Villa team.   My reply was that he did not need me if his Dad was who he said he was.   By this time his mother had appeared and she confirmed what the boy had told me except she added that the Villa player was now a happily married family man who was widely regarded as a model professional.   The boy I had been watching had been fathered when the player in question was still a teenager with a non league club.

I went through the channels and took the boy to a Villa trial at Northampton.   He impressed them greatly.   It was then I had to come clean and tell them of the connection with the Villa first team player.   They all went into fast reverse and told me they would be in touch.

They did not contact me so I called them after a week or so and was told they could not consider having the boy anywhere near the club because it would upset his father so much.

That was all a few years ago.   A couple of months ago my son said he had seen the boy working as a barman in a nightclub.  Knowing who he was they spoke and the boy was very philosophical and said he had given up football but still followed the Villa.

True story.

[Chris Smith]

I wouldn't ask for this thread to be locked. Just move it to Time Wasters.  :-

All you need to do is rename it "3 Villa fans worried about the future of the thread" and you're good for another 100 pages.

Nice story Brian, any clues on the identity of the player. I won't tell anyone, honest.

[brian green]

PM me I will give you a clue.  I will tell you which bank I went in and you should be able to work out the rest for yourself.

[JD]

I'm worried that there are too many threads to read.  8-[  I'm worried if I will ever get a ticket for Villa now, when I decide to come home to the UK.  8-[ I worried no-one cares about this thread any more.

But apart from that, what a brilliant day in our great Clubs history.  =D>  =D>  =D>  O:)

[peter w]

Terrible story. If I was the littl'un I would try and break in elsewhere and then get throught he ranks that way. So, Bri, this great player was stopped in his tracks, and us as Villa fans may have lost our Messiah, because you couldn't keep your mouth shut? Cheers mate.

If you give us the bank we'd guess it? Can only be Harry HSBC then. Whatever became of him.

To all those still going on about locking/moving this thread I shall simply state that the 3+1 have been sailing this ship before you jumped on and tried to steer it to rockier shallow waters, and we shall steer it long after you've gone.

Mr. Egg, just because you have difficulty adding to your impressive post count on this thread, and it is an impressive post count by the way, does not mean you can attempt to brush us to one side. Sir, you are hereby banished. As long as the others are in unanimous agreement. his bolshie voice is not required and I think he should be afforderd the status of 'Person Non Grata'.

[JD]

I'm worried this thread has dropped to the second page.  8-[  Not any more...

[ROBBO]

A nightmare. Ellis dies while negotiations are ongoing. Is there any other thread where I can expouse thoughts such as these? I am exitedly worried.

[spaf]

An interesting true story.

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True story.

What a waste that one, brian.



Here's another true story.

When I was 9 to 12 years old I played with a guy who was better than Mika Väyrynen (now PSV and finnish national team) who was considered one of the best of 81's in the whole country already then. He wasn't industrous or hard working like Väyrynen but now he'd be like a 25-year old Litmanen with more pace. When he was 14, he opted instead of future in professional football and international recognition to drinking beer and playing guitar or bass. I guess he didn't quite realize how good he was. His vision and understanding of the game, dribbling, technique, shooting, movement, flair, trickery and skill to go past opponents were amazing. He also scored a ridiculous amount of goals.

Would be a certain starter in our international set-up if and if...
If we don't win NI tomorrow at Helsinki it's all his fault :-
(Would have also wanted to see our Davo there  :smt091)

It makes me feel  ](*,)  ](*,)  ](*,)  ](*,)  ](*,) everytime his superb talent comes to my mind in this kind of context.

[peter w]

Bass? How low can you go?  :-k

[JD]

Morning Peter, how are you?  O:)

[peter w]

Soory JD. Hectic day. I'm good, how's NZ? How did the footy go at the weekend?

[brian green]

Here is another true story to push the thread up the board.


Just over twenty years ago my younger son was attending a preparatory school in Cambridge.   They played cricket in the summer and rugby in the winter and the boys all hated it.

They were mad on football as all normal young boys are and they begged me to intercede with the headmaster to allow them to form an under 9s team.   The headmaster was a puffed up public school failure of the worst kind and a crushing snob to boot.   Eventually my powers of persuasion - I was a bit like Mazrim in those days - plus the dwindling numbers of new boys coming to the school, resulted in him reluctantly letting me form a team.   I was placed under the supervision of a very junior teacher just in case I kidnapped any of the boys or groped their mothers.

The boys did very well and the motley collection of lawyers, doctors, big issue salesmen and rock musicians they are today all remember the times as great fun.   We did so well that we won our way through to a national public schools 6 a side knock out competition held at Bedford Modern School.   Scenting a bit of glory to be had by rubbing shoulders with the bigwigs of Eton and Harrow the headmaster decided to come and watch "his" team for the first time.

We battled our way through to a semi final against a team from Forest School in Woodford Essex.   They were sweeping aside all opposition thanks to a burly little kid who was scoring as he pleased.   It came to be our turn to play Forest and by this time our Headmaster had had a few sherries and was turning into a Hooray Henry.

The doctor who will probably treat you if you are ever admitted to Leeds Infirmary Accident and Emergency had the job of marking the burly little kid but he continued to blast in goals.   My boy who is not known for holding back tried to break his leg and only hurt his own foot.   One of the Forest boys was so upset at never getting a pass he started to cry and made substitution gestures to their coach.

This incensed our headmaster and the sherry took over.   He marched onto the pitch and addressed the burly little kid.   "No wonder your team mate is crying" he fumed at the boy.   "You never pass him the ball."   The burly little kid fixed him with an unflinching gaze and replied.  "That's Brooking.   He's always crying."

The headmaster was thunderstuck at this display of defiance.  "What is your name boy?   I shall report you to your headmaster"

The boy could even spit like a man and did so coolly before replying.

"Lampard"


True story

[Matt G]

David O'Leary made me worry for Villa's future more than anyone else, ever.

True story