Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[Brazilian Villain]

Was the record Phwaaah Non blondes?

[PaulWinch again]

Because she is a woman we are not allowed to Take the piss, if she was a man he would be fair game.
Double standards or PC gone nuts?

Neither - can take the piss just avoid the misogyny.

[DB]

Soooo.....all quite on the transfer front I take it?

[bones.]

I always had her down as a Crass fan.

So what ?

[brontebilly]

Get the impression she is a bit of a nasty piece of work. But I do have a begrudging admiration (respect is perhaps going too far) for her.

She had a national newspaper column at one time and it was more of a gossip column. She would drip feed/tease bits of gossip like the extra marital affairs of Premier League executives and club owners without naming any names. She also used it to have a pop at anyone in the game who she felt had wronged or slighted her. However I would have loved to be a fly on the wall for any meetings/conversations she had with Doug.

Something about tarmac and Richard Keys for one?

[KevinGage]

There's a fairly famous one early on in her stint with the tramps down the road where she said to BFR he must be proud to have his son (Dalian) in the first team.

No one would accuse her of a sense of humour in any dealings over the last 25+years, so she either meant it or was given a bum steer by Terry Cooper or some of the other lot there.

Take the point about the misogyny and the current Bluenose head honcho not having his sex life discussed.

But if you will sleep with the players in your own team.

[Monty]

Because she is a woman we are not allowed to Take the piss, if she was a man he would be fair game.
Double standards or PC gone nuts?

Neither - can take the piss just avoid the misogyny.

Exactly. And by 'misogyny' we mean 'thinking being a woman is something to be made fun of.'

[villabear]

There's a fairly famous one early on in her stint with the tramps down the road where she said to BFR he must be proud to have his son (Dalian) in the first team.

No one would accuse her of a sense of humour in any dealings over the last 25+years, so she either meant it or was given a bum steer by Terry Cooper or some of the other lot there.

Take the point about the misogyny and the current Bluenose head honcho not having his sex life discussed.

But if you will sleep with the players in your own team.

I refer to them lot as tramps as well. Had the unfortunate happen to me the other week when the sat nav sent me right past their place. It’s more of a shithole than I remember. They do know it’s 2020 don't they?

[Drummond]

I think the issue for her is that early on she allowed herself, or far more likely, was forced/cajoled/encouraged, to be portrayed as a young female model type, hence all the poses and suggestive comments and articles. How often do you see senior execs of any team wearing the kits? It was purely because she was female and seen as a commodity for only that reason. It means she's taken less seriously business-wise as a result.

Much like Johnson courting a status as a friendly buffoon whereas he's a calculating malevolent. The difference being he didn't have to use his gender, or wasn't exploited for his gender to get where he is.

[Risso]

If there was any exploiting going on, she was the one doing it.  She only got the job at Blues because her dad was a major advertiser with the Dildo Twins.

[VILLA MOLE]

If there was any exploiting going on, she was the one doing it.  She only got the job at Blues because her dad was a major advertiser with the Dildo Twins.

she fell out with him big time , would not let him see the grandkids , we dealt with him on his commercial print company at the time and he asked us to try and find out what school they went to .  We were like sorry we cant do that ! 

[Jon Crofts]

I always had her down as a Crass fan.

So what ?

So What was the Anti-Nowhere League not Crass.

[Chris Smith]

I always had her down as a Crass fan.

So what ?

So What was the Anti-Nowhere League not Crass.

https://g.co/kgs/V1LL8p

[Damo70]

She was young and naive when she posed in the kit and I think she got labelled as some kind of  novelty act/bimbo on the back of that. I think quite a few owners and directors of clubs soon found out she was a tough negotiator. Plus the fact she was always quick to remind people how tough she believed she was. I suspect she is a bit of a ballbuster.

[WarszaVillan]

One of the most embarassing chants at Villa is the part about Karen Brady in the 'there's a circus in the town...' chant. Quite an achievement as the previous version used to contain the line 'Ronnie Saunders is a clown..'