collapse collapse

* - On Sale NOW -

Claret Blue and Green

The story of Aston Villa’s Irish connection

£9.99 plus postage

For ROW Postage please email iotp@heroespublishing.net

Postal Location

Recent Topics

Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc. by Toronto Villa
[Today at 03:05:32 AM]


Villa Park Redevelopment by dcdavecollett
[Today at 02:00:33 AM]


John McGinn by dcdavecollett
[Today at 01:46:54 AM]


Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread by eamonn
[Today at 01:17:49 AM]


Amadou Onana by Skipper_The_Eyechild
[Today at 12:45:42 AM]


Other Games 2025-26 by Toronto Villa
[Today at 12:26:35 AM]


Claret, blue and green by dave.woodhall
[April 29, 2026, 11:32:56 PM]


Snooker by Brazilian Villain
[April 29, 2026, 11:03:19 PM]

Follow us on...

Author Topic: Villa Park Redevelopment  (Read 1555561 times)

Offline AV82EC

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 13430
  • Location: Macclesfield
  • GM : 29.09.2026
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12810 on: April 29, 2026, 09:14:39 AM »
A green room at last, it's the least Pat Murphy deserves.

Hasn’t Pat retired?

Offline Ads

  • Member
  • Posts: 44591
  • Location: Playing 5D Chess
  • GM : 17.04.2024
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12811 on: April 29, 2026, 09:20:23 AM »
A green room at last, it's the least Pat Murphy deserves.

Hasn’t Pat retired?

I haven't heard him slagging the Villa off in a while so assume so.

Offline Nev

  • Member
  • Posts: 16641
  • Location: Vibrania
  • GM : 03.02.2022
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12812 on: April 29, 2026, 09:21:32 AM »
A green room at last, it's the least Pat Murphy deserves.

Hasn’t Pat retired?

He has but does a bit every now and again with local teams on 5Live.

Offline eamonn

  • Member
  • Posts: 36323
  • Location: Stay in sight of the mainland
  • GM : 26.07.2020
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12813 on: April 29, 2026, 02:09:35 PM »
Also provides enlightening forewords to local esteemed authors.

Offline SaddVillan

  • Member
  • Posts: 2745
  • Location: Saddleworth
  • 1000 ft up in the hills gazing down on Manchester
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12814 on: April 29, 2026, 08:08:57 PM »
A green room at last, it's the least Pat Murphy deserves.

Hasn’t Pat retired?

He has but does a bit every now and again with local teams on 5Live.

Announced his retirement from BBC Radio 5 in Nov 2025.

Wonder if he'll be able to resist slagging us off?


Offline eamonn

  • Member
  • Posts: 36323
  • Location: Stay in sight of the mainland
  • GM : 26.07.2020
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12815 on: April 29, 2026, 08:17:48 PM »
I wish he did pressers still. One o the few broadcast journalists capable of asking searching questions and not the same spoon-fed shite 90% engage in.

Offline Nunkin1965

  • Member
  • Posts: 3707
  • Age: 60
  • Location: Planet Earth
  • This is only a problem.
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12816 on: April 29, 2026, 08:44:25 PM »
I wish he did pressers still. One o the few broadcast journalists capable of asking searching questions and not the same spoon-fed shite 90% engage in.
Did he have an "exchange" with Nigel Pearson once?
Something about an Ostrich if I recall!

Offline dave.woodhall

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 64500
  • Location: Treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12817 on: April 29, 2026, 08:54:13 PM »
The thing with Pat was that he didn't really have to pussyfoot round the media directors and managers because his job didn't depend on it. He wouldn't be overly fussed about being banned from Old Trafford or wherever because football wasn't his main sport and he could easily spend much of the season touring with the England cricket team.

Offline Exeter 77

  • Member
  • Posts: 8887
  • Location: Back outside the realms of possibility
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12818 on: April 29, 2026, 10:14:02 PM »
I remember him allowing Paul Lambert to tie himself up in knots live on 5Live after we had lost a game at home. It was about the time Lambert banned Mat Kendrick from Bodymoor.

Online dcdavecollett

  • Member
  • Posts: 4016
Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #12819 on: Today at 02:00:33 AM »
I recall Pat doing a very sympathetic interview with Remy Garde, as it became apparent he had been completely stitched up by the club during the January 2016 transfer window.

 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal