New Villa video

[The Man With A Stick]

I read that chancer Knight is making a new Star Wars film, he'll probably try and crowbar a few nose references into that as well.

[wince]

I read that chancer Knight is making a new Star Wars film, he'll probably try and crowbar a few nose references into that as well.

Sty Wars Episode 10. No Hope

[Hookeysmith]

I read that chancer Knight is making a new Star Wars film, he'll probably try and crowbar a few nose references into that as well.

Sty Wars Episode 10. No Hope

Take a bow sir

[LeeB]

"Can I have a bronx hat Tom?"

[Deano's Mullet]

There ain't no Villa fans on Hoth. They all live in places like Bespin and Alderaan......we carry the name of the planet.... 60k star destroyer, Tom..... the Villa fans are still living in 1977, Tom

[Drummond]

I read that chancer Knight is making a new Star Wars film, he'll probably try and crowbar a few nose references into that as well.

Sty Wars Episode 10. No Hope

Return of the Jedinak

[Nev]

Obi Won Fuck all.

[Risso]

I dread him getting hold of The Accidental Gangster books about the Fewtrells (from Aston) and him turning them into a bunch of loveable Small Heath rogues who saw off the Krays in the name of Birmingham City.

I haven't seen much of his work, but what I have, I haven't enjoyed one bit. Couldn't stand Peaky Blinders, All the Light We Cannot See was rubbish, and This Town could have been good but was actually a right load of shite.

[Brazilian Villain]

I read that chancer Knight is making a new Star Wars film, he'll probably try and crowbar a few nose references into that as well.

Sty Wars Episode 10. No Hope

Ha!

[Deano's Mullet]

Small Heath Episode 1 - I've got a bad feeling about this

[chrisw1]

I dread him getting hold of The Accidental Gangster books about the Fewtrells (from Aston) and him turning them into a bunch of loveable Small Heath rogues who saw off the Krays in the name of Birmingham City.

Do you rate the book Percy and do you think it's accurate?  I've read your book, but can't recall if you reference the Fewtrells

[Drummond]

Let's hope they don't get as far as......

Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Shit.

[dicedlam]

https://youtu.be/322PTtZ1WLs?si=YG4zoSsJtNtARrgk

This is beautiful. I love the pure Brummieness of it too.

I love the fact that they used the Peaky Blinders theme as the noses would hate that.Stephen Knight is desperate to write the noses into everything he does about Birmingham. There's nothing historically to connect them to PB and he did the same with the recent "This Town" series. He tried to make  a whole genre of music called Ska and Two Tone about the Zulus. It was nothing to do with them apart from a few skinheads who followed them at that time. Two Tone/ Ska was much more of a Coventry thing.

The Zulus didn’t even exist until 84.

As I said in another thread, Peaky Blinders was based on a Birmingham gang led by Billy Kimber, who lived in Summer Lane. Knight was so desperate not to include Aston that he portrayed Kimber as a cockney and an enemy of the Brummies. The only Brummie in the first series was Benjamin Zephaniah, a proud Villa fan.

All true. As for Stephen Knight it's such a pity that the BBC have finally woke up to the fact that the city actually does have a lot of interesting stories to tell and he's the effing storyteller. He's undoubtedly a talented writer but his insistence on shoehorning the noses in at every opportunity stops me from watching cos it's irritating and laughable. Next up will probably be a story about the great train robbery where a load of noses from Solihull famously held up a Royal Mail train and used the money to overthrow Fidel Castro and they all now own half of Cuba.

I dread him getting hold of The Accidental Gangster books about the Fewtrells (from Aston) and him turning them into a bunch of loveable Small Heath rogues who saw off the Krays in the name of Birmingham City.

Roger still goes to Villa games when he is over from Thailand.

[tomd2103]

Interesting to see the club embracing the 'Birmingham' identity.  I think promoting that identity could be really key in attracting commercial opportunities. 

[Percy McCarthy]

I dread him getting hold of The Accidental Gangster books about the Fewtrells (from Aston) and him turning them into a bunch of loveable Small Heath rogues who saw off the Krays in the name of Birmingham City.

Do you rate the book Percy and do you think it's accurate?  I've read your book, but can't recall if you reference the Fewtrells

I haven’t read the book Chris but I know the story. I’m not sure how accurate it is but I wouldn’t be surprised. One of their henchmen was still drinking in The Woodman, down by Curzon Street, into the 2000s. Everybody in there, mostly Zulus, knew who he was and looked up to him. Always well-dressed. One of the brothers was referred to briefly in a couple of articles I wrote but not my book I don’t think. My missus thought I should leave him out of it. I was a regular in their establishments, virtually every night for a couple of years in the late seventies/early eighties.

Thanks for reading my book mate, hope you enjoyed it.