Preston v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Dick Edwards]

I was in the Moor Park sports and social club about half a mile from the ground before the match yesterday and there was a medical emergency involving a Villa fan just as I was leaving for the game. Was anybody  else there and know how the guy is?

[sid1964]

1st away game that I have managed to get a ticket for- just wanted to John of Kingswinford Lions who organised the mini bus to get us to PNE.

Comfortable victory and- thought Kamara was again our outstanding player- we do need to ensure that he stays with us.

[Witton Warrior]

1st away game that I have managed to get a ticket for- just wanted to John of Kingswinford Lions who organised the mini bus to get us to PNE.

Comfortable victory and- thought Kamara was again our outstanding player- we do need to ensure that he stays with us.

Where do they meet sid? I am in Wordsley so Kford is a walk away

[Dave]

Don't really see the issue with that article. Or see much of a "condescending tone".

...it is possible to see Preston as a kind of bellwether club: a study in existence and endurance as its own reward, in a sport more turbulently unequal than ever. Preston will not provide an American hedge fund with an inflation-busting return on investment. They will not generate Hollywood content or Wembley showpieces. They are neither good nor bad. But they provide thousands of people with a ritual and routine. It’s cheap, it’s hearty, it’s local and it’s real. Will the market allow something this radical to survive?

Surely that's (a) correct and (b) quite nice?

[LeeS]

That was a good article. He’s a fan of the game. He recognises Preston as representing what used to be the norm in football - a club for its home town and nothing more. It’s a nostalgia piece.

[LeeB]

That was a good article. He’s a fan of the game. He recognises Preston as representing what used to be the norm in football - a club for its home town and nothing more. It’s a nostalgia piece.

He writes some really good stuff, one of the few to ask questions where others are more like club PR machines, but he does have a habit of pieces like this one which may be viewed as a bit condescending depending on your view, but are not intended to be.

[PaulWinch again]

That was a good article. He’s a fan of the game. He recognises Preston as representing what used to be the norm in football - a club for its home town and nothing more. It’s a nostalgia piece.

He writes some really good stuff, one of the few to ask questions where others are more like club PR machines, but he does have a habit of pieces like this one which may be viewed as a bit condescending depending on your view, but are not intended to be.

Yep he does call stuff out. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s very articulate and informed.

[Flamingo Lane]

More respectful than the chants from the Villa fans in the last 10 minutes (seen the Villa, now fuck off home; 3-0 on your big day out; you've only come to see the Villa). Cringe.

[Dick Edwards]

More respectful than the chants from the Villa fans in the last 10 minutes (seen the Villa, now fuck off home; 3-0 on your big day out; you've only come to see the Villa). Cringe.

I agree with that. Embarrassing directed at a club a division below us when we were comfortable

[Brazilian Villain]

More respectful than the chants from the Villa fans in the last 10 minutes (seen the Villa, now fuck off home; 3-0 on your big day out; you've only come to see the Villa). Cringe.

Could hear them clearly on the TV. Embarrassing stuff.

[VILLA MOLE]

More respectful than the chants from the Villa fans in the last 10 minutes (seen the Villa, now fuck off home; 3-0 on your big day out; you've only come to see the Villa). Cringe.

Could hear them clearly on the TV. Embarrassing stuff.
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Also wish we didnt sing about the clowns down the road

[eye digress]

Don't really see the issue with that article. Or see much of a "condescending tone".

...it is possible to see Preston as a kind of bellwether club: a study in existence and endurance as its own reward, in a sport more turbulently unequal than ever. Preston will not provide an American hedge fund with an inflation-busting return on investment. They will not generate Hollywood content or Wembley showpieces. They are neither good nor bad. But they provide thousands of people with a ritual and routine. It’s cheap, it’s hearty, it’s local and it’s real. Will the market allow something this radical to survive?

Surely that's (a) correct and (b) quite nice?

My sentiment also, and yes. As I was reading this, I got the feeling he was riffing on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, which I thought was nice.

Personally, it took me a little while to get onto his vibe, but I've really grown to like Liew's writing, such as this cracking piece on us post Bayern.

The paradox he is highlighting is one we all know well.

[London Villan]

Taking the piss as a football fan is better than the condescending mutual applause that breaks out when a so called "little" club has a "brave" go at a PL club.

The fact we took it very seriously is also a mark of respect to Preston.

Clubs like Preston are the fabric of football in the country. There is no reason they couldn't do what Bournemouth and Brentford have done recently - or the whole host of other of good, well run, "smaller" clubs have always done over the past 30 years.

Yesterday was a big day for them - their largest gate for 50 years apparently? And it they could have beaten us they would have been lapping it up and taking the piss - as Bradford did and Millwall and Bolton etc etc...

[Flamingo Lane]

There would have been nothing condescending in our fans showing a bit of humility and, dare I say, a smattering of self awareness, in us playing out beating a team from a lower division.  Those chants are what I might expect from Birmingham fans when winning at somewhere like Crawley.

[Dick Edwards]

Taking the piss as a football fan is better than the condescending mutual applause that breaks out when a so called "little" club has a "brave" go at a PL club.

The fact we took it very seriously is also a mark of respect to Preston. And rightly so, but they weren’t beating us and we could have shown more humility

Yesterday was a big day for them - their largest gate for 50 years apparently? And it they could have beaten us they would have been lapping it up and taking the piss - as Bradford did and Millwall and Bolton etc etc...

If they had turned us over that would be fair enough, but they didn’t and never looked remotely like doing so. I just think our fans should have showed more humility