Sunday, January 28, 2007
It's a Claret and Blue Wedding!
I'm linking to this. It's great fun.
Good luck Ian and Kelly! We want to know more
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Things up with which I will put...
Monday, April 17, 2006
Arise Sir Gary Cahill!
What a goal! Let's just take stock. Cahill is a 20 year-old centre back. It's his second full start for Aston Villa. The opponents are Small Heath Alliance. The action takes place in front of the Holte End. The score is 1-1 in the fifty-sixth minute. Video (5MB AVI)
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
The Holte End
Listen to The Holte End in full voice.
A present for Aston Villa fans, particularly posters on the Heroes and Villains fan site.
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Saturday, December 03, 2005
Barcodes 1 Aston Villa 1
Still, it was better than that disgraceful 0-3 fiasco at League One Doncaster last Tuesday...
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Saturday, November 05, 2005
The Doug Ellis Gallery
I submitted my riff on Aston Villa chairman, Doug Ellis to the Grauniad Football Gallery competition. It got selected for publication but I didn't win a prize (It was a good job it didn't, I would have placed my free £100 pound bet on Liverpool beating the Villa 1-3 at Villa Park last Saturday. As it happened they did beat us by two goals but it was 0-2).
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Aston Villa 0 West Ham United 4
More from the Aston Villa PC Network
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Saturday, September 03, 2005
eBay: best.sales.pitch.ever!
Ok, it's got something to do with Aston Villa Football Club again but what a way to try and sell something on the internet! The description of the item is a joy to read, even if you don't know much about football or the Villa.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Aston Villa Stadium Tour
www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Villa Park Stadium Tour. Make your own badge here.
It cost £6.95 each, you get nearly two and half hours spent in all parts of the ground with a friendly and competent guide. I loved it. Here are the Aston Villa Stadium Tour photos.
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Saturday, June 11, 2005
Lookalikes
Given the startling resemblance between Steve Stride, Aston Villa plc's Operations Director and Gareth from the BBC series The Office, is there any chance they are both related?
Gareth
Steve Stride
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Saturday, May 28, 2005
Bruce Langham: more from Doug Ellis's PC
Aston Villa's seemingly competent and dynamic Chief Executive recently resigned out of the blue (excuse my language!). New evidence from Villa Chairman, Herbert Douglas Ellis's PC sheds light on this sad affair.
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Heroes and Villains is back!
The Forum is back!
Heroes and Villains is back at its usual domain. A big thank you to Martin and Mac for all the hard work, problem solving and effort that has gone into getting the forum working again. Now we can suffer "at home" again.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
Premiership Predictions
Following tonight's 0-0 bore draw at Villa Park I used the BBC Premiership Predictor to find out if we had a chance of getting into Europe.
by my reckoning, we haven't:-
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Charity Auction for Signed Aston Villa Shirt
A rare Aston Villa 2003-2004 away shirt is up for grabs on eBay. The item is signed by thirteen players and the manager, David O'Leary. The auction is in aid of Acorns Children's Hospice Trust, a charity that helps life-limited children and their families across the West Midlands in England.
At the time of posting, bidding stands at £50.00. The auction ends on 28th April at 11:08 BST. More details at the eBay auction.
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Monday, April 18, 2005
Moments of Pure Joy!
Ex-soccer star Stan Collymore is to romp in a car with Sharon Stone after landing a part in Basic Instinct 2.
But the former footballer does not have a very big part - he is killed off in the first 30 seconds.
So we're chatting about the ex-Villa player's forthcoming role and sniggering about his small part when one of the lads says:
[So] he is killed off in the first thirty seconds...
It's going to be very much like the first film then, you had a brief glimpse of a c**t in that one too.
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Friday, April 15, 2005
The Great Dictator
On Heroes and Villains today, I read that the chairman of an English football club had been overheard explaining how he had taught Charlie Chaplin how to fish. The photo below may shed some light on this mystery.
Now, surely nobody is thinking that Herbert Douglas Ellis could have been the inspiration for The Great Dictator (or maybe it was the other way round!)? On the other hand, I don't think Chaplin was thinking of the "inventor" of the bicycle kick when he shot Modern Times!
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Cruising through
A Brummie blog which deserves a mention: anyone who cannot dissociate the adjective mighty from the proper noun Aston Villa is OK in my book.
Mr Francisco writes a lot about what he has been drinking whilst out and about (and fair play to him) but he also expresses his obvious special love for Villa, which involves joy but mostly suffering...
It felt a bit weird going to the footy at lunch time on a Sunday and the atmosphere at the ground was a touch subdued for what historically has been a big match for Villa. West Brom are battling to beat relegation, and they put up a good fight. Half time saw us going in one-nil up, having not taken all our chances, but in the second half we hardly turned up, and only just managed to hold on, until the 90th minute when the Baggies equalised. The away following duly went crazy with joy, while all around me the language directed at Villas players and management staff was colourful, liberal and vociferous.
I was obviously disappointed, but it does bring a wry smile to my face hearing the abuse thrown at the team. There's something about the Brummie footy fans sense of humour, both in victory and defeat, that makes me feel warm and proud to be amongst their number.
Fair enough mate but I would have said Villa fans. You can't go associating us with Small Heath, it's just not cricket!
Selected Links
- Aston Villa player profiles
- Aston Villa - The Spanish Contingent
- Birmingham is not shit
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Ellis and O'Leary play Chinese Whispers
David O'Leary has been getting excited at news that Aston Villa will be making substantial funds available this summer. Now, whilst Doug Ellis has been quoted as saying that there would be a measly £4 million on the table, the press are hinting at a bumper £20 million for four or five "quality" players. As ever, it is wise to say ITSOTP, especially as we know better:-
So that's where the twenty million pound figure came from. It all makes sense now!
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Sunday, April 03, 2005
Blues Pennant Gets Tag
Well, at least the Small Heath Alliance now have something tangible to put in the record books.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Team Mongolian Job
3 Blokes, 1 Panda and 10,000 miles - The 2005 London to Mongolia Rally.
It basically involves driving a clapped out Fiat Panda from London to Mongolia, via Moscow and Uzbekistan - a journey of just under 10,000 miles. They have no mechanical expertise, and are not allowed any kind of support team or backup.There is a website dedicated to their efforts and potential sponsors are invited to make themselves known.
All proceeds are going to registered Charity Send a Cow which provides high-yield livestock to poor communities in Africa.
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Sunday, March 20, 2005
Sunday Blues
And it's happened again.
Why do I post these things? Will I ever learn? Here come the e-mails from Brum, I can hear them now. I'm off to get some sunshine...
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Saturday, March 19, 2005
Mathieu Berson is...
Less than twenty-four hours to go before the mighty Aston Villa visit their lowly neighbours Small Heath Alliance. I don't think I will be able to sleep. All sense of proportion, reason and any real-life priorities I may have count for nothing now. It's three points for Villa or it'll be a week of depression, kicking cats and deleting gloating e-mails from denizens of the unwashed parts of Birmingham.
Come on you Lions!
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Sunday, March 13, 2005
Priceless!
At the other end of the ground, meanwhile, the denizens of the Corner Flag restaurant are pulling on their cashmere overcoats after an excellent three-course lunch with fine wines, and Villa chairman Doug Ellis has donned his tweed fishing hat and slid into his seat opposite the stand he named after himself.
Source: The Grauniad "A game of two menus", Wednesday March 9 2005
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Ellis Down Under
I don't suppose many Aston Villa fans come here but if they do they will understand the following screenshot from Herbert Douglas Ellis's PC.
I made this with Atom Smasher's Error Generator. Thanks to the Black Country Villain and Legion for giving this a wider audience (Not that our Chairman will take a blind bit of notice).
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