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Dirty Leeds.

Obviously, I wouldn't need to sing "Oh when the Villa, go marching in" That would indicate I needed it as some kind of transition chant from another club. Which would be silly, as I've only supported Villa.

John McGinn. Now there’s a player who I would love us to have signed. I have some vague memory that about 4 or 5 years back we made an enquiry for him.

According to X, it was this guy

Ah, the original Ted Bates statue - thanks for cheering me up. The image of that never fails to make me laugh.

Yippee aye ay, Yippee aye oh

Legless

P.s. just spotted a typo in my post above.... Apologies for the erroneous 'r' in 'proxy'....

Not only that but he had a paid role at Villa until recently which he chose to relinquish in favour of returning to us. No doubt someone will wring their hands and compare it to a domestic abusive marriage but when you think there were internal whatsapp memes of him as a camouflaged soldier, I get the impression that while it was certainly a high-pressure role, there might have been a lot more camaraderie and willing participation than he was letting on in front of the panel. The halfheartedness of the so-called "espionage" remains unbelievably galling to me and the image of him next to the tree dwarfs the original Ted Bates statue debacle in its ridiculousness and cost. We can never underestimate how shonky this club can behave. It sounds like internships in football are quite widespread and the phrase "pay peanuts, get monkeys" springs to mind. No doubt a future Panorama programme will delve deeper and perhaps other teams might consider how they treat their staff, under threat of potentially derailing their season. At the very least, Jason Taylor could have been handled with a NDA before he scurried back to Boro with his findings.

I'm sure there's a pic of me as a kid in a Villa shirt, in an awful "look at us playing football in the garden" pose. I'm therefore just delighted to continue to support our success in Europe. Gordon Cowans? Dennis Mortimer? I get all misty eyed just thinking back to my childhood of supporting them. 🙂

Perhaps there was no corruption but a lot of cheating by SFC The panel was swayed by evidence not conspiracy theories IF you have evidence feel free to reply with it

What really pisses me off more than anything, is we finally had a squad that had proven we could go toe to toe with the best in the premiership. Whether the spying helped, I suspect minimally at best,a manager finally respected by the players and giving their all for him. A manager that seemed was going to keep us in the prem, had we won the final and one that would have got us up automatically, if we hadn’t employed Will. What now? Baz back in goal, we wont get Peretz now or Larin even. It’s been stated Jander wants out, who else, Charles, Downs, Aziz,Ramsdale, probably most of them. Who’s in their last year now, or got 2 to go, will they be extending? Aren’t Bree and Ross out of contract, players you’d want to keep for this year’s championship attempt. If wed been fined, points deduction and-we’d lost the final, I suspect most of the squad would have probably stayed to try to get us up next year, and most of us would have probably eventually accepted keeping him as manager, if we were to continue our prolific form. You’ve got a decent Wolves and probably West Ham next year and at the mo, we’re starting 4 points behind. It’s a tough strong league, even with parachute payments. If we don’t go up, it will be even harder when the payments stop. Add to that with more than likely a new manager and new players, what a bloody mess. Totally unacceptable and unnecessary, the fucking naive, ignorant stupidity and arrogance of all those involved and to still actually send someone to spy on a semi final opponent, when you know that an analyst you sacked, now works for that opponent and thus knows your practice’s, I can only assume Tonda has a great football brain, but a very low IQ. anyone else stuck on the ‘still hurting’ phase of grief? ..and to add salt into the wound, Sky Sports have just shown a clip of Middlesbrough (at the airport I think) stating their finally on their way to Wembley, FUCKOFF

Next conspiracy theory, delay is due because Dragan has come over all guns blazing and appointed a top sports lawyer to look into the Boro links on the 3 person hearing committee 🙂

Always the Villa. Lived in Birmingham during the 80’s. Went to Villa Park reasonably often as a 16 to 18 year old and was there in the glory days. Some great memories but one or two bloody awful ones as well including the throwing of bananas at black players. Strange times in many respects but Villa Park was and still is in my view the best stadium in the land.

I am fully expecting a "season ticket price adjustment of just £75 for the season" ... or some such crap.

And still radio silence from Solak. I am starting to think the next update we will get is the marvellous news that season tickets have been frozen. Absolutely incredible the PR currently.

Both have S&M in our names ... 🌚

It would never have happened on Eric Black's watch, let me tell you

We're the only club in the world that could go from 'inoffensive, friendly family club and a bit of a soft touch' to 'evil incarnate and cheating so badly as to get thrown out of major competitions' in the blink of an eye. It reminds me of this timeline: 25th October 2019: Lose 0-9 at home in a league game. 9th November 2020: Go top of the Premier League. 2nd Feb 2021: Lose 9-0 in a league game. Never any middle ground with Saints. Absolutely mental club. Oh well, in theory it should mean that the pendulum will swing back the other way next season and new first team manager Adam Lallana will probably stumble across a global cure for Ebola or something.

I read that, except if you watch the live SkySports coverage from this week, the same bush has the same flowers on it. Another dead end for another bonkers conspiracy 😂

So David Winnie the not so independent independent panel member is already writing about it for his company Wilson Gray. Almost feels 'not in good faith' he was acting as an independent panel member not representing Wilson Gray. https://gilsongray.co.uk/blog/southampton-case-commission-issues-strong-warning/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=southampton case&utm_content=read more

Nothing to stop him now just resigning and going back home. Saints are not going to make him serve his notice. I’d be sorely tempted to do that if I were him rather than being grilled by the FA for hours. To be honest, there aren’t going to be a queue of clubs in England going for him in the future. He can go back to the continent and cheat away until his heart is content.

Steady... you're in danger of straying back into "unhinged" territory here....