Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

Written by Dan on April 13, 2010

I’d like to thank Damian Dugdale of The Villa Blog for confirming what I’ve known for some time; that he has absolutely no integrity whatsoever.

Damian launched a new website today, he’s called it Aston Villa Central and you can find it at astonvillacentral.co.uk. There you’ll find links to lots of other Aston Villa websites. See what he did there? Aston Villa Central, get it? (He has actually been calling his links page Aston Villa Central for some time, but has now decided to go a bit further)

Oddly enough, you won’t find a link to Aston Villa Central at Aston Villa Central. Oh, this is confusing, isn’t it? I meant that Dugdale seems to have omitted the original .com website, this one, from his new .co.uk site. Funny, that.

Similarly, I won’t be linking to that site or any other site belonging to Damian Dugdale. I won’t be linking to thevillablog.co.uk, astonvillawallpapers.com, avfcforum.co.uk or avfcblog.com, the domain that he “sold” to Ole Ole for $60,000. He still owns that domain, but they have all that quality content so I think it’s fair to assume that he didn’t give them their money back. He got to keep all the old links though, which are vitally important to someone as SEO driven as Dugdale.

I also won’t be linking to astonvillaviews.com either, a domain that redirects to a page where he displays the content of reader submissions to his blog. It’s actually ironic that most of those submissions are, I suspect, sent in by intelligent, rational people looking to provide balance to the negative nonsense that Dugdale drip feeds day after day.

Why is it ironic? Well it’s eerily similar to astonvilla-views.com, the URL belonging to Ian Robathan’s blog, Aston Villa News & Views. So, by providing content to balance Dugdale’s delusional rantings, you’re actually assisting him in whatever it is that he’s up to. Unless I’m doing him a massive disservice and it’s just a huge coincidence.

This is the last time I will mention Damian Dugdale or anything from The Villa Blog. I’m actually vaguely impressed that for once he has displayed the balls to be entirely transparent about what absolute pond scum he is. Probably the most honest he’s been in the time that I’ve known of him.

And to Dugdale, I say this: keep visiting astonvillacentral.com regularly, I’ve got loads of exciting ideas lined up that you can try to copy, you pathetic, vindictive, duplicitous little man.

Thank you once again for confirming everything I knew about you. Enjoy your fail.