Proud History, Bright Future.
A tag line, PR spin, just a bit of marketing guff perhaps, but it’s a simple little sentence that strikes the right chord with most Villa fans. I’ve always liked it and it sums up Aston Villa at the moment as well as any four words possibly could. I’m really talking about Aston Villa under the management of Martin O’Neill and, more specifically, the ownership of Randy Lerner.
When it comes to team management it’s frequently speculated that
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Martin O’Neill has revealed that he’s not looking to bring in any new faces during January and is equally uninterested in selling anyone from his current squad. So, if salivating over potential new signings in your bag, what’s left to speculate about?
And in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… ‘Aston Villa haven’t got any money!! Randy Lerner isn’t “investing” enough money into the club.’
Call me a cynic, call me clairvoyant if you like, but should MON prove true to his latest
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I should probably preface this post by being entirely honest about my lack of knowledge regarding the American version of football, however it’s fair to say that the Cleveland Browns aren’t a very good team at the moment. Actually, that may be being kind to them, people on this side of the pond would no doubt use much courser language and they haven’t been very good for some time.
Randy Lerner inherited the franchise in 2002 after his father, Al
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I made a bit of a n00b error yesterday with a post referencing classic Greek mythology that unfortunately is synonymous these days with bad ju-ju happening to your computer.
Because of that it’s possible the URL is getting hijacked and re-directed to a site that shows this scary warning sign.
Hopefully it should go without saying that this website is entirely clean of such crap. The website showing you the warning most certainly is not!! I would strongly advise not
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Actually, this isn’t the third part of a monster blog post – it’s a rather tabloid-like attempt at a headline based on an old Ian Dury song. Sorry, won’t happen again. And if hearing that song again doesn’t cheer you up, maybe news that Aston Villa are top of the table might…
Ooops, I’ve done it again – not the Premiership table, natch – I’m talking about the “Stewardship Table” compiled by business think tank Tomorrow’s Company. Here’s
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The five year plan?? What’s that?? No such thing!! We need to spend big money NOW!!!! If that’s where you’re coming from, you probably won’t like this one. As the kids say… “bovered??