TheSufferingVilla

Pah, you are all peasants.

Wish I could tell you, her name was Zang or something, very attractive.

I once confused one of China's biggest popstars for a glamourous intern and asked her to do some photocopying for me which she dutyfully oblidged our of politeness I guess. In my defence she had been hanging around the office all day without being introduced to anybody and was herself using the photocopier at the time. At the same job I mistook a rather famous American Rapper for the Air Conditioning repair guy, the VP of A&R was none too happy. One of my buddies went to college with Jerry Yang and David Filo who founded Yahoo and who himself founded a very sucessful tech company around the same time. I know a lot of dance musics biggest names and keep plenty of potential career ending secrets under wraps. I was once on ABC's 20/20 program as part of an experiment where I tried to pick 5 poofters out of a lineup of 10 and failed miserably (later to discover they were all bloody poofs). My neice hit the tabloids at age 8 for calling some politicians 'bastards' live on a family tv program. ...and too many more amusing anecdotes not worth mentioning except when short of conversation material.

General ever since my post about the Official Site, it appears to be updated constantly with good content. Did you give somebody a kick up the arse or what? Another question: At what point during the signing process do you meet the new player. Are you typically part of the welcoming party at Bodymoor? or do you tend to meet them later? Also I'd love to know what reactions new players have when they discover the 31st Commandant of the United States Marine Corps is lurking around the training facilities no doubt bench pressing Marlon Harewoods body weight? Does it take a bit of explaining?

BOF did you just put Daniel Day-Lewis one of the greatest actors of all time, never mind modern times in a poll with the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Gosling and Leonardo Di Craprio? You might as well have stuck Pee Wee Herman in there. and just where exactly are: Denzel Washington Liam Neeson Sean Penn Tom Hanks Kevin Spacey Tom Wilkinson Don Cheadle Philip Seymour Hoffman EDIT missed him in the poll Forest Whitaker Brendan Gleeson Paul Giamatti Benicio del Toro Ray Liotta Ed Harris Willem Dafoe James Woods William H. Macy John Malkovich Ralph Fiennes Joe Pesci Not too nitpick or anything

General, the Official Site has become a running joke amongst the fan base with a lack of content and what content we have being frequently outdated, erroneous and simply worthless. I can't for the life of me understand why this is the case? In my own experience I run a music website that gets 150,000 unique visitors a day and between two of us part-time spending maybe 20-30 minutes each a day we manage to provide our visitors with a far superior service than the OS does. I met some bloke who apparently was responsible for the site during last summers tour he had some very good ideas and aspirations for what it should be, very few of which (other than the obvious re-design) have come to fruition. Something is very wrong. Either the club isn't investing the resources it should to give us a decent user experience, somebody is lazy and ripping the club off or our agreement with PremiumTV continues to hamstring us. We the fans expect much better and I hope we get in next season. Could you please enlighten us: What is the nature of our deal with PremiumTV? Why does it appear we are partnered with them and are not running the site ourselves? Does somebody at the club have sole responsibility for updating the site or is it outsourced? Does the club have any plans to change how the site is managed/run in the near future? Thanks in advance!

Happy 4th of July General, any plans and more importantly got any good recepies for burger sauce?

General I started a thread with the assumption pasted below. What date does our financial year end and would such circumstance as below be applicable to Villa and our dealings with other clubs during the transfer window?

General I think it's unfair that you are getting so much flak on the Mac issue. While many say we are not compatible with Mac I think it may be the other way around Apple haven't bothered making their Operating System compatable with Aston Villa and as such you should call for a boycott.

Damien you look a lot like:

Oh wise and mighty BOF: I'm Standing in the disco, bumper to bumper Wait a minute, WHERE'S ME JUMPER? WHERE's ME JUMPER? WHERE's ME JUMPER?

General let me jump aboard the lager bandwagon and propose that we cast aside the big questionable brewerys and go local. Find some small local brewing operation with a tasty lager, buy them out and start producing our own branded beer. Imagine coming to Villa park and drinking Aston Villa's own premium brew now wouldn't you want to grab a case from the club shop to bring home. Instant fanbase - instant brand, no supplier = extra revenue, we start distributing it locally, obviously the Bluenoses wouldn't touch the stuff but the moment you walk into a bar or club in the West Midlands you would instantly be able to indentify gentlemen of class by the fact that they are enjoy Villa's finest lager. With the midlands conquered next up is the world. Picture young Asian men toiling in the fields, they finish their grueling day and all they want to do is sit back and enjoy some football, what do they drink? Obviously it would be the beer that matches the team they love to watch. Before we know it the revenues from the Villa brewing empire start paying players wages and Villa becomes the first club in football to give away all season tickets. What's more the club could then sponser it's own shirts with it's own brand. General I present to you "Pride Premium" the official beer of Aston Villa FC: Of course I expect you will be running straight to Randy to inform him of my masterstroke of marketing and branding genius, that's quite alright. I will be waiting right here for when the club wishes to pay me to: a) Sample brews Perfect the idea c) Run the venture d) Drink us out of business

It says your location is "Location: Swimming in a Guinness vat at source" do you not feel that you are perpetuating a stereotype?

Did a pretty heavy session on Friday night taking random picks off this pretty extensive menu some fantastic little brews on there. Surprisingly enjoyed the Orkney 'Skull Splitter' but I would advise against the Austrian 'Samichlause' you could power a rocket with that stuff.

To the tune you all know from With the words: Founding Fathers of Football, Aston Villa FC, Standing Tall with Honour, The Great Club of History Stronger still and Stronger Our Sun will never Set Aston Villa the Mighty Will be Mightier Yet Aston Villa the Mighty Will be Mightier Yet

I would like to warn you General that very soon you will be visited by three GHOSTS! First you will be visited by The Ghost of Villa Past It will be none other than William McGregor, he will have a bloody big smile on his face. After giving you and Randy a solid pat on the back he will thank you for restoring the pride of his great club and honoring it's fine tradition of philanthropy that has been ignored for too many years. The second will be the Ghost of Villa Present a familiar character, weary and suspicious after many years of underachievement and tarnish. He still holds reservations about everything that is happening and may speak in a confused and sometimes negative manner but you notice something in his eyes: at last there is a glimmer of hope. Like a light at the end of a long tunnel or the sun rising over a blood stained battlefield he is starting to believe the dark days are over and while their may be some rainstorms to come, at last Villa's winter has ended. The third and final visitor is the Ghost of Villa Yet to Come in one hand he holds a medal in the other he struggles to keep a grip on the European Cup he turns to face you and with beaming eyes: "There you are General, time to get going the parade starts in five minutes!". Suddenly you awake from your slumber shaken but not stirred out the Window of the Hospice you see a young boy by the name of Tiny Tim playing on the grass the only thing whiter than his beaming smile is the lettering on the Claret and Blue jersey he wears spelling out Acorns. He kicks a ball towards his teary eyed father. Tim shouldn't be outside kicking a ball, as far as the doctors are concerned he shouldn't still be alive but there is new hope for Tim and his family as Acorns is thrust firmly into the spotlight.

Couple of my snaps, I do a fair bit of after shopping. Although there are times I go for the natural look I'm much more interested in heavy saturation. NYC A little bigger A little bigger A little bigger A little bigger A little bigger EIRE A little bigger A little bigger This is the harbour at my home town of Greystones, beautiful spot, sadly now a construction site as developers are turning it into an apartment/marina complex, was delighted for the chance to take some final pictures there when home for Christmas. A little bigger A little bigger And the Villa, original is bloody huge, must upload it and post sometime. A little bigger

General I was just watching the Stanley Cup and noticed one of the Power Plays was sponsered by the Marines. Now I know the military over here has a rather large budget and plenty set aside for advertising, just a suggestion: Nobody would mess with fans wearing these.

magnificent lists BOF but I've two nickname corrections for you: 170 McGrath, Paul 'GOD' (1989/96) 10 239 Gardner, Craig 'Abaddon', 'Son of the Morning', 'Ruler of this world', 'Old serpent', 'Power of darkness', 'Unclean spirit', 'The Desolator', 'Prince of this world', 'Serpent', 'Adversary', 'Antichrist', 'Enemy', 'Wicked one', 'The Idol Shepherd', 'Beelzebub', 'The First Horseman', 'Angel of the bottomless pit', 'Dragon', 'God of this World', 'The Wicked One', 'Crooked serpent', 'Lying spirit', 'Piercing serpent', 'The Man of Sin', 'The Assyrian', 'Father of lies', 'The Son of Perdition', 'The Beast', 'Apollyon', 'Devil', 'Murderer', 'Roaring lion', 'Tempter', 'The Prince That Shall Come', 'The Antichrist', 'Belial', 'Lucifer', 'Prince of the power of the air', 'The Little Horn', 'The Willful King', 'Angel of Light', 'Leviathan', 'Prince of the devils', 'Spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience', 'Swine', 'The Seed of Satan', 'The Lawless One', 'The Vile Person', 'Accuser of our brethren', 'Liar', 'The One Who Comes In His Own Name', 'Satan', 'The King of Fierce Countenance' (2006-) 5

Happy Memorial day General, although I'm not sure that is an appropriate salutation on a day of rememberence.

General I know you may not be able to discuss the matter but was the departure of Michael Cunnah part of the plan, eg: short contract as a consultant, job done, thanks, bye? Or did he get another offer? If the former, does the club now have a final plan in place for Villa Park's future or will we be getting more consultants in?

I thought they were going nowhere until very recently, after the last 4 maybe 5 episodes I am convinced that they have a very good masterplan and everything will be revealed in a satisfying manner.

One question I forgot to ask general will you and Randy be travelling to Austria/Switzerland for any Europen Championship games this summer to perhaps see how they are handling the catering, ground security, pre match activities etc?

General what are your plans for the next few months? Will you be taking a break from the football job or is straight back to work getting Villa Park ready for the next campaign?

You support who? Oh Birmingham City, yeah, I remember when you guys were briefly in the Premiership back when the likes of Swindon and Oldham could get up. That must have been fun while it lasted. So... Where are your team now? I don't pay much attention to the lower leagues but I do imagine the conference games can be fun with the novelty of terraces and plumbers playing milkmen. Oh you are still in the football league? That's cute well done! Maybe some day your team could be lucky enough to get drawn against us in the Carling Cup or something that could be fun and I'm sure your fans and players would enjoy the day out at a big team and stadium. Oops I got to go, Villa are playing Real Madrid. You should try and catch the game, might be a bit of an eye opener with all the world class players on show.