Neil

Now might be a good time to ponder on why we let all the companies that make stuff other countries want be sold to other countries...oops

And of most of those london boroughs left, it seems there are a lot to come of areas that would typically vote out for all the wrong reasons.

I dont know about that, I suppose times have changed - but I guarantee that giving me or any of my mates the vote at the age of 16 or 17 would be a bad idea...

I dunno, they have the same entitlement...and they have the future of their siblings to vote for. A lot of them remember life before Europe, my parents especially and they are hardcore out voters. Not that my parents are pensioners yet.

Well this is a demographic statistic if ever there was one. Sheffield awash with young and old eligible voters down the middle :- SHEFFIELD DECLARATION IN: 130,735 OUT: 136,018

Some good business men left our club, citing that huge changes were required at the club and that was the only way they could do an effective job. They weren't wrong then, and they're still right now. All this shit needs to be flushed.

#Inb4thetakeover Not that I'll be going to many games being midweek and all

With such a large population the potential for branding/merchandising revenue is insane. The Chinese adopt fashions very quickly, if our name got banded about as the Chinese club to support could be huge like you say. I only posted the other week the Leicester clothing section in Bangkok airport. The influence local appeal can have runs fast, I took this when out at sea of a random Thai boat crew just yesterday and you'd never of dreamed of seeing that here before Thai ownership :-

Then villa 2nd, surely?

lol, in all seriousness though...I hope new ownership does bring through some extra gate receipts. I know a lot were staying away because of Lerner, but if we have a good crowd down there it will be daunting to the other chump players of the league as it'll be one of the biggest stadiums down there. If not the biggest?

With all the talk of pushing in the local countries, it will be interesting to see what affect it will actually have and if it will get us a load of extra overseas supporters. I took this photo just earlier today in Bangkok airport, couldn't see another kit around (though I was in a hurry). Can't say I've seen many Leicester fans around on my travels but they're obviously trying to push it with the Thai owner connection.

Glory hunter

Generally Asian food in Asia is a world apart from what we describe as Asian food here. We took excellent food and made it shit for our own tastes...

Still elated that Lerner is going, though can't fully celebrate until he's officially gone. Can't really see past that for now.

Genting in Malaysia was full of chinese when I was there.

The body language of O'Leary used to convince me he was more interested in whether his mother had cooked chicken or beef for his Sunday dinner than what was happening on the pitch.

General Deisler

To those who think we're not sticking with tradition, you'd think that Aston villa were traditionally a club used to being the worst footballing team on the planet. A team that's happy with relegation form with who's only outlook was dropping even further. For the most parts, to be successful now you have to compete with the sheiks of man city, the Russians of Chelsea even the Americans of liverplop...willing to make large sums of money available. Tell you even Leicester, people forget they're owned by a Thai billionaire. Unless my memory of history is skewed, Aston villa likes to have its tradition of being successful and only recent years has it been the worst ever. To continue that tradition it had to bring in someone outside to give us a platform to compete from.

Just that should be enough for anybody. Gone form no hope, to an unknown - automatically an improvement in the short term.

Wow, for a long time I felt like I'd lost my aston villa...I didn't care about attending games anymore and if it weeren't for the group of pals I go with and enjoy the "day out" then I would have stopped renewing a long time ago. If this sale adds a hint of interesting football to go along with my "day out" then it will be a blessing, but anything...just anything will be more or better than what we had

It's been under the biggest construction project of it's time for the past 10 years or more....not sure if people remember what Birmingham used to be like but the improvements have been drastric.

lol, same...read a few words then thought "now go jump off a cliff quietly".

I don't hate the guy, but if the electric chair was still a punishment I'd vote for him to get it.

This image just in of the doc taking charge

Not the one you're thinking of, but it'll do :-