Wainy316 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 They are just tragic 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 I presumed that that was just paddypower making fun of their obsession with the peaky blinders, and that they didn't actually have a 'peaky blinder box', but it's actually real, they also have 'peaky blinders evenings'. I'm surprised they haven't been criticised more for it, they're basically using a criminal gang to promote their club, doesn't really set the best example to their fans, who already have a reputation for getting into trouble. If West Ham were to have Kray Brothers boxes or whatever there would probably be an uproar, not sure how this is much different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister_a Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 18 hours ago, mottaloo said: Found this on paddy power's Instagram account Seven Fingered buffet? - sounds about right for them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 12 minutes ago, useless said: I presumed that that was just paddypower making fun of their obsession with the peaky blinders, and that they didn't actually have a 'peaky blinder box', but it's actually real, they also have 'peaky blinders evenings'. I'm surprised they haven't been criticised more for it, they're basically using a criminal gang to promote their club, doesn't really set the best example to their fans, who already have a reputation for getting into trouble. If West Ham were to have Kray Brothers boxes or whatever there would probably be an uproar, not sure how this is much different. SHA fans cling onto that to apparently show they're the club of the city e.g. we don't care about it while they have Peaky away fancy dresses so we're all out of towners with no connection to Brum while they're promoting the city with the Redditch blues dressing up (even though I think large parts of it are filmed in Liverpool). Never watched the show anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 At the risk of excommunication, I just don't think this is particularly risible or silly. The Shelby brothers come from Small Heath, and are established through dialogue as noses in the first season. It's a globally-popular TV program, and I doubt they have a more famous fan, real or fictional. Any club would try to do something to exploit that, and I note that we haven't exactly been bashful about sprinkling stardust when it comes to eg Tom Hanks or Prince William. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said: At the risk of excommunication, I just don't think this is particularly risible or silly. The Shelby brothers come from Small Heath, and are established through dialogue as noses in the first season. It's a globally-popular TV program, and I doubt they have a more famous fan, real or fictional. Any club would try to do something to exploit that, and I note that we haven't exactly been bashful about sprinkling stardust when it comes to eg Tom Hanks or Prince William. I think the issue is Tom Hanks wasnt going around torturing and stealing from people to make a living. It be no different than West Ham bringing out Kray memorabilia or Rangers the Billy Boys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 4 minutes ago, Zatman said: I think the issue is Tom Hanks wasnt going around torturing and stealing from people to make a living. It be no different than West Ham bringing out Kray memorabilia or Rangers the Billy Boys It's clearly a reference to the TV program, rather than the gang themselves as historical figures, as we can see from the fact that they've only started marketing this connection since the show has been popular. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuartc445 Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 20 hours ago, VillaChris said: SHA fans cling onto that to apparently show they're the club of the city e.g. we don't care about it while they have Peaky away fancy dresses so we're all out of towners with no connection to Brum while they're promoting the city with the Redditch blues dressing up (even though I think large parts of it are filmed in Liverpool). Never watched the show anyway. I've seen 2 episodes 1 in the 1st series and then again the latest one and I just can't watch the accents are painful some are more scouse than Brummie and the one this series I heard it the matter of a few sentences he went through all the dialects I'm Birmingham. It drives me mad so for blues the big it up so much when the show have clearly made no attempt to get the accents correct is quite strange. But then again this is Small Heath so it's no surprise really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 The show is ok. That's it. No more no less. To build a marketing campaign around it is poor going, at the very best unimaginative. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 On 06/11/2019 at 08:56, Stuartc445 said: I've seen 2 episodes 1 in the 1st series and then again the latest one and I just can't watch the accents are painful some are more scouse than Brummie and the one this series I heard it the matter of a few sentences he went through all the dialects I'm Birmingham. It drives me mad so for blues the big it up so much when the show have clearly made no attempt to get the accents correct is quite strange. But then again this is Small Heath so it's no surprise really. This. 100%. The attempt on the brummie accent reminded me of Timothy Spall's shocking west bromwich accent from auf wiedersehen pet ! Now that SHA are shamelessly pimping themselves out to it means I'll never watch it at all now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 14 minutes ago, mottaloo said: Now that SHA are shamelessly pimping themselves out to it means I'll never watch it at all now. Pretty bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I watch it to be fair. In series 4 they want to see who is from Brum and who isn't so the question they ask is who plays in goal for blues and villa? (At the time it was Tommy Jackson for villa). And I thought I'd be screwed here as it took me about 5 minutes to remember camp plays for blues they'd have shot me 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 It means nothing to me, but since they have a monopoly on pettiness, how do they feel about Ben Zephaniah being in the show? That has to grind their gears a bit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 1 hour ago, VillaJ100 said: I watch it to be fair. In series 4 they want to see who is from Brum and who isn't so the question they ask is who plays in goal for blues and villa? (At the time it was Tommy Jackson for villa). And I thought I'd be screwed here as it took me about 5 minutes to remember camp plays for blues they'd have shot me Would have been killed last season. Was it Nyland, Kalinic, Steer or Bunn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 It's a good show but not so much mention of blues in it for villa fans to boycott. Be like blues boycotting Cuckoo as some Villa references Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villa4europe Posted November 8, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 8, 2019 I watch it and think its great, I think the city should do more to attach itself to the publicity but like all things Birmingham council they're **** useless at it (black country museum is all over it, after that Liverpool does more with it than brum does) but at the same time the clubs association with it is of course cringeworthy, the kit launch, this box, its well known that the writer is a blue nose and its in the area and there are maybe 3 scenes in the whole show that mention them but to then see their fans trying to dress like it and by that I mean a flat cap, coat maybe a shirt but then normal modern jeans and shoes, they look like try hard bell ends, everything they've done makes them look like try hard bell ends, that box for example I've got no real problem with the idea of it but then what they've done for the box is stuck a photo on the wall and claimed its somehow associated with the show...its not, its a normal box with the same cheap as **** office furniture and £8 Tesco birthday cake "look at me I got me flat cap on im a real peaky blinder, shit on the villa, tommy Shelby is a Zulu, keep right on" **** off 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I've seen a load of Villa fans on twitter saying that, because of where the Peaky Blinders were actually from, it's highly likely they were actually Villa fans. I don't know if that's just Villa fans trying to stir up some trouble, or whether there's any truth behind it. I don't care either way, but it would be funny if that somehow came out, and the noses all had to throw their Tesco flat-caps and ASDA George waistcoats in the bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Rob182 said: I've seen a load of Villa fans on twitter saying that, because of where the Peaky Blinders were actually from, it's highly likely they were actually Villa fans. I don't know if that's just Villa fans trying to stir up some trouble, or whether there's any truth behind it. I don't care either way, but it would be funny if that somehow came out, and the noses all had to throw their Tesco flat-caps and ASDA George waistcoats in the bin. It would be bloody hilarious if in the next series they make a reference to being Villa fans and SHA have to quickly scrap all marketing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tismyk Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 (edited) On 06/11/2019 at 07:03, HanoiVillan said: At the risk of excommunication, I just don't think this is particularly risible or silly. The Shelby brothers come from Small Heath, and are established through dialogue as noses in the first season. It's a globally-popular TV program, and I doubt they have a more famous fan, real or fictional. Any club would try to do something to exploit that, and I note that we haven't exactly been bashful about sprinkling stardust when it comes to eg Tom Hanks or Prince William. Pretty sure they wasn`t remember the Villa being mentioned once, but never the Sty or their supporters, the writer is a nose though Edited November 8, 2019 by tismyk spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 6 minutes ago, tismyk said: Pretty sure they wasn`t remember the Villa being mentioned once, but never the Sty or their supporters, the writer is a nose though There's definitely a scene in the first season where it's mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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