zab6359 Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 8 hours ago, Mantis said: I hate how he's everywhere on the punditry circuit despite being annoying AF and contributing absolutely nothing. I know all he does is giggles like the tw*t he is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 17 hours ago, zab6359 said: Micah Richards, I absolutely hate that man hate him! Was a disease to the club. Was he? Yet everything you read is that he was such a positive influence to players. Yes he was on a lot of money and was injured, but he can’t help that. There were a lot worse players in the squad at the time than Richards, just off the top of my head… Bacuna - fought his team mates on the pitch, pushed a linesman, posting videos going round bham airport in a scooter short time after games Lescott - the car picture Gabby - Mr Aston Villa who put in zero effort, who deliberately laughed at managers and refused to do what they asked. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zab6359 Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 9 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said: Was he? Yet everything you read is that he was such a positive influence to players. Yes he was on a lot of money and was injured, but he can’t help that. There were a lot worse players in the squad at the time than Richards, just off the top of my head… Bacuna - fought his team mates on the pitch, pushed a linesman, posting videos going round bham airport in a scooter short time after games Lescott - the car picture Gabby - Mr Aston Villa who put in zero effort, who deliberately laughed at managers and refused to do what they asked. Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 Can remember watching villa play kiddy harriers pre season and Richards made a rare appearance Was stood next to 2 Bristol City scouts, they had the club tops on, my cousin was leaning over their shoulder to read their phone screens to try and see which villa player they were interested in.... And their WhatsApp was just full of comments and jokes about how fat Richards was 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 On 09/06/2023 at 16:27, Follyfoot said: Noel Blake 'You've got to pick a pocket or two' And his pal, Robert Hopkins who used to turn up for training in his Blues top. Horrible little shite, I remember Brittle sticking one on him in the town. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 17 hours ago, useless said: Whatever Xia's role was in our gloomy first six months of 2018 I hope he's not in peril in Chinese prison, would like to see him tweet again just to know he's okay. And not being facetious there, apparently he is or was in Chinese prison. He was arrested after six months detention in 2021. https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3120884/ex-aston-villa-owner-tony-xia-detained-six-months-arrest-report difficult to find out anything about his current whereabouts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 A few months back I saw a small heath blogger/journalist Almajir who's pretty clued up with what's going on in China on the football side of things, reference him being in jail, and didn't look like he was being flippant, not sure if he was referring to the above or if something else has happened since. Doesn't look good for Xia either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zatman Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 51 minutes ago, Jas10 said: Maybe as the club captain he should have had a word with him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 7 minutes ago, Zatman said: Maybe as the club captain he should have had a word with him Pair of clowns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 On 12/06/2023 at 19:44, TheStagMan said: No, I cannot agree with this, he was a charlatan and a liar from day 1. He was simply a front for *someone*. He had no financial nouse whatsoever and pretty much all of his backstory was picked apart pretty easily. Billionaire my hairy arse. He pretty much bankrupted this club, to the stage we were taking out loans against future income from player sales and mortgages on 3 bed semis in Erdington. We were a couple of weeks away from having no club anymore. He had no clue what he was doing and probably did not have any money. He sold in the nick of time because he had to. He did not keep any promises at all, he kept a stake in the club to try and recoup some money. Ultimately he did not "give" the shares to NSWE to pay Learner, they basically took them to pay Randy as they felt it was Xia's debt, not theirs or the club's. I remember an article about it at the time. Plus he talked bollocks about theme parks and tweeted stupid cryptic emojis all the time. It's a stain on Villa's history that we were duped by this utter con artist. Scary to think where we would be had we won that play off final with Xia and Wyness remaining in control. Losing 1-0 to Fulham was one of the greatest results for the club in its recent history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 13 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Scary to think where we would be had we won that play off final with Xia and Wyness remaining in control. Losing 1-0 to Fulham was one of the greatest results for the club in its recent history. losing to Fulham has led to 2 of greatest moments in Villa recent history. Getting NSWE and then sacking the clearing in the woods and hire Unai 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 On 13/06/2023 at 01:29, zab6359 said: I know all he does is giggles like the tw*t he is. Who are we talking about ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLVillan Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 (edited) On 12/06/2023 at 14:17, HalfTimePost said: Moreira Beye, Unsworth, Lescott, Stevens Sylla, Holman N'Zogbia, Tonev, Dawkins Balaban Bench: Marshall, Richards, Curtis Davies, Djemba-Djemba, Curcic, Berson, Pires, Bowery, Baston Based on the above I think I'm older than you, so I present: (I've gone for players who all, at some time or another, played at a decent level but were a complete waste of a shirt at Villa.......) 1. Les Sealey (RIP) 2. Habib Beye 3. Noel Blake 4. Joleon Lescott 5. David Unsworth 6. Steve Hodge 7. Tommy Craig 11 Sasa Curcic 8. Robert Hopkins 9. Tony Cascarino 10. Nigel Callahan Subs: GK: Mervyn Day. ST: Frank Macavennie, Chris Sutton, Grant "proper man" Holt, Bosko Balaban. MF: Djemba Twins, Leandro "Champions League" Bacuna. DF: Kieran Richardson, Steve Foster, Honorable Mentions to: Richard Dunne/James Collins (both were OK for a year but then disgraced themselves by disrespecting a club legend). Edited June 28, 2023 by FLVillan addition 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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