About
Heroes & Villains is the best selling unofficial fanzine of the most beautifully named football team in the world. It is written by supporters, for supporter and is not afraid to say what it thinks. The publication has now been going for over 18 years. Now in it’s 12th year, the website, running since 31st March 1997 is the longest running Villa website in the world.
who’s responsible
Editor
Dave Woodhall. Suave, handsome, talented, wealthy and the man typing this piece. Dave is an editor of many words, and most are concerned with driving contributors to the point of exhaustion in an effort to get just one more page out of them before deadline. He has few regrets in life, but one of them is not twatting Eric Hall on Central Weekend.
WebMaster
Mac McColgan. Our long suffering and often abused member of the team. It’s amazing the amount of flak one individual has to take because of the childish antics of a few “keyboard warriors”. Email him if you have a question but please note he doesn’t have any spare tickets.
WebHosts
Special thanks must also go to Martin & Steve Morris, who over the last couple of years have provided assistance & support in the hosting and running of H&V.net beyond the call of duty. Without them it probably would have died.
Moderators
H&V discussion areas, and the Chat Room wouldn’t function without the considerable assistance of Mark Fletcher, Joe_c, Ozzjim, Risso, Legion, Lizz, PaulieWalnuts and Hawkesey. Thanks guys we owe you big time.
BlogFootball
This is Mark Smith’s domain. His regular witty updates keeps the site ticking over nicely. Thanks man. You’re a star
regular contributors
Simon Page. Rising star of the entertainment world, it can’t be long now before Simon has a street named after him. An unhealthy obsession with the history of nineteenth century Villa has led Simon to the belief that he is Charlie Athersmith reincarnated. Will put in a seventy hour week for ten shillings, but has to be restrained from putting small children up chimneys and colonising Africa.
Steven Pennell. Works at Longbridge, agrees with the idea of football matches being thirty minutes each way because it’s hard for him to stay awake for forty-five. Tries to get the fact that he went to the same school as Gary Shaw intoeverything he writes. A founder member of the Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Movement, Steven has the only primary school children in Birmingham to be able to quote Das Kapital word perfect.
Peter Aldridge: Senior member of the team, exiled to the South Coast following an incident that no one dares talk about even now. Judging by his extensive historical knowledge, Peter either has a vast collection of football reference books, an encyclopaedic memory, or a non-existent social life.
and last, but by no means least….
Walter Price, William Scattergood, Jack Hughes and Frederick Matthews. If you don’t know who they are, then shame on you! For it was they, under the dim glow of a Victorian street light in 1874 who formed Aston Villa FC, without whom none of this would be possible and, despite the fact that we might not always agree with everything they say and do, remain the most unique, wonderful football club in the world.
