Archives for the ‘Features’ Category

groundhog day at the o’neill’s

By Mac • Jul 31st, 2009 • Category: Features

by Mark Fletcher…
(Martin O’Neill enters the living room, he flops down in his favourite armchair, takes off his glasses, rubs his forehead vigoursly, puts glasses back on and pushes them up the bridge of his nose. His wife enters the room with a concerned look on her face)
MRS O’NEILL ‘Love, we really need to talk [...]



martin o’neill webchat

By Mac • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Day by Day, Features

The Blessed Martin was scheduled to take part in Euro2008 web chat today on the offical Euro2008 website. Our Martin turned up 20 minutes late and looked like he was doing his own, slow, typing. Click for a transcript,



the purist’s football is now international football.

By Mac • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Features

from john e
International football is what football used to be like.
The winners will be from a country who have an astute Manager, work well together as a team, and play to there collective strenghts.
Whereas the Prem will be decided on who has spent the most money, regardless of the various strenghs and weaknesses of [...]



the holte & i

By Martin • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Features

I set out to create an authoritative and objective item about the Holte, it’s times and it’s part in the history of the club that has been the focus of so much of my emotion and cash over the years. I soon realised that, because of what [...]



the fantastic businessman that is randy lerner

By Martin • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Features

Somebody far cleverer than me said recently. If Randy had been born penniless in Tipton, as opposed to the son of a billionaire, he would have still become a millionaire by now. He is astute, business-savvy and a great PR machine. This club is infinitely better off with him than under Doug.

After some hefty [...]



john griffith’s all time villa xi

By Martin • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Features

MY ALL-TIME GREAT ASTON VILLA TEAM

When people start arguing discussing their all-tiine sides they (me included) invariably pick only their favourite players and/or players they have actually seen, with maybe the odd big name from the past.After having given the matter some thought, I [...]



the ceremony has just begun…..

By Martin • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Features

Twas on a cold March day in 1997 when Heroes and Villains first hit the ‘net. I ripped off some code from a magazine cd, and uploaded about 12 pages to my Virgin.net freespace account. It joined the “VillaWeb” (what ever happened to that?) as one of the 2 significant Villa sites in Cyberspace.
And now [...]