04 Nov 2015 23:18:21
It strikes me that Managers such as Mourinho and Ferguson before him have always tried to convince their teams that the whole of the football world was against them. This was a deliberate ploy to galvanise the team and give pampered, overpaid sportsmen a cause to fight against. They were both able to turn a manufactured sense of self pity into a fighting spirit
Well, the football world really does seem to be against us. The press are predicting our demise, the pundits are laughing at our predicament and managers and ex-managers are lining up to tell the world what a bad idea Garde is before he has even had his first match
We don't have to manufacture it. Show the team the press headlines, play them a tape of Neville, the scouse idiot and Lampard laughing at us, then throw them some raw meat, light the touch paper and stand back.
Come on Villa. FIGHT!
{Ed003's Note - No the football world isn't against you and if you base your opinions of what the press say the less said the better.}
04 Nov 2015 23:32:04
My point Ed, is that we have more evidence to support such a notion than Chelsea or Man U ever had (I don't believe your average fan is against us. On the contrary, they sort of pity us if anything )
As for the press, I don't trust a word of the front or the back pages
What I'm suggesting is, needs must and we have to galvanise the team somehow
Be it fair means or foul.
{Ed003's Note - I don't think anyone pities you tbh we just live in this stupid football world where fans think others do.}
05 Nov 2015 08:37:37
I don't think people pity us ed, but i do think that most other fans do love to hate the villa.
I do seriously think that our demise is being greatly accepted by every other club across the country.
Hopefully this creates a galvanising affect!!
{Ed001's Note - to be honest mate, most people outside of the Birmingham area don't give two hoots about Villa. I know I never did before I became friendly with a Villa fan. In the north west you just don't really matter, being perfectly honest.}
05 Nov 2015 10:39:51
I don't live in brum, I know only east mids so not far, but everyone here hates us!!
05 Nov 2015 17:52:25
don't take it to heart Flackie - i lived in e mids for 4 years and my experience was that they don't discriminate, they just hate everyone.
05 Nov 2015 18:44:43
Haha!!
I've noticed me duck.