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Aston Villa supporter coverage from My Old Man Said — independent, ethical and built from years of genuine engagement. From Fan Advisory Board scrutiny to Football Supporters Association representation, via trips to Parliament. Fan issues that affect matchday and beyond, this is where the supporter perspective lives.
The Aston Villa Ticket Price Myth: Does Paying More Really Improve the Team?
How a 5% Rise Became 46%While basking in the glory of the best Aston Villa season in a generation, the issue of Aston Villa ticket prices and increases is back, like a Premier League Groundhog Day.5% seems to be the magic number for Villa, as season tickets, match-by-match tickets, and Champions League tickets are all increasing by this amount. This is far from good...
Aston Villa’s £38.4m Hidden Transfer Cost
The Hidden Cost of Squad Building - Aston Villa's Increasing Agent Fee SpendTransfer net spend of the season is often quoted for shaping narratives and opinion. Yet agent fees are rarely mentioned, despite being excluded from net spend calculations altogether. For Aston Villa in 2025/26, agent fees were actually higher than the club’s reported net spend.Villa's reported net spend in the 2025/26 season...
Aston Villa Supporters Join European Football Fans in Open Letter to UEFA
FSE Background
For a few years now My Old Man Said (MOMS)has been a member of Football Supporters Europe (FSE). The FSE is made up...
A Way to Tell Your Club to Lower Ticket Prices – Be Active!
Enough is EnoughI've had enough spending silly money on tickets to watch a sub-standard team and players. Just look at the January transfer window,...
Tom Fox Admits Responsibility for This Season’s Failure (MOMS Exchange with Fox)
The Last Time
At the start of last year Aston Villa CEO Tom Fox attended his first Aston Villa Supporter Trust AGM to do a...
Read This Before You Judge Aston Villa Fans in Verbal Abuse Videos
Kangaroo Keyboards
One of the annoying things of social media is the impulse of people to spout out their kangaroo court verdicts on a matter...
Letter to the FA to Increase Number of FA Cup Final Tickets to Fans
Ok, so I know you've erased last season's FA Cup final from your mind, but do you remember the hassle of getting tickets for...
Extra Train Details for Aston Villa Supporters for Wycombe FA Cup Tie
Extra Wycombe Train
Looking ahead to the FA Cup 3rd round trip to Wycombe Wanderers, Chiltern Railways have kindly put on an additional train service...
Context of the Sex Pistols Surfer Flag at Aston Villa vs Arsenal
MOMS has never actually had the time to really write anything about the surfer flag we helped organised back in May. We could write...
Football Supporters Europe Statement on the Stade de France Attack
I used to live in Paris for just over two years. Living less than 30 minutes away from the Stade de France, I used...
Reduced Costs for Away Fans on the Agenda at Premier League Shareholders Meeting?
Today was the Premier League shareholders meeting in London, where the club's CEOs (including Aston Villa's Tom Fox, it's assumed) met to discuss matters...
Aston Villa Supporter Open Letter: Thoughts on the Current Crisis Enveloping the Club
A tell tale sign that things aren't right at a football club is the emergence of supporter open letters being published in local newspapers...
Support Aston Villa Fan’s Great Social Initiative for the Christmas Period
Operation DrawstringMOMS wanted to lend its support and get word out on a great initiative that one of our first ever contributors Kerry Lenihan has...
Stan Collymore’s Statement Expresses Home Truths about Aston Villa FC
Preface to Stan Collymore StatementAs every day passes I find it harder to make the correlation between the Aston Villa FC of today and...