Why Nobody Linking Morgan Rogers to a Move Has Done the Maths
Those Morgan Rogers Transfer LinksAre you bored of the Morgan Rogers transfer rumours yet?How many times have we seen this situation before?Over the years, the press have seemingly tried to will away from Villa the likes of James Milner, Gareth Barry, Christian Benteke and Jack Grealish, only for each of these players to stay on at least a season after the media's initial hard...
Emery Backs Notion That Title Talk at Half-Way Point is Nonsense
Title Talk For EngagementFootball loves a narrative, and modern football media loves one even more. The problem is that narratives are now routinely manufactured long before they are earned. The latest example is the growing insistence on framing Aston Villa’s strong first half of the season as a “title race”. It is lazy, engagement-driven noise, and it ignores both history and basic logic.Emery Cutting...
Why Steve Bruce Continuing as Villa Boss Offered Up Zero Surprise
Clickbait Dare
At the start of last week MOMS was asked to appear on a couple of national radio shows to discuss the rumours of...
The Dumbest Proposals of Jack Grealish’s Future Offered Up Yet
Aston Villa have so far disputed that they have received any official bids for Jack Grealish, after fresh media reports of a £15m bid...
Villa to Miss Out on Big Cash for Ex-Player and Loyal Servant Return
'Tony Pulis is apparently up there with Jesus. Although, it has to be said, Pulis turning a headless chicken into a '£30m world beater',...
It’s Official: Giddy Fake News Infests the Aston Villa Universe
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” -...
Some Very Dubious Wolves Opinion to Go With Past Villa Failings
The below heads-up to Media Muppetary was sent in to MOMS a while ago, but we thought we'd save it for a 'look back...
Sam Johnstone to WBA in January…Really?
If there's one early trend of transfer rumours involving Aston Villa it's mischievous stories on the future of Aston Villa's loan signings. Firstly, scaremongering...
Joshua Onomah Scaremongering, Sam Johnstone Rehash and False Guarantees
'Pochettino Confirms Highly-rated Young Duo Will Be Recalled From Their Loan Spells In January'...
Joshua Onomah Scaremongering
While Mauricio Pochettino has doing his media duties last...
The Sun Makes Bizarre Cock Up With Ex-Villan Dalian Atkinson’s Identity
Respect the Dead
Going after The Sun newspaper for media muppetry is like shooting fish in a barrel, so Media Muppets tends to stick to...
Revealed: The Great Football Media Clickbait Swindle
Are you wise to the clickbait headline routine yet? Most aren't, when you consider the growing amount of football sites peddling no-mark content in...
Who’s This ‘Goal Scoring’, ‘Fan Favourite’ Midfielder Leaving Aston Villa?
One of the most humourous things about this summer transfer window is to see the headlines that bottom feeder clickbait websites like 'The Football...
Jordan Rhodes Link to Aston Villa Reveals Hilarious Desperation
Today, the Daily Mail wrote a rumour article linking Aston Villa to West Ham midfielder Robert Snodgrass (which Tony Xia has since rubbished). It...
Conor Hourinhane to Sheffield Wednesday and Other ‘No News’
Phoney Baloney
'Fake news' is now a term that is very much in the popular vernacular. Worryingly, the familiarity with the term in today's society has...