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...
Jedinak Leaving Villa? The Same Chance as Hogan Changing his Mind and Delph Arriving
Standards
The standard of football journalism has got so low, fuelled by the inane need to pump out stories for online ad revenue (one Friday,...
Media Trolls Villa Fans With Steve McClaren BS Reporting
Steve McClaren Rumours
I thought we'd already been through this sorry routine about five years ago. Remember when Randy Lerner was considering Steve McClaren as...
Media Muppets: Colin Leaves Villa, Rehash Clickbait, Sun Silence
Apologies if Media Muppets has been a little AWOL in recent months.No, the standard of football journalism hasn't suddenly risen, it's more a case of...
Media Suggest Aston Villa Projected to Get £50 Million+ on Player Sales
Player Sales
Lets remember one stat before we go on - the players in last season's Aston Villa team only won three league games. Now,...
Rémi Garde to ‘Splash the Cash’ on Doumbia & Ronaldinho
Splash the Cash?As the tumble weed rolls through Villa Park and Bodymoor Heath, Villa supporters are getting sadly resigned to their future next season,...
Michy Batshuayi & Vidic Incoming (LOL) and the Mistaken Identity of Ayew
It's been a few months since the last Media Muppets column. No, it's not because there hasn't been anything to write about, quite the...
The Birmingham Mail’s ‘Great Idea’ to Move Birmingham Cup Derby to the Weekend
Media Muppet articles are normally reserved for dumb transfer rumour stories, but the Birmingham Mail has topped any of those with this sensationalised 'social...
Newspaper Infers Adama Traore Already Looking to Leave Villa
Aston Villa new signing Adama Traore hasn't even played 90 minutes worth of football for his new club, but after impressing in his two...
Tim Sherwood plotting move for £20m-rated Defender. Oh Really…
There's some transfer rumour stories that Media Muppets can smell the BS a mile off. Normally, they are written by a) The Metro, b)...
The Lowest Form of Football Reporting & More Silly Villa Nursey Rhymes
The event of the internet transformed journalism as we knew it. While it opened the door to anybody who fancied writing, the increased democracy to...
New Lows in Delph Departure Reporting and Benteke in Liverpool Shirt
When the summer transfer window boots up, editors of newspapers and their online versions rub their hands in glee, as it becomes open season...
‘Football Spy’ Mirror’s James Nursey Predicts Delph’s Likely Exit
It's hard to kept up with the media muppertry of football journalists and bloggers during the summer transfer windows. There's just so much of...