Ellis’s return to the Villa board, and as chairman, was perhaps fortuitous, yet his old sense of opportunism had been at work to make the timely move. Ron Bendall had become a very ill man by 1982, and he was looking to leave the board. He was not particularly a football man anyway; his son […]
In the autumn of 1966, the Board had rejected a shareholders’ offer for putting the club back on its feet and then resisted attempts by the Shareholders’ Association to install their own directors. The club then went straight down (in 1967, for the third time) and it looked like a long-term proposition, even though the […]
Fred Rinder had passed away at Christmas, 1938, and with he gone, and Hogan’s successful period at Villa coming to an end with world war arriving in 1939 (actually it is reputed that he was sacked as he lay in hospital with appendicitis just after the start of the war), the Villa board appear to […]
There was a time when issues of coaching and management were not a main topic of conversation amongst fans, when the topic was simply about why had there not been more teamwork. Or why was such-and-such a player off his game. And the scoring chances that went begging. Or not. I would argue that this […]
They’re coming thick and fast, these Championship matches. And to gain three straight wins in these quickly-arising matches has done something to get an on-going sense of positivity and hope that Villa are, indeed, getting into recovery mode. But these regular matches have cost Villa. Hogan, Green, Bjarnason, Grealish, RHM and Gabby are out of […]
