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Collymore's on speed, typing feverishly his crowd funding financial plans to save Villa.

Financial issues at Villa, according to the Telegraph this evening. The messiah Tony Xia, who bought the club off of hated Lerner, is looking to bale out. Leaving Steve Bruce's position in doubt. Perhaps they'll have to sell world class talent in Jedinak and Hutton?

A load of hoofball clashes in the Championship next season, with miserable fanbases: Boro Villa Stoke Brum WBA Massive The PL is quality without that shower.

Hard lines Stan. Another medium sized club from the South makes it to the PL. Footballing team 1 - 0 Overpaid Hoofers

And what would be exclusive today about Derby for example? Way way down the pecking order of UK conurbations. Separately, clubs like Villa and Leeds should have been run properly in the first place, which probably would have prevented their falls from grace. Villa overspent on players/wages...

Calde was one of my favourite right backs. Nice beard too.

Good post. I’ve read several times that even Everton and Spurs fail to make real inroads into markets such as Asia and North America. So IMO the Albion would be wasting effort trying to make themselves a commercial force outside of the UK. Just do everything in their power to stay at the PL...

True. The Medway Towns add up to a large conurbation. I’ve always assumed that there’s a quite lot of support for Charlton and Millwall out that way.

Didn’t Arsenal win the 1971 title and Derby in 1972?

A history not caused by the fans. A broke/tight Board in the 80’s that always sold our best players for knockdown prices, followed by someone with eyes only for a $$$$ freehold.

Other than winning the league 2 generations ago (1972 and 1975), Derby aren’t today a big club. The catchment area is small and they do well to consistently have crowds in the mid-20,000’s. Collymore is simply a Villa fan, so randomly bunged in the names of other clubs, to mask his bias as an...