Football: Endgame in Sight for O'leary ; Radio Five Live's Voice of Sport Patmurphy

Birmingham Post › July 18, 2006

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As Aston Villa FC unravels, you can't move for attempts to blur issues that aren't that important.

It really doesn't matter just how many Villa players agreed to the initial statement last Friday, criticising Doug Ellis' parsimony - nor if others disagreed, adding their weight to the club's subsequent statement which rubbished the apparent mutiny.

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Football: Endgame in Sight for O'leary ; Radio Five Live's Voice of Sport Patmurphy

This was an unprecedented attack on the chairman who pays the wages of these players, and that fact mustn't be obscured by the subsequent bluster. Whether the dissidents numbered one or five or eight, they broke cover from the usual bland evasions and fingered the chairman. They fleshed ...

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