GaryJLennon

Does a bit of finance and business stuff. Mostly here for football banter, railing against wokery and globalist agendas.

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[GaryJLennon @GaryJohnLennon]

You've one life, lucky to find one love, there's only ever one team

Mine, is Villa. UTV

[Ｅｓｐｅｎ🦁 @espenstrand]

I DIDN'T CHOOSE ASTON VILLA....IT CHOSE ME...
Featuring Gary Lennon

My Name is Gary, and I am a Villa fan🦁
I've lived in Stourbridge, but lately in Kidderminster🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. Local/UK fan.

@AVFCOfficial #VillaChoseMe #UTV #avfc🦁

STORY8⃣1⃣

Here is my Villa story....
More than 50 years in, and football at Villa has never been better. My Villa journey began when I was chosen by my next-door neighbour, Mick Knight, who saw me in a Wolves strip playing football out front when I was around five. I was wearing this as I liked the colours in a sports shop in Blackheath. Mick told my mom, “Buy him a Villa scarf, and I'll take him to Villa Park.”
True to his word, he drove us near the Witton End on a Wednesday night in January 1972, and we walked up the bank and over the top. I was mesmerised by the AV floodlights, which sparkled in the pouring rain. We beat Shrewsbury 3-0 in the season we won the 3rd Division.

I found my first hero, Ray Graydon, and had my mom sew a number 7 made from a pillowcase onto my Villa strip, which had replaced the other one. Some of my greatest games at Villa Park were in the 1970s, beating Liverpool 5-1 and Albion 4-0, with Villa fans booing Andy Gray being subbed as he could have beaten Malcolm MacDonald for the most goals in the season.

I had season tickets in the Trinity, then the Holte, and was going away games from 1980 to exotic places like Portman Road, Roker Park, and St Andrews. I made it onto the pitch at Highbury in 1981, dancing around and watching the Clock End bouncing as we won the league.
My first trip abroad, without my parents, was to Rotterdam, on the Harwich to Hook of Holland ferry, then train to Amsterdam and seeing the Red Light district at 17 was mind-boggling!
We got tickets on the day from a Feyenoord official and happened to be in the Bayern Munich end, wearing a Union Jack t-shirt! The Villa fans were much louder, so we walked around the ground through multiple gates to get to the other end. There are so many stories about that trip to recall.

For most of my adult life, I've lived in Stourbridge and, lately, Kidderminster. Most of my mates are Villa fans. We've seen great games, been to great places, and endured the same dross as everyone else. Swindon away to get promoted, BFR’s first game back at Sheffield Wednesday springs to mind. However, my favourite games at Villa Park must be beating Albion 4-3 and Blues 5-1 on derby days as the atmospheres were electric!

The pubs we used pre-match were in the 80s, The Costermonger, The Cabin, and The Windsor,
though lately we have used The Old Royal or Old Contemptibles. The ones close to the ground tend to be packed and slow serving time for beer!

My Villa story now extends to my daughters, Katie and Jess, who have their own stories. To my dismay, Jess was a mascot and walked out with Stephen Ireland when it could have been Carew!. Katie met her husband Brett on a Kidderminster Lions coach to away games, and a decade later, their 7-year-old son Leo is an avid Villan, too. We’ve been to Wembley, Crystal Palace in corporate last season, and lots before and in between, and they will see some of the best times coming up.

Watching players come through the academy, like Jack and Jacob, Sid and Gary Shaw, with claret and blue blood in their veins, is a delight. Yet when others come in, love the fans, and play for the badge like McGrath, Morley, Mortimer, Townsend, Atkinson, Taylor, Hutton and many more, it feels an honour to be a fan.

My favourite player ever? John Carew, cos he’s bigger than me or you……and now, Emi Martinez, who could become our best-ever signing!

Seeing Villa in the Champions League is a stepping stone for the next phase of the journey. It is amazing to go to Mostar, Lille, Bern, and soon Monaco, to smaller grounds with passionate home fans. Yet once again, we shall be in Barcelona, Madrid, and Roma at the top grounds in the biggest of games.

Thank you, Unai.

Thats my Villa Story!💜💙

Kind regards
Gary

Up The Villa

NAME's Twitter handle: @GaryJohnLennon🦁

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[GaryJLennon @GaryJohnLennon]

Is it too early to say Arsenal's season is over? 🤣

#NEWARS #BottleJobs

[Kathy Gyngell @KathyConWom]

Not a great PR move for the supermarket retailer.

https://t.co/fVuy1qpRvf

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Carbon dioxide has risen by just 1 molecule in 10,000 since the start of the industrial revolution (1760-1840). This is the shocking truth behind the greatest hoax in history. Humans, like every living creature on earth, breathe oxygen in & exhale CO2, the basis for all life.

[Just Col @C_Midd99]

@JamesMelville @gahan_frank

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨UPDATE: FARMERS ARE FURIOUS WITH THIS GOVERNMENT.

Here a Farmer from North Wales takes Lisa Nandy to task over the new costs squeezing them to BREAKING POINT

The protests on the 19th November are entirely justified

SUPPORT BRITISH FARMERS🚜🇬🇧

[James McMurdock MP @JMcMurdockMP]

If you feel like you no longer recognise the UK, it may be because our laws have become an embarrassing mess.

A senior police officer suggests that a tweet is now not just a Non-Crime Hate Incident but breaches Section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986 by inciting racial hatred.
This is absurd for several reasons:

The law allows a defence of simply claiming you didn’t intend your words to be threatening or abusive—how can that ever lead to meaningful prosecution?

Article 10 of the Human Rights Act protects free speech, but what use is it if it only defends ‘safe’ opinions?

The officer argues that because the maximum penalty for this 'crime' is higher than for others, it must take priority. Meanwhile, crimes like car theft are left uninvestigated because they’re ‘less important.’

And here’s the kicker: distributing Category A child abuse material has a maximum sentence of 5 years, but tweeting offensive words can carry harsher penalties.

This disconnect between the real world and the law is staggering. It’s time for #Reform. Our laws must change to reflect common sense.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The worst Prime Minister in living memory.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

I went on GBNews to challenge the lie that Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs were a “thing of the past”.

The next day, the police came to my door and tried to intimidate me into silence.

Criticise the establishment, and they will do everything in their power to stop you. This.

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

Cancel all debt and take the creation and distribution of money out of private hands and into the hands of the people. No Fed, no central banks, no Bank for International Settlements. If they can't fund their criminal schemes with funny money, it's over.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

While lecturing the world on climate change, Keir Starmer has sent a staggering 470 delegates to COP29, creating a 5,000-mile carbon footprint and costing millions in taxpayer money. https://t.co/vcx0scZhwi

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

AL GORE - Hysterical at COP 29.
He screams that Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice per hour!!!

So let’s put that into context.

The Greenland Ice Sheet contains about 2.6 million gigatons (Gt) of ice. If it loses ice at a rate of 30 million tons (30 megatons) per hour …

Some Maths calculations later …

At a continuous loss rate of 30 million tons per hour, 365 days a year & including the 500 Gt it adds each winter, it would take 9,887 YEARS for the Greenland to lose all its ice.

It is extremely unlikely that the Conveyer will stop by 2050 🤡

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

NET ZERO - British tax payers funded sending 470 people to COP!

Including Keir Starmer’s & David Lammy’s videographers & 100 staff from the Energy department. Some stayed in suites costing £800 per night …

… to “save the planet”

Can you see the grift yet? 🤡

[Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth]

Whoopi Goldberg is trash.

She tried to ruin a good family's lives by making up a lie about a bakery.

It didn't work.

The bakery and Staten Island are fighting back.

People have had ENOUGH. I hope The View and Whoopi get sued.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

UK - you did not vote to spend £BILLIONS of your hard earned tax on virtue projects and unproven technology!

He needs YOUR money to provide profit to corporations selling snake oil!

Net Zero ideology will destroy the economy of the UK 💥

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Court of Appeal ruled that the recording of 'non-crime hate incidents' is an interference with people's free speech. The ex-Home Secretary issued Guidance to that effect. So why are the police recording more of these Orwellian 'non-crimes' than ever?
https://t.co/5iNwLDzhk2

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The radical left is at it again. Same playbook:

1. They accuse anyone who says illegal votes are being counted of being a far right wing conspiracy theorist.

2. It turns out to be happening …

3. They AGREE it’s happening, but now that’s actually GOOD!!

4. They use lawfare and Dem election officials to force illegal votes to be counted.

This needs to stop.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

LABOUR - Are we calling this Misinformation? Or Disinformation?

Rachel Reeves now busted for making up parts of her CV

Add that to:

▪️Had her official credit card suspended over inappropriate spending 2015

▪️Plagiarised other people’s work over 20 times in her book 2023

▪️Failed to declare cash donations she used clothes!

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

In a worrying development, the Oxford and Cambridge exam board OCR has told Labour that its new compulsory school curriculum should have climate change and 'diversity and inclusion' at its heart, warns Dr. Nicholas Tate. https://t.co/2BcDssdZvq

[Alex Svanevik 🐧 @ASvanevik]

Here’s how insane things have gotten in Norway:

The Socialist Party has a “wall of shame” in their office with “rich people who have left Norway” - due to the outrageous taxes they’re now being charged.

Who do you find on that wall?

Startup founders like @hagaetc - who was forced to leave the country because he was paying ALL of his income (!!) in taxes.

When the Soviet Union is becoming the role model of your country, time to GTFO.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This seems messed up