AboutMOMS

My Old Man Said (MOMS) is an Aston Villa supporters blog, podcast and supporters group.

Football Blog

Approaching its 10th season, as a football blog, My Old Man Said has upheld high editorial and ethical standards, and is an antidote to the typical clickbait and ‘churnalism’ approach of most football media. The blog aims to both entertain and inform football supporters with original quality content and aims to provide insights and get transparency for supporters in terms of how Aston Villa football club is run.

MOMS was the winner of the 2012 Best New Football Blog of the Year award and won the judge’s award for the Best Established Football Blog of the Year in 2014. Then in the Football Supporter Federation Awards, MOMS was nominated for ‘Blogger of the Year’ in 2016 and ’Best Fan Media’ in 2018.

Podcast

After a regular slot on national radio on Talksport’s popular Sportsbar program, where they would always mistakenly referred to My Old Man Said as being a podcast show, it was only natural there should be one created for real.

Now approaching its fifth year, the My Old Man Said podcast show’s emphasis is to provide listeners with an informative and entertaining ‘show’ rather than being just another replica shirt wearing fan football podcast.

The show now regularly features in both iTunes and Spotify’s Sport & Recreation charts with the ever-growing podcast having gained a strong devoted following. It was nominated in the Best Club Podcast of the Year category in the Football Supporters’ Association Awards 2019.

More details on the Podcast

Supporter Group

MOMS is a founder member of the Aston Villa Fans Consultation Group and National Council of the UK’s largest supporter body the Football Supporters’ Association. MOMS also sits on the WM Police Football Unit Independent Advisory Group (IAG).

MOMS is an affiliate member of both the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) and Football Supporters Europe.

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Through its network of contacts in the game, My Old Man Said exists to provide Aston Villa supporters with the best access to information and represent them, when necessary, to provide a rational voice on supporter issues at club and national level.

MOMS campaigned successfully to get Villa Park granted as an Asset of Community Value to give Villa supporters a symbolic guardianship over their home.

In the belief that football should be affordable to all, MOMS has actively supported the FSF’s Twenty’s Plenty campaign and was active in helping obtain the £30 price cap for Premier League away tickets.

The common sense of safe standing is also a prime concern (we’ve been to the House of Commons twice to debate it), as is the need for structured club-supporter communication in football.

With the help of our followers and members MOMS also created the biggest and most notorious Villa supporter flag – based on the Sex Pistol’s infamous album cover design ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’. As the album cover was banned on its release, the flag was banned by the FA for the 2015 FA Cup final at Wembley, to much national and international press outcry.

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Opinion

MOMS been asked to cover Villa matters in national newspapers such as The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Independent, Sunday Mirror and also on radio, including BBC Five Live, BBC WM and Talksport, as well as contributing to the BT Sport, BBC TV and Premier League’s TV channel.

For an overview of our activity see the MOMS wiki page

Further press coverage