Here's the audio version available across Apple Podcasts, Spotify etc.

pod.fo/e/28d564

Go on then, I suppose I should give a shout out to his new book, the second of two chunky, comprehensive and compelling volumes on the 150-year history of Villa.

It is bloody brilliant to be fair.

Cheers Col, you're a great bloke ♥️

www.legendspublishing.net/product/av15...

A victim of bullying and feeling unloved and alone as a teenager in the 1970s, it was the presence of Villa in his life that pulled him through, as Colin explains here in the piece 'I was kept alive by Aston Villa and I'm paying them back'. Have a read.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/footba...

It only seemed fair to let the adorable scamp promote his latest claret and blue passion project too - Aston Villa – The First 150 Years Volume One 1874 to 1949 and Volume Two 1950-2024. I'll give that a plug in a minute after I've plugged his emotive first person piece for us.

So much so that we've given him a platform to write this account on Birmingham Live, revealing how his devotion to all things Aston Villa brought him back from the brink on several occasions. He's now channelled his Villa obsession into becoming a nine-book #AVFC author.

We used @claretbluepod.bsky.social for a frank and honest chat about men's mental health, with @danrolinson.bsky.social and the lads from The Villa Social opening up about their personal struggles. Colin also came on the pod recently and was brutally honest about his own experiences.

Yeah, and 1980s classic pop is one of the best levels!

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