u/BeatConsistent6428

Hello fellow Villa fans, have been meaning to engage with the Reddit for a while now, so here I go. I had a very specific and probably niche question:

What was the deal with Villa signing Beinlich and Breitkreutz back in the early 90s? Who's idea was that? I had always thought they were Venglos signings, that he'd had a tip off, agreed to sign them and then got the push.

But from what I've read he had nothing to do with it. I can't see Big Ron specifically going for them, indeed he rarely played either. Was it Ellis doing Ellis things and getting two players on the cheap after the Berlin wall fell?

Of all our former enigmas I think they are my faves. Beinlich went on to have a very decent career of course, and all power to him.

Big Curve wants us to think less of flat things, so comes up with a conspiracy backed by a bunch of loony bins (actually played by actors).

It was a tactical death

Since Rupert Lowe has his own spin-off grift of a grift now, I was wondering what other former owners/chairmen could have their own political party.

Sam Hammam's The Crazy Gang party - immigrants are welcome but they have their suit burned upon arrival, and other similar japes

Doug Ellis would probably instantly reset everything to the Victorian age, everything else is just too modern for him