Villa`s daring to be different mascot

[AlexAlexCropley]

What the?
And why? Anybody fill me in?

[usav]

Did you ask permisson before posting that?  :-)

[curiousorange]

I find the quotation marks especially disturbing.

[adrenachrome]

There is another thread on this somewhere.

Edit:
Apologies. It was in the GM section.

[pauliewalnuts]

I find the quotation marks especially disturbing.

That's exactly what I was about to say.

[dave.woodhall]

Nobody knows who he was, how long he was here or where he went to. Judging by the kit it's early fifties so while it's not the nicest photo ever it's no real cause for concern.

[KevinGage]

Hasn't this been done before?

Different, slightly backward times.
By all accounts, it wasn't a regular feature so even back then they probably thought it went beyond the pale and it died a death pretty soon after.

Almost as bad as our nearest and dearest.

Didn't they have a Gollywog (their choice of words) with a switchblade?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Is that Danny Blanchflower the second player coming out? If so,its between 1951 and 1954.

[Chico Hamilton III]

That photo is in the Villa Park 100 years book as well.

The good old days when players would get the tram to the match with the fans, smoke woodbines at half time and and we'd have a black mascot called Darkie

The age of innocence, eh

Are they golliwog pictures on his top hat?

[Irish villain]

I remember this from the Simon Inglis book.

Very different times! Very un-pc.

I do like the way so many in the crowd are wearing suits though. Imagine wearing a suit to a game these days?

[E I Adio]

Are they golliwog pictures on his top hat?

Presumably he liked Robertson's marmalade.

[robg54]

have you noticed there is only one women in the crowd,or is it a tranny,and every one is just standing there no one is cheering as they run out.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

have you noticed there is only one women in the crowd,or is it a tranny,and every one is just standing there no one is cheering as they run out.

The women is a life size inflatable of Grace Kelly some of the young pups used to take to the ground.

And the reason that no-one is cheering is that when they took photos in them days they had to ask everyone to be still for two minutes.

[dave.woodhall]

The reaction of the crowd makes me wonder if that was the first (and maybe last?) time Darkie made an appearance.

[saunders_heroes]

Look the at the name on it, 'RAGS MAHONE'. He's the Nose that started the anti Lee Bowyer petition at the Sty a few years ago, if my memory serves me right. I think he had to go into hiding after he received death threats from the knuckledraggers.
He's a Villa hater of the highest order, by the way. No doubt he added this picture to his anti Villa collection. I'm surprised he hasn't passed it on to the Sunday Mercury yet.