Why do you have such a problem with West Brom... they're just another crap team to me who yo-yo between the Premier League and Championship. Most Villa fans don't even have a problem with West Brom, we don't even have a proper rivalry with them like we do with small heath where there is genuine nastiness between both sets of fans. Out of all the teams in the West Mids, West Brom are the only team I don't really have a problem with... Stoke, blose and the Dogheads are far more dislikable.You can keep up this nonsense about not praising West Brom for beating Arsenal as much as you like, it doesn't change the fact they're a promoted team and got a fantastic result yesterday and deserve the praise they get. Even Wenger praised them quite highly...
Quote from: The Situation on September 26, 2010, 07:44:22 PMWhy do you have such a problem with West Brom... they're just another crap team to me who yo-yo between the Premier League and Championship. Most Villa fans don't even have a problem with West Brom, we don't even have a proper rivalry with them like we do with small heath where there is genuine nastiness between both sets of fans. Out of all the teams in the West Mids, West Brom are the only team I don't really have a problem with... Stoke, blose and the Dogheads are far more dislikable.You can keep up this nonsense about not praising West Brom for beating Arsenal as much as you like, it doesn't change the fact they're a promoted team and got a fantastic result yesterday and deserve the praise they get. Even Wenger praised them quite highly...And who exactly are you to tell me who I should and shouldn't like? Actually, we do have a 'proper' rivalry with them and it goes back about a hundred years longer than the one we have with Blues.
Err, I did not once tell you who you should and shouldn't like... all I said was that Villa fans assoicate their local rival with small heath in general... West Brom's main rival is Wolves and that's their biggest derby, so how can Villa's 'proper rival' be West Brom lolwut? In North B'ham (some of my family is from Great Barr btw) Villa fans tend to have more of a dislike towards West Brom than the rest of Villa fans from Birmingham like pauliewalnuts said, ask any West Brom fan who their main local rival is and they will say Wolves, just like if you asked any Villa fan the same question they'd responsed with small heath.Whether you like West Brom or not, I don't really care, to say they don't deserve any praise after their fantastic win yesterday is a bit silly really. If Birmingham City beat any of the top 4 away last season I would of given them credit too regardless that they're our local rivals.
I would guess that it's about a 50/50 split between us and the dogheads who smethwick fans hate the most. Most around 40+ will probably go with us, most under will probably go with the dogheads. The shift from us being their main rival is simply due to a generation of them never getting the chance to lose to us.
@Dave; I don't wanna argue with you because I enjoy reading Heroes and Villans but the general concensus among Villa fans is that we consider Birmingham City our main local rivals... like it or not, I don't know any of my Villa supporting mates who put West Brom before Birmingham in terms of rivalry, even my father who grew up in the generation where West Brom were once considered our main local rival has a big dislike for small heath, I don't think I've actually ever heard talk in an abusive way towards West Brom. And yes, he also commented yesterday on what a great result it was for West Brom...A few have already said earlier in this thread that they don't really mind West Brom, but ask them how they feel about Birmingham City...
Christ.I was just thinking earlier that MOTD2 is miles better than MOTD then they do all this quirky shit like wine wasting and people singing the theme tune.What shite.