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Author Topic: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?  (Read 47811 times)

Online Deano's Mullet

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2011, 06:06:07 AM »
I remember a run from 1993-98 ish where we were their bogey side which pissed them off no end. We won at Highfield Road about 4-5 seasons running including at least two televised games. And of course Super Savo scored five in two matches with them one season.

Offline *shellac*

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2011, 07:33:19 AM »
Derby?  The answer is NO.

But I like the fact that we relegated them.

And Angel scored his first goal for us.

Offline lordmcgrath5

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2011, 07:58:43 AM »
It's not a derby, they just don't like us - and to be fair I can see why they don't.
Their hatred of us was borne 35 years ago this very week on April 13th 1976.

Thanks for that, DeKuip, a very enjoyable read. Reminds me - I've been meaning to re-read "Children of the Revolution" for a while now.

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2011, 07:59:23 AM »
Just below Paget Rangers

Offline cheltenhamlion

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2011, 08:24:53 AM »
They don't count at all. We just developed a dislike for them as we had nobody else to hate for a number of years.

Offline UsualSuspect

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2011, 08:43:34 AM »
Not a derby at all for me

Although how I laughed watching them cry when we relegated them

Offline Blackcountry Villa

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2011, 08:47:26 AM »
Couldn't care less about them, although sending them down was funny, especially after being two down. Their hatred for us is laughable aswell. It would be good to get them away in the Carling or FA Cup next season though and take 6000 there.

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2011, 09:00:24 AM »
Everyone loves a derby don't they?

No.  May the other midlands teams rot in the championship at best!

Offline Phil from the upper holte

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2011, 09:01:13 AM »
I don't give a shit about them and I don't know a single cov supporter. On the other hand I know lots of noses and have the misfortune of working with others so I hate them a lot more

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2011, 09:14:34 AM »
Insignificant. Villa - Coventry has never been a derby to me. It doesn't carry the same emotional pull as games against Blose or the other clubs in the industrial west midlands.

I did enjoy the second half when we sent them down though!

Offline Rico

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2011, 09:16:51 AM »
Not really a Derby is it? Couldn't give a monkeys about them! Always found their hatred of us amusing. Thẹ only two derbies I care about are thẹ noses and thẹ baggies

Offline JJ-AV

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #26 on: April 12, 2011, 09:18:49 AM »
They don't even register as far as I'm concerned, could'nt tell you were they are in the championship or name 5 players that currently play for them, a totally insignificant club.

Exactly how I feel about them, they're a complete irrelevance

Thirded.

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #27 on: April 12, 2011, 09:34:16 AM »
I'm going against popular opinion, but this is a derby.

Anyone who ever made the short trip to Highfield Road will tell you what the atmosphere was like inside the ground. It was pure hatred, a derby atmosphere. And the FA Cup defeat at home? The atmosphere was poisonous that day and the defeat hurt like hell.

Also, last day wins at home in 91-92 and when they went down were fantastic days. Villa Park was really rocking. And what about the Savo hatrick in 1995-96?

An irrevelavance? So why are they regularly discussed? The fixture will never rival Blues or Albion, but there will always be an edge to the game if we ever find ourselves in the same division again.

Offline WikiVilla

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #28 on: April 12, 2011, 09:59:51 AM »
What's with all the Coventry threads these days ?

Offline Greg N'Ash

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Re: How big a derby is Coventry for us Villa fans?
« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2011, 10:02:21 AM »
ah yes Highfield Road - on a par with the sty that place. their away end was just a concrete sheep pen. I know the awayends in the standing days were never much to write home about but coventry surpassed themselves with that one.  then they moved the away fans to some temporary thing to the side which bloody moved everytime more than 3 people stood up at once.

 


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