A Little Reminder of When Villa Were The Greatest Club In The World

[Legion]

Good article in last night's Mail too which adds to our greatness.  Something I wasn't aware off. 

http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2011/07/07/aston-villa-the-day-the-claret-and-blues-won-the-baseball-league-97319-29010957/

Sorry for the long link.

Didn't you read my review in a previous issue of H&V?

[Brend'Watkins]

Sorry Lee, missed that.

[Villa'Zawg]

I've got a postcard sent by the squad from Germany with all their autographs on. I'd scan and post it if I could work it out !

Hard to imagine now but there was a special 1st day issue envelope/postcard with "Fußballspiel Aston Villa F.C. -Deutsche Nationalmannschaft 15.5.1938" postal stamps

[Salsa Party Animal]

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[andrew08]

I've got a postcard sent by the squad from Germany with all their autographs on. I'd scan and post it if I could work it out !

Hard to imagine now but there was a special 1st day issue envelope/postcard with "Fußballspiel Aston Villa F.C. -Deutsche Nationalmannschaft 15.5.1938" postal stamps

Its a postcard sent to someone in Aston from Fred Biddlestone I think (I'm on memory here as I keep it in the safe at work). On the front is some German spa town and on the back is all the squad autographs, inc Eric H's signed W E Houghton I think and the famous coach who's name escapes me.  It has a rather spooky postmark on which incorporates the Nazi swastika. It would have gone well with that Lot at auction I guess. I purchased it more than 10 years ago,with a 1938 program so it's a nice little bundle .

[myhaha]

You are not the greatest club on the earth.  Your fans are shite.

[dave shelley]

You are not the greatest club on the earth.  Your fans are shite.

Fuck off!!!

[Bernie]

You are not the greatest club on the earth.  Your fans are shite.

...no we've not got any vacancies for ex News of the World journalists thank-you. The door is that way

[Billy Walker]

You are not the greatest club on the earth.  Your fans are shite.

That's it, comrade, vent your envy here.  Get it out your system.

[Ger Regan]

Can everyone just please ignore the tedious oaf of a troll?

[Villa'Zawg]

You are not the greatest club on the earth.  Your fans are shite.

Is your username short for my ha-ha-hang-ups include a stu-stu-stutter and a tiny penis?

[andrew08]

Lol

[pedro25]

Eric Houghton died in 1996.

[Matt Collins]

Was the refusal to give the Nazi salute an anti-fascist statement, or more a refusal to salute to any foreign ruler other than the british king?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Was the refusal to give the Nazi salute an anti-fascist statement, or more a refusal to salute to any foreign ruler other than the british king?

Good question. Which raises the bigger question of what motivated people to fight in WW2. How much was it defending your own country against an expansionist power and how much was it being opposed to the ideology of National Socialism ?