If Villa ceased to exist.........

[Drummond]

*inspired by another thread.

Who would you support? or would you give up on football completely?

I've been tempted to give up on football completely in the last few years, I hate what the Premier and Champions Leagues have done to the game. However, having lived in Sheffield for a while, I'm tempted to go to Bramall Lane and watch Sheffield United more frequently and think they'd become my team.

I'm going for the Steel City Derby on Sunday. I may never post again........

[PeterWithesShin]

Thread thief!!!!

[Percy McCarthy]

Don't think I'd enjoy it if I didn't have the same kind of emotional dependency as I do on Villa. I've always liked Celtic and Barcelona, but I don't get upset if they lose, or ecstatic if they win.

[pauliewalnuts]

As mentioned on the other thread, Nottingham Forest for me.

[cdbearsfan]

FC Aston Villa 1874, in whatever division they ended up starting in.

Failing that, maybe Tammurf or Kidder. Or I could relocate to wherever they are playing that particular season and support Clyde properly.

[bob]

I'd quit football and never miss it. I don't even like football now, it's only because of Villa I pay attention.

[Chris Smith]

I'd still watch football on the box but I couldn't support any other team, they're all shit and their fans are twats.

[TopDeck113]

Taking into account where I now live, 5 years ago or so I would have probably gone for Citeh, but very soon there won't be any room on that particular glory-hunting bandwagon.

So I think I'd start going to Bury with my mate Dominic.

As an aside, when I first moved up here 20 years ago, there is a bloke I vaguely know who moved from London at a similar time.  When he did, he ditched Arsenal and started following Accrington Stanley, then playing in the NW Counties, simply because he like the name and the phoenix from the ashes history. He says he wouldn't have swapped the experience for all the trophies and the Champion's League.

[Chris Smith]

As mentioned on the other thread, Nottingham Forest for me.

We hate Nottingham Forest...

Always shit on the reds side of the Trent...

[supertom]

I'd quit football and never miss it. I don't even like football now, it's only because of Villa I pay attention.

This.

[Dave Cooper please]

I'd be a fully fledged ground hopper.
Good Beer Guide tucked away in my Tesco Bag for Life and away I'd go.

[pig]

I would totes support Manchester, they have a pretty kit. Red for home, and light blue for away. Plus they seem to have the best players.

[Legion]

FC Aston Villa 1874, in whatever division they ended up starting in.

This, then Kidderminster Harriers and/or Walsall, but truthfully my heart would not be in it. Villa always.

[Chipsticks]

I'd probably go and support Cheltenham Town, or had Villa never existed it would probably have been West Brom.

I only support Villa cause my Dad passed the addiction on really, it could have been any other club.

[nigel]

Like most I would ditch the Prem and Championship.
I've always had a soft spot for Scunthorpe and Stenhousemuir up in Scotland.
The reason for this odd pair is when I first started following football properly some 43 years ago, age 9, this pair always finished bottom of the league and I felt sorry for them.
So I'd probably catch a few of their game a season.