Villa Park Birmingham?
Quote from: martyn ellis on December 27, 2011, 11:25:35 PMI don't for one minute think we should change the name but the point was made very early on in this thread that people from overseas rarely know where Aston Villa FC is from. We share this potential 'issue' with clubs like Everton and London clubs like QPR, Fulham, Spurs, who don't carry the name of their city in their club name. Who knows where Real Sociedad, Levante, Osasuna from the Spanish league are based? Probably doesn't matter but people from overseas (I meet quite a lot of them through work) often ask me what part of London AVFC is from.To be fair, when you tell quite a lot of foreigners you're from England, the only city they know of is London. Changing the club's name to include Birmingham wouldn't help.
I don't for one minute think we should change the name but the point was made very early on in this thread that people from overseas rarely know where Aston Villa FC is from. We share this potential 'issue' with clubs like Everton and London clubs like QPR, Fulham, Spurs, who don't carry the name of their city in their club name. Who knows where Real Sociedad, Levante, Osasuna from the Spanish league are based? Probably doesn't matter but people from overseas (I meet quite a lot of them through work) often ask me what part of London AVFC is from.
Quote from: Ad@m on December 27, 2011, 11:56:03 PMQuote from: martyn ellis on December 27, 2011, 11:25:35 PMI don't for one minute think we should change the name but the point was made very early on in this thread that people from overseas rarely know where Aston Villa FC is from. We share this potential 'issue' with clubs like Everton and London clubs like QPR, Fulham, Spurs, who don't carry the name of their city in their club name. Who knows where Real Sociedad, Levante, Osasuna from the Spanish league are based? Probably doesn't matter but people from overseas (I meet quite a lot of them through work) often ask me what part of London AVFC is from.To be fair, when you tell quite a lot of foreigners you're from England, the only city they know of is London. Changing the club's name to include Birmingham wouldn't help.Just after he'd signed his contract with Newcastle, Faustino Asprilla asked Freddie Shepherd "Just one more thing, which part of London is Newcastle based in?"
I've already said it's a big no from me. Problem is, if the football club that does carry the name of the city should cease to exist for any reason. Let's just say it goes bust or something like that. Would there be some pressure on us to do it then?