Why do I give valuable time...

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

...to a team it seems would much rather repeatedly kick me in the eye?

It's be coming for years now, but I can't understand what it is that makes me persist with following Aston Villa.

They're forever letting me down, usually after building my hopes up and everything is always so predictable.

I'm pretty sure I won't be getting a season ticket next season, so why am I looking forward to getting tickets for Blackburn away?

When I don't renew, I know next season I'll be checking on here for live feeds of games, knowing full well it'll be shit. Why can't I just walk away and forget about it?

I come out of most games thinking it's shit and why do I bother. So, my question to you is, why do you bother? Or not, as the case may be.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not remotely looking forward to Weds night. Right now i'm very very tempted to not bother.

[PaulWinch again]

The problem I have is we're really not getting anything back from the club.

[TheSandman]

You'll get your season ticket next season. You're a mug like the rest of us.

I frequently wonder why I bother and why I let an increasingly more frustrating team upset me so much. It's completely irrational and I surely need help but I do bother and I do let them upset me. I can't just switch it off even though increasingly often I have came to wish that I could.

[Legion]

Because we're the Villa and it's for life.

[Chipsticks]

Because I love football, and I love my club. We go through shit times, and that just makes the good times that little bit more sweet - I know it's a bad trait that I follow the Villa like a sheep, but I don't go to football to see the Villa win, I go to support them.

[Legion]

I'm not remotely looking forward to Weds night. Right now i'm very very tempted to not bother.

I'd forgotten about Wednesday.

[Irish villain]

I'm emotionally drained tonight.... I reckon villa has put years on me

[PeterWithesShin]

I frequently wonder why I bother and why I let an increasingly more frustrating team upset me so much. It's completely irrational and I surely need help but I do bother and I do let them upset me. I can't just switch it off even though increasingly often I have came to wish that I could.

I do wonder how,  when i'm the wrong side of 40, can a fucking football team still leave me as gutted, deflated and depressed as I feel right now.

[PaulWinch again]

Because we're the Villa and it's for life.

Very true, it'd just be nice if those running the club had the same passion.

[Virgil Caine]

I sympathise BCBB but probably like me you go with the hope that one day it might all be better. We all have different reasons for supporting the Villa, mine is that is the link with my late and great Dad and,as he used to take me, I now have the pleasure and privilege of taking my own boy down to Villa Park.

Yes in the 43 years of being a supporter I have been, in equal measures, heartbroken, elated, depressed, ecstatic, demoralised and bought to tears by both the joy and sheer frustration of this wonderful, bizarre, fantastic institution that is Aston Villa Football Club.

Keep the faith my friend.

[preston28]

Because it's an addiction. Like golf - you can have a crap 17 holes but play a blinder on the 18th and birdie it and you'll be back next week. Same with the Villa I'm afraid.

You could move away like I did and work weekends - that'll stop you buying a season ticket! 

[CT]

I do wonder how,  when i'm the wrong side of 40, can a fucking football team still leave me as gutted, deflated and depressed as I feel right now

Ditto. I went from mentally beginning to orgainse going to Sunderland / Boro away to being so f-kin angry. It's certainly ruined the rest of the day for me!!

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not remotely looking forward to Weds night. Right now i'm very very tempted to not bother.

I'd forgotten about Wednesday.

There were 3 South African blokes in the Strathallan who watched the game today. They were rugby fans and knew sod all about football, proven by asking gems like, can't you kick the bloke who can use his hands in the face to make him drop it?

Anyway, seems they are staying and working here for a week or so and asked if there were any local games they could go and see as they would like to experience being at a game. I'm pretty sure I persuaded them to go to VP on Weds. I feel very very guilty right now.

[Legion]

Just make sure they come to me for their match program.