Are you a proud Villa fan today?

[dave.woodhall]

It is stupid question really because it is not like there is a choice.

And the fact that Villa have under-achieving for a hundred years now, is something you just have to get used to.

Read the history and it is all bad news from the end of WW1 and nothing has changed.

The same repeated mistakes and always one step behind every innovation in the game.

There have been some moments to take pride in but it is hard to take much pride in a club which has been so badly run for so long.

Whether it is 1967, 1987 or 2013, it's very much a case of: same shit, different year.

And always the sentimental appeals to pride and loyalty, while the guilty men take the piss.

Troll alert. Do not feed.

[Lambert and Payne]

In defeat, defiance.

Exactly, my friends seem to hate my resolve. There United "fans", they wouldn't know what a true fan was if it wasn't for me

[Karlos96]

I posted this on the post match thread but it is more relevant here:-

One thing that did make me smile yesterday I had to go up town after the game was walking through the city centre and saw two guys walking towards us, they were nicely drunk and singing Villa songs as loud as they could they stopped to sing outside the Villa shop as well, makes you proud to be a Villa fan and why we have the best fans in the world.

[PaulWinch again]

Always proud to be a Villa fan. The result doesn't matter, we can take pride in our club. It was a good contrast actually, the Chelsea fans are a pathetic bunch as highlighted by their 16th minute applause. Whether they win the league or not, they're still an embarrassing club.

[Billy Walker]

Even during the darkest times of being a Villa fan nobody can take this away and we bloody earned that trophy we didnt buy it like yesterdays opponents!

(sorry for double post)

Exactly.  One billion quid is what it cost Abramovitch to turn a club the size of Crystal Palace into one that can lift that trophy and beat Aston Villa. 

Even as totally ridiculous as modern football now is I am very sure Villa will be back on top where we belong.  The club has had many setbacks over the years and our strength is that we always overcome them - and we always overcome them the right way, too.  There's plenty more paragraphs, chapters and volumes to be written in Villa's story.

EDIT- And, by the way, in the grand scheme of things, yesterday's result would barely be a sentence in a paragraph of said story.  Turn the page and move on.

[SashasGrandad]

Always proud.

We didn't need extra time and penalties when we beat Bayern!

[john e]

went to my church's carol service last night, knew i was going to get some stick, so wore my claret and blue scarf
 a Hammers fan who in fairness is a good mate said to me 'ive never seen West Ham lose 8 nill'
 i said 'no you've never seen them win the european cup either have you mate'
i was quite proud of that retort

there can be no other fans on the planet (of a certain age) that have seen there team play in the 3rd tier of English football, got dicked 8 nill in the top tier and also won the european Cup and League Championship

[Stu]

there can be no other fans on the planet (of a certain age) that have seen there team play in the 3rd tier of English football, got dicked 8 nill in the top tier and also won the european Cup and League Championship

Loads of Villa fans can't say that though. All we have is the humiliating batterings.

[Villadroid]

It is stupid question really because it is not like there is a choice.

And the fact that Villa have under-achieving for a hundred years now, is something you just have to get used to.

Read the history and it is all bad news from the end of WW1 and nothing has changed.

The same repeated mistakes and always one step behind every innovation in the game.

There have been some moments to take pride in but it is hard to take much pride in a club which has been so badly run for so long.

Whether it is 1967, 1987 or 2013, it's very much a case of: same shit, different year.

And always the sentimental appeals to pride and loyalty, while the guilty men take the piss.

Troll alert. Do not feed.

There is no need for that Dave.

There is nothing factually to dispute about that opinion and so I did not expect a response.

[German James]

Of course!

It'll take a lot more than a defeat against the bastard sons of fucking Gazprom and TOWIE to shake my faith! UTV!

[Stu]

The ignore function really needs to be enabled on this site.

[john e]

there can be no other fans on the planet (of a certain age) that have seen there team play in the 3rd tier of English football, got dicked 8 nill in the top tier and also won the european Cup and League Championship

Loads of Villa fans can't say that though. All we have is the humiliating batterings.

and your youth

[chrisf]

In defeat, defiance.

This.

I watched the game in a local pub with my lad here in Cambs. There's always a bit of good natured banter with the Cambridge Reds but as the goals started to wrack up and the locals started laughing at us I got mad. I'm normally a very mild mannered chap but when one of them said they 'wouldn't want to be Villa watching this' I lost it and informed him in no uncertain terms that he would 'f**king LOVE to be Villa cos then he'd have a life'.

It was a lame line and I'm not proud of swearing at a stranger in front of my son (football brings out my inner hooligan) but I'm as proud to be a Villa fan today as I ever have been.

[Stu]

there can be no other fans on the planet (of a certain age) that have seen there team play in the 3rd tier of English football, got dicked 8 nill in the top tier and also won the european Cup and League Championship

Loads of Villa fans can't say that though. All we have is the humiliating batterings.

and your youth

That's slipping away! Villa are bloody ageing me even quicker as well.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Bollox . If people want to take the piss then let 'em. My level of pride (I am not even sure pride is quite the right term) has very little to with whether we win or not.
Anyway I'm off to find a Charlton fans forum, being pre internet we never properly took the piss out of them for losing 11-1 to us.