I think Bobby Sands was supposed to be a Villa fan.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Villa Myths thread which has helped enormously as I persevere with a Villa book to raise funds for Stan's leukemia foundation.I'm now looking into infamous Villa fans such as Tarzan, Werewolf etc and would be grateful for any memories of these individuals plus other notorious fans you may remember. For example, in the 80s there was a thin bespectacled bloke who always wore a black raincoat and stood alone underneath the corner flag scoreboard at the Holte, really into the game and oblivious to anything going on around him, shaking his fist, bellowing at the Villa and demanding effort. He used to be more exhausted than the players when the final whistle went.
I remember being at a midweek match at Elland Road in the (I think) late 80's and it was terrible match with a fairly small Villa following. There was a very drunk bloke who provided the best entertainment of the night singing his version of 'Mustang Sally' for almost the entire 90 minutes, he was belting it out and eventually people were joining in with 'ride, sally ride'. Whenever I hear the song it makes me think of Elland Road.