Everyday Villa

[Bad English]

• I have 2 Villa key-rings (home and work).
• Android phone says "This Phone Supports Aston Villa" on the lock screen (Settings/Lock Screen/Owner Information).
• Said phone has H&V AVFC Android with Nike Genting Casinos top on as wallpaper.
• Facebook and Twitter avatars are of me with God and BFR (in Sherlock Street)
• A Villa gnome guards front garden.
• Car has AVFC and AVFC Lions stickers front and rear with AVFC crest/badge Air freshener hanging from rear-view mirror.
• Laptop is called Villa-Park; my PC is called Witton-Lane; the wife's is called Villa-Lady; Netgear Router is called Holte-Pub; External HDD is Bodymoor-Heath; daughter's is Holte-End; dual-band wifi SSIDs are AVFC_24 and AVFC_5 (techies will know why I use those numbers); 16GB USB stick is named SidSidSid
• At work my locker cum badger pigeon-hole (number 31) has a round AVFC sticker above my name.
• In my classroom there is a Villa flag, a Villa calendar, photos of Villa Park, Bella and a couple of players.
• none of my online passwords have anything to do with the Villa.
• Go on H&V at all times when I should be doing other things.
• When I order things over the phone (pizza van, restaurant booking etc.) and get asked to give my name I always say "Aston, as in Aston Villa, A.S.T.O.N."
• I cannot drink tea or coffee out of anything but my Villa mug (and neither can our 16 year-old daughter, who has one of my chipped cast-offs).
• I  recently had to change my car reg number and got annoyed  when I found out that the first two letters were CV. I asked if I could have AV but the French don't do personalised plates.
• I printed the name and house number on my letterbox in claret and blue.
• I put Aston Villa-related stuff into my lessons and tests. I once got inspected and used a Powerpoint with Gabby in it to kick off the hour.
• ... I am fuckingobsessedwiththeVilla

[spk]

I had a new bathroom fitted this year,and my wife picked a nice deep bordeaux paint to cover the only wall that isnt tiled.I suggested some new towels to really freshened the place up ,and asked her to by some light blue ones next time she was in town.They look great on the towel rail against the wall,and she still hasnt twigged it,bless her.

[Chipsticks]

• I have 2 Villa key-rings (home and work).
• Android phone says "This Phone Supports Aston Villa" on the lock screen (Settings/Lock Screen/Owner Information).
• Said phone has H&V AVFC Android with Nike Genting Casinos top on as wallpaper.
• Facebook and Twitter avatars are of me with God and BFR (in Sherlock Street)
• A Villa gnome guards front garden.
• Car has AVFC and AVFC Lions stickers front and rear with AVFC crest/badge Air freshener hanging from rear-view mirror.
• Laptop is called Villa-Park; my PC is called Witton-Lane; the wife's is called Villa-Lady; Netgear Router is called Holte-Pub; External HDD is Bodymoor-Heath; daughter's is Holte-End; dual-band wifi SSIDs are AVFC_24 and AVFC_5 (techies will know why I use those numbers); 16GB USB stick is named SidSidSid
• At work my locker cum badger pigeon-hole (number 31) has a round AVFC sticker above my name.
• In my classroom there is a Villa flag, a Villa calendar, photos of Villa Park, Bella and a couple of players.
• none of my online passwords have anything to do with the Villa.
• Go on H&V at all times when I should be doing other things.
• When I order things over the phone (pizza van, restaurant booking etc.) and get asked to give my name I always say "Aston, as in Aston Villa, A.S.T.O.N."
• I cannot drink tea or coffee out of anything but my Villa mug (and neither can our 16 year-old daughter, who has one of my chipped cast-offs).
• I  recently had to change my car reg number and got annoyed  when I found out that the first two letters were CV. I asked if I could have AV but the French don't do personalised plates.
• I printed the name and house number on my letterbox in claret and blue.
• I put Aston Villa-related stuff into my lessons and tests. I once got inspected and used a Powerpoint with Gabby in it to kick off the hour.
• ... I am fuckingobsessedwiththeVilla

Now this, this is what I like to see.

[Virgil Caine]

I hope University life is all that you hoped it would be Chipsticks.

To answer the thread title AVFC have been an important part of my whole life since my birth in Villa Road, Handsworth, to my first game in 1968, to taking my lad to his first game 11 years ago to last Sunday where, in equal measures, I pondered why I go to the Villa and how much I would miss it if I didn't. Why Villa? Why breathe? as someone more artistic and poetic once put on this site.

[Chipsticks]

I hope University life is all that you hoped it would be Chipsticks.

To answer the thread title AVFC have been an important part of my whole life since my birth in Villa Road, Handsworth, to my first game in 1968, to taking my lad to his first game 11 years ago to last Sunday where, in equal measures, I pondered why I go to the Villa and how much I would miss it if I didn't. Why Villa? Why breathe? as someone more artistic and poetic once put on this site.

It certainly is, Thanks.

Also, that was beautiful.

[silhillvilla]

When setting cruise control on the motorway I generally opt for 81 or 82.

[Concrete John]

Villa picture up in the hallway.
Villa bar towel to wipe down my cue when playing pool.
Villa Russian dolls thingee by the house phone.
All passwords are Villa players.

Mrs Concrete even wants a Villa dog shaped door stop.

[olaftab]

Also, every time I leave my campus the first thing I can see in the immediate horizon is Saint Andrews, and always curse in my head.

I think you should glance that way and thank your lucky stars that you turned out the right way!

[glasses]

My line manager is a Villa fan and all communal spreadsheets at work that have passwords. Most that he owns have a member of the 1982 squad as the password. I work in West Bromwich, and it's wonderful fun whenever one of their lot need access to said worksheets!

Oh yeah, we have a calendar too, plus I have one of those corinthian figurines of Tommy Johnson on my desk that was given to me years ago.

[olaftab]

I have this modified version of MacArthur's final speech at West Point pinned on my office wall:

Aston Villa: Those two hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean.

[itbrvilla]

My passwords are usually Villa related. Every 3 months I have to change it so it goes from being AVFC**********1982, AVFC**********1874, to AV**********1874, to AV**********1982 and so on!

[The Left Side]

Where to start, key rings, pictures, passwords, furry dice, lanyards, colours of my clothes (if not actual AVFC stuff)... I must be the easiest person to get presents for.

[dave shelley]

When we got married I wore a navy blue suit, light blue shirt and claret tie.  It was a couple of years later when Mrs S twigged.

[eastie]

• I have 2 Villa key-rings (home and work).
• Android phone says "This Phone Supports Aston Villa" on the lock screen (Settings/Lock Screen/Owner Information).
• Said phone has H&V AVFC Android with Nike Genting Casinos top on as wallpaper.
• Facebook and Twitter avatars are of me with God and BFR (in Sherlock Street)
• A Villa gnome guards front garden.
• Car has AVFC and AVFC Lions stickers front and rear with AVFC crest/badge Air freshener hanging from rear-view mirror.
• Laptop is called Villa-Park; my PC is called Witton-Lane; the wife's is called Villa-Lady; Netgear Router is called Holte-Pub; External HDD is Bodymoor-Heath; daughter's is Holte-End; dual-band wifi SSIDs are AVFC_24 and AVFC_5 (techies will know why I use those numbers); 16GB USB stick is named SidSidSid
• At work my locker cum badger pigeon-hole (number 31) has a round AVFC sticker above my name.
• In my classroom there is a Villa flag, a Villa calendar, photos of Villa Park, Bella and a couple of players.
• none of my online passwords have anything to do with the Villa.
• Go on H&V at all times when I should be doing other things.
• When I order things over the phone (pizza van, restaurant booking etc.) and get asked to give my name I always say "Aston, as in Aston Villa, A.S.T.O.N."
• I cannot drink tea or coffee out of anything but my Villa mug (and neither can our 16 year-old daughter, who has one of my chipped cast-offs).
• I  recently had to change my car reg number and got annoyed  when I found out that the first two letters were CV. I asked if I could have AV but the French don't do personalised plates.
• I printed the name and house number on my letterbox in claret and blue.
• I put Aston Villa-related stuff into my lessons and tests. I once got inspected and used a Powerpoint with Gabby in it to kick off the hour.
• ... I am fuckingobsessedwiththeVilla

I have so many villa things it would take ages to list but especially for pws -

I have a villa snowglobe and it works

[Bad English]

We had an official Ministry of Education afternoon of mutual intellectual masturbation reflection and analysis of the future direction for education at work last week. It was held where I work and there were about 150 bored boring wan...wasters colleagues from various schools in the area present.

It started at 1:30pm in the main hall where big table of tea, coffee, juices and various foil-wrapped cakes and biccies (a large number of these ended up in my pocket and briefcase). We have a big Peavey sound-system with radio mics so that everybody can hear.

Having had a semi-liquid lunch due to the fact that lessons were cancelled, I picked up a mic and gave everyone a rendering of "The Bells are Ringing". I would have left it at that but one of my English teacher colleagues requested Wonderwall, so I did that too.

I'd do it every day if I could.