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Author Topic: Should you support Villa or somebody else?  (Read 10803 times)

Offline Chris Harte

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #60 on: December 04, 2013, 08:36:14 PM »
I grew up less than three miles from each of VP, Yawnthornes and the Sty. The Sty was marginally the closest, but I was brought up properly, not dragged up.

Offline The Man With A Stick

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #61 on: December 04, 2013, 09:25:02 PM »
I was born in Hallam Hospital, where Sandwell General now resides.  If you think I'd even entertain the idea of following that shower of shit you've got another thing coming.

Offline Virgil Caine

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #62 on: December 04, 2013, 10:29:58 PM »
Never a doubt for me, born in 1957 in monochrome Handsworth at 19 Villa Road just up from Villa Cross. All relatives were Villa through and through and the family DNA is claret and blue. I can remember my Dad taking to my first game in 1968 and it was with a huge amount of pride I was able to take my boy to Villa Park for his first game in 2003.

Offline Sunny Villa

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #63 on: December 05, 2013, 04:00:26 AM »
Not born in the UK , moved to Brum when I was 5;, we were having a slight blip ,  my old man a tyke said what a shame that Aston Villa could be relegated , after understanding the word , I watched us lose against Pompey .

I cried , and became Villa .

Lived in Moseley ,went to school in Kings Norton .

Despite the shite never waivered


Offline Mortimer's Bear

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #64 on: December 05, 2013, 08:16:45 AM »
Born and raised in Kingsbury I only ever wanted to support who my dad supported, and thank god I did.

Offline Handsworth Wood Villa

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #65 on: December 08, 2013, 05:01:47 AM »
1.7 miles   PR   West Bromwich Albion Football Club   B71 4LF
1.9 miles   PR   Aston Villa Football Club   B6 6HE

I still think I should support Villa though because West Bromwich is not in Birmingham.

Online lovejoy

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #66 on: December 08, 2013, 06:54:44 AM »
I would guess my nearest league club was Cheltenham Town. Villa were the nearest top flight team but I was sold on family ties to us.

Hereford for me, Cheltenham weren't a league club at the time. Those were the days.

Offline Axl Rose

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #67 on: December 08, 2013, 07:09:54 AM »
We had one of these many moons ago, with a web site url for checking.

Mine were, at the time:

1. Born.   WBA

2. Grew up. Blues

3. Living. Brighton.




This the site? It's pretty interesting

http://www.hopewiser.com/proximity-search/

I was born in Leicester
Grew up in a village equally between Nuneaton and Leicester.
Now live in Tokyo
Dad supports Leicester, though after leaving school to play for Notts County, has a soft spot for them.
Mum supports Cardiff

Grandfather pointed me in the right direction of Villa, despite being a Cardiff fan.
'Smartest ground in England' he would tell me.

Offline AV82EC

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #68 on: December 08, 2013, 08:09:39 AM »
Born near Lincoln, bought up midway between Cambridge and Peterbrough moved to Lichfield when I was 18. Didn't first set foot in Villa Park until I was 22 and it was love at first sight.......many clubs had been visited before including Lincoln, Grimsby, Cambridge, Peterbrough, QPR, Watford, Arsenal, Spurs but nothing compared to that first taste of the Holte End there was an electricity that I hadn't felt at a ground before, you could just feel the history coming out of the place. I'm proud to say my son is a Villa fan now as well, the only one at his school in Chester but he wears his shirt with pride despite the piss taking from all the plastic mancs and scouser hes surrounded by.

Offline Bad English

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #69 on: December 08, 2013, 08:21:54 AM »
Born: Heathfield Road Maternity (almost in the shadow of the floodlights)
Lived:
Handsworth 0-3 years
Chelmsley Wood; Kingshurst; Castle Bromwich 0-18 years
Dad is a nose and took me to see a few games during the Beelzebub, Latchford, Burns era.

I was a lost, tortured soul until a bunch of lads from B37, Percy, Jim and Phil (the last two don't post on here), saved me by taking me to Villa Park (against Tottenham I believe).

I am eternally grateful.

Having lived in France for 28 years, my local teams would be Montpellier, FC Girona and FC Barcelona (I live near the Spanish border). However, I follow AJ Auxerre (now in Ligue 2) because I love Burgundy and they are better than Dijon (who are about as significant as Walsall in footballing terms).



Offline PeterWithe

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #70 on: December 08, 2013, 08:25:18 AM »
Born in Marston Green, went to school in Castle Bromwich, pretty even split amongst us and that lot,   now live 3 miles from VP.

Offline Olneythelonely

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #71 on: December 08, 2013, 09:03:13 AM »
Dragged up on the Pype Hayes estate, Erdington. I had no choice. I've lived all over Brum since and my boy will still have no choice.

Offline Villan For Life

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Re: Should you support Villa or somebody else?
« Reply #72 on: December 08, 2013, 09:23:42 AM »
Born in Kings Norton and was surrounded by Noses. There were very few Villa fans.

To my shame I did start out as a Liverpool fan from 1974. My dad took me to the Sty to see them and nothing clicked. My brother took me to Villa and the atmosphere on the Holte had me hooked and I was converted.

 


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