I can stand the piss taking and we deserve it. It's the pity I hate.!
Most of my mates who aren't Villa have stopped taking the piss. It's gone beyond that, to pity. They can't quite figure out how it's all fallen apart so badly.
'In all probability Villa will score enough goals and secure enough points to avoid relegation' I genuinely see no reason to believe this at the moment.
A cert 3 points for whoever plays us...Christ Almighty how did it come to this? Have been a supporter for 40 years and have never felt so low...even in the third division we were still The Villa and relegation in 86 brought SGT to save us but this? Lack of funds,a clueless manager completely out of his depth, an absent owner and the best fans in the country bored senseless into apathy by a squad not fit for purpose. We're in freefall towards the Championship and no-one on high seems to give a shit. These are the darkest of days, with our great club now being reduced to joke status among other fans, but I STILL have the hope that someone, somewhere will want to own the marquee name of historical football clubs. Sorry for the rant guys but four years of Villa taking hammerings says that enough is enough. Do I know you? Seeing as I went to Cliftonville school and BRA around the same time as your timeline above. There were not many Villa fans around then.