How it feels to follow Aston Villa

[joe_c]

I'll tell you how it feels to follow Aston Villa.

This season no other supporters would swap their club for ours.

Over a lifetime all but a handful would. 

Perfect. I was thinking on similar lines at work on Monday after being on the receiving end of bantz from Bluenoses and it struck me that I would rather endure a result like Sunday than derive so much pleasure over a team I don't support losing to another team I don't support.

[Ad@m]

"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"

I didn't even get that far - I stopped reading when the author started apologising for MON.

[alanclare]

A beautifully-made video and a thoughtful article.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"

I didn't even get that far - I stopped reading when the author started apologising for MON.

I didn't even get that far - I stopped reading when the author stated Birmingham City were Premier League regulars.

[Oooh_andy]

They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.

Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.

This must have been written a while ago. After 23 games there had only been two wins. We're now at 26 played. He's wrong about O'Neill though, painting him as some sort of bespectacled seer and not the spendthrift, tactical dinosaur who kicked away the foundations as he left the building with the family silver under his arm.

Good point.

As for the O'Neill myth, it's one of those things that is going to be repeated so much that it just becomes accepted truth. Like carrots helping you see in the dark.

Like Ugo made his debut in that Norwich game.

I thought he did!

[PeterWithe]

Spurs have consistently failed to hold on to their best players over the past 10 years, they are second, we are bottom.

I've read far better analysis' of the 'death by a thousand cuts' degredation on here.

[144 Hard Boiled Eggs]

If my Villa supporting life was a film it would be viewed as too far fetched (there probably would be a film made of those ten years from 1972 - 82 if we were one of the media luvvie clubs). Division 3 Champions to European Champions in ten years with trips to Wembley (and beating Man U in a semi final as a 3rd division club), with trophies in between? Not to mention my memories of the late 60's and relegation (Blues fans taking the piss at junior school in 1969-1970 as we hurtled towards Division 3 then suddenly going quite as we beat them 2-0 at their place, one of our solitary wins during that period, if I remember. I was there too - hilarious).
Wouldn't change a thing - an eventful history with high and low landmarks is something to cherish. So lucky to be born when I was.

[rob_bridge]

I'll tell you how it feels to follow Aston Villa.

This season no other supporters would swap their club for ours.

Over a lifetime all but a handful would. 

Perfect. I was thinking on similar lines at work on Monday after being on the receiving end of bantz from Bluenoses and it struck me that I would rather endure a result like Sunday than derive so much pleasure over a team I don't support losing to another team I don't support.

All present and correct.

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

Like a marriage - good times, not so good times but you always remember the first kiss that turned you inside out

[mr underhill]

Tangled Up in Blue

[adrenachrome]

Like a rolling stone

[mr underhill]

Desolation Row

[Tom_Mc9?]

It's bloody hard at the moment and being in decline for more than half a decade is trying for anybody.

That being said, some of the best memories stand out however your luck is going. Liverpool at Wembley, Baggies twice in a week, Benteke unstoppable vs. Sunderland and so on. You wouldn't swap it for the world.

The fans have been through so much, deserve so much and have got so little in recent years. You just hope we turn it around and soon.

[adrenachrome]

If Villa's going down
We'll all go down together
We'll be here when Lerner's gone
Not fickle or fairweather

If Villa's going down
We'll all go down together
We are Villa till we die
And glory hunters never

If Villa's going down
We'll all go down together
We won't need coaches to the Sty
This city's ours forever

[greenwichvilla]

"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"

I thought that as well.

The video is made by Copa90, whose audience aren't just hear in the UK. It could well have been that the producers told him to say that to give a comparison in size to overseas viewers who have little concept of what football outside the top 4/5/6/whatever it is these days.

But, yeah. Still bollocks.