I fell out of love with football in general and then Villa in particular. The greed, the arrogant players, the sheer cynical shittiness of the whole set up. The final straw was when I thought about getting my boy a Villa shirt and realised the bloodsucking immoral price it was going to cost me. I can afford it but there must be so many people who have to make sacrifices just to give their kids a rubbishy bit of nylon that would cost a tenner without the badge on it so some wanker can be paid an obscene salary. I got fed up of all of this nonsense having the power to make or break my weekend. The only thing that kept me going was this site. Then I got abuse from some bloke who calls himself Clampy over a bit of light hearted fun. I thought, fuck, it, that’s me. I chucked the Villa stuff out and didn’t even look at the results any more. I paid one more visit here a while ago to find we were doing shit and Clampy was aggravating someone else, so I patted myself on the back and gave it up again.Then, I started taking my boy to football in Malvern and it was like a sea of red shirts. Mostly Man Utd with a few Liverpool thrown in. I’ve always said I’d rather he was a nose than a glory hunter, so there and then I sat him down and told him he can only support the team where he lives or the team I support. I got him home, ordered him a shirt, found some highlights for him to watch (Bristol City of course) and my wife dug out a scarf that I must have forgotten I’d bought her. So it’s back on the rollercoaster for me.Now, ironically, VCTM was always a poster I’d look out for, always made sense and never sniped, plus my wife is from over that way. Sorry to hear you’ve been poorly, mate, get yourself better.
My beautiful wife Diane died of lung cancer 6 months ago, losing her has been devestating, nearly everything that previous mattered no longer does yet my feelings for the Villa remain exactly the same, Villa is one of the few things in life that gives me a purpose, I talk to her all the time but as kick off nears I always say gotta go for a while now speak to you again after the game, so the question was what does Villa mean to me? the answer is everything.