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Title: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: Lucky Eddie on September 19, 2010, 12:57:36 PM
My Mate reckons the pope is heading off to Oscott College this afternoon. If he heads down the Walsall road and takes a right up College Road do you reckon there's any chance of him sprinkling some of his holy stuff out of the left hand side window to blow over Villa Park?
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: PeterWithe on September 19, 2010, 01:12:52 PM
My Mate reckons the pope is heading off to Oscott College this afternoon.

He is indeed, coming by helicopter though apparently.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: Lucky Eddie on September 19, 2010, 01:15:19 PM
Do helicopters have windows you can wind down?
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: PeterWithe on September 19, 2010, 01:19:00 PM
I'm afraid my knowledge of helicopters is restricted to Airwolf.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: Drummond on September 19, 2010, 01:21:39 PM
Well I know Villa Park is a great place but I can't (and don't want to) imagine the Pope having a wank over it out of a helicopter window.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: Ad@m on September 19, 2010, 02:57:33 PM
Do helicopters have windows you can wind down?

Maybe he's in one of those open doors type helicopters - Apocalypse Now style...
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: damon loves JT on September 19, 2010, 03:46:51 PM
I'm afraid my knowledge of helicopters is restricted to Airwolf.

you mean you never watched Blue Thunder?

*switches to whisper mode*
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: big 1st serve on September 19, 2010, 04:37:10 PM
 I was at the Mcdonalds on the College Rd getting a drive thru, & had to wait for the Popes cavalcade to pass, There was a serious amount of security as well as uniformed types.
 Does anyone know if the Popes visit was the reason that West Mids Police let Albion /Small Heath play @ 3pm on a Sat, as they couldn,t police to "big events" on a Sunday?
I,ve had to go from Sutton to Harborne & back to day, & never seen so many police out & about
 
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: VillaAlways on September 19, 2010, 05:49:44 PM
A helicopter has just flown over my house heading in that direction
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: MarkM on September 19, 2010, 06:23:16 PM
I couldnt give a crap about the visit
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: PeterWithe on September 19, 2010, 06:57:42 PM
A helicopter has just flown over my house heading in that direction

He came by car, seems my pontiff ITK was a little off-message. I took the kids up the road to see him, they were very excited, not as excited as when they went to see Peppa Pig mind.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: VillaAlways on September 19, 2010, 07:00:28 PM
A helicopter has just flown over my house heading in that direction

He came by car, seems my pontiff ITK was a little off-message. I took the kids up the road to see him, they were very excited, not as excited as when they went to see Peppa Pig mind.

We saw him travelling along the Chester Road.Loads of people around.My kids were really excited too
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: Somniloquism on September 19, 2010, 08:19:50 PM
Was he in the pope mobile or just a normal car?
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: VillaAlways on September 19, 2010, 08:33:30 PM
Was he in the pope mobile or just a normal car?
Normal car. It was the Chester road he was on way back to airport
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: SoccerHQ on September 19, 2010, 08:34:42 PM
Normal car.

Pype Hayes and Wylde Green have never looked so good from the air.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: BannedUserIAT on September 19, 2010, 10:14:33 PM
The famous Pope from Deutschland went to Brum to see the Villa!
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: newtonsballs on September 19, 2010, 10:24:08 PM
Interestingly, the German Pope knew how to pronounce Birmingham - take note Londoners
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: damon loves JT on September 19, 2010, 10:31:39 PM
Interestingly, the German Pope knew how to pronounce Birmingham - take note Londoners


For a German it's actually an easy word to say. It could almost be a German name.

Never met a German who could pronounce `Villa', though.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: newtonsballs on September 19, 2010, 10:49:45 PM
Interestingly, the German Pope knew how to pronounce Birmingham - take note Londoners


For a German it's actually an easy word to say. It could almost be a German name.

Never met a German who could pronounce `Villa', though.


I've smacked my wrist  ;)
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: Leighton on September 20, 2010, 12:54:20 AM
Where were the bottles being thrown at his car. If it was good enough for David Gold then surely it was good enough for that old deluded dick!
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: cdward on September 20, 2010, 09:11:00 AM
My Mate reckons the pope is heading off to Oscott College this afternoon. If he heads down the Walsall road and takes a right up College Road do you reckon there's any chance of him sprinkling some of his holy stuff out of the left hand side window to blow over Villa Park?
Can anyone clarify where Oscott College is, i have a bet going that it is in Erdington and not Sutton.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: big 1st serve on September 20, 2010, 09:22:35 AM
Oscott College is opposite  Halls Garden centre, which also includes Ashley Blakes old bar, The Place to be,
The garden centre have turned the former bar into a coffee shop.
Top of Chester Rd , by the traffic lights.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: Brend'Watkins on September 20, 2010, 09:49:34 AM
There's a cemetry at the back of Oscott College.  Great view of Birmingham centre from there.

The area is called New Oscott but has a Sutton post code.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on September 20, 2010, 09:59:16 AM
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I'm afraid my knowledge of helicopters is restricted to Airwolf.

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you mean you never watched Blue Thunder?

Never seen either of these.

My knowledge of helicopters is resrticted to Whirlybirds
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: ez on September 20, 2010, 10:32:20 AM
I used to live near Oscott College when i was a kid. Sometimes we would go into the grounds and get chased out by monks.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: PeterWithe on September 20, 2010, 11:21:01 AM
My Mate reckons the pope is heading off to Oscott College this afternoon. If he heads down the Walsall road and takes a right up College Road do you reckon there's any chance of him sprinkling some of his holy stuff out of the left hand side window to blow over Villa Park?
Can anyone clarify where Oscott College is, i have a bet going that it is in Erdington and not Sutton.

I'd class that side of the road as being Erdington.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on September 20, 2010, 01:29:12 PM
When he first arrived yesterday apparently he landed on Wasthills Training Ground (the shits in other words).
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: SoccerHQ on September 20, 2010, 09:24:57 PM
BBC news had it just as Oscott!
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: not3bad on September 20, 2010, 11:29:43 PM
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I'm afraid my knowledge of helicopters is restricted to Airwolf.

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you mean you never watched Blue Thunder?

Never seen either of these.

My knowledge of helicopters is resrticted to Whirlybirds

What about Helicopter Rescue?  It's on after Breakfast Telly on BBC1.  Great stuff if you're throwing a sicky.  Which I obviously never do.
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: WALTERS WARRIORS on September 22, 2010, 08:50:47 PM
New oscott
Title: Re: Pope to drive past Villa Park
Post by: eamonn on September 24, 2010, 04:26:54 PM
Interestingly, the German Pope knew how to pronounce Birmingham - take note Londoners


For a German it's actually an easy word to say. It could almost be a German name.

Never met a German who could pronounce `Villa', though.

Tommy Hitz surely.
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