Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: gaucho1966 on August 11, 2011, 10:37:03 PM
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Nothing controversial here... just that every time you see something Villa around and about in our daily lives, post it here. It could be anything... I'll go first.
BBC Midlands newsreader tonight had a claret and blue tie.
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Last two days Graham Taylor and Doug Ellis have been at the test match
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Staff in Pearce's Shellfish in the Fish Market all wear claret and blue ties too.
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Last two days Graham Taylor and Doug Ellis have been at the test match
When Graham Taylor was England manager he was offered membership of the MCC. He said he preferred to wait his turn.
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I wrote 'Villa' in my steamy bathroom mirror this morning.
Happy New Season !
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When I go down the pub at lunchtime to watch the cricket I'll be wearing my Third Division Away replica shirt. You know that natty yellow with blue trimmings jobby.
Oh and by the way, for anyone living in my locality a certain hostelry will be showing tomorrows match live. ;)
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Last two days Graham Taylor and Doug Ellis have been at the test match
[I was watching on tv last night and kept thinking I could see Sid in the crowd behind one of the wickets. I had had a few beers though so might be wrong
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Last two days Graham Taylor and Doug Ellis have been at the test match
[I was watching on tv last night and kept thinking I could see Sid in the crowd behind one of the wickets. I had had a few beers though so might be wrong
When you say you think you saw Sid "in the crowd behind one of the wickets." Do you mean tell us he fields in the slips for India? :o
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That's strange my last post has turned up as a quote from Robbo 1874.
Don't try to sue me Robbo I'm a poor pensioner and the judge will probably make you pay me!!
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Last two days Graham Taylor and Doug Ellis have been at the test match
[I was watching on tv last night and kept thinking I could see Sid in the crowd behind one of the wickets. I had had a few beers though so might be wrong
When you say you think you saw Sid "in the crowd behind one of the wickets." Do you mean tell us he fields in the slips for India? :o
Shouldn't you have been looking for Wally? - stripey jumper and glasses?
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My youngest son is wearing his new Villa home shirt for the fifth consecutive day!
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My youngest son is wearing his new Villa home shirt for the fifth consecutive day!
Through choice? Or are you being tight and that's the only clothes he has to wear?
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I live in a small village near Kidderminster. When I took my dog for a walk yesterday I went past the all-weather sports pitches where some 6 year olds were having some football coaching. One of them was wearing a Villa top.
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I've just been to the local barbers, one other customer in there and he had an FX Pro home top on:-)
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My youngest son is wearing his new Villa home shirt for the fifth consecutive day!
Through choice? Or are you being tight and that's the only clothes he has to wear?
Definitely through choice!
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Went to Nice for my honetmoon 2 weeks ago and went to Grasse for a day and saw a kid in a Villa shirt with no sponsor. Gave him and up the Villa and got a confussed look from him and his family. Was it anyone from here?
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I use my faithful faded Villa coffee mug - old stripy badge circa 2007 - every day at work.
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Had a chat the other day with a bloke in my town who liked my Villa shirt;
We talked about how brilliant we think Luke Young's gonna be pretty much.
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I posted this in the "other games" thread a couple of weeks ago:
MLS all stars versus Man Utd. What a pile of wank.
Anyway, Utd just scored and they pan around the ground to show a young lady in a New York Red Bulls jersey, holding a sign that said "Up The Villa".
Bizarre.
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Had lunch and a couple of beers with a fellow H/V (Simba) at the Bell in Knysna.
One of the worlds most scenic spots and a worthy of hosting fans of the worlds greatest football team.
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My daughters (10 and 8)have just made me paint their toe and fingernails claret and blue. It's their first proper away day tomorrow and their as excited as if it was Christmas eve :)
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Painting my front door (lovely shade of claret!) old guy stopped for a chat as he noticed my hanging baskets claret and blue....he's from the south west and used to play for Villa pre and post war and knew my uncle and his two lads who also played! When he stopped playing he stayed in this neck of the woods cos he fell in love and married local girl!!!
Legend!
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Saw a kid clambering over rocks in the Ysgethin valley last week in a Villa shirt. Shouted "Up the Villa" which his mum responded to even if he didn't
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I saw a lad on a building site today wearing a high vis vest with the villa badge on the back
quite natty
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Took my old man out the other night to have a chat about the Villa and the good times we used to share when I was younger.
Had to put it away quickly though when I heard the Mrs coming upstairs!
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I'm staying in a Travelodge in Dartford tonight, and there's a car in the car park with a Villa badge on it.
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I was at Edgbaston today, loads of villa, one nose.
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Painting my front door (lovely shade of claret!) old guy stopped for a chat as he noticed my hanging baskets claret and blue....he's from the south west and used to play for Villa pre and post war and knew my uncle and his two lads who also played! When he stopped playing he stayed in this neck of the woods cos he fell in love and married local girl!!!
Legend!
Did he tell you his name?
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My mom is currently looking after a budgie, i spent 30 mins of last night trying to get it to say 'Up the Villa'. It could only say 'Joey, Joey' before I started. Now it says 'Joey Villa'. Might move onto swear words if we lose this afternoon!
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Heard Danny Baker mention Jimmy Rimmer playing for the Villa this morning.
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Anyone remember when Doug got involved with Good Hope hospital?
The ambulances they used for transporting the elderly had a rather distinctive claret & blue band on the side.
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My new classroom is decorated in claret and blue.
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I would have thought the elderly would prefer some nice peace and quiet not a band on the ambulance.
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I got the wife to plant Villa coloured flowers (or as close as she could get) in the garden this year.
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Saw a young lad playing football in the local park with his dad wearing the hummel Cows shirt, his dad saw me wearing the 80-81 retro shirt n proudly told his young son of our once great days.
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Heard Danny Baker mention Jimmy Rimmer playing for the Villa this morning.
I heard that too. Though to be fair, anyone else who was listening to Danny Baker this morning would have heard it.
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In Lagos, Nigeria, there is a domestic flight coordinator with an Acorns Villa shirt, (given to him by me).
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I was watching Piers Morgans Life Stories, the one on Bruce Forsyth. I saw Jimmy Rimmer on it.
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Tenuous but...
I drove to Tewkesbury the other day, passed a sign to the village of Aston Somerville (if only I had some white paint with me) and parked in the car park next to the Abbey and the cricket club. The cricket club sign is in glorious claret and blue.
On the way home I followed a Daewoo with a Villa badge in the back window for a couple of miles.
On the flowers theme, we have hydrangeas of claret and blue.
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there's a cottage on the Lichfield Rd in Shelfield (Worsull) painted claret & blue
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There's a house on the way into Weymouth, on the right hand side just past the Old Ship Inn, with a stained glass window of the old stripey badge.
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Don't Weymouth play in Claret and Blue as well?
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there used to be a house in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire called The Holte and it was painted in claret and blue.
UTV
The Doc
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Painting my front door (lovely shade of claret!) old guy stopped for a chat as he noticed my hanging baskets claret and blue....he's from the south west and used to play for Villa pre and post war and knew my uncle and his two lads who also played! When he stopped playing he stayed in this neck of the woods cos he fell in love and married local girl!!!
Legend!
Did he tell you his name?
Sorry for the massively late response Dave. No, didn't get his name but I could hang around the street until I bump into him. Been there a couple of years and not seen him before or since. If I go knocking on doors will you put up the bail?
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Absolute Radio have been reporting on the hour, throughout the night, all week that they will be covering Villa vs Blackburn.
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A friend of mine put up the street sign for Villa Street just outside Stourbridge - apparently he had never seen it before...
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I found out last Saturday, after talking to a Frenchman in London, about the french band called Astonvilla. Can't believe I didn't know about that!
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I found out last Saturday, after talking to a Frenchman in London, about the french band called Astonvilla. Can't believe I didn't know about that!
Didn't Deadly invite the band to Villa Park sometime during his last couple of years in charge? I seem to recall it was a bit of an embarrassing episode as they weren't at all interested in football.
Alan Mcinally just got mentioned on the Danny Baker show. :)
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Don't Weymouth play in Claret and Blue as well?
Yes.