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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: The Laughing Policeman on August 12, 2011, 04:47:36 PM

Title: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on August 12, 2011, 04:47:36 PM
Have any of you Bears Fans noticed the "slight" similarity between the refurbished Edgbaston and the Villa Park of the late 1970's - 1980's?
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: eastie on August 12, 2011, 04:56:05 PM
cant say i have to be honest , but i am very impressed with the way the edgbaston ground looks now.
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: Chris Smith on August 12, 2011, 04:56:27 PM
The floodlights?
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on August 12, 2011, 04:57:28 PM
The floodlights?
Please elaborate. ;)
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: Brend'Watkins on August 12, 2011, 05:00:46 PM
The floodlights?

It looks like they are in Helvetica ours weren't so it must be something else, maybe they've used less concrete in one of the stands than they should have.
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: spangley1812 on August 12, 2011, 05:00:59 PM
The floodlights?
Please elaborate. ;)

The lightbulbs in the floodlights are in the shape of the letter "e"
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on August 12, 2011, 05:02:39 PM
The floodlights?
Please elaborate. ;)

The lightbulbs in the floodlights are in the shape of the letter "e"
And?
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: spangley1812 on August 12, 2011, 05:04:51 PM
The floodlights?
Please elaborate. ;)

The lightbulbs in the floodlights are in the shape of the letter "e"
And?
did Villa have there's in the letters AVFC
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: TheTimVilla on August 12, 2011, 05:05:06 PM
The floodlights?
Please elaborate. ;)

The lightbulbs in the floodlights are in the shape of the letter "e"
And?
And don't always work.

Alternatively, because each of our old floodlights spelled a letter from AVFC.
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on August 12, 2011, 05:11:34 PM
Congrats to Spangly and TimVilla for getting it almost right.
The new floodlights at Edgbaston are in the shape of a letter 'e' the old floodlights at Villa Park used to spell out AV at either end of the ground.
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: Chris Smith on August 12, 2011, 05:17:40 PM
Congrats to Spangly and TimVilla for getting it almost right.
The new floodlights at Edgbaston are in the shape of a letter 'e' the old floodlights at Villa Park used to spell out AV at either end of the ground.

Get out if it, I said floodlights first post.

Not as good as ours though, it's not immediately apparent when you're in the ground that they're an 'e' whereas there was no mistaking the 'A' 'V'.
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: The Laughing Policeman on August 12, 2011, 05:30:23 PM
Congrats to Spangly and TimVilla for getting it almost right.
The new floodlights at Edgbaston are in the shape of a letter 'e' the old floodlights at Villa Park used to spell out AV at either end of the ground.

Get out if it, I said floodlights first post.

Not as good as ours though, it's not immediately apparent when you're in the ground that they're an 'e' whereas there was no mistaking the 'A' 'V'.
OK. I'll admit that I've been to Edgbaston four or five times this season and hadn't noticed the floodlights  were in the shape of an 'e' until it was pointed out to me today. :-[
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: London Villan on August 14, 2011, 09:02:52 PM
I used to love those floodlights, just the little glimpse through the tower blocks of Brum... one of the things that made Villa Park unique.
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: Dave Clark Five on August 15, 2011, 03:12:10 AM
I used to love those floodlights, just the little glimpse through the tower blocks of Brum... one of the things that made Villa Park unique.

A big lasered 'AVFC' into the night sky would look good on a match day.
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: Neil Hawkes on August 15, 2011, 08:31:03 AM
A big lasered 'AVFC' into the night sky would look good on a match day.

It would be interesting to see if Batman would arrive in a Villa top - but then our away kit is black, so his normal gear would do at a push.
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: JUAN PABLO on August 15, 2011, 06:54:53 PM
One of the best moments for me as a kid . Walking towards those A V floodnights on an evening game .I was  like a boy on Christmas morning .
Title: Re: 50% Villa 50% Edgbaston.
Post by: woody4866 on August 15, 2011, 08:16:28 PM
I remember seeing those floodlights on nightgames when on lived on the Brookvale - outshone everything in the neighbourhood
Phukin superb it was
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