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Title: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Dave Clark Five on September 21, 2011, 09:32:18 PM
The announcer at the Brighton vs Liverpool game read out the attendance then said how many Liverpool fans had made the trip. I like that and think they should all do it.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Mark H on September 21, 2011, 09:34:38 PM
There seem to be a few in the lower league who do it - but I like it too.

Must admit as much as I like that I also thought how close that was to our attendence last night !
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Somniloquism on September 21, 2011, 09:40:21 PM
Shame we didn't get close to matching the performance from either team in this match.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Lee on September 21, 2011, 11:07:29 PM
The announcer at the Brighton vs Liverpool game read out the attendance then said how many Liverpool fans had made the trip. I like that and think they should all do it.

Did they announce how many came from Devon?
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Handsworth Wood Villa on September 22, 2011, 02:00:53 AM
Yeah I noticed that.

Nice touch.

I also noticed the Liverpool fans applauding the attendance announcement - probably because the stadium announcer said how many Liverpool fans were there.

I agree, every club should do it.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Lambert and Payne on September 22, 2011, 07:45:12 AM
Could get a bit embarrasing though, when fulham take about 40 up to sunderland and wigan. An away attendance in the programme wouldn't be a bad idea, they used to do it at wigan don't know if they still do
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Kingthing on September 22, 2011, 08:17:37 AM
Brighton also put on beer local to the visiting teams supporters in the away end and outside the away end the lights are the colours of the away team.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Bad English on September 22, 2011, 04:31:28 PM
Brighton also put on beer local to the visiting teams supporters in the away end and outside the away end the lights are the colours of the away team.
So, back in the day, we could have travelled all that way and found ourselves drinking M&B Mild?

It's the equivalent of having British cafés in holiday resorts ("We do the best best cuppa and full English in Majorca"). Cheers brighton, but I would rather drink your local piss for a change.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: usav on September 22, 2011, 04:38:32 PM
Stop being a miserable sod.  I'm sure you could still drink the local pish if you wanted to.   They are just trying to be acoomodating to the away fans by giving them the local comforts that they are used to.   

Quite how that would work when Man Utd come to town, God only knows.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: cdbearsfan on September 22, 2011, 04:40:44 PM
Stop being a miserable sod.  I'm sure you could still drink the local pish if you wanted to.   They are just trying to be acoomodating to the away fans by giving them the local comforts that they are used to.   

Quite how that would work when Man Utd come to town, God only knows.

London Pride.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: The Left Side on September 22, 2011, 04:50:24 PM
Good idea that!
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: frank on September 22, 2011, 07:11:55 PM
The announcer at the Brighton vs Liverpool game read out the attendance then said how many Liverpool fans had made the trip. I like that and think they should all do it.
The stadium announcer is the poet and punk musician Attila the Stockbroker, who performed at the H&V reunion at the Barton's a couple of years back. When we played Brighton in the cup, he was critical of the fact that our announcer made little or no reference to the away team and fans.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Dave Clark Five on September 22, 2011, 07:21:21 PM
The announcer at the Brighton vs Liverpool game read out the attendance then said how many Liverpool fans had made the trip. I like that and think they should all do it.
The stadium announcer is the poet and punk musician Attila the Stockbroker, who performed at the H&V reunion at the Barton's a couple of years back. When we played Brighton in the cup, he was critical of the fact that our announcer made little or no reference to the away team and fans.

That was a good night out Frank.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Salsa Party Animal on September 22, 2011, 07:33:06 PM
Yes what happens if we play that small club in Red part of Manchester as there will be fans in our stand. So the figure will be inaccurate but nice touch though.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Des Little on September 22, 2011, 10:51:20 PM
They could put Davenports on tap, repaint the away end in claret and blue and hoist a mural of Sir Dennis with the EC, but we our lot rock up it would still be 'wharra fockin shit 'ole...'
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 22, 2011, 11:58:36 PM
They could put Davenports on tap, repaint the away end in claret and blue and hoist a mural of Sir Dennis with the EC, but we our lot rock up it would still be 'wharra fockin shit 'ole...'

And "Where's the Carling?"

Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on September 23, 2011, 12:09:00 PM
They should do it at Villa Park. And when we play Wigan the announcer can read out the number of away supporters and their names and addresses.
It wouldn't take long...
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Attendance announcements
Post by: Blackcountry Villa on September 23, 2011, 12:12:09 PM
Just read that Brighton put songs up on their big screen for the fans to sing to during the game. Cringey as fuck and just about sums up modern day football.
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