Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: itbrvilla on May 21, 2015, 01:17:10 PM
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When were you chosen?
I was chosen in 1995 after collecting Premiership stickers and my mom telling me that I lived in Aston as a baby and players including Bremner and Mortimer as well as others bought me sweets as a baby/toddler from the shop on the corner of Endicott Road.
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77/78 season is where it all began for me.
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I don't think I was chosen but born in to it. As was my Dad, Granddad
and now my 2 sons, there is no choice but to support "The Villa" it's in our blood.
VTID
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There are some fine posts along the same lines here, itbrvilla: Why are you Villa? (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53489.0)
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Growing up on College Road Kingstanding gave me no other choice - happily so.
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21st July 1997. Redditch United vs. Villa XI. Aged 7, I'd begged my Dad for months and months to take me to watch the Villa. He duly obliged with this pre-season friendly. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Born in Kidderminster, lived briefly in Erdington. Loved the name, the colours etc etc. First game Millwall (h) 1988
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This is stuck I my head now so I don't see why I should be the only one to suffer.
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Born into it. They own me body and soul.
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I have claret arteries and blue veins.
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I recall a banner at (I think) the 1975 LC final proclaiming us as the Chosen Few...anyone got a copy of it?
Edit - April 1978...Villa 0 Forest 1.... the beggining of a lifetime's devotion
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1989, first game in 1991 against Arsenal 3-1 and Gary Penrice scored
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Born in Lozells. Mothers side of the family all Villa since year dot & lived at 86 Witton Lane, approx 1/2 way line. Just followed in the family tradition. Blessed to have been born with Claret & Blue blood. First game Millwall away 1-3 promotion season 1974/75, Little 2 & Leonard.
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There are some fine posts along the same lines here, itbrvilla: Why are you Villa? (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53489.0)
Yes this should me merged in there.
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There are some fine posts along the same lines here, itbrvilla: Why are you Villa? (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=53489.0)
Yes this should me merged in there.
Although a Streetly/Sutton lad, from the day I was born. My grandparents house and the house my mother was brought up in (all now passed) is closer to the Witton Lane End than the Holte End is.
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My Mom allowed me to watch MOTD one night around 1970 (I was almost 11) & we were playing at Craven Cottage so I was taken to VP the following season and recall watching from the Holte v Rotherham. Happy Days !! Thanks Mom (RIP)
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I recall a banner at (I think) the 1975 LC final proclaiming us as the Chosen Few...anyone got a copy of it?
Edit - April 1978...Villa 0 Forest 1.... the beggining of a lifetime's devotion
Do you remember possibly the most blatant handball of all time by the disgusting Kenny Burns from Sid on the goal line? The next programme had a crystal clear Terry Weir special, of it, the whole ground saw it - apart from the referee, something's never change.
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When I was just a twinkle in my fathers eye.
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I wish this was different, but here it goes.
I was just getting into football (I don't really come from a football family) and didn't have SKY so in my early days had more exposure to Italian football than English. I didn't even have a team to follow.
My dad worked at Land Rover and gave Doug and Brian Little a car each, in exchange for season tickets to entertain clients. Turns out those clients didn't really exist. He took me to my first match, 0-0 with West Ham and then only missed 3 in the next four years. I didn't pay for a single one. I never forget how lucky I was.
Twenty odd years later, I'm still here. I talk about football on the World Service and my daughter is 8 and a huge Charlton fan.
My dad still hates football.
Fair play, Old Man. I bloody love you for that.
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I wish this was different, but here it goes.
I was just getting into football (I don't really come from a football family) and didn't have SKY so in my early days had more exposure to Italian football than English. I didn't even have a team to follow.
My dad worked at Land Rover and gave Doug and Brian Little a car each, in exchange for season tickets to entertain clients. Turns out those clients didn't really exist. He took me to my first match, 0-0 with West Ham and then only missed 3 in the next four years. I didn't pay for a single one. I never forget how lucky I was.
Twenty odd years later, I'm still here. I talk about football on the World Service and my daughter is 8 and a huge Charlton fan.
My dad still hates football.
Fair play, Old Man. I bloody love you for that.
brilliant, nothing to wish different there mate
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I recall a banner at (I think) the 1975 LC final proclaiming us as the Chosen Few...anyone got a copy of it?
Edit - April 1978...Villa 0 Forest 1.... the beggining of a lifetime's devotion
Do you remember possibly the most blatant handball of all time by the disgusting Kenny Burns from Sid on the goal line? The next programme had a crystal clear Terry Weir special, of it, the whole ground saw it - apart from the referee, something's never change.
Yes I do...in fact I still have the programme somewhere with Burns' ugly face on the Forest team page scribbled out by a devastated 8 year old...
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First match - Villa 1 Ipswich 1, 1980 - a meaningless fixture, a year later, very much a pivotal one.
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I went to that one!
Tony Morley's rocket!
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This is stuck I my head now so I don't see why I should be the only one to suffer.
I have no idea how your head works Joe, and I have no inclination to find out either.
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1967… "Mom, why does dad make me support Villa?"
"Because you're very special son, now eat your bread and dripping or you'll never be big enough to play for them."
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I recall a banner at (I think) the 1975 LC final proclaiming us as the Chosen Few...anyone got a copy of it?
From the Wembley surfer flag thread
(http://www.midlandsmemorabilia.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/aston-villa-coventry-city-football-programme-30-08-1975-news-and-record.jpg)
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First match - Villa 1 Ipswich 1, 1980 - a meaningless fixture, a year later, very much a pivotal one.
A lot of people licking their wounds after W Ham away in the FA Cup IIRC
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Dad brought up in Gravelly Hill and I can remember all round there before Spaghetti Junction was built...but only just! His mum and dad were Villa and could tell great stories about the 20s and 30s when we were the biggest club in the land. My first game at VP, oddly, didn't involve us as I think it was the Charity Shield between West Brom and Man City at Villa in about 72 and I sat in the old Trinity Road stand. I lived in Selly Wick Road at the back of Selly Oak and we spent endless hours in the evening and the weekends pretending to be Chico Hamilton, Frank Carrodus, Brian Little, Ray Graydon and so on and so on.
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Small world - Old folks live on Upland Rd, I live on Oakfield Rd.
First game was Villa v Coventry in either 87 or 88 - 1-1. They hit the post in the last minute and could have sent us down so I was told!
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Small world - Old folks live on Upland Rd, I live on Oakfield Rd.
First game was Villa v Coventry in either 87 or 88 - 1-1. They hit the post in the last minute and could have sent us down so I was told!
My best friend lived in Upland Road I think and his dad was responsible for designing the Jensen Intercepter which was the 'must have' car of the early 70s. They had one which we used to pose in along the Bristol Road into town. Is that the road that ran parallel to Selly Wick Road?
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Born in Bedford, but my granddad was from Aston and I just was always going to support Villa. It hasn't been overly joyous for a lot of the time, but I wouldn't change who I support for anything.
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Like so many on here - born into it.
I'm in the 3rd (of what has now become 5 generations) generation of Villa supporters in my family. No matter how bad times have got over the last 48 years (first went in Feb 1967), would never want to support any other team (even if you offered me 500 million pounds for doing it).
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Small world - Old folks live on Upland Rd, I live on Oakfield Rd.
First game was Villa v Coventry in either 87 or 88 - 1-1. They hit the post in the last minute and could have sent us down so I was told!
My best friend lived in Upland Road I think and his dad was responsible for designing the Jensen Intercepter which was the 'must have' car of the early 70s. They had one which we used to pose in along the Bristol Road into town. Is that the road that ran parallel to Selly Wick Road?
Yeah it is. Lived there 86-98. Hence Selly Park Trinity- genius
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I recall a banner at (I think) the 1975 LC final proclaiming us as the Chosen Few...anyone got a copy of it?
From the Wembley surfer flag thread
(http://www.midlandsmemorabilia.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/aston-villa-coventry-city-football-programme-30-08-1975-news-and-record.jpg)
That's it! Cheers
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I recall a banner at (I think) the 1975 LC final proclaiming us as the Chosen Few...anyone got a copy of it?
Edit - April 1978...Villa 0 Forest 1.... the beggining of a lifetime's devotion
Do you remember possibly the most blatant handball of all time by the disgusting Kenny Burns from Sid on the goal line? The next programme had a crystal clear Terry Weir special, of it, the whole ground saw it - apart from the referee, something's never change.
I remember that vividly. What was disgusting about that was IIRC, whilst we were protesting, they went up the other end (Holte) and scored! I was apoplectic, my mates had to hold me back from getting on to the pitch and kicking fuck out of that ref!
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Stepfather took me. I think my first season was 79-80. Grandad also used to take me on the coach from Leamington to the EC games. Magic times.
Loved the colours and the name as well.
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From my BBC chat the other day.
"This is everything to me. The missing piece of the jigsaw. The Holy Grail. That itch you can't ever scratch"
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Dad was a villain ( which is strange as he was actually a policeman) I was born in Marston Green Hospital as were I guess many of my generation.
But we lived In Aston Church Road as Dad was a copper at Washwood Heath police station.
His Dad was from Hereford and played back in the day for Worcester City, but supported the Villa, no choice really.
First game I remember was Everton at home, last game at home in Div 1 as we started our meteoric drop to the 3rd.
Good times were just around the corner.
I was standing bottom left below that picture from the programme.
Thanks Dad,
Sniffles and wipes a tear from his eye.
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This is stuck I my head now so I don't see why I should be the only one to suffer.
All day. All bloody day. And I didn't even click on the video.
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From my BBC chat the other day.
"This is everything to me. The missing piece of the jigsaw. The Holy Grail. That itch you can't ever scratch"
This. In buckets.
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because my my Dad was Born in Aston in 1914, as was his Dad in 1895, As was his Dad in 1875, as was his Dad in 1853.
So I am the 5th Generation, and my son is the 6th generation.
So we can trace our history back to George Hamilton Gordon the 4th Earl of Aberdeen.
Just when the Crimian war starts.
Now that doesn't make me a better fan than anyone Its just nice to know in my family, there was a Villa connection whilst Napoleon was still alive
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Moved to Birmingham from the Channel islands . started to get into football . the school was full of Blues and Leeds and Man u fans . my Dad was a Leeds fan . but I sat down one day watching a match on an old black and white tv.
I asked my dad who was playing and what were the colour of thier kit . my Dad explained Portsmouth was in Blue and White and Aston Villa was Claret and Blue , I liked the name and the colours . my dad then gave me a history lesson on Aston Villa . a famous old club that was in a terrible decline .
They needed tonwin to almost certainly being relegated to the third division . I asked where is Aston Villa . he said right here in Birmingham . I think were were losing 2 0 at the time but came back to 2 all . before eventually losing . I cried and that was it . Aston Villa was my team . so the legacy started . my kids are die hards . there partners who are both American watch every game . and first grandchild has a kit before she was born .
I have been privileged to have some of the best friends I could have wished for through Aston Villa many are still very close friends over 30 years on .
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Great thread, Thank you itbrvilla,
me born Potters Hill Aston, my Dad was from Derby but supported Aston Villa,
from cradle to the grave Villa.
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I was lucky enough to be born into Villa on my Mum's side, her family were all big Villa fans and she always told me her parents were married in Aston church. As with many people, due to family ties I had absolutely no choice and I am forever grateful.
My first game was with my Uncle, Cousin and older Bro for the thrilling 0-0 with Norwich in 1994. Hooked.