Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: go on the dog on February 17, 2016, 03:57:40 PM
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http://www.theguardian.com/football/copa90/2016/feb/17/aston-villa-relegation-premier-league-fans
Sorry if its already been posted
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YouTube link at top of page is already on another thread but not this article.
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They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.
Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.
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Share your feelings with the group. Don't edit yourself. So says the hippy teacher in Beavis and Butthead.
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Alright, then.
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They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.
Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.
This must have been written a while ago. After 23 games there had only been two wins. We're now at 26 played. He's wrong about O'Neill though, painting him as some sort of bespectacled seer and not the spendthrift, tactical dinosaur who kicked away the foundations as he left the building with the family silver under his arm.
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"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"
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"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"
FFS
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I took a dump earlier which is up there with Chelsea's history.
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They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.
Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.
This must have been written a while ago. After 23 games there had only been two wins. We're now at 26 played. He's wrong about O'Neill though, painting him as some sort of bespectacled seer and not the spendthrift, tactical dinosaur who kicked away the foundations as he left the building with the family silver under his arm.
Good point.
As for the O'Neill myth, it's one of those things that is going to be repeated so much that it just becomes accepted truth. Like carrots helping you see in the dark.
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They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.
Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.
This must have been written a while ago. After 23 games there had only been two wins. We're now at 26 played. He's wrong about O'Neill though, painting him as some sort of bespectacled seer and not the spendthrift, tactical dinosaur who kicked away the foundations as he left the building with the family silver under his arm.
Good point.
As for the O'Neill myth, it's one of those things that is going to be repeated so much that it just becomes accepted truth. Like carrots helping you see in the dark.
Like Ugo made his debut in that Norwich game.
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They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.
Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.
This must have been written a while ago. After 23 games there had only been two wins. We're now at 26 played. He's wrong about O'Neill though, painting him as some sort of bespectacled seer and not the spendthrift, tactical dinosaur who kicked away the foundations as he left the building with the family silver under his arm.
Good point.
As for the O'Neill myth, it's one of those things that is going to be repeated so much that it just becomes accepted truth. Like carrots helping you see in the dark.
Like Ugo made his debut in that Norwich game.
Good one.
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How it feels to follow Aston Villa?
To have won the lottery of life. The greatest honour and privilege that can be bestowed upon a human being.
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"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"
I thought that as well.
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They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.
Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.
This must have been written a while ago. After 23 games there had only been two wins. We're now at 26 played. He's wrong about O'Neill though, painting him as some sort of bespectacled seer and not the spendthrift, tactical dinosaur who kicked away the foundations as he left the building with the family silver under his arm.
Good point.
As for the O'Neill myth, it's one of those things that is going to be repeated so much that it just becomes accepted truth. Like carrots helping you see in the dark.
Like Ugo made his debut in that Norwich game.
I used to be convinced that was true, would have put money on it. I was there to 'witness' it, but apparently not. I do remember he had a nightmare that day, or perhaps he didn't?
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http://www.theguardian.com/football/copa90/2016/feb/17/aston-villa-relegation-premier-league-fans
Sorry if its already been posted
My son is the one with his head in his hands at the Norwich game near the start of the video!! You can get a glimpse of my greying head of hair behind him!! And again later when he standing up gesticulating!
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Yeah he was crap in it but it was something like his 12th game for us and he had started a few before that. The Norwich game was the end of November 1992, his debut was August '91.
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Fuck me these are dark days aren't they?
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They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.
Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.
This must have been written a while ago. After 23 games there had only been two wins. We're now at 26 played. He's wrong about O'Neill though, painting him as some sort of bespectacled seer and not the spendthrift, tactical dinosaur who kicked away the foundations as he left the building with the family silver under his arm.
Good point.
They may be doing the old ''tailoring the stat to show how bad they are'' i.e we won on the first day of the season but in every game since we've only won two..although in that case he could have been even harsher and said two wins from twenty five.
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I'll tell you how it feels to follow Aston Villa.
This season no other supporters would swap their club for ours.
Over a lifetime all but a handful would.
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How it feels to follow Aston Villa?
To have won the lottery of life. The greatest honour and privilege that can be bestowed upon a human being.
Good answer.
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A pride that no other football supporter of any other club in the world could even begin to imagine.
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Chin up, we could support Small Heath.
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I'll tell you how good it feels
Fucking brilliant
This club has taken me to Wembley about 11 times has one of the few iconic grounds anywhere with a support to match.
Has taken me to the highest point looking down on all the other clubs in European football
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As the banner says "You don't choose Aston Villa, Aston Villa chooses you" and it's an honour to support the greatest football club in the world. We all get it...in a way that other fans don't. These are dark days at this great grand glorious institution of ours...but whoever said supporting the Villa was dull. Honoured.
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I'm quite looking forward to next season.A new chapter in our rich history, a history some clubs can only dream of.It actually feels great to be a Villa fan and I wouldn't change it for the world.As the kids say, let the haterz keep hating or words to that effect.UTV☺
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It's Unconditional Love.
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I wouldn't swap it for anything.
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The thing that is starting really annoy me now is you would think we were the only team going to be relegated. Have the fans of half a dozen other clubs and the media not realised two others of you are coming down with us you morons! The only solace I draw from this is that all this attention must mean we are/were important...
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Not a great article. Opinions are everyone's prerogative I guess.
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Yeah he was crap in it but it was something like his 12th game for us and he had started a few before that. The Norwich game was the end of November 1992, his debut was August '91.
My second home game of having a season ticket. Aged 7. Where does the time go?
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I'll tell you how it feels to follow Aston Villa.
This season no other supporters would swap their club for ours.
Over a lifetime all but a handful would.
Perfect. I was thinking on similar lines at work on Monday after being on the receiving end of bantz from Bluenoses and it struck me that I would rather endure a result like Sunday than derive so much pleasure over a team I don't support losing to another team I don't support.
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"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"
I didn't even get that far - I stopped reading when the author started apologising for MON.
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A beautifully-made video and a thoughtful article.
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"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"
I didn't even get that far - I stopped reading when the author started apologising for MON.
I didn't even get that far - I stopped reading when the author stated Birmingham City were Premier League regulars.
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They are rock bottom, with just two wins from 23 league games.
Not the best start to an article. It's not like we've won so many that the three that we have won are easy to forget.
This must have been written a while ago. After 23 games there had only been two wins. We're now at 26 played. He's wrong about O'Neill though, painting him as some sort of bespectacled seer and not the spendthrift, tactical dinosaur who kicked away the foundations as he left the building with the family silver under his arm.
Good point.
As for the O'Neill myth, it's one of those things that is going to be repeated so much that it just becomes accepted truth. Like carrots helping you see in the dark.
Like Ugo made his debut in that Norwich game.
I thought he did!
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Spurs have consistently failed to hold on to their best players over the past 10 years, they are second, we are bottom.
I've read far better analysis' of the 'death by a thousand cuts' degredation on here.
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If my Villa supporting life was a film it would be viewed as too far fetched (there probably would be a film made of those ten years from 1972 - 82 if we were one of the media luvvie clubs). Division 3 Champions to European Champions in ten years with trips to Wembley (and beating Man U in a semi final as a 3rd division club), with trophies in between? Not to mention my memories of the late 60's and relegation (Blues fans taking the piss at junior school in 1969-1970 as we hurtled towards Division 3 then suddenly going quite as we beat them 2-0 at their place, one of our solitary wins during that period, if I remember. I was there too - hilarious).
Wouldn't change a thing - an eventful history with high and low landmarks is something to cherish. So lucky to be born when I was.
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I'll tell you how it feels to follow Aston Villa.
This season no other supporters would swap their club for ours.
Over a lifetime all but a handful would.
Perfect. I was thinking on similar lines at work on Monday after being on the receiving end of bantz from Bluenoses and it struck me that I would rather endure a result like Sunday than derive so much pleasure over a team I don't support losing to another team I don't support.
All present and correct.
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Like a marriage - good times, not so good times but you always remember the first kiss that turned you inside out
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Tangled Up in Blue
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Like a rolling stone
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Desolation Row
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It's bloody hard at the moment and being in decline for more than half a decade is trying for anybody.
That being said, some of the best memories stand out however your luck is going. Liverpool at Wembley, Baggies twice in a week, Benteke unstoppable vs. Sunderland and so on. You wouldn't swap it for the world.
The fans have been through so much, deserve so much and have got so little in recent years. You just hope we turn it around and soon.
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If Villa's going down
We'll all go down together
We'll be here when Lerner's gone
Not fickle or fairweather
If Villa's going down
We'll all go down together
We are Villa till we die
And glory hunters never
If Villa's going down
We'll all go down together
We won't need coaches to the Sty
This city's ours forever
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"Our history is up there with Chelsea?!"
I thought that as well.
The video is made by Copa90, whose audience aren't just hear in the UK. It could well have been that the producers told him to say that to give a comparison in size to overseas viewers who have little concept of what football outside the top 4/5/6/whatever it is these days.
But, yeah. Still bollocks.