Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: russon on October 09, 2016, 04:39:28 PM
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Please pardon the indulgence but this pic was published in the Press & Journal (Aberdeen's equivalent of the Birmingham Post & Mail) last week and it's given me my 'cheapies' as they say up here. Not the article itself but the photo, me and my brothers stood on a packed Holte End and it being published in an Aberdeen paper! Villa get no coverage or respect up here (as you'd expect given B6 is 400 miles away) so I've manufactured a way of getting Villa on the map. Up yours Delors! It just gave me a kick that's all, it's the little things in life!
Anyone else succeeded in infiltrating rogue regions? Eg. closer to home, I saw us beat WBA while standing in the Hawthorns home end years ago while wearing my Villa scarf tied around my waist. Listening to their fans' bitterness as they slid to defeat was sweet indeed. As I said, it's those little things in life and given our current parlous state, they mean more than ever.
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Good work!
Can't think of too many convertees I've made. My ex used to come to games but I think she preferred the post-match drinks to the actual game.
Come to think of it, so do I!
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My younger son had a kick around side in Central Park all dressed in the sacred colours some years back. One of them was in a band/group. His wife was the one out of Shakespeare in Love I think. When I worked in the Empty Quarter in Saudi, a baggies fan and I had New Years Day 1 v 1 game at Hofhuf oasis. Villa lost heavily I'm afraid. I am crap at football but I gave him a few nice bruises. I think I will offer to coach Jedinak.
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I watched an Icelandic film last night (Virgin Mountain) and half way through the main character gets invited to watch on TV the Fulham - Villa game. Later you hear Villa are in the lead, they say it's a fantastic game and then Villa score again. Considering the film was made last year, I wonder how long ago they had to go back to find the footage.
Oh and well done, Russon.
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What is the book called
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What are cheapies? And do you ever miss banking?
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Well done. Would be good to be able to read the full article.
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Well done. Would be good to be able to read the full article.
hopefully this link gives you the full story https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/outdoors/1048593/read-stonehaven-golf-course-way-never/
Eamonn - 'cheapies' is effectively a shortened version of 'cheap thrills'.
Chicago Lion - the book is called Stoney Baloney and is available on Amazon kindle or paperback https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=stoney+baloney&sprefix=stoney+baloney%2Cstripbooks%2C152
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Aberdeen?
Worked up there for Marathon Oil a few years ago. I couldn't get away quick enough. Strange people. Some winter days it never got properly light.
The auld howf and the egg and dart pubs were ok though.
As was the chippie, ashdene/ashmore? Where you could get lobster and chips!
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I've posted this before.
Mid-90's I was working in the Falklands and they have lots of people from st Helena there doing the civvie jobs. I tried to get them all supporting villa and gave them the collymore AST away shirt when I left if they promised to start a supporters club in St Helena.
Also went on a safari in Sth Africa a few years ago and gave one of our guides the acorns home top when I left. He was made up it was Nike, but pissed off it wasn't a Liverpool shirt. You can't have it all I suppose...
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Good work, Russon.
Over the years, through teaching, I've converted a small army into Villa fans. At the very least, we are the second team of many Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Italians, Greeks and Polish. From 2003, when I started teaching until.about 2011, it was easy to convert people as we weren't doing too badly.
Nowadays it is a little more difficult, but a photo of the Holte End brickwork, or our beautiful colours seems to go down a storm.
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Excellent stuff!!
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I am surprised Robbo that you did not meet Damon in the Falklands. He was shooting a documentary there. Good lad my son, very droll, guaranteed to make you piss your claret and blue shorts.
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I am surprised Robbo that you did not meet Damon in the Falklands. He was shooting a documentary there. Good lad my son, very droll, guaranteed to make you piss your claret and blue shorts.
I remember that. Didn't he do the "yomp" that The Marines did across the island?
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It was a long time ago when I was there- fascinating place. Met some great people. Glad to get home at the end though. I can't imagine what it would've been like trying to 'take' it back off the Argentinians though. They probably thought once they had invaded, it was theirs for keeps. Would've been a logistical nightmare for the British forces, given the distance and the terrain and weather conditions there. Always wondered why all the effort went into it, until I learned of the potentially huge oil reserves in the region...
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It was a long time ago when I was there- fascinating place. Met some great people. Glad to get home at the end though. I can't imagine what it would've been like trying to 'take' it back off the Argentinians though. They probably thought once they had invaded, it was theirs for keeps. Would've been a logistical nightmare for the British forces, given the distance and the terrain and weather conditions there. Always wondered why all the effort went into it, until I learned of the potentially huge oil reserves in the region...
There was a load of Stourbridge Villa fans - you know a few of them, Robbo - that got work pipe-fitting on the Ascension Islands several years ago. They lasted a couple of weeks before they all got deported for "high jinx" and general playing up ( think Bez and Shaun Ryder in Barbados, recording Yes Please) - they were flown home in a military plane and while they were on the tarmac waiting to come home a local copper thanked them for all the overtime they had provided him with.
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It was a long time ago when I was there- fascinating place. Met some great people. Glad to get home at the end though. I can't imagine what it would've been like trying to 'take' it back off the Argentinians though. They probably thought once they had invaded, it was theirs for keeps. Would've been a logistical nightmare for the British forces, given the distance and the terrain and weather conditions there. Always wondered why all the effort went into it, until I learned of the potentially huge oil reserves in the region...
There was a load of Stourbridge Villa fans - you know a few of them, Robbo - that got work pipe-fitting on the Ascension Islands several years ago. They lasted a couple of weeks before they all got deported for "high jinx" and general playing up ( think Bez and Shaun Ryder in Barbados, recording Yes Please) - they were flown home in a military plane and while they were on the tarmac waiting to come home a local copper thanked them for all the overtime they had provided him with.
Was Mr L among them?
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It was a long time ago when I was there- fascinating place. Met some great people. Glad to get home at the end though. I can't imagine what it would've been like trying to 'take' it back off the Argentinians though. They probably thought once they had invaded, it was theirs for keeps. Would've been a logistical nightmare for the British forces, given the distance and the terrain and weather conditions there. Always wondered why all the effort went into it, until I learned of the potentially huge oil reserves in the region...
There was a load of Stourbridge Villa fans - you know a few of them, Robbo - that got work pipe-fitting on the Ascension Islands several years ago. They lasted a couple of weeks before they all got deported for "high jinx" and general playing up ( think Bez and Shaun Ryder in Barbados, recording Yes Please) - they were flown home in a military plane and while they were on the tarmac waiting to come home a local copper thanked them for all the overtime they had provided him with.
Was Mr L among them?
Of course. He's coming to Reading and Brighton with us
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It was a long time ago when I was there- fascinating place. Met some great people. Glad to get home at the end though. I can't imagine what it would've been like trying to 'take' it back off the Argentinians though. They probably thought once they had invaded, it was theirs for keeps. Would've been a logistical nightmare for the British forces, given the distance and the terrain and weather conditions there. Always wondered why all the effort went into it, until I learned of the potentially huge oil reserves in the region...
There was a load of Stourbridge Villa fans - you know a few of them, Robbo - that got work pipe-fitting on the Ascension Islands several years ago. They lasted a couple of weeks before they all got deported for "high jinx" and general playing up ( think Bez and Shaun Ryder in Barbados, recording Yes Please) - they were flown home in a military plane and while they were on the tarmac waiting to come home a local copper thanked them for all the overtime they had provided him with.
Was Mr L among them?
Of course. He's coming to Reading and Brighton with us
Pass on my respects. I shall be at an official function in China with Dr Tony for Reading.
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Yes he did DCP. He carried a fridge freezer on his back. ITV said he had to look as though it had almost killed him so he sent a private video link to his mother saying it was really easy peasey and he was fine. Knowing him he probably ended the Yomp swimming in the South Atlantic with the Elephant Seals.
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I would have thought winning an election war after sinking the Belgrano was a possible factor, too.
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Listening to The Goats on the walk to work this morning reminded me that I gave four of the band (Maxx, Sean, Swayzak and Mark, this will only mean anything to paulie) old Villa shirts which they then all wore at a gig in their home city of Philadelphia. Maxx knew of Villa as his cousin played in an indoor match at the NIA against Villa, I found out we had signed Milosevic through Maxx as he had seen it on a news channel when we were somewhere in Germany!
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Me and the mrs went to Berlin last weekend. Had a lovely but cold run round the city on Saturday morning in my Villa top.
Met a couple of villa lads from Dudley on the evening watching the game in a Irish pub.