Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: sportprof101 on April 20, 2021, 06:05:21 PM
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Hope everyone is having a good Tuesday! I’m a student at NKU and I wanted to learn more about everyone’s feelings on our rivals and why we feel this way towards them. Since 2014, we—the students and professors of the Know Rivalry Project—have been answering questions of rivalry for sports in North America with the help of message board members. Now we are expanding our research to the English Premier League. Please help us ensure that Aston Villa is included by taking 9 minutes to complete our updated survey:
https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3FdJ8eN2EgFCfCB?grpID=1336 (https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3FdJ8eN2EgFCfCB?grpID=1336)
Note: Rival teams can come from other leagues, not just EPL. ie: you could list FC Cincinnati from MLS as a rival.
Our previous results in the US have been featured in numerous sports media outlets, as well as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. You can view those results, links to media coverage, and learn more about us at our KnowRivalry.com website.
We use the Qualtrics online survey software for data collection. This academic research has been approved by two US universities’ Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and it poses no risks to respondents. You’ll find more information on the disclosure agreement that is required to start the survey. There are plenty of other teams you can look into as well on the site if you had other favorite teams. Survey aside I would like to know your personal feelings about your rivals. Thank you for helping us to include Aston Villa by participating and please share this with any other fans that may also help.
Zachary Beal, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. Joe Cobbs, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. David Tyler, University of Massachusetts—Amherst
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That was actually interesting and fun! Some really different questions than most of them.
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Hope everyone is having a good Tuesday! I’m a student at NKU and I wanted to learn more about everyone’s feelings on our rivals and why we feel this way towards them. Since 2014, we—the students and professors of the Know Rivalry Project—have been answering questions of rivalry for sports in North America with the help of message board members. Now we are expanding our research to the English Premier League. Please help us ensure that Aston Villa is included by taking 9 minutes to complete our updated survey:
https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3FdJ8eN2EgFCfCB?grpID=1336 (https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3FdJ8eN2EgFCfCB?grpID=1336)
Note: Rival teams can come from other leagues, not just EPL. ie: you could list FC Cincinnati from MLS as a rival.
Our previous results in the US have been featured in numerous sports media outlets, as well as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. You can view those results, links to media coverage, and learn more about us at our KnowRivalry.com website.
We use the Qualtrics online survey software for data collection. This academic research has been approved by two US universities’ Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and it poses no risks to respondents. You’ll find more information on the disclosure agreement that is required to start the survey. There are plenty of other teams you can look into as well on the site if you had other favorite teams. Survey aside I would like to know your personal feelings about your rivals. Thank you for helping us to include Aston Villa by participating and please share this with any other fans that may also help.
Zachary Beal, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. Joe Cobbs, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. David Tyler, University of Massachusetts—Amherst
Just in case this is not a joke here goes:
1/ Birmingham City: It's toxic between us. Nothing fake here just pure naked hostility.
2/ West Brom & Wolves: Not on the same level but West Brom is strong rivalry verging on hatred sometimes. Wolves have never been on our radar of hate but have rattled our cage since they finally got ahead of us for a brief spell.
3/Coventry: A bunch inbred tramps who have an irrational dislike of us. A no mark club who are difficult to like.
4/ Newcastle & Leeds: A recent rivalry mainly built up on social media. Couldn't really care either way but a grudging respect exists in a three way connection.
5/ Bristol City: Why? I dunno but it's got a lot do with their salty little ex-manager.
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Hope everyone is having a good Tuesday! I’m a student at NKU and I wanted to learn more about everyone’s feelings on our rivals and why we feel this way towards them. Since 2014, we—the students and professors of the Know Rivalry Project—have been answering questions of rivalry for sports in North America with the help of message board members. Now we are expanding our research to the English Premier League. Please help us ensure that Aston Villa is included by taking 9 minutes to complete our updated survey:
https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3FdJ8eN2EgFCfCB?grpID=1336 (https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3FdJ8eN2EgFCfCB?grpID=1336)
Note: Rival teams can come from other leagues, not just EPL. ie: you could list FC Cincinnati from MLS as a rival.
Our previous results in the US have been featured in numerous sports media outlets, as well as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. You can view those results, links to media coverage, and learn more about us at our KnowRivalry.com website.
We use the Qualtrics online survey software for data collection. This academic research has been approved by two US universities’ Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and it poses no risks to respondents. You’ll find more information on the disclosure agreement that is required to start the survey. There are plenty of other teams you can look into as well on the site if you had other favorite teams. Survey aside I would like to know your personal feelings about your rivals. Thank you for helping us to include Aston Villa by participating and please share this with any other fans that may also help.
Zachary Beal, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. Joe Cobbs, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. David Tyler, University of Massachusetts—Amherst
Just in case this is not a joke here goes:
1/ Birmingham City: It's toxic between us. Nothing fake here just pure naked hostility.
2/ West Brom & Wolves: Not on the same level but West Brom is strong rivalry verging on hatred sometimes. Wolves have never been on our radar of hate but have rattled our cage since they finally got ahead of us for a brief spell.
3/Coventry: A bunch inbred tramps who have an irrational dislike of us. A no mark club who are difficult to like.
4/ Newcastle & Leeds: A recent rivalry mainly built up on social media. Couldn't really care either way but a grudging respect exists in a three way connection.
5/ Bristol City: Why? I dunno but it's got a lot do with their salty little ex-manager.
Did you click on the link?
It asks you to assign 100 points across your various ‘rivals’ & then goes into bonkers detail about the main one. That was the fun bit.
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I completed it. Was quite interesting. Some things I'd never really thought about. Would I want a Blues fan as my boss?
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No good to him unless you put that in the survey.,,
Anyway, I picked Leeds.
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Hope everyone is having a good Tuesday! I’m a student at NKU and I wanted to learn more about everyone’s feelings on our rivals and why we feel this way towards them.
We are now that the ESL looks like it'll collapse. One of my mates played hockey for Miami University (Ohio) so he'd be disappointed if I helped a rival institution's research*.
*I might really based on amfy's recommendation.
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I completed it. Was quite interesting. Some things I'd never really thought about. Would I want a Blues fan as my boss?
I have for one of mine. He's sound. Knows his place.
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Rivals? We have none. We are Aston Villa.
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My boss is Blose. I can imagine it would be a problem with some of their more obsessed rabid idiots but even most of them aren't stupid enough to leave themselves open to a grievance claim if they were seen to be mistreating someone because they support a different football team. It has never caused any problems for me, same when I had a Baggies boss.
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A lot of my questions seemed to be about Man Utd. Wankers.
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what did people perceive as our rivals. I mentioned Small Heath, Olbion, Leeds, Man Ure, Cov, Wolves, West Ham, Chelsea, Newcastle and Spurs
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Know someone who use to work in a bank, one lad came in for a mortgage in South Birmingham after a bit he told him sorry he can't have it,he was wearing his Birmingham City shirt
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Rivals? We have none. We are Aston Villa.
"We're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen"😁🏆
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My boss is Blose, he's alright considering but I think he's only been to see them when anyone else has been paying since I've known him.
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Yes we do despise Blues but their hatred and jealously towards us is on another level.
Again we dislike Olbion but its a dislike. I hate their club more than their fans.
Coventry/wolves - just opponents to us.
Man Ure - yes i have an unhealthy dislike for them, don't think they care a monkey's for us- same with the Red Bin Dippers.
Chelsea, Spurs and West Ham - i can't abide but that's as far as it goes.
Leeds - complete distain and I've had it since i was 8 or 9
Newcastle - no not really i don't get any major dislike for them.
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I found that quite interesting and engaging.
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I went for 50% Blues, 30% Albion, 15% Wolves & 5% Leeds. When asked how many points Blues would give us - I said 100%.
I had a Bluenose boss and he placed me in charge of a team in Small Heath. He said ‘I bet you aren’t too happy about working within spitting distance of St Andrews’. I said ‘Actually spitting distance of that place is the perfect location for me’
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Rivals? We have none. We are Aston Villa.
"We're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen"😁🏆
As the two good people said we have no rivals. No one is good enough to be honoured with that status.
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I went, from memory, about 48% Blues, 48% Albion, 2% Wolves, 2% Coventry.
Blues are kind of obvious, but I utterly resent the idea that we should be rivals with a club whose prize possession in their trophy room is an ashtray, so have generally considered Albion to be on a roughly equal footing to them, as they offer a bigger - albeit still fairly small - competitive threat.
Wolves and Coventry, it's more that we're their rivals than the other way round, but I'm maybe more aware of us playing them than I would be of, say, Derby County or someone like that.
Nobody else really features on the charts for me.
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Coventry genuinely never crossed my mind.
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I went for 50% Blues, 30% Albion, 15% Wolves & 5% Leeds. When asked how many points Blues would give us - I said 100%.
I had a Bluenose boss and he placed me in charge of a team in Small Heath. He said ‘I bet you aren’t too happy about working within spitting distance of St Andrews’. I said ‘Actually spitting distance of that place is the perfect location for me’
Surely 50% Blues and 50% Burnley Amfy?
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I stuck in Blues and Albion. I have to agree that they're not really 'rivals' in the proper sense but just the most-disliked.
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I went for 50% Blues, 30% Albion, 15% Wolves & 5% Leeds. When asked how many points Blues would give us - I said 100%.
I had a Bluenose boss and he placed me in charge of a team in Small Heath. He said ‘I bet you aren’t too happy about working within spitting distance of St Andrews’. I said ‘Actually spitting distance of that place is the perfect location for me’
Surely 50% Blues and 50% Burnley Amfy?
Blackpool are PNE's big rivals aren't they?
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I put 70% Blues 25% Albion 5% Wolves.
Personally I hate Man U and Liverpool more than Albion and Wolves but not sure if that constitutes a rivalry as such. Also agree on needle with Newcastle and Leeds recently but that seems a bit short term as well.
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In the 90s I probably would have included Coventry as they were the only local team we played in the league but the last 20 years has made them an irrelevance.
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I think I went about 60% Small Heath, then split the rest between Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, West Brom and Wolves. Man U a slightly bigger share and the Black Country obsessives a slightly smaller share. The rest in between.
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70% Small Heath, 30% Stripey Filth.
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That was interesting and quite funny in places.
"Would you shag a West Brom fan?"
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Enjoyed that, even if it was a bit weird being asked if you’d consider having intimate relations with a Blues fan!
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Do Tinder/Grindr, etc, have a button that allows you to filter by football team?