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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Chipsticks on October 06, 2013, 08:31:01 PM
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Being as I've now with my girlfriend for over 8 months, I finally decided (after a bit of nagging) to bring her to a Villa game. It won't be much of a shock to her, as she occasionally goes with her dad, a ST holder in the Trinity, but it's still going to be weird for me, as I've genuinely never gone to a Villa game with a female - not that there's anything wrong with that of course. She knows I'm very passionate about the Villa and is expecting to see me a go a bit nuts.
Thought I'd just go for it and bring her in the Holte with me for the Everton game, she's quite excited but mostly for the Balti pie.
How did this go for everyone else?
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You are lucky chips, my wife hates football :(
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I always found the passages in Fever Pitch , that relate to this very question, among the most interesting.
Is the Villa your obsession or are you willing to share it?!
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I met my wife at the Villla.
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I took my to-be wife to the Villa over thirty years ago; she likes footie but is still not quite sure about my obsessive nature toward it.
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My girlfriend once had a slight interest in the football. She came to 3 or 4 matches, but the final one she came to was the last defeat at home to Blues. The atmosphere that day was particularly ugly (for many reasons) and that was that for her. So, can't really blame her for not wanting to go again after that.
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I took my Mrs to the 5-1 smashing of Blues (she's a Nose with a season ticket for over 18 years) after she suggested I go with her to the Sty. We sat in the Upper Trinity and the blokes in front turn round to her and said 'What's wrong with you? Fucking rejoice!'. Her pretty little face was a picture. I said to her, if I went and sat with her the response would of been more severe.
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Disaster... my bird still brings up my behaviour in arguments when I took her to an away game 3-4 years ago.
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Don't take her. Instead of a beer at half time she will want a cappucino and she will demand all of your attention so you cannot talk to your mates.
You just will not enjoy it, you will not be yourself.
Give her some cash and let her go for a meal and do a bit of shopping in town, meet up after.
Hope this advice helps you.
Lots of Villa love
Sid the Sexist. ;D
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My first big relationship lasted three years.
She only ever came to two games with me, one of them was on 26th May 1982. Witnessing us becoming undisputed Champions of Europe should have cemented our relationship for eternity but she left me two years later, I blame Ellis.
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My son reached the final of the Birmingham Schools FA and the final was played at Villa Park. Not having been to a live game but having watched it on TV, she is sitting in the stand and asks when is the commentator going to start the commentry?
She actually thought what we hear on tv, the crowd heard !!!!!!!!!!!!
Beware..........
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As someone said you are very lucky Chipsticks with a GF from a very good Villa family. None of my wives like football so I have to take girlfriends to VP...terrible really but what is one supposed to do?!
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I go to most games now with my missus as my mates have largely either moved away or passed on or lost interest - and it is largely okay but never the same - as suggested the beer intake has gone down and behaviour has to be (largely) more restrained - with a choice I'd choose lads over girls on a match day all day long but I am sexist and old fashioned.
This said, next Saturday I am going to the Strictly Come Dancing live show at the BBC as a gift to the wife and given up Paul Weller tickets because i let her re-arrange our holiday without checking the dates so on reflection probably discard my opinion.....
.....or perhaps we could meet for double latte and pints at half time ?
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Disaster... my bird still brings up my behaviour in arguments when I took her to an away game 3-4 years ago.
That is because you didn't explain playing away rules to her.
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My girlfriend can't stand football, but she's agreed to come to Villa Park with me at some stage.
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My girlfriend's first visit to Villa Park was a 5-1 defeat to Man City. She's now known as Mrs Javu and she's also a longstanding Season Ticket holder.
I'm sort of proud of that.
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Was that the DAvid white game?
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My missus hates football. Thank God. The thought of her wanting to come along to a game and spoil the only real bit of lads time I get sends me all a shiver. She also thinks I go to the Villa to enjoy myself. Ha, if only she knew.
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This said, next Saturday I am going to the Strictly Come Dancing live show at the BBC as a gift to the wife and given up Paul Weller tickets because i let her re-arrange our holiday without checking the dates
God bless her.
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My son reached the final of the Birmingham Schools FA and the final was played at Villa Park. Not having been to a live game but having watched it on TV, she is sitting in the stand and asks when is the commentator going to start the commentry?
She actually thought what we hear on tv, the crowd heard !!!!!!!!!!!!
Beware..........
That's kinda cute.
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My son reached the final of the Birmingham Schools FA and the final was played at Villa Park. Not having been to a live game but having watched it on TV, she is sitting in the stand and asks when is the commentator going to start the commentry?
She actually thought what we hear on tv, the crowd heard !!!!!!!!!!!!
Beware..........
Haha, she's not that bad, but you've all made me feel very lucky.
Once I turned up at her house and she was legit watching the FA Cup 5th round, it was two pretty average championship teams and she seemed genuinely interested, that blew me away.
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I took my daughter to a game where we played pretty well, she went to a sparsely attended wolves game with her grandad and fell in love with them.
I'll never understand women.
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My son reached the final of the Birmingham Schools FA and the final was played at Villa Park. Not having been to a live game but having watched it on TV, she is sitting in the stand and asks when is the commentator going to start the commentry?
She actually thought what we hear on tv, the crowd heard !!!!!!!!!!!!
Beware..........
Haha, she's not that bad, but you've all made me feel very lucky.
Once I turned up at her house and she was legit watching the FA Cup 5th round, it was two pretty average championship teams and she seemed genuinely interested, that blew me away.
Marry her. ASAP. Never let her go. And don't kick her out of bed for eating a packet of Chipsticks.
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We weren't going out in the late 70's (was it 76/77?) but she tagged along with my sister for the first game of the season after much begging.
Against West Ham.
The day the ICF formed and ran round Aston causing mayhem.
In family history it is now referred to as "The Day I Had Bricks Thrown At Me And My Future Husband Fought Londoners".
Never been up since - never will again.
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My girlfriend's first visit to Villa Park was a 5-1 defeat to Man City. She's now known as Mrs Javu and she's also a longstanding Season Ticket holder.
I'm sort of proud of that.
I got thrown out of that game for telling David White what I thought of him as he celebrated his first in front of the dug out.
I had to pay again to get into the Holte!
My girlfriend at the time came with me to Millwall away at The Den in the 80's. Notable for Wolfie getting nicked for staring at a pool ball he had seemingly found in his pocket. We married, even had our reception in the old William McGregor suite, the day England beat Poland 3 nil at Wembley as it happens. Sorry, I digress.
We are now divorced and she hates me me such a passion she will use the kids!!
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Took mine to the second Rapid Vienna Europa League qualifier a few years back. It resulted in possibly our worst argument to date by the time we got home.
I won't go into detail other than to say don't do it!
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Disaster... my bird still brings up my behaviour in arguments when I took her to an away game 3-4 years ago.
That is because you didn't explain playing away rules to her.
Yeah drinking cans on the train at 9am was foreign to her, tried to tell here in emphasised voice "it's an away day!" but she was not impressed. Multiple use of the "C" word made things worse (my bird is posh) but she then didn't see the funny side of me laughing when she asked what end we were shooting in.
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Multiple use of the "C" word made things worse (my bird is posh)
Did she expect you to produce a glass?
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Multiple use of the "C" word made things worse (my bird is posh)
Did she expect you to produce a glass?
No but she expected to sit down.
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Took my girlfriend a few years ago. She was looking forward to seeing the handsome Collymore, we were playing against Leeds, I went to put a bet on, and she decides to put a bet on Leeds to win.wtf!
She lost her bet, we won 1-0, and Collymore went on to be a girlfriend beater so the mrs went off him.
Never took her again, been married 14 years.
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"Being as I've now with my girlfriend for over 8 months, I finally decided (after a bit of nagging) to bring her to a Villa game."
As they jumped right in, to show off their outmoded non-PC sexism, added to their shameful inability to identify and woo the right woman, each responder so far has missed the key question: What is the missing word between 'I've' and 'now'...? My bet is split between 'fisted' and 'rimmed'.
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My missus hates football. Thank God. The thought of her wanting to come along to a game and spoil the only real bit of lads time I get sends me all a shiver. She also thinks I go to the Villa to enjoy myself. Ha, if only she knew.
Mine's parting words as I used to leave the house were "have fun". After repeatedly explaining that I'd not "had fun" for many a long year, it's now "hope it goes well".
She's been to 3 games in the three and a half years we've been together, and has yet to see us lose. If someone's prepared to babysit, I'll get her a season ticket! My Emergency Football Mate is also a woman, and we've not lost a game when it's just been me and her, either. So I'd wholeheartedly recommend taking her as long as she's lucky.
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Amusing thread, I'm trying to work out how often I've done this since I took my ex-wife to a couple of games (never that interested, though bless her was pretty excited at the MON press conference on SSN -remember that day, that hope?!).
Since then, there have been a few and it's always gone really well, even the least inspiring result...
My last gf (now back in Taiwaan), got taken to spurs home last boxing day :/
travelling by coach to meet her from v early start after my family Xmas in Devon was always ambitious, so only made it end of first half (miraculously 0-0) to then see us ship 4
if needing encouragement (and having had one two gf from overseas) I've emphasise that it's part of our/my culture, and a good atmosphere should be sampled at least once, treat it as an anthropological expedition much as you would to sample a culture visitung a tribe in another land...
Even not knowing the rules an exciting game/atmosphere can win em over :)
I think it's good to reassure re: safety) and brief what they are likely to see/hear shouted around them. Even mentioning chants (often indecipherable if you don't know what you are looking for, and presumably that can leave someone feeling cut off/excluded )
I love away games for the concentrated support/atmosphere and these seem to work really well (which helps given i live London)
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Dump her. Do what I did, marry a girl with no real interest in football but who enjoys shopping and pubs, that way you get to go to the game, she shops, and you meet afterwards in The Bartons. Win / win really.
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It took me bloody ages to explain the offside rule to my mrs. It was akin to Father Ted when hes trying to teach Father Jack how to say "that would be an ecumenical matter." Hard work. Within a week she'd forgotten it. Not a shred of interest in football so I'm not sure I'll ever take her to the Villa unless she expresses a genuine interest.
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It took me bloody ages to explain the offside rule to my mrs. It was akin to Father Ted when hes trying to teach Father Jack how to say "that would be an ecumenical matter." Hard work. Within a week she'd forgotten it. Not a shred of interest in football so I'm not sure I'll ever take her to the Villa unless she expresses a genuine interest.
I would have thought the episode where Mrs Doyle learns the rules of football would have been a more appropriate analogy!
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It took me bloody ages to explain the offside rule to my mrs. It was akin to Father Ted when hes trying to teach Father Jack how to say "that would be an ecumenical matter." Hard work. Within a week she'd forgotten it. Not a shred of interest in football so I'm not sure I'll ever take her to the Villa unless she expresses a genuine interest.
I would have thought the episode where Mrs Doyle learns the rules of football would have been a more appropriate analogy!
I was thinking of the one on holiday in the caravan with Ted trying to explain the rules of depth perception to Dougal:
"This cow is small, but those are far away. Small - far away"
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It took me bloody ages to explain the offside rule to my mrs. It was akin to Father Ted when hes trying to teach Father Jack how to say "that would be an ecumenical matter." Hard work. Within a week she'd forgotten it. Not a shred of interest in football so I'm not sure I'll ever take her to the Villa unless she expresses a genuine interest.
I would have thought the episode where Mrs Doyle learns the rules of football would have been a more appropriate analogy!
I did think of that, but Mrs Doyle got it in the end. Ha ha.
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My son reached the final of the Birmingham Schools FA and the final was played at Villa Park. Not having been to a live game but having watched it on TV, she is sitting in the stand and asks when is the commentator going to start the commentry?
She actually thought what we hear on tv, the crowd heard !!!!!!!!!!!!
Beware..........
Haha, she's not that bad, but you've all made me feel very lucky.
Once I turned up at her house and she was legit watching the FA Cup 5th round, it was two pretty average championship teams and she seemed genuinely interested, that blew me away.
Marry her. ASAP. Never let her go. And don't kick her out of bed for eating a packet of Chipsticks.
She can eat Chipsticks whenever she likes ;)
I'm a creeper.
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Took mine to the second Rapid Vienna Europa League qualifier a few years back. It resulted in possibly our worst argument to date by the time we got home.
I won't go into detail other than to say don't do it!
The only rational reaction to seeing Curtis Davies boot the ball over his own crossbar from near the halfway-line is to take it out on your relationship. At least that should prepare you for more difficult challenges.
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I was with fiance number one for two and a half years and took her to the Inter game at VP and a pre season friendly at Whitney Town. So in her two game Villa career she saw us beat Inter and saw Ivo Stas score. Fiance number two turned out to be a fruitcake. I took her to the John Frain testimonial at the sty in '96 and at one point she disappeared to help break up some seating. I took the wife to the Fulham cup game in '99 and she said she heard me swear more in one day than in all the time she had known me. When the kids came along we had a few family trips to the Villa but these days it is just me and my son.
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My ex-mrs is Aussie and when she moved to London in 2003, she had only been in the country a week before I took her to a fun packed afternoon at upton park. She commented that it was the first time she had seen mounted police...
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My first big relationship lasted three years.
She only ever came to two games with me, one of them was on 26th May 1982. Witnessing us becoming undisputed Champions of Europe should have cemented our relationship for eternity but she left me two years later, I blame Ellis.
She probably realised it couldn't get any better
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my mrs has no interest in football and still feels the need to sit with me through MOTD. Bloody annoying.
I hate people who feign an interest in football.
I might sit through strictly and talk about anything other than dancing.
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I really spoilt my wife to be. Her first game was the Charity Shield at Wembley against Spurs in 1981
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My mrs's first game was QPR home last season which was a great introduction in terms of atmosphere and result. She hasn't been back mind, part of me's concerned the next one won't live up to the debut. The games I've been to this season (Newcastle and Hull) certainly didn't!
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Took mine to 1994 League Cup Final. I was ballistic of course. I mean thrashing united doesn't happen every week. At Wembley. In a final.
Her? 'Whats all the fuss about'?
Oh well, she did think the Villa fans were funny on the train down.
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As someone said you are very lucky Chipsticks with a GF from a very good Villa family. None of my wives like football so I have to take girlfriends to VP...terrible really but what is one supposed to do?!
Blimey mate. How many you got?
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Took mine to 1994 League Cup Final. I was ballistic of course. I mean thrashing united doesn't happen every week. At Wembley. In a final.
Her? 'Whats all the fuss about'?
Oh well, she did think the Villa fans were funny on the train down.
That reminds me that I took the wife to the Bolton semi. Me at Wembley with memories of Queen '86, Bowie '87 and Villa '94. "This is Wembley love"!
"It's a bit tatty isn't it"?
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Sounds like a Harem.
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Took mine to 1994 League Cup Final. I was ballistic of course. I mean thrashing united doesn't happen every week. At Wembley. In a final.
Her? 'Whats all the fuss about'?
Oh well, she did think the Villa fans were funny on the train down.
That reminds me that I took the wife to the Bolton semi. Me at Wembley with memories of Queen '86, Bowie '87 and Villa '94. "This is Wembley love"!
"It's a bit tatty isn't it"?
She wasn't wrong
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Took mine to 1994 League Cup Final. I was ballistic of course. I mean thrashing united doesn't happen every week. At Wembley. In a final.
Her? 'Whats all the fuss about'?
Oh well, she did think the Villa fans were funny on the train down.
That reminds me that I took the wife to the Bolton semi. Me at Wembley with memories of Queen '86, Bowie '87 and Villa '94. "This is Wembley love"!
"It's a bit tatty isn't it"?
The Bolton Semi reminds me of Ozzjim's story of being caught between a woman and the Villa on that very night. It announced Ozz's arrival into the limelight at H&V, where he's largely remained in the subsequent years.
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my mrs has no interest in football and still feels the need to sit with me through MOTD. Bloody annoying.
I hate people who feign an interest in football.
That is to stop you watching porn and falling in love with the actors!
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As someone said you are very lucky Chipsticks with a GF from a very good Villa family. None of my wives like football so I have to take girlfriends to VP...terrible really but what is one supposed to do?!
Blimey mate. How many you got?
Haha long time no speak?
It's always a good quip but in reality one is bad...I mean good enough and she absolutely detests football and her parting shot when I am leaving for a match is "when are you going to grow up?" She knows the answer!
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I've been married for 30 years and my wife has still never been to a match and rarely watches MoD. She does sometimes watch the live England games and her lack of experience does not stop her pointing out the faults of the English team and players.
I guess that's just in her DNA.
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I take my missus to every home game, she's always there with a pint, actually never seems not to have beer on her person. She gets much more aggressive than me as well.
*sobs* YES IT'S MY RIGHT HAND, but I always draw a face on it.
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My missus seems to quite like going to the game. Came to loads with me last year as my brother broke his ankle and she used his Season Ticket. She says it's better than watching footy on TV.
She has seen me shouting and squealing at games and that hasn't put her off.
We recently took her 90 year old granddad to a game as well, he hadn't been for about 4 years as he's now in a wheelchair and he loved it (even though we got stuffed by Spurzzz in the League Cup).
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I took my missus to a game once (3-3 Fulham away) she said she saw a side of me she didn't like. Job done, she's never asked again.
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took my wife to Charlton away when Parker played us off the park on his own...around 2003 ? if I remember right....
she said the Villa look nice in their uniform....not been back !
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My missus still hates football, but having been she tells me that she 'gets' why I love it. First game was 3-2 at home to Chelsea, including a Hitz screamer in front of us.
She's been dragged along to a few games since, and she still had an undefeated record after five games. To the point where last season when I threatened to buy her a season ticket and stay at home myself.
Then she saw us lose 4-0 at home to Spurs last Boxing Day. It was freezing, there was nothing to get up to cheer for. Not sure she'll go to another one.
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took my wife to Charlton away when Parker played us off the park on his own...around 2003 ? if I remember right....
she said the Villa look nice in their uniform....not been back !
Think I was at that one, we lost 3-0 and Parker was brilliant.
It took us ages to find the ground (and 48 different types of transport) as well. Also, my brother had his hair spray confiscated before the game by stewards, this was when he had a Sid Vicious type haircut.
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took my wife to Charlton away when Parker played us off the park on his own...around 2003 ? if I remember right....
she said the Villa look nice in their uniform....not been back !
Think I was at that one, we lost 3-0 and Parker was brilliant.
It took us ages to find the ground (and 48 different types of transport) as well. Also, my brother had his hair spray confiscated before the game by stewards, this was when he had a Sid Vicious type haircut.
we were in the stand to the left as you look from the away end, we only decided to go last minute.
she jumped up everytime they scored...as she did not want any "bother"...I just sat there thoroughly pissed off...we went back to London Bridge (if I remember right) and I took her to a lovely little Mexican restaurant down Covent Garden....fecking expensive day and we lost !
I got my own back tho...I married her ! ;D
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I've taken all my serious women down VP at some stage. None liked football but I still made them come with me a few times. Most enjoyed it, saying it was very different being there compared to watching it on TV.
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Took my girlfriend, a Geordie, to the Newcastle game.
Urgh.
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I took mine to a friendly at Walsall, it was a decent game and routlege scored a good volley, I said did you enjoy it and she said I really enjoyed Booing Barry, I've not took her since and Im glad of the rest to be honest
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As far as the Villa stands, my Mrs has gone down many times. And enjoyed it.
I even took her up the Arsenal once.
Which was nice.
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In almost 30 years I have only taken a woman to the Villa once. We won 7-0.
Maybe I should do it more.
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Brought my missus along to the 2011 home FA Cup clash with Blackburn when Pires scored his one and only Villa goal, she well and truly hooked before and the game was just the icing on the cake.
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My wife's first match was Forest 6 Villa 0 in 1986. Never mind putting her off the Villa, it's amazing that she is still with me. She likes the idea of a VIP package at VP and we're eying up the Swansea match at Christmas. Pricey sport is her fave - she competes in horse riding. Not great for my bank balance.
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I took my girlfriend to watch Villa play QPR. Trevor Francis scored a hat-trick.
The relationship was doomed to failure.
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My wife's first match was Forest 6 Villa 0 in 1986. Never mind putting her off the Villa, it's amazing that she is still with me. She likes the idea of a VIP package at VP and we're eying up the Swansea match at Christmas. Pricey sport is her fave - she competes in horse riding. Not great for my bank balance.
The game where my dad says we were lucky to get nil....
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My wife loves it. Her first game was the Everton 3-3 draw back in 2009 iirc.
BUT...
- I can't wear a footy top if we're not in walking distance of the ground as she thinks it's chavvy. If you can't wear them on match days, when can you?
- The pre-match booze is cut to a minimum.
- And I can't travel to the Villa on me own or friends anymore. She thinks it's just an excuse to get plastered.
Poor old me.
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Disaster... my bird still brings up my behaviour in arguments when I took her to an away game 3-4 years ago.
To be fair I've seen the state of you at a couple of away games, I'm not surpised ;D
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Even though I know she doesn't really care, it doesn't stop me moaning/gloating the moment I walk through the door after the game. I know she's not listening, but I tell her anyway!
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Before we got married my ex wife came with me to Albion away. When a couple of half house-bricks were lobbed over the train from the opposite platform as our train back to civilisation arrived she was put off forever. Only time I've ever been grateful to Albion fans.
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My wife loves it. Her first game was the Everton 3-3 draw back in 2009 iirc.
BUT...
- I can't wear a footy top if we're not in walking distance of the ground as she thinks it's chavvy. If you can't wear them on match days, when can you?
- The pre-match booze is cut to a minimum.
- And I can't travel to the Villa on me own or friends anymore. She thinks it's just an excuse to get plastered.
Poor old me.
What the actual fuck?
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I never, ever drink alcohol before or during a sports event that I am into. I'm very nedry about sport and need to take absolutely everything in.
I think i would miss stuff if I was boozed up!!
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My wife loves it. Her first game was the Everton 3-3 draw back in 2009 iirc.
BUT...
- I can't wear a footy top if we're not in walking distance of the ground as she thinks it's chavvy. If you can't wear them on match days, when can you?
- The pre-match booze is cut to a minimum.
- And I can't travel to the Villa on me own or friends anymore. She thinks it's just an excuse to get plastered.
Poor old me.
What the actual fuck?
Yeah. Man-up/Grow a pair/Strap one on/Don't be so cnut-struck etc.
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My wife loves it. Her first game was the Everton 3-3 draw back in 2009 iirc.
BUT...
- I can't wear a footy top if we're not in walking distance of the ground as she thinks it's chavvy. If you can't wear them on match days, when can you?
- The pre-match booze is cut to a minimum.
- And I can't travel to the Villa on me own or friends anymore. She thinks it's just an excuse to get plastered.
Poor old me.
What the actual fuck?
Yeah. Man-up/Grow a pair/Strap one on/Don't be so cnut-struck etc.
Completely agree, if you want a drink, then fucking drink. If you want to wear claret and blue, wear claret and blue. Don't get dictated to.
Although personally I am like Irish villain, any event I've paid for, be it footy, concerts, theatre etc i don't drink. I've been with people who don't remember anything from a concert, well that was worth £50.
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My wife loves it. Her first game was the Everton 3-3 draw back in 2009 iirc.
BUT...
- I can't wear a footy top if we're not in walking distance of the ground as she thinks it's chavvy. If you can't wear them on match days, when can you?
- The pre-match booze is cut to a minimum.
- And I can't travel to the Villa on me own or friends anymore. She thinks it's just an excuse to get plastered.
Poor old me.
What the actual fuck?
I think a forced username change is in order for this shocking confession.
Hen-pecked Villain from here on in.
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Relax lads, she's not THAT bad. She bought her 6 months old godchild a Villa kit. It wasn't even my idea! And I still get to drink my cans of lager, do wear my Villa stuff over here from time to time but it's just not the same anymore as in the old days as a single. You know...
Oh, another small issue I've got with her is that she still loves that weasel Downing. Argh.
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I never, ever drink alcohol before or during a sports event that I am into. I'm very nedry about sport and need to take absolutely everything in.
I think i would miss stuff if I was boozed up!!
So going to a game with a girl would mean it's mandatory to drink alcohol?
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I never, ever drink alcohol before or during a sports event that I am into. I'm very nedry about sport and need to take absolutely everything in.
I think i would miss stuff if I was boozed up!!
So going to a game with a girl would mean it's mandatory to drink alcohol?
Depends if she keeps nagging or not, i suppose.
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Oh, another small issue I've got with her is that she still loves that weasel Downing. Argh.
I've warmed to him after Liverpool gave us 20M for him and he was absolute shite.
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I took my then girlfriend, a Spaniard, in the Holte End, early 90s, can't remember which game. She spent the whole match watching and being highly amused by the crowd rather than the game. She was especially enchanted by the songs, especially "we are top of the league" (guess it must have been the Big Ron era). She spent the rest of the weekend singing "yes we are, top of the league" in some strange little tra- la-la tune she'd made up, and demonstrating (to my Mother amongst others) that she now knew what the wanker sign meant. My wife has never really expressed any interest in going.
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I met my missus at the Villa.
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My wife isn't keen on football at all and the only time I took her to the Villa (when we moved back up here 4 years ago) she was more amused by the accents and general moaning in the Trinity. She also asked after 30 mins "which one is Villa?" To be fair she also hated having to go to some matches in London with work on corp hospitality and they were all Arsenal/Man U type games.
I went out with a girl years ago (was living in London at the time) who went the other way. Never been to a football life in her match and we stood in the Holte End (she was tiny - 5 foot). She loved it. Went round her house not long after and she had Villa posters up in her bedroom and she gave me a blow job wearing nothing but a Villa shirt whilst her Mum and Dad were downstairs watching TV.
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My wife isn't keen on football at all and the only time I took her to the Villa (when we moved back up here 4 years ago) she was more amused by the accents and general moaning in the Trinity. She also asked after 30 mins "which one is Villa?" To be fair she also hated having to go to some matches in London with work on corp hospitality and they were all Arsenal/Man U type games.
I went out with a girl years ago (was living in London at the time) who went the other way. Never been to a football life in her match and we stood in the Holte End (she was tiny - 5 foot). She loved it. Went round her house not long after and she had Villa posters up in her bedroom and she gave me a blow job wearing nothing but a Villa shirt whilst her Mum and Dad were downstairs watching TV.
Are you sure it wasn't her Mom that gave you the blow job ?
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I love these stories.
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A few years ago I took my ex to Villa - Watford. itwas when the had comeback up under SGT.
Anyway, we left the Ruskin Hall and got in roughly bang on kick-off. 5 minutes or so later the conversation went something like this...
her: Pete. PETE.
Me: Hmm (not listening. We're on the attack)
H: PETE
M: (Still not listening and barely acknowledging her) Hm
H: PETE (ball rolls over the dead ball line for a goal kick."ooooh" cry the crowd.)
W:What?
H: Have they started yet?
I could only look at her in a you what? Confused but ahh bless type way,and open my arms imploringly at what was taking place a for our very eyes.
Taken the then girlfriend and now wife to Fulham away (Angel kept missing penalties) and although bored she got into it for thelast 10 minutesand admitted to a bit of excitement. Palace away (0-3) reaffirmed her hatred. And finally the arsenal 2-0 (never did ask why Barry didn't take the penalty - oh, and cheers Lee!!!). The last one she enjoyed (ish) - mymate dropped out lastsecond and so she waspress ganged to go. Into the west endfor a good night out around me getting peed and her going out darncing whilst I happily imbibed and danced like your dad at a wedding.
Ah, football and women.
Oh, and I'll absolutely will never, ever, talk to a woman about football. I just can't take them seriously.
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What about H&V's fine female-folk?
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Took my ex to two matches in the 70s.
We beat Arsenal 5-0 and Everton 5-1.
May have the scores slightly wrong, but something like that. Andy Gray scored loads!
Only found out some time later, when I met her Dad, that she was a Sky Blues fan.
Never took her again.
When we won in '82 and I was dancing around the living room, laughing and crying hysterically and emotionally, screaming and wailing whilst trying to phone my brother and sister who were doing the same as me, she told me to calm down.
I did say "my ex"!
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What about H&V's fine female-folk?
I will take the 5th.
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I took my ex to Wigan at home last season. It was quite awkward having to explain that I don't see her at the weekend because I enjoy watching that shower so much more than having her company. That fateful afternoon may or may not have played a part in out break up.
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Being as I've now with my girlfriend for over 8 months, I finally decided (after a bit of nagging) to bring her to a Villa game. It won't be much of a shock to her, as she occasionally goes with her dad, a ST holder in the Trinity, but it's still going to be weird for me, as I've genuinely never gone to a Villa game with a female - not that there's anything wrong with that of course. She knows I'm very passionate about the Villa and is expecting to see me a go a bit nuts.
Thought I'd just go for it and bring her in the Holte with me for the Everton game, she's quite excited but mostly for the Balti pie.
How did this go for everyone else?
Funnily enough, I took my wife to her first Villa game against Everton in the Holte, on a Sunday, when visiting from Canada. She loved it. We went to Barcelona V Valencia a few years later and she said that there was a better atmosphere at Villa Park than the Nou Camp.
In total that's 4 girls I have taken to see the Villa.
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Disaster... my bird still brings up my behaviour in arguments when I took her to an away game 3-4 years ago.
To be fair I've seen the state of you at a couple of away games, I'm not surpised ;D
Haha I think I know who this is, I have not been to an away day since the last time you seen me and have quit the booze!
Also my bird said "I never ever see you this happy?"... can't really explain that.
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My girlfriend is as big a Villa fan as me, so that's not a problem. She doesn't swear, however, whereas I'm sure I have Tourette's. I always intend to moderate the language, but it's impossible at the football. She also says my accent gets stronger.
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I like your use of the word "bring" her to the game, rather than "take" her. It suggests you live at VP rather than merely visit it.