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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: SashasGrandad on December 17, 2013, 10:15:18 AM
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http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~3580453,00.html (http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~3580453,00.html)
Council workers just arrived at urinal in Small Heath with some blue and white paint.
And copies of the Sun - cut into appropriately sized pieces
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Cue jokes about it having a great history section.
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Sometimes we do really simple things really, really brilliantly.
What an excellent move.
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The Library of Birmingham has suddenly become the most beautiful building in the city centre.
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I like the headline - "The library is ours"!
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Cue some knob head Nose and a rock or two.
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Superb move Villa! I bet the Noses are pulling their hair out!:-)
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ha ha fucking love it, I know where I'm going tonight
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Brilliant. I bet it'll look great. Just disappointed it wasn't lit up claret and blue last night as we were at the Symphony Hall.
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This is the sort of thing that makes me optimistic for the future. It's the type of bright idea we had when Randy first arrived and hadn't seen much of for a couple of years. Whoever thought of it deserves a bonus.
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Massive credit to whoever thought of that, really simple idea as well.
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Cue jokes about it having a great history section.
At least we need a large section for it!
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just seen the pictures.....smart as fuck....
UTV
The Doc
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Brian Gambles, Director at the Library of Birmingham, added: "Villa's reputation in the football world - at home and abroad - is rich and vast and we were only too happy to partner with them on this festive project.
"The Library of Birmingham is a new and exciting addition to city life and yet working alongside the oldest and grandest city club this Christmas offers a nice symmetry."
Good lad.
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That looks fantastic.
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Sometimes we do really simple things really, really brilliantly.
What an excellent move.
For once we are in complete agreement ;D
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If Carlsberg did football clubs .......................................
Aston Villa, Definitely the best football club in the world! (okay, so I changed one word :) )
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I like it for two reasons:
(i) excellent publicity for Villa
(ii) it'll really annoy Small Heath.
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This is brilliant, coupled with the £1m donation the other day it really is great to be a Villa fan sometimes. Now let's get the fotball right and all will be good in the festive season!
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Really simple and effective idea Villa, Small Heath I bet dont even have a christmas tree in their office they are so skint!
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Wow. Just...wow. Great idea, great execution, and a great surprise.
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It's not going to bother Small Heath fans who very likely don't know what a library is so won't have had cause to go by it.
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We still glow in the dark then? :)
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Cue some knob head Nose and a rock or two.
I hope not - we insure the place and I have my bonus to think about!
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Cue some knob head Nose and a rock or two.
You just can't help yourself can you?
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A fine building made to look resplendent.
Well done Villa P.R.
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It's not going to bother Small Heath fans who very likely don't know what a library is so won't have had cause to go by it.
The article on the OS mentions Villa running literacy and learning programmes in the new year so I guess we'll get those knuckledraggers au-fait with libraries before too long.
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Fantastic.
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Cue some knob head Nose and a rock or two.
You just can't help yourself can you?
;D
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Superb. Well done Villa.
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Didn't think it'd be long before they got their knickers in a twist...
http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,1440774 (http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,1440774)
What a seriously dumb idea. Lets antagonise half of the city's football fans right next to the piss up chav fest that is Broad Street/ German market.
Half?!
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There are a few comments on the Meaning Evil website too. One guy is asking for a council tax rebate from the Villa board.
Ya gotta love 'em.
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Didn't think it'd be long before they got their knickers in a twist...
http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,1440774 (http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,1440774)
What a seriously dumb idea. Lets antagonise half of the city's football fans right next to the piss up chav fest that is Broad Street/ German market.
Half?!
They manage to combine petty jealousy, illiteracy and racism all in a one page thread! They really do know how to live down to our expectations of them don't they?
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Didn't think it'd be long before they got their knickers in a twist...
http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,1440774 (http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,1440774)
What a seriously dumb idea. Lets antagonise half of the city's football fans right next to the piss up chav fest that is Broad Street/ German market.
Half?!
innumerate as well as illiterate!
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It's incredible how much racism you get from that lot considering their "multi-racial firm" credentials.
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That thread is really funny.
I just read it and think it may have the opposite of the desired effect. It could alienate up to, oh I dunno, 12,000 people.
All Blues fans should boycott books
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That thread is really funny.
I just read it and think it may have the opposite of the desired effect. It could alienate up to, oh I dunno, 12,000 people.
All Blues fans should boycott books
The latter one followed by the response "What, maintain the status quo?"
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More support will be given by some of our international players.
Brad Guzan - will be reading classic American literature - Catcher in the Rye (obviously)
Vlaar and Bacuna will be talking Double Dutch
Benteke and Sylla will contribute by telling kids how to use French Letters!
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I'm amazed he thinks it is only half the city. According to most of them there are more of them than us in the city. The fact they still seem to believe half (or more) of the city is blue is continued proof they are fuckwitted, six-fingered cock sockets.
I still prefer them to Brummie Reds mind.
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It's a bit like Villa fans counting to ten promting knuckledraggers boycotting counting to two.
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There is an open goal of a joke linking the atmosphere at Villa and libraries but I can't be bothered thinking up our rivals satirical quips for them.
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I'm amazed he thinks it is only half the city. According to most of them there are more of them than us in the city. The fact they still seem to believe half (or more) of the city is blue is continued proof they are fuckwitted, six-fingered cock sockets.
I still prefer them to Brummie Reds mind.
Genuinely, I think I prefer the Bosnian Serb regime under Radovan Karadzic to Brummie Reds.
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There is an open goal of a joke linking the atmosphere at Villa and libraries but I can't be bothered thinking up our rivals satirical quips for them.
To be fair I hardly think it is an open goal that the hardy 11,000 and their "wall of noise" atmosphere at The Sty are entitled to shoot at.
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Odd line from that story on the OS.
The latest figures show the city is the most popular option for Britons staying in the UK - and the fastest growing anywhere in the world, ahead of Sydney, Dublin and Manchester.
Hmm.
Isn't that a bit like saying "Yeah, man, she's beautiful, she's better looking than Megan Fox, Monica Bellucci and Sonia from Eastenders"
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There is an open goal of a joke linking the atmosphere at Villa and libraries but I can't be bothered thinking up our rivals satirical quips for them.
Rivals? For What?
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There is an open goal of a joke linking the atmosphere at Villa and libraries but I can't be bothered thinking up our rivals satirical quips for them.
Rivals? For What?
They're streets ahead of us in "The Race For Administration - 2013/14."
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That thread is really funny.
I just read it and think it may have the opposite of the desired effect. It could alienate up to, oh I dunno, 12,000 people.
All Blues fans should boycott books
The latter one followed by the response "What, maintain the status quo?"
Or "What's a book?"
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Nice one Villa.
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http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/the-library-ours-new-birmingham-6412854
There's quite some moaning there.
They really are fucking morons.
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Marvellous.
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The council should have built it in Sherlock St, that lot would never know what colour it was.
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http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/the-library-ours-new-birmingham-6412854
There's quite some moaning there.
They really are fucking morons.
It's very, very, funny.
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Odd line from that story on the OS.
The latest figures show the city is the most popular option for Britons staying in the UK - and the fastest growing anywhere in the world, ahead of Sydney, Dublin and Manchester.
Hmm.
Isn't that a bit like saying "Yeah, man, she's beautiful, she's better looking than Megan Fox, Monica Bellucci and Sonia from Eastenders"
See I judge that to be a subtle dig at Manchester more than anything.
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Disturbing imagery of Nazi book burnings on there as well - nasty
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Was I the only one who noticed it was completely royal blue at night from the time it opened? I am delighted that it is claret & blue for a fortnight AND linked with an educational project, but noses really don't have to get in a tizz about this. They really have more important things to worry about.
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Was I the only one who noticed it was completely royal blue at night from the time it opened? I am delighted that it is claret & blue for a fortnight AND linked with an educational project, but noses really don't have to get in a tizz about this. They really have more important things to worry about.
No they don't. There is nothing in their lives more important than moaning that Villa have got something they haven't.
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Was I the only one who noticed it was completely royal blue at night from the time it opened? I am delighted that it is claret & blue for a fortnight AND linked with an educational project, but noses really don't have to get in a tizz about this. They really have more important things to worry about.
To them, nothing is more important than us.
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Was I the only one who noticed it was completely royal blue at night from the time it opened? I am delighted that it is claret & blue for a fortnight AND linked with an educational project, but noses really don't have to get in a tizz about this. They really have more important things to worry about.
No they don't. There is nothing in their lives more important than moaning that Villa have got something they haven't.
Some of them know our history better than our fans do.
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This is the sort of thing that makes me optimistic for the future. It's the type of bright idea we had when Randy first arrived and hadn't seen much of for a couple of years. Whoever thought of it deserves a bonus.
I like his bit as well -
"... Villa Chief Executive Paul Faulkner, who is also a Trustee of the Library of Birmingham Trust ..."
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Odd line from that story on the OS.
The latest figures show the city is the most popular option for Britons staying in the UK - and the fastest growing anywhere in the world, ahead of Sydney, Dublin and Manchester.
Hmm.
Isn't that a bit like saying "Yeah, man, she's beautiful, she's better looking than Megan Fox, Monica Bellucci and Sonia from Eastenders"
See I judge that to be a subtle dig at Manchester more than anything.
So do I, and that's what my post was supposed to be, too.
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Went there tonight. Looks a lot bigger in real life.
(http://oi42.tinypic.com/e99m54.jpg)
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What a piece of art,i love it .
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Great stuff, well done PF and the club.
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looks like a lovely big pressie
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Great stuff, well done PF and the club.
Was I the only one who noticed it was completely royal blue at night from the time it opened? I am delighted that it is claret & blue for a fortnight AND linked with an educational project, but noses really don't have to get in a tizz about this. They really have more important things to worry about.
No they don't. There is nothing in their lives more important than moaning that Villa have got something they haven't.
Some of them know our history better than our fans do.
Of course they do, they learnt about our honour's from their club diary a couple of seasons back. Another comic episode in their history
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I can't help thinking the blue is the wrong shade.
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This is gold, I can imagine them foaming at the mouth :D
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"Half the city has been alienated". Are they on crack? They draw support from a corridor on the A45 about the size of Blackburn, the Mickey Mouse dreamers.
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Reading through the outraged of Shirley comments, it never ceases to amuse me when I hear or read the line "we carry the name of the city!".
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Reading through the outraged of Shirley comments, it never ceases to amuse me when I hear or read the line "we carry the name of the city!".
Quite, as if the city's name were bestowed upon them with great ceremony by the Lord Mayor himself at the Town Hall, rather than them merely riding the coattails.
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Reading through the outraged of Shirley comments, it never ceases to amuse me when I hear or read the line "we carry the name of the city!".
Was that not despite an agreement for none of the clubs to do so... so when they crow we have the name of the city it is as hollow as their support due to it being based on being a shitty little club acting under hand in the first place.
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The gentlemans agreement is a myth. We have never as a club paid much attention to them. See our rejection to the offer to provide players for a Birmingham team in the Fairs Cup.
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The council hate them as well, People are losing their jobs and they pay for this??
How do they know we didn't pay? Hurry up and go into administration you orrible bunch of wankers
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I would imagine Villa paid for the lighting. The council has not got a pot.
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Aston didn't become part of Birmingham until 1908, by which time Aston Villa was the most famous name in world football, anyway, so why on earth do they think we'd have wanted to change our name?
They really are a bunch of pitiful witless gibbons.
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Plus, really, is there a better named football club in the world. It just has grandeur. Oh how I would love a team on the pitch to match the wonder of the name.
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I would imagine Villa paid for the lighting. The council has not got a pot.
The council approached us so we wouldn't have paid and anyway, isn't it all computerised or something?
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I can't help thinking the blue is the wrong shade.
and the claret looks like the claret used in that awful shirt with NTL as the sponsor. Faulkner out.
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so when they crow we have the name of the city it is as hollow as their support due to it being based on being a shitty little club acting under hand in the first place
I take childish pleasure in reminding then that Bordesley, the birthplace of Small Heath Alliance, was once part of the parish of Aston.
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I would imagine Villa paid for the lighting. The council has not got a pot.
The council approached us so we wouldn't have paid and anyway, isn't it all computerised or something?
Of course it is, it will have cost pretty much nothing.
Like when they turn Selfridges green for St Patrick's Day or pink for Pride.
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Small Heath's Birmingham Mail journo Collin Tattum tweeted this on the matter..
dumbfounding @LibraryofBham misjudgement & @AVFCOfficial self-aggrandisement http://ow.ly/rRvge #bcfc #avfc #wba
And got a retweet and a response from Chris Lepkowski, Albion's Birmingham Mail journo...
Surely a museum would be worthier of those colours?
Jealousy can be a wonderful thing. It's a library with a few lights on, lads...!
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When the opposition fans sing, "Is this a library?" our more vocal contingent can reply with, "The library is ours, the library is ours, we're Aston Villa, the library is ours." Or something.
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When the opposition fans sing, "Is this a library?" our more vocal contingent can reply with, "The library is ours, the library is ours, we're Aston Villa, the library is ours." Or something.
"Have you seen a Bloser read? No-ooh No-ooh"
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Small Heath's Birmingham Mail journo Collin Tattum tweeted this on the matter..
dumbfounding @LibraryofBham misjudgement & @AVFCOfficial self-aggrandisement http://ow.ly/rRvge #bcfc #avfc #wba
And got a retweet and a response from Chris Lepkowski, Albion's Birmingham Mail journo...
Surely a museum would be worthier of those colours?
Jealousy can be a wonderful thing. It's a library with a few lights on, lads...!
Jesus wept, what a pair of sad bitter bastards.
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Small Heath's Birmingham Mail journo Collin Tattum tweeted this on the matter..
dumbfounding @LibraryofBham misjudgement & @AVFCOfficial self-aggrandisement http://ow.ly/rRvge #bcfc #avfc #wba
And got a retweet and a response from Chris Lepkowski, Albion's Birmingham Mail journo...
Surely a museum would be worthier of those colours?
Jealousy can be a wonderful thing. It's a library with a few lights on, lads...!
Jesus wept, what a pair of sad bitter bastards.
Really is worrying that they have such little perspective. Pillocks.
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What small time, bitter, twats they both are!
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What small time, bitter, twats they both are!
It's not as though anything is happening at the clubs they get paid to write about is it?
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Someone should respond saying the plan is to light it up green for a month afterwards in honour the 2 other teams in the city.
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do you think the Villa fans would of made much fuss out of the Library in the City of Birmingham being lit up in Blue and white ?
nah me neither...
it's great though, hearing them bleat on about it !
UTV
The Doc
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With Twattum using the term, "self - aggrandisement" in his tweet, can you imagine Big Barry Austin trying to get into the library to find a dictionary?
Don't fancy his chances on the escalator.......
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It isn't that they are getting annoyed that is laughable - I kind of understand that.
However, that Lepowski bloke going on about an appropriate building for our honours being a museum, the implication being that they were so long ago ...
Firstly, what does that make Albion's honours by comparison, then?
Secondly, he's a reporter for a local newspaper. Is that really appropriate as a thing for him to say?
Thirdly, as for Blues' honours, they'd need a library to be able to get hold of a dictionary to look it up and see what the term means.
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Tattum's tweet suggests he's taken it oh so seriously. Christ even their journalist is as bitter and jealous as your regular Villa hating Nose. Tattum you truly are a sad bitter man.
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Also, worth remembering that in return, Villa are running literacy courses there, so the city gets something back.
Blues currently probably couldn't afford the bus fare to get there, even if they could find someone literate at the club (which I doubt).
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Also, worth remembering that in return, Villa are running literacy courses there, so the city gets something back.
Blues currently probably couldn't afford the bus fare to get there, even if they could find someone literate at the club (which I doubt).
I can understand Lepkowski's tweet because even though it's petty at least he's making some kind of joke about it, but Tattum's is just pathetic. A true Villa hater just like every other Nose out there
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Could you imagine a proper writer such as Leon Hickman or Ian Willars spending their time on such trivia? Could you imagine their editors letting them?
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Could you imagine a proper writer such as Leon Hickman or Ian Willars spending their time on such trivia? Could you imagine their editors letting them?
The Mail's glory days are firmly in the past. Tattum should concentrate on the car crash that is his club and not leave it up to some bloke on a blog to do the serious investigative journalism that he should be doing. Bitter wanker.
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Could you imagine a proper writer such as Leon Hickman or Ian Willars spending their time on such trivia? Could you imagine their editors letting them?
The Mail's glory days are firmly in the past.
So are all local newspapers, to be honest. It must be difficult for them, jockeying around for a new status and role in the digital world.
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I can't help thinking the blue is the wrong shade.
and the claret looks like the claret used in that awful shirt with NTL as the sponsor. Faulkner out.
That's a bit harsh.
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It isn't that they are getting annoyed that is laughable - I kind of understand that.
However, that Lepowski bloke going on about an appropriate building for our honours being a museum, the implication being that they were so long ago ...
Firstly, what does that make Albion's honours by comparison, then?
Secondly, he's a reporter for a local newspaper. Is that really appropriate as a thing for him to say?
Thirdly, as for Blues' honours, they'd need a library to be able to get hold of a dictionary to look it up and see what the term means.
Exactly. We have won more than Albion, Blues and Wolves combined, yet they call us arrogant. Its not our fault they're all really shit.
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Tattum's tweet suggests he's taken it oh so seriously. Christ even their journalist is as bitter and jealous as your regular Villa hating Nose. Tattum you truly are a sad bitter man.
I always remember Tattum's summary of the Noses defeat at B6 when Milner scored the penalty. The pride he took and the achievement he labelled it all, only being beat by the one goal to nil, as if they had just won a cup.
Small time garden variety Nose. If we didn't exist, they wouldn't. That is how important we are to them.
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I can't help thinking the blue is the wrong shade.
and the claret looks like the claret used in that awful shirt with NTL as the sponsor. Faulkner out.
That's a bit harsh.
is it? He should insist on the colours being right. Otherwise he may as well have used royal blue and white.
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I can't help thinking the blue is the wrong shade.
and the claret looks like the claret used in that awful shirt with NTL as the sponsor. Faulkner out.
That's a bit harsh.
is it? He should insist on the colours being right. Otherwise he may as well have used royal blue and white.
Its a bit of a distance from one to the other though. Besides, despite my observation, it seems the blue eighth of the city are up in arms. So, job done. No need to sack anyone.
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Aston Villa, mentioned in works by DH Lawrence, Philip Larkin and Harold Pinter. Birmingham City, mentioned in The Sunday Sport and the legal pages of the South China Morning Post.
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I can't help thinking the blue is the wrong shade.
and the claret looks like the claret used in that awful shirt with NTL as the sponsor. Faulkner out.
That's a bit harsh.
is it? He should insist on the colours being right. Otherwise he may as well have used royal blue and white.
Its a bit of a distance from one to the other though. Besides, despite my observation, it seems the blue eighth of the city are up in arms. So, job done. No need to sack anyone.
Chris, I'm one of Faulkner's supporters on many things and I think this is brilliant by him and the PR team at Villa. I'm joking massively :)
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Cue some knob head Nose and a rock or two.
You just can't help yourself can you?
Sorry. I should have said " Cue some fantastic Birmingham City supporter and a book or two."
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Chris, I'm one of Faulkner's supporters on many things and I think this is brilliant by him and the PR team at Villa. I'm joking massively :)
Oh fuck it then, sack him!
Only joking. ;)
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Bitter bastards, every club has it's shits
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Could you imagine a proper writer such as Leon Hickman or Ian Willars spending their time on such trivia? Could you imagine their editors letting them?
The Mail's glory days are firmly in the past.
So are all local newspapers, to be honest. It must be difficult for them, jockeying around for a new status and role in the digital world.
I'm no expert - but surely local papers should be about being 'local' more than anything else? Now that they syndicate more and more of the news feeds, the news becomes less and less local. And people stop buying it as a result. Hence the death spiral.
As for the library - nice touch. Plus if it hacks off the oi polloi, then even better.
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Just came across a Q&A with Chris Lepkowski.
First Albion game I saw was a 1-0 defeat to Blackburn in 1987. First-ever match I saw was Villa 1, Norwich 4 in autumn 1986. I was stood in the away end that day - though I have no allegiance whatsoever to Norwich.
You couldn't make it up. I'll bet he wildly celebrated those four Norwich goals.
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He writes more about the Villa than the Albion. Well that's a surprise isn't it?
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The Mail coverage of villa has gone downhill since Rob Bishop left.
Oh and the library looks awesome.
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Another piece in today's Mail on the uproar from Noses regarding the library link up with the Villa. Some of the comments from them are hilarious. I doubt there's another club in the country who despise their neighbours as much as the Sty lot hate us.
Backhanded compliments and all that....
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Now Tom Ross has weighed in on Twitter.
'Do u think the council are right to support 1 team when they have more than 1 team in the area? IMO it's wrong be it Baggies Villa Blues or Wolves'.
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Now Tom Ross has weighed in on Twitter.
'Do u think the council are right to support 1 team when they have more than 1 team in the area? IMO it's wrong be it Baggies Villa Blues or Wolves'.
Erm... what do Birmingham council have to do with Wolverhampton Wanderers? Isn't Wolverhampton a city in its own right, complete with it's own council?
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Now Tom Ross has weighed in on Twitter.
'Do u think the council are right to support 1 team when they have more than 1 team in the area? IMO it's wrong be it Baggies Villa Blues or Wolves'.
Erm... what do Birmingham council have to do with Wolverhampton Wanderers? Isn't Wolverhampton a city in its own right, complete with it's own council?
And the Bitters come under Sandwell Council.
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Now Tom Ross has weighed in on Twitter.
'Do u think the council are right to support 1 team when they have more than 1 team in the area? IMO it's wrong be it Baggies Villa Blues or Wolves'.
Well in my opinion, Tom you can f**k off, you sad little man That is all.
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Just came across a Q&A with Chris Lepkowski.
First Albion game I saw was a 1-0 defeat to Blackburn in 1987. First-ever match I saw was Villa 1, Norwich 4 in autumn 1986. I was stood in the away end that day - though I have no allegiance whatsoever to Norwich.
You couldn't make it up. I'll bet he wildly celebrated those four Norwich goals.
I bet he couldn't believe his luck when Steve Hodge put them on their way with that gash back-pass to Kevin Poole.
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Just came across a Q&A with Chris Lepkowski.
First Albion game I saw was a 1-0 defeat to Blackburn in 1987. First-ever match I saw was Villa 1, Norwich 4 in autumn 1986. I was stood in the away end that day - though I have no allegiance whatsoever to Norwich.
You couldn't make it up. I'll bet he wildly celebrated those four Norwich goals.
Not exclusive to the Albion though - IIRC a few on here have had happy afternoons at SHA and have cheered the opposition.
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Just came across a Q&A with Chris Lepkowski.
First Albion game I saw was a 1-0 defeat to Blackburn in 1987. First-ever match I saw was Villa 1, Norwich 4 in autumn 1986. I was stood in the away end that day - though I have no allegiance whatsoever to Norwich.
You couldn't make it up. I'll bet he wildly celebrated those four Norwich goals.
Not exclusive to the Albion though - IIRC a few on here have had happy afternoons at SHA and have cheered the opposition.
Not before we'd ever been to Villa Park.
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Must admit I thought this was quite amusing:
http://www.thenational.ae/sport/english-premier-league/blue-bloods-of-birmingham-seeing-villans-claret?
The bit about mascots was good as well.
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Must admit I thought this was quite amusing:
http://www.thenational.ae/sport/english-premier-league/blue-bloods-of-birmingham-seeing-villans-claret?
The bit about mascots was good as well.
Right up until the bit about sepia tinged victories at the end, he was doing so well before his obsession with Villa really shone through.
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I liked this line: Would it really be so hard to colour the moon blue?
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Are any of their supporters capable of writing without mentioning eighties violence?
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Are any of their supporters capable of writing without mentioning eighties violence?
That's their glory days.
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Are any of their supporters capable of writing without mentioning eighties violence?
It's the only thing they've got to shout about, and this after the rest of society has moved on a bit.
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They just never fail to show how they really feel about us do they. It's as though they are the only club to play in blue and white. Twats.
As for West Ham, they needn’t bother with anything: they have already got Birmingham Central Library.
Oh sorry, my mistake, that is Villa isn’t it? I always get those two mixed up. It must be the shared colour scheme. Or the smug supporters puffed up on sepia-tinged victories from the olden days.
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Is the bit about getting us mixed up with West Ham supposed to upset us as easily as they get upset? As for territories and ownership of certain places in the city, if I organised a trip to the sty with every Villa fan I know we would outnumber them in their own ground these days. Still, it's not about going to games is it? It is about making sure certain pubs and snooker clubs are blue.
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Now Tom Ross has weighed in on Twitter.
'Do u think the council are right to support 1 team when they have more than 1 team in the area? IMO it's wrong be it Baggies Villa Blues or Wolves'.
Support? I am sure we have funded this promotion. Something that Blues can't do and Albion wouldn't know how to do. And oh yes Wolves....that's a completely different town arsehole.
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Albion are Sandwell which is a completely different council as well. You'd think Ross would know that before spouting off more shite.
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The rags were more than happy to be in bed with the council when they were going to build their 300k super,mega stadium that still not going to be big enough.
They didn't mind a bit of favouritism then.
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If my seven year old daughter threw as many tantrums as the noses and Albion fans I would be embarrassed.
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They do realise its only for a few weeks don't they?!
Geez.... what a daft thing to get in a tizzy over.
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I think if this was an April Fool it would have been a good one - the fact that it's true makes it pure genius and the reaction has been hilarious - it has even got to a couple of what I considered 'normal' bluenoses I work with (normal in the sense they are usually self-deprecating about their place in the order of things).
Well done Mr Faulkner and all concerned.
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They do realise its only for a few weeks don't they?!
Geez.... what a daft thing to get in a tizzy over.
They haven't got anything better to have a tizzy over. It's not as if one of them is managerless and the other is going into administration is it?
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Can't believe these muppets are still harping on about this. Have they nothing else to worry about (such as, I dunno, administration?) in their sad little lives?
Hark at this tit on the Mail website:
And Jason Ward posted: “I thought Aston was down the road? How can it be good for Birmingham when you have alienated two thirds of Birmingham residents?
‘‘Surely the council should share the colours of all the Birmingham clubs including Baggies, Blues and Villa?”
They have done, mate. Blue at the top representing your lot, claret in the middle for us, and blue at the bottom for Smethwick.
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Jesus wept. The Noses have moaned and bitched so much the Library has had to make a statement explaining it's links with Villa....
Lighting up the Library - Some information on the Library's colour scheme
19 December 2013
Posted in: Library of Birmingham
The exterior of the Library has a powerful lighting scheme which has largely been set to pure white as a default setting so far, with exceptions made for - by way of example - blue to indicate support for World Diabetes Day and rainbow in memory of Nelson Mandela.
However, the City Council, like many other metropolitan councils, faces severe budgetary pressures, and library management has a responsibility to seek all possible alternative sources of income. We are therefore piloting an idea to seek sponsorship for short term lighting schemes as a means to raise income to support the library programmes. Alternative funding sources will be necessary to maintain high standards of service.
The Library works in partnership with many organisations in the city, of all different sorts, but, unfortunately, and as much as we'd like to, it can't work with all organisations of every type at the same time - not every college, for example, has been involved in the events of the Library's first three months, not every major bank is working with the library to deliver business services.
The temporary lighting of the Library is both a pilot and part of a long-term partnership with AVFC and others to tackle some of the deep-rooted challenges of illiteracy in the city, a cause which we think is really worthwhile. It also brings financial benefit to the Library, as AVFC are making a financial contribution through this package of measures.
There is no intention to be exclusive. We'd love to talk with Birmingham City FC (and WBA) and see how we can work together to build a broader partnership to benefit everyone in Birmingham.
Paul Faulkner, Chief Executive of AVFC, is a trustee of the Library of Birmingham Development Trust. For clarity, this does not have any operational responsibility, and is solely charged with raising funding to support the Library and complement what the local authority can contribute in difficult times.
For information, well-known Blues supporter, Jasper Carrott, is a Patron of the Library of Birmingham Trust.
It's hard to understate just how much they hate Aston Villa, and it's all based on the green eyed monster.
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"We linked with the biggest football club in the city."
"And what happened."
"Two local journalists threw a tantrum."
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Childish I know, but I am finding how much it is pissing people off to be very amusing.
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If it bothers them so much, why don't they give some money to the council like we have? Otherwise shut the fcuk up. They can afford to give Pannu a hefty fee and pay Hightower 60 large a week so a few bob on lighting won't kill 'em. Sadly.
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It's not Villa's fault that big institutions in Birmingham want nothing to do with them and everything to do with us.
Honestly the only thing that ever galvanises their pitiful support is their hatred of all things claret and blue. They're facing administration yet they can barely muster a flicker of protest, yet when The new library uses claret and blue lights all hell breaks loose in Small Heath.
It's just fuckin hilarious!
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It's not Villa's fault that big institutions in Birmingham want nothing to do with them and everything to do with us.
Honestly the only thing that ever galvanises their pitiful support is their hatred of all things claret and blue. They're facing administration yet they can barely muster a flicker of protest, yet when The new library uses claret and blue lights all hell breaks loose in Small Heath.
It's just fuckin hilarious!
That's a good point. Last week we were saying they've had decades of incompetent and crooked owners without protest yet the council does something with the Villa for a fortnight and the screams can be heard in outer space.
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It's times like this that I realise how we'd really miss them if they weren't there. I know the odd defeat every twenty years is hard to bear, but bloody hell, the other 19 years of hilarity more than make up for it.
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If the Library had tied in with the blose, I would probably have been pissed off.
But I would have been angry with the Villa for not thinking of it first.Not pissing and whingeing "it aint fair"
They are all going to boycott it, and seeing as we all live miles away from a B postcode I expect the Library will probably fold within weeks.
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Jesus wept. The Noses have moaned and bitched so much the Library has had to make a statement explaining it's links with Villa....
Lighting up the Library - Some information on the Library's colour scheme
19 December 2013
Posted in: Library of Birmingham
The exterior of the Library has a powerful lighting scheme which has largely been set to pure white as a default setting so far, with exceptions made for - by way of example - blue to indicate support for World Diabetes Day and rainbow in memory of Nelson Mandela.
However, the City Council, like many other metropolitan councils, faces severe budgetary pressures, and library management has a responsibility to seek all possible alternative sources of income. We are therefore piloting an idea to seek sponsorship for short term lighting schemes as a means to raise income to support the library programmes. Alternative funding sources will be necessary to maintain high standards of service.
The Library works in partnership with many organisations in the city, of all different sorts, but, unfortunately, and as much as we'd like to, it can't work with all organisations of every type at the same time - not every college, for example, has been involved in the events of the Library's first three months, not every major bank is working with the library to deliver business services.
The temporary lighting of the Library is both a pilot and part of a long-term partnership with AVFC and others to tackle some of the deep-rooted challenges of illiteracy in the city, a cause which we think is really worthwhile. It also brings financial benefit to the Library, as AVFC are making a financial contribution through this package of measures.
There is no intention to be exclusive. We'd love to talk with Birmingham City FC (and WBA) and see how we can work together to build a broader partnership to benefit everyone in Birmingham.
Paul Faulkner, Chief Executive of AVFC, is a trustee of the Library of Birmingham Development Trust. For clarity, this does not have any operational responsibility, and is solely charged with raising funding to support the Library and complement what the local authority can contribute in difficult times.
For information, well-known Blues supporter, Jasper Carrott, is a Patron of the Library of Birmingham Trust.
It's hard to understate just how much they hate Aston Villa, and it's all based on the green eyed monster.
So they would love to talk with Birmingham City FC. Good luck with finding someone to talk to, let alone getting any cash out of them. Mind you, wasn't it reported Carson was prepared to talk with Paladini for the small fee of twenty grand? If the library are prepared to pay that for a chat good luck to them.
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Just think if the boot was on the other foot.
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Just think if the boot was on the other foot.
You mean like if we'd had to ride round in blue and white buses since 1904?
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Just think if the boot was on the other foot.
You mean like if we'd had to ride round in blue and white buses since 1904?
That sort of stuff happens when you are a one third minority.
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Just think if the boot was on the other foot.
You mean like if we'd had to ride round in blue and white buses since 1904?
We always went by Midland Red.
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Just think if the boot was on the other foot.
You mean like if we'd had to ride round in blue and white buses since 1904?
We always went by Midland Red.
Tut, glory hunting. Could have at least supported a local team coloured bus.
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Just think if the boot was on the other foot.
The library's actual default colours are theirs though. It has been in their colours since it opened. In a fortnight it will return to their colours. I will admit to a passing thought as I drove past it that it'd be better if it wasn't in Blues colours, but did I take to twitter or the letters page of The Evening Mail to express my outrage?
More to the point, no-one there thought to make any capital out of it. They actually didn't have to do anything to be able to claim the library as theirs for the past few months, but it never occurred to them.
Turn it claret & blue for a fortnight though......
It would be unbelieveable if it wasn't so predictable.
A master stoke on the part of the council - to realise that you would actually have to turn the library claret & blue for noses to actually realise it was there!
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First the gas towers, now the library. What next? Sherlock Street in claret and blue?
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"Mummy mummy those nasty Aston Villa people have got a library in claret and blue and I want one and I can't have one and its not fair mummy."
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Some choice arguments from blues fans on the internet:
Their fans comprise two thirds of the city's population.
All 500,000 blues fans should vote out the current council at the next round of elections.
Absolutely delusional, and they're bad at maths.
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I thought all of Birmingham supported Small Heath?
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"Mummy mummy those nasty Aston Villa people have got a library in claret and blue and I want one and I can't have one and its not fair mummy."
For a club that's never had anything worth having, ever, they're the most spoilt brat fans on the planet... but only when it concerns us.
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I thought all of Birmingham supported Small Heath?
Only "real Brummies".
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Just think if the boot was on the other foot.
The library's actual default colours are theirs though. It has been in their colours since it opened. In a fortnight it will return to their colours. I will admit to a passing thought as I drove past it that it'd be better if it wasn't in Blues colours, but did I take to twitter or the letters page of The Evening Mail to express my outrage?
The libary's default colours are Wolves' though.
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I thought all of Birmingham supported Small Heath?
Only "real Brummies".
I love it when they say that. We're all out-of-towners apparently, but they never mention that their core support resides in leafy Solihull.
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I thought all of Birmingham supported Small Heath?
Only "real Brummies".
I love it when they say that. We're all out-of-towners apparently, but they never mention that their core support resides in leafy Solihull.
Very true. I like to remind them that there were Villa fans in Birmingham before their club was even formed. That line usually gets the frothing at the mouth.
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Just think if the boot was on the other foot.
The library's actual default colours are theirs though. It has been in their colours since it opened. In a fortnight it will return to their colours. I will admit to a passing thought as I drove past it that it'd be better if it wasn't in Blues colours, but did I take to twitter or the letters page of The Evening Mail to express my outrage?
The libary's default colours are Wolves' though.
not at night
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I'll say it again - Erdington and Sutton two of the biggest B'ham suburbs....
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"Mummy mummy those nasty Aston Villa people have got a library in claret and blue and I want one and I can't have one and its not fair mummy."
" what's a library, son?"
"It's a bit like St Andrews, mom, only noisier"
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"and with more people inside."
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I thought all of Birmingham supported Small Heath?
Only "real Brummies".
I love it when they say that. We're all out-of-towners apparently, but they never mention that their core support resides in leafy Solihull.
Very true. I like to remind them that there were Villa fans in Birmingham before their club was even formed. That line usually gets the frothing at the mouth.
I like that, another one for the already huge arsenal.
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Duly noted. Thanks.
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That's cheered me up.
Rather fetching , I Thought. 8)