Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Legion on August 23, 2014, 10:17:29 PM
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According to a Burnley fan I have just had a few words with, Aston Villa were not one of the 12 founder members of the football league and we were not formed in 1874 because we only came into existence post-1882 after they were founded. Plus we copied their colours.
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Silly Billy
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He was being deadly serious.
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Deluded. Did you mention McGregor?
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If only there was something that people could check before spouting bollocks. I dunno, maybe some kind of place that takes seconds to look stuff up. I might invent it and make millions. I will name it George, and I will hug it and pet it and squeeze it.
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I was on a train coming from the prison in the Lichfield and as we were a-nearing Villa park some girl booed on the train. She was sitting with her grebo mates - there was some spotty rocker festival somewhere - and when asked by her friends about her booing she said because she was an Aston Villa fan and we'd nicked their colours. twat.
Strange about the Burnley fan though as I was once singled out by a Burnley fan as I was wearing some Villa paraphernalia simply so he could tell me about Burnley taking Villa's colours. Really proud of it and their history and how it was linked to us. I thought kindly of Burnley ever since. Shame you met the twat though Lee.
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Oh dear
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Thing is all these people are doing are showing themselves up for not knowing their own history never mind football history. May as well go and support Chelsea. or Newcastle.
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Ah bless
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I might have been hallucinating, but as well as borrowing our colours I believe I read somewhere that we played them in the first game at Turf Moor to inaugurate the ground. What with us being a big draw at the time, and all that.
Believe we did the same for Bristol Rovers and a few others too.
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Seems legit.
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I know it's late and I've had a few but, there's a simple Anglo-Saxon word that sums him up...C**t!
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Burnley originally played in a green kit but changed to claret and blue because they wanted to be as great as the Villa.
It didn't work out.
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Perhaps this Burnley fan should have a word with A Lochhead Esq at their next home match. I think Andy might put him right!
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That Chelsea fan on Twatter last season was a good one. Anyone still got the jpeg?
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Perhaps this Burnley fan should have a word with A Lochhead Esq at their next home match. I think Andy might put him right!
Believe me, he was put right. When he came down for breakfast this morning it was noticeable that he avoided making any form of eye contact and sat well away from our table.
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I might have been hallucinating, but as well as borrowing our colours I believe I read somewhere that we played them in the first game at Turf Moor to inaugurate the ground. What with us being a big draw at the time, and all that.
Believe we did the same for Bristol Rovers and a few others too.
We also, back in the day, played Tottenham in a series of three friendlies in London to help them raise enough money to become a league club. It's something I should point out to Spurs fans on a more regular basis.
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Bit like the cricket counties slagging off The Bears for daring to use the name of their home territory. Several of them were more than glad of Warwick pools money to help them survive.
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Burnley changed kit to claret and blue in 1911 in the hope that copying us would help them have more luck and win more.
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Burnley changed kit to claret and blue in 1911 in the hope that copying us would help them have more luck and win more.
I see PWS didn't hang about in getting his "George" idea up and running.
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I had a discussion with a Spurs fan on holiday recently who refused to acknowledge that we have won the European Cup.
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I had a discussion with a Spurs fan on holiday recently who refused to acknowledge that we have won the European Cup.
Had they?
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I had a discussion with a Spurs fan on holiday recently who refused to acknowledge that we have won the European Cup.
That's just funny.
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It's quite interesting to be standing near Mr.McGregor's statue on matchdays and listening to some of the questions and answers about him.
The most common one is "Who's he?" answer "Probably one of their old chairmen."
Another one I overheard once was that "He's the bloke who built Villa Park."
But fair play to The Arsenal fan a couple of seasons ago with a couple of kids in tow who asked him the question and he was spot on, "If it wasn't for him we wouldn't be watching league football nowadays, that man came up with the idea and it weren't a bad one was it?" The two lads then posed for photo's in front of the statue.
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It's quite interesting to be standing near Mr.McGregor's statue on matchdays and listening to some of the questions and answers about him.
The most common one is "Who's he?" answer "Probably one of their old chairmen."
Another one I overheard once was that "He's the bloke who built Villa Park."
But fair play to The Arsenal fan a couple of seasons ago with a couple of kids in tow who asked him the question and he was spot on, "If it wasn't for him we wouldn't be watching league football nowadays, that man came up with the idea and it weren't a bad one was it?" The two lads then posed for photo's in front of the statue.
;D
Nice to hear that Arsenal fan knew his onions.
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I have a mate who is Arsenal and I often meet him and his dad when they can get to the game at VP. I took them on a mini tour of the outside of the ground one year and made sure they knew about the statue. Even took them past The Holte End and they loved how The Holte looked from outside.
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Burnley were the first in claret and blue ? Hahahaha, what an ignorant twat !
I hope you told him it was Wet Spam.