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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Legion on February 11, 2018, 01:56:05 PM
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Lovely stuff.
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We are back.
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Is this the best game since the semi final?
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Outside of a couple of incidents this was the most comfortable derby I can ever recall. We are far the better side and now 7 wins in a row are in tremendous form headed to Fulham. Great result.
Jack was outstanding again
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Outside of a couple of incidents this was the most comfortable derby I can ever recall. We are far the better side and now 7 wins in a row are in tremendous form headed to Fulham. Great result.
Jack was outstanding again
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Too easy. Jack was magnificent. Best performance from a Villa player in years!
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Get in there!
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It will be a few years before we have to play these tramps again. The gulf between the 2 sides is massive. Still, i'm sure they'll somehow turn it into a moral victory as usual.
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Never thought they would trouble us. Sounds like a comfortable win
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Watched the game in a Streatham gastropub, surrounded by families having Sunday dinner with their kids, no volume on the TV.
But still brilliant. My niece is impressed we have a Jedi and Thor in the team.
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We were great.
Our mentality is top class atm. Just go out on the pitch and get the job done. Rock solid at the back and we could've scored more than two goals today which is also pleasing.
Looks like we're that form team that comes from a way back in the second half of the season as we look every inch a promotion team.
Huge difference from last season.
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Besides Jack, Jedinak was also excellent, mopped up everything whether in the air or on the ground, as were Terry and Chester as usual.
Really is a superb feeling to have midfielders capable of taking their chances as brilliantly as Hourihane and Adomah did today.
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Happy for Steve here very emotional when the first goal went in.
Can't fault anything about that showing at all, we were so much better.
Magical day.
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Terry makes such a difference. Everything just looks solid and organised with him in there.
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Get in. Great performance and now 2nd...it's in our hands.
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Magnificent.
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Comfortable win really, we always looked a class above and it told. Grealish superb, Hogan worked his socks off and we looked solid all game. UTV.
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Excellent. Hourihane looked a bit off the pace until the goal, and Snodgrass wasn't as sharp as in recent games.
But we can now have players playing at 6 or 7 out of 10 and still winning comfortably at this level. Jack different class, but that's becoming standard now.
Can't believe I am saying this, but fair play to SHA too. Making a game of it and going at us in the first half. That opened the match up.
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Fully in control all game. Grealish and jedinak immense
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Marvellous, marvellous scenes.
Enjoy the week ahead everyone & UTV! ;)
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What a way to spend a peaceful shift at work. Cheers chaps.
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Quality goals....that's what I pay my money to see.
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All is right with the world...the natural balance of good vs evil is restored with a 2-0 win against the Blue Scum and we go 2nd in the table. Enjoy the rest of your weekend ladies and gentlemen!
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Excellent stuff overall. Bit of a lull after half time aside, it was a great effort. 2-0 doesn't accurately reflect the gulf in class, Small Heath showed absolutely nothing. Fair play to Bruce, the Jedinak over Thor call was a big one, but Mile was immense.
Grealish was awesome. They just couldn't cope with him at all and had to resort to trying to hack him down everytime. Fair play to Jack for not reacting.
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We're going up, you're going down, We're going up, you're going down, sweet soul music :)
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Well that tastes sweeter than honey.
Jedinak was immense and Jack was different class.
Everyone else did well, my only minor complaint is that Snodgrass and Hourihane do throw themselves to the floor a lot and when they don't get the free kick they are out of the play and the opposition have space to exploit.
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Well done boys!
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Blues are shit
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That was probably the best team performance of the season, the players allowed to show what they are capable of and boy did they show it. Great call by Bruce to bring in the Jedi, he was excellent. As for Jack, that was some performance. Collectively we were well up for it and was probably the most comfortable derby win I can recall for a long time.
3 points in the bag and up to second. I've had worse Sunday lunchtimes.
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We have a very good team coming together
Great performance
Jack bossed it
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Lovely stuff, and a pointless sending off at the death for laughs.
We are a machine, it’s a joy watching us now.
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Yes!!!!
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I've had worse Sunday lunchtimes.
That's exactly what I said to my daughter a few minutes ago!
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Johnstone - 8 - Rarely called on but looked very comfortable and assured.
Elmo - 8 - Quick, defended well and put a few good balls into the box as well.
Chester - 9 - Absoluely comfortable and classy.
Terry - 9 - One slip, otherwise a colossus and he loved it.
Hutton - 8 - Solid and worked his socks off as ever.
Jedinak - 9 - Covered the defence so well, particularly first half.
Adomah - 8 - Got better as the game went on, took his goal well, someone in the lower Holte needs to pass him a crown the next time he does that celebration to complete it!
Hourahane - 7 - Bit of a quiet one, would have got a 6 but extra mark for a great goal.
Grealish - 10 - MOTM - Absolutely top drawer performance, the touch had me drooling, the set up for Adomahs goal was sublime and his workrate and discipline were faultless.
Snodgrass - 8 - Worked his bollocks off and had some good moments including a near miss.
Hogan - 8 - Same as Snodgrass, a little isolated on occasion.
Subs - Bit late to rate but I liked the look of Grabban who looked quick and strong and worked hard, Thor got into a good position only to be snuffed out.
I'm starting to love this Villa team, absolutely unrecognisable now from 2 years ago, well done Bruce and his assistants.
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Can't believe it's more or less the same team that played Brentford at Christmas. Jack is that good, he could get a game for Wulvz!
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Just a superb team performance,well done lads.
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Superb.
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Great performance. Sun is out. Happy days.
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Highlights (http://www.skysports.com/football/a-villa-vs-birmham/live/374979)
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Always going to be a tough one in the lead up but when we turned up on the pitch there was only one winner.
Thankfully it was us!
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Watched the game with my dad. He spent the first half complaining about Albert, and I did the same regarding Hourihane. Cheers boys.
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Good that the blues have another local lad to hate now other than gabby.
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They're garbage. The biggest gulf in class since the 5-1. Head and shoulders above them.
The city is ours!
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Wonderful goals. Snapping into challenges, no quarter given. Brilliant.
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Beautiful, just beautiful.
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Beautiful, just beautiful.
Summed up well.
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Well done you Villa boys .I was proud of you today.
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Well done you Villa boys .I was proud of you today.
Me too.
Fans of other clubs on Twitter saying this one is a proper derby. I'm glad we put on a good performance.
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Received something similar from my daughter a few minutes ago.
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I love Albert. The gut is POTY so far - really stepped up when it mattered
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I love Albert. The gut is POTY so far - really stepped up when it mattered
Adomah for Traore ;D
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How poor were they. Grealish, hogan and snoddy outstanding
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Last 12 league games against them. W8 D4 L0 F18 A5
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A reminder for them of the gulf between the two clubs. Blues were garbage and were picked apart by a far superior side in front of the kind of crowd and in the kind of stadium they could only dream of.
Analysis of the game can wait for another day and we can just enjoy the win for now.
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Worst team and fans at VP this season. Even Burton had a go.
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We're fuckin 2nd..end of....
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That Hitzlsperger goal in 2004 was definitely a great goal but I have never remembered it too fondly as a result of what followed in that game. Hourihane's today will live long in my affections.
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Jack absolutely superb today, but what also pleased me about him today, was despite the stick he was getting he kept his cool, previously he might well have retaliated and got a yellow or worse. This clearly shows his increasing maturity.
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Haven’t been less stressed in a derby since the 5-1. Was only briefly concerned when we went in level after dominating the first half.
Whatever else is said about him, Bruce has done a great job on the club’s former basket-case mentality. And big-ups to Agnew, and Bruce for appointing him.
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Great result and I’m pleased it’s over. Might be quite some time before we have to play those tossers again.
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Fucking have that you sister shagging ******. I love Grealish, Hogan, Snoddy and Adomah. ❤❤❤
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Haven’t been less stressed in a derby since the 5-1. Was only briefly concerned when we went in level after dominating the first half.
Whatever else is said about him, Bruce has done a great job on the club’s former basket-case mentality. And big-ups to Agnew, and Bruce for appointing him.
Not sure about no stress I was convinced we had blown it after such a one sided first half
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Unlike them if the boot was on the other foot, I feel no need to gloat or give it the big 'un. They are arguably the worst Small Heath team I have ever seen along with the team of the late eighties and early nineties. Even Terry Coopers Triton Showers of shit vintage gave us a better couple of games in the cup in the BFR days. Our second goal was fanastic, which set me thinking about our best goals against them. I thought of Allan Evans in 1980 and Gary Cahill's at The Holte. Plus peter Withe's at the Holte in 1983 for a bit of comedy value. If my memory serves me right the two goals by Gage and Gray at their place in the league cup in 1988 were decent.
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I'm fuckunf. Wankered. Get innykov byVi'laa botex!
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I'm fuckunf. Wankered. Get innykov byVi'laa botex!
I'm in a similar boat. Get in!!!
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Well that was just fuckin brilliant! Up the Villa!
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Unlike them if the boot was on the other foot, I feel no need to gloat or give it the big 'un. They are arguably the worst Small Heath team I have ever seen along with the team of the late eighties and early nineties. Even Terry Coopers Triton Showers of shit vintage gave us a better couple of games in the cup in the BFR days. Our second goal was fanastic, which set me thinking about our best goals against them. I thought of Allan Evans in 1980 and Gary Cahill's at The Holte. Plus peter Withe's at the Holte in 1983 for a bit of comedy value. If my memory serves me right the two goals by Gage and Gray at their place in the league cup in 1988 were decent.
Hitzlsperger.
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Cotterill gave an honest summing up, said they deserved nothing from the game and that the occasion got to some of his younger players.
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That is wonderful. Up the Villa! Grealish was outstanding, an absolute joy to watch. Great result. Have a brilliant day all!
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That N’Doye for them is one of the worst players I’ve seen for ages. Twitter seems to be full of Heathens glad he got sent off so they don’t have to watch him for a while.
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Last 12 league games against them. W8 D4 L0 F18 A5
Wait till you see our record in the next twelve league games against them.
If any of us live long enough to see it. ;)
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That N’Doye for them is one of the worst players I’ve seen for ages. Twitter seems to be full of Heathens glad he got sent off so they don’t have to watch him for a while.
he's one of those players that you honestly wonder how they ever made it to be a professional footballer. Just a big dumb lug with next to no talent at all.
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Unlike them if the boot was on the other foot, I feel no need to gloat or give it the big 'un. They are arguably the worst Small Heath team I have ever seen along with the team of the late eighties and early nineties. Even Terry Coopers Triton Showers of shit vintage gave us a better couple of games in the cup in the BFR days. Our second goal was fanastic, which set me thinking about our best goals against them. I thought of Allan Evans in 1980 and Gary Cahill's at The Holte. Plus peter Withe's at the Holte in 1983 for a bit of comedy value. If my memory serves me right the two goals by Gage and Gray at their place in the league cup in 1988 were decent.
Terry Coopers Triton Showers of Shit...
Ha ha!
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the two goal scorers today were Connor and Albert the same names as my two sons who were both there to see it
I’ve been very critical of Bruce and our performances for a long time now but we were fantastic today, as others have said one of the best derby games for years, we battered them from start to finish the 2 nil result flatterd them
Grealish is a master craftsmen on the pitch they could not cope with him and resorted to kicking him whenever they could it was their only tactic that I could see
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Ah Terry Cooper and his insistence it was offside.
There's a circus in the town...
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On my way back other than the 5-1 that was the most one sided derby I can remember of recent times. Grealish was immense today fair play to him to not reacting to the treatment they were dishing out. Hourihane’s goal was a thing of beauty gonna live long in the memory. I think it might be a while before we play that lot again. Up the Villa.
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Small Heath had one moment all game, when Terry stumbled to allow Gallagher in. Apart from that they offered absolutely nothing. If they don't go down it will be a massive indictment on this league.
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Great performance from start to finish, should have been more than two. Jack is really dominating games now and it has such an effect on the whole side, creates so much space for others. Really got stuck into them in the first twenty minutes, won every second ball, showed them up for the shower they really are. Got a feeling that's the last time we will play them for a while.
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Fantastic just love beating those lot I thought Jack was MOTM brilliant goal from Conor and Albert's goal wasn't bad well happy with the three points and into second place well done Villa.
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Unlike them if the boot was on the other foot, I feel no need to gloat or give it the big 'un. They are arguably the worst Small Heath team I have ever seen along with the team of the late eighties and early nineties. Even Terry Coopers Triton Showers of shit vintage gave us a better couple of games in the cup in the BFR days. Our second goal was fanastic, which set me thinking about our best goals against them. I thought of Allan Evans in 1980 and Gary Cahill's at The Holte. Plus peter Withe's at the Holte in 1983 for a bit of comedy value. If my memory serves me right the two goals by Gage and Gray at their place in the league cup in 1988 were decent.
On the same note, try and think of one of their efforts that was cleanly struck, never mind pleasing on the eye. I can only think of Forsell's equaliser when Gabby won it late at their place.
The rest have been a selection of mis-kicks, rebounds and keeper howlers.
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Magnificent today, such a massive gulf in class both on and off the pitch.
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Outside of a couple of incidents this was the most comfortable derby I can ever recall. We are far the better side and now 7 wins in a row are in tremendous form headed to Fulham. Great result.
Jack was outstanding again
Cmon, the 5-1 was a cakewalk.
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It was as expected. We are much better than them and we proved that out there. Not read the thread so far but full credit to Bruce and Calderwood. They worked out Cotterill's plan and snuffed it by selecting Jedinak. I like many others had WTF face when I first saw the team sheet but I am so pleased those responsible knew what they were doing. 2-0 is absolutely unfair scoreline but 3 points and second place it is..... we march on.
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Pretty much as comfortable a derby win as you could imagine. I don't think we ever, nor ever needed to get out of second gear.
Now the pressure is on us for the first time. Let's see how we handle it.
Would be ideal if the 10k extra supporters that turned up today could continue to do so throughout the run in
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Cotterill gave an honest summing up, said they deserved nothing from the game and that the occasion got to some of his younger players.
Dave yes I listened to that in the car on the way back. Really impressed with that guy. However did you hear the next caller, a blose, ranting on about how Cotterill is not good enough to manage their club and finished with "he should be in charge of a club like Nuneaton" . Deluded is not the word....
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Blose weren't as shit as is being made out, they had the best chance of the first half and right up until our goal were frustrating us. Once we scored their heads dropped but they're no worse than most of the teams we've beaten at VP. I'd rather focus on how professional and decent we were. That Grealish roll for Adomah's goal and the cute Hoor's howitzer, just magical...
Watched it with Olofs Beard of this parish in Farringdon, London. Plenty of screens showing Villa but audio was of two non-entities in the Preemier playing each other.
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Unlike them if the boot was on the other foot, I feel no need to gloat or give it the big 'un. They are arguably the worst Small Heath team I have ever seen along with the team of the late eighties and early nineties. Even Terry Coopers Triton Showers of shit vintage gave us a better couple of games in the cup in the BFR days. Our second goal was fanastic, which set me thinking about our best goals against them. I thought of Allan Evans in 1980 and Gary Cahill's at The Holte. Plus peter Withe's at the Holte in 1983 for a bit of comedy value. If my memory serves me right the two goals by Gage and Gray at their place in the league cup in 1988 were decent.
On the same note, try and think of one of their efforts that was cleanly struck, never mind pleasing on the eye. I can only think of Forsell's equaliser when Gabby won it late at their place.
The rest have been a selection of mis-kicks, rebounds and keeper howlers.
I said the exact same to a couple of mates right after the game. Everyone of their wins against us benefited from some kind of defensive error or stroke of luck, they rarely ever produce any kind of skill or great football. They’re just a bunch of hoofers and fighters and it’s all they’ve ever been.
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Ah Terry Cooper and his insistence it was offside.
There's a circus in the town...
Huh, how?
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Blose weren't as shit as is being made out, they had the best chance of the first half and right up until our goal were frustrating us. Once we scored their heads dropped but they're no worse than most of the teams we've beaten at VP. I'd rather focus on how professional and decent we were. That Grealish roll for Adomah's goal and the cute Hoor's howitzer, just magical...
Watched it with Olofs Beard of this parish in Farringdon, London. Plenty of screens showing Villa but audio was of two non-entities in the Preemier playing each other.
Huddersfield-Bournemouth was one of the games of the season as I had 20 quid on last goal of the game being a penalty.
It's been a good afternoon!
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Unlike them if the boot was on the other foot, I feel no need to gloat or give it the big 'un. They are arguably the worst Small Heath team I have ever seen along with the team of the late eighties and early nineties. Even Terry Coopers Triton Showers of shit vintage gave us a better couple of games in the cup in the BFR days. Our second goal was fanastic, which set me thinking about our best goals against them. I thought of Allan Evans in 1980 and Gary Cahill's at The Holte. Plus peter Withe's at the Holte in 1983 for a bit of comedy value. If my memory serves me right the two goals by Gage and Gray at their place in the league cup in 1988 were decent.
On the same note, try and think of one of their efforts that was cleanly struck, never mind pleasing on the eye. I can only think of Forsell's equaliser when Gabby won it late at their place.
The rest have been a selection of mis-kicks, rebounds and keeper howlers.
I said the exact same to a couple of mates right after the game. Everyone of their wins against us benefited from some kind of defensive error or stroke of luck, they rarely ever produce any kind of skill or great football. They’re just a bunch of hoofers and fighters and it’s all they’ve ever been.
Dunn scored a good goal in 2004. They outplayed us that day. Last league win against us of course.
I agree with the last sentence though. Some clubs are unsuited to actual flair players and they're one of them. Hence Jota looking like a little boy lost playing for them.
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Not read the whole thing as still in the pub but ......the way we played, going 2nd, 7 wins in a row - the fact that it was against them was merely the icing on the cake!
why do I have to have work tomorrow? Could celebrate for days!
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Cotterill gave an honest summing up, said they deserved nothing from the game and that the occasion got to some of his younger players.
Dave yes I listened to that in the car on the way back. Really impressed with that guy. However did you hear the next caller, a blose, ranting on about how Cotterill is not good enough to manage their club and finished with "he should be in charge of a club like Nuneaton" . Deluded is not the word....
He IS in charge of a club like Nuneaton!
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They've moved onto "they'll come straight back down" already.
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Ah Terry Cooper and his insistence it was offside.
There's a circus in the town...
Huh, how?
Dean Saunders in 1993. Cooper and Jimmy Greaves had no idea what the offside rule was.
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Fantastic afternoon. Great atmosphere in the Upper Holte, two cracking goals at the Holte end, gulf in class apparent all day, Jack ran the show, but special mention for Jedinak protecting the centre backs. Could have been different if Gallagher had scored instead of hitting the post after Terry stumbled just before half time, but we still would have won, we were just by far the better team and couldn't really tell what Bloose's game plan was. They lost, got wet, and had a man sent off. If Carlsberg did local derbies.....
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Cotterill gave an honest summing up, said they deserved nothing from the game and that the occasion got to some of his younger players.
Dave yes I listened to that in the car on the way back. Really impressed with that guy. However did you hear the next caller, a blose, ranting on about how Cotterill is not good enough to manage their club and finished with "he should be in charge of a club like Nuneaton" . Deluded is not the word....
He IS in charge of a club like Nuneaton!
Ha!
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We played really well from start to finish. Apart from JT's blip we were well on top and that was as dominant in terms of play and chances as we were against Bristol City, if not more so.
Hourihane was the only one who was below par, and then he scored a belter just as I was highlighting his shortcomings in the game to the people sat around us.
Jedinak had a great game and although Bjarnason probably felt hard done by, it proved a good decision. It was very noticeable that he left the field well ahead of the others whilst they celebrated - poor form.
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Ah Terry Cooper and his insistence it was offside.
There's a circus in the town...
Huh, how?
Dean Saunders in 1993. Cooper and Jimmy Greaves had no idea what the offside rule was.
There's a youtube of that on Villaboy's channel.
I watched that and spent a couple of minutes chuckling afterwards. Gary Newbon was brilliant at provoking him.
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Great afternoon at Villa Park. What I really like about this team is that they have the quality to play some really nice football, but also the steel to not be bullied out of possession. Jack is developing into the talisman player we’ve all hoped he could be.
However, biggest positive for me today was the atmosphere, and capacity crowd. Hopefully shows what this club means to it’s fans and that we will respond when given sufficient cause. Upper Holte was absolutely rocking after the goals and at full time. Will live on as one of my favourite Villa memories for quite some time.
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That's comfortably the worst sha side i've seen since the 13-0 season. All the more amusing as back in August and early September loads most of them were convinced they were better than us, 'Arry was a genius, they had a fantastic strike force and were serious promotion contenders.
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A lovely routine win against the Rags, what a great day.
One thing that REALLY stands out is the way the players are looking out for each other. Quite a few times I have seen senior players checking on Jack, and being protective of him, Hourihane in particular. I love that.
Well done you Villa boys.
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and couldn't really tell what Bloose's game plan was...
Their plan seemed to be to target our right side when Elmo pushed up and exploit the gaps in behind. And they were getting a fair bit of joy out of it too, at one stage, with that winger with a daft name and daft haircut causing us a bit of bother.
On more than one occasion, they were getting breakaways that last season seemed to result in a goal against. Three with that winger, and then when Terry slipped.
And like Percy, when we got close to the hour mark with no advantage despite our overall dominance, you do wonder.
Previously, we have been the sort of side that needs an early goal to settle us.
But now we look confident that we have goals in us regardless. 60th minute, 90th minute - it doesn't matter. We'll find a way eventually.
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Ah Terry Cooper and his insistence it was offside.
There's a circus in the town...
Not to mention Alan Parry saying how harsh Tait’s sending off was.
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That was nice
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Great result, great performance, great goals, great atmosphere. To see the whole stadium doing going up and going down was immense. Holteenders in the sky always brings a year to my eye and DLBIA, the Villa say is meant for days like today. So glad to get this win! On a side note Burton are a far better team than scum, so beware scum, relegation looms.
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Great result, great performance, great goals, great atmosphere. To see the whole stadium doing going up and going down was immense. Holteenders in the sky always brings a year to my eye and DLBIA, the Villa say is meant for days like today. So glad to get this win! On a side note Burton are a far better team than scum, so beware scum, relegation looms.
You must have one very old eye then.
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Great result.
Poor connection on ESPN 3 but enough to see how bad the pitch is.
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Rock solid performance all round today. Great atmosphere, great job done.
So many positives but Grealish, Terry and Jedi immense. Looking good boys!
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I watched the game in a bar with a few St Helens egg-chasing league fans who were over to see their side spank the Catalan Dragons. Special mention to She-who-must-be-obeyed who drove me the 17km into Perpignan, went home then came back to get me so I could get pleasantly wankered on pints of Jupiler @€5.90 a go. Crowd sounded well noisy on the telly and all. UTV!
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I was out all afternoon, in a pub with no bloody mobile coverage and sketchy wifi. Sounded like I missed a great win.
Then I came home and watched the highlights. What a win, what a pair of goals, what a stadium, what a noise. What a football club.
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I enjoyed that as much if not more than the 5-1
Scenes and limbs in the upper North when we scored.Fan-fucking-tastic!
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I managed to get a stream to watch.
1st half, we were so much better, but they made a game of it.
2nd half, the class showed
Glory, Glory Aston Villa.
Holte end rocking, what more could we ask for
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Loved being at VP today, it was certainly one to be there for!
Great atmosphere, superb fans, right result!
I don’t think Johnstone had to make a serious save all game.
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Ah Terry Cooper and his insistence it was offside.
There's a circus in the town...
Huh, how?
Dean Saunders in 1993. Cooper and Jimmy Greaves had no idea what the offside rule was.
In your own half you mean as was the case
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Ah Terry Cooper and his insistence it was offside.
There's a circus in the town...
Not to mention Alan Parry saying how harsh Tait’s sending off was.
Violent Conduct even a quarter of a century ago was instant dismissal.
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I was out all afternoon, in a pub with no bloody mobile coverage and sketchy wifi. Sounded like I missed a great win.
Then I came home and watched the highlights. What a win, what a pair of goals, what a stadium, what a noise. What a football club.
Did you see Bruce after the first goal?
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Jedinak had a great game and although Bjarnason probably felt hard done by, it proved a good decision. It was very noticeable that he left the field well ahead of the others whilst they celebrated - poor form.
Very strange behavior. He really didn't hang around, not even a handshake. He was the first player off the pitch from either side.
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Their fans were dreadful, made next to no noise.
I honestly think 500 Burton Albion fans made more noise the other week.
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I was out all afternoon, in a pub with no bloody mobile coverage and sketchy wifi. Sounded like I missed a great win.
Then I came home and watched the highlights. What a win, what a pair of goals, what a stadium, what a noise. What a football club.
Did you see Bruce after the first goal?
Close to tears, I thought.
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I thought we were decent first half and probably deserved to go in a goal up. Class told in the end though and it was one of those games even at 1-0, I felt comfortable.
7 wins on the trot is some fucking going whatever league you're in.
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Jedinak had a great game and although Bjarnason probably felt hard done by, it proved a good decision. It was very noticeable that he left the field well ahead of the others whilst they celebrated - poor form.
Very strange behavior. He really didn't hang around, not even a handshake. He was the first player off the pitch from either side.
No bother. He probably needed a piss. He was immense today, and that’s the main thing.
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Jedinak had a great game and although Bjarnason probably felt hard done by, it proved a good decision. It was very noticeable that he left the field well ahead of the others whilst they celebrated - poor form.
Very strange behavior. He really didn't hang around, not even a handshake. He was the first player off the pitch from either side.
What was that all about?
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I was out all afternoon, in a pub with no bloody mobile coverage and sketchy wifi. Sounded like I missed a great win.
Then I came home and watched the highlights. What a win, what a pair of goals, what a stadium, what a noise. What a football club.
Did you see Bruce after the first goal?
Close to tears, I thought.
Yes, looked it.
https://youtu.be/Wp2R8VMVxco
For anyone who might not have seen.
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Other than the 5-1, I cant remember a more comfortable performance against them. Blues just froze IMO.
Cotterill gave an honest summing up, said they deserved nothing from the game and that the occasion got to some of his younger players.
Dave yes I listened to that in the car on the way back. Really impressed with that guy. However did you hear the next caller, a blose, ranting on about how Cotterill is not good enough to manage their club and finished with "he should be in charge of a club like Nuneaton" . Deluded is not the word....
As funny as the Nose who claimed Terry should have been booked; that Blues were all over us when they kept the ball on the floor and that we're a poor side.
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Jedinak had a great game and although Bjarnason probably felt hard done by, it proved a good decision. It was very noticeable that he left the field well ahead of the others whilst they celebrated - poor form.
Very strange behavior. He really didn't hang around, not even a handshake. He was the first player off the pitch from either side.
No bother. He probably needed a piss. He was immense today, and that’s the main thing.
They're on about Barney.
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I was out all afternoon, in a pub with no bloody mobile coverage and sketchy wifi. Sounded like I missed a great win.
Then I came home and watched the highlights. What a win, what a pair of goals, what a stadium, what a noise. What a football club.
Did you see Bruce after the first goal?
Close to tears, I thought.
Yes, looked it.
https://youtu.be/Wp2R8VMVxco
For anyone who might not have seen.
I did see the extended footage. Very close to losing it, wasn't he?
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4 mins in and you can see him heading off. As you say, he may have wanted to avoid doing a Lineker on the pitch.
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Jedinak had a great game and although Bjarnason probably felt hard done by, it proved a good decision. It was very noticeable that he left the field well ahead of the others whilst they celebrated - poor form.
Very strange behavior. He really didn't hang around, not even a handshake. He was the first player off the pitch from either side.
No bother. He probably needed a piss. He was immense today, and that’s the main thing.
They're on about Barney.
Whoops. It’s the alcohol.
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Great result.
Poor connection on ESPN 3 but enough to see how bad the pitch is.
ESPN 3 Villa 2 Birmingham 0
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Fuck the fuckers!
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Bjarnason was probably just disappointed not to start.
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Blose weren't as shit as is being made out, they had the best chance of the first half and right up until our goal were frustrating us. Once we scored their heads dropped but they're no worse than most of the teams we've beaten at VP. I'd rather focus on how professional and decent we were. That Grealish roll for Adomah's goal and the cute Hoor's howitzer, just magical...
Watched it with Olofs Beard of this parish in Farringdon, London. Plenty of screens showing Villa but audio was of two non-entities in the Preemier playing each other.
I genuinely thought Small Heath were fucking terrible. They looked utterly out of their depth - as their manager said after the game.
The keeper shat himself and whacked it into touch any time we chased him down, they struggled to string three passes together and looked feeble at the back.
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We had the team mentality to make them look poor. First time for some years when we have a team who believe in themselves.
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Excellent first class performance showing the difference between us and them. It was obvious from the start how much every Villa player on the pitch was playing from the heart.
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Small Heath were awful. If that's the level of their performance the rest of the season, they are going down.
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Couple of comments from one of their shitty little forums.
"No class, no intelligence, no nothing. How dare they claim to be Brummies" ;D
"They’ll never be brummie.
I was screaming at the TV when the commentator said they were. " ;D ;D
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Probably sat in Redditch/Solihull/Rubery as they typed that.
*Delete as applicable unless one of them is Barry Austin who would be sat in all 3 at the same time.
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It's a great day for us, and IMO significantly another step towards Jack realising his potential, but my thoughts are mainly with Bruce after the week he's had. Football results don't matter too much after something like what he's gone through, but it's still good that the lads were able to put a show on for him and a smile on his face.
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'The city is ours' always gets a reaction out of them. They fall for it every time.
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Blose weren't as shit as is being made out, they had the best chance of the first half and right up until our goal were frustrating us. Once we scored their heads dropped but they're no worse than most of the teams we've beaten at VP. I'd rather focus on how professional and decent we were. That Grealish roll for Adomah's goal and the cute Hoor's howitzer, just magical...
Watched it with Olofs Beard of this parish in Farringdon, London. Plenty of screens showing Villa but audio was of two non-entities in the Preemier playing each other.
I genuinely thought Small Heath were fucking terrible. They looked utterly out of their depth - as their manager said after the game.
The keeper shat himself and whacked it into touch any time we chased him down, they struggled to string three passes together and looked feeble at the back.
We all knew they were a poor side. It is just that from past experience we half expected them to turn into world beaters just for today. Although as I said in a pre match thread, in the past they have had some real battlers suited to local derby games and sometimes even a sprinkling of some genuinely quality. I didn't see either of those two attributes in this latest bunch prior to today's game.
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How were the unwashed behaving after the game? Any crowd troubles?
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We were head and shoulders above them, they looked like rabbits in the headlights of the Villa machine.
They were lucky to get nil.
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The police tweeted that there were NO incidents.
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Blose weren't as shit as is being made out, they had the best chance of the first half and right up until our goal were frustrating us. Once we scored their heads dropped but they're no worse than most of the teams we've beaten at VP. I'd rather focus on how professional and decent we were. That Grealish roll for Adomah's goal and the cute Hoor's howitzer, just magical...
Watched it with Olofs Beard of this parish in Farringdon, London. Plenty of screens showing Villa but audio was of two non-entities in the Preemier playing each other.
I genuinely thought Small Heath were fucking terrible. They looked utterly out of their depth - as their manager said after the game.
The keeper shat himself and whacked it into touch any time we chased him down, they struggled to string three passes together and looked feeble at the back.
We all knew they were a poor side. It is just that from past experience we half expected them to turn into world beaters just for today. Although as I said in a pre match thread, in the past they have had some real battlers suited to local derby games and sometimes even a sprinkling of some genuinely quality. I didn't see either of those two attributes in this latest bunch prior to today's game.
To quote Daft Punk:
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
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That lad who was marking Jack, the fella who got sent off, did they sign him on the car park at 10.30 like you used to in the Festival League?
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been reading all week how people hate this game and wish we didn't have to play them,
I'm sitting there thinking I must be the odd one out because I absolutely love them it's my favourite fixture of all
it's what the games all about for me,
my first visit to VP was in the 70's when Blues had Trevor Francis and beat us but i was awestruck with by whole thing, times have moved on now and it's not quite the same but today reminded me why I love Villa and why I love beating them
while some can't understand why fans enjoy these games against SHA I can't understand why people don't
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A mate of mine wants an update on a bloke that got hit by a car outside the Holte Suite, he gave first aid until the services came. If anyone knows anything let me know.
Back in London, emotionally drained but Happy, we can say it means nothing but beating them is just the best feeling.
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been reading all week how people hate this game and wish we didn't have to play them,
I'm sitting there thinking I must be the odd one out because I absolutely love them it's my favourite fixture of all
it's what the games all about for me,
my first visit to VP was in the 70's when Blues had Trevor Francis and beat us but i was awestruck with by whole thing, times have moved on now and it's not quite the same but today reminded me why I love Villa and why I love beating them
while some can't understand why fans enjoy these games against SHA I can't understand why people don't
My first live watching of this fixture was 03/03/03.
In fairness I don't mind it these days as we never seem in danger of losing to them anymore so not too nervous on matchdays but it's still that horrible feeling they could turn us over like they did when they first came up to the premier league.
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I’ve just remembered something.
An hour or two after the game, outside the Aston Social with a load of others, along came a Merc with a fella hanging out the sunroof saluting the crowd.
The fella was Ian Taylor.
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Check out the bitterness on the ‘Villa thread’ over on SHA. Classic stuff.
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Just got back home. Our class was evident from the 1st to the 94th minute. We were so comfortable throughout. God how bad were blose!!!
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That lad who was marking Jack, the fella who got sent off, did they sign him on the car park at 10.30 like you used to in the Festival League?
The noses don't rate him either. They are pleased he's out for a while.
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More from their charming post match forum.
"My Villa cousin does the city is ours thing she's 45 ffs"
"Kick her in her tiny cock the black country slag".
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Great day, loved it, just about to have a curry and some more beer, quality day
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Their team and fans were the worst to come to VP this season, Burton made more noise and had fewer empty seats, probably the same amount of coaches as well.
Fannies.
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Check out the bitterness on the ‘Villa thread’ over on SHA. Classic stuff.
There's one of them on the Guradian post match report and he's halfway sentinent, which is funny as he can twist himself into even more elborate delusions than your average rag.
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Ndoye squaring up to John Terry. Ndoye had the height and weight advantage but Terry faced him down without even blinking. Terry was also streetwise enough not to do something silly and get sent off. Unlike Ndoye.
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Really enjoyed that. Everyone had a good game today I felt. That bit of class we have from Adomah, Grealish and Snodgrass is really showing of late. It gives us a match winning edge over most of the sides now. No one seemed to know how we'd fit Jack Grealish into a Steve Bruce side, but to be fair, since Jack's come back, our overall play has improved a hell of a lot. We're seeing much better football and Brucie absolutely nailed his game plan today and I've got the utmost respect for the way he's handled the sad news his family have had to contend with...no one would have begrudged him taking this weekend off to be at home. Whatever you think about the Bruce style of play, the guy is a class act.
Grealish has kick-started our season for me. He's come back and it's also coincided with Snoddy finding his rhythm too (I'd like us to keep him). You could see out there today that there's a number of players who will be able to make the step up to the Premier League without a problem. But what Grealish shows that he'll have that bit of extra quality. He's the player that for better or worse, top 6 clubs will sniff around if he has a run of form in the Prem with us. For me, WHEN we go up, it'll be Grealish who'll be our key man. He's physically there now and he's maturing. I thought he was superb today. He did all the fancy stuff you expect from Jack. He mucked in too. He worked hard, he got dirty. He stood up to being man marked and targeted. It was a man's performance.
The back four were rock solid (Terry slip aside). Jedinak was excellent too. Hourihane is another who'll step up quite well I think. It was also good to see Hogan looking confident.
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Check out the bitterness on the ‘Villa thread’ over on SHA. Classic stuff.
They were at it on WM after the game. After a few calls, the narrative soon became that if Gallagher had scored they would have gone on to win the game. I'm sure we'll be hearing that particular thought plenty of times over the next week.
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Credit to their manager and his post match analysis. No illusions or delusions, straight down the line honesty and self awareness. That will never catch on in Small Heath.
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The police tweeted that there were NO incidents.
Was that the Perpignan Police? You know after a few Julipers anything can happen :)
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Credit to their manager and his post match analysis. No illusions or delusions, straight down the line honesty and self awareness. That will never catch in in Small Heath.
He'll be out within the month.
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Check out the bitterness on the ‘Villa thread’ over on SHA. Classic stuff.
They were at it on WM after the game. After a few calls, the narrative soon became that if Gallagher had scored they would have gone on to win the game. I'm sure we'll be hearing that particular thought plenty of times over the next week.
It was particularly amusing that he’d done the hard part in getting the initial shot past Johnstone, when it hit the post the tap in was easy.........
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Ndoye squaring up to John Terry. Ndoye had the height and weight advantage but Terry faced him down without even blinking. Terry was also streetwise enough not to do something silly and get sent off. Unlike Ndoye.
Yep. That was every minute of his 20 odd years in the game there. He knows there are hundreds of players out there who'd love nothing more than to take a swing at him. I'm really hoping he'll stay one more year with us. Even if we have to agree to 'rest' him against Chelsea.
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Their team and fans were the worst to come to VP this season, Burton made more noise and had fewer empty seats, probably the same amount of coaches as well.
Fannies.
I don't think their team was the worst team at VP this season. It's just that we were exceptionally good today and made them look awful.
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Terry was very good in the Ndoye incident saving Jedinak from a red card.
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Who were worse, for their big game they were abysmal?
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Great day. Was a complete performance,and what a goal to seal it!!! UTV!!!
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Terry was very good in the Ndoye incident saving Jedinak from a red card.
Good point Olly. Jedinak could have easily gone for that but Terry quickly changed the focus and got N'doye sent off.
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Who were worse, for their big game they were abysmal?
They were worse in last season's game at VP.
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Couple of comments from one of their shitty little forums.
"No class, no intelligence, no nothing. How dare they claim to be Brummies" ;D
Yes, we should have thrown things at their players (no class)... supplied by the club (no intelligence)... while on international TV (no nothing, whatever that means). He has a point about being Brummies, after all, Aston (Manor) was only integrated into Birmingham in 1911 - a fact I am sure he knew.
Mile Jedinak was immense today - probably because he remembered how the classy, dare I say intelligent, stadium announcer at St A mispronounced his name. Comfortable win.
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Jedinak had a great game and although Bjarnason probably felt hard done by, it proved a good decision. It was very noticeable that he left the field well ahead of the others whilst they celebrated - poor form.
Very strange behavior. He really didn't hang around, not even a handshake. He was the first player off the pitch from either side.
It was very cold and he can't handle that as he lives in a thermal fountain at home.
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Lovely stuff.
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Have to say as an old git that was the most enjoyable Villa Park experience in some years. Was in the north stand upper and thought the fans were up from it from the very start and so were the players. I wasn't happy with the decision to put Jedinak in ahead of BB, but the manager was proved totally right (not sure BB thought so, did anyone else notice how quickly he left the field at the end?) Jack just outdone Jedi for me as MOTM, what a talent he is and he must be buzzing right now. Really thought Hogan worked his nuts off, we were talking in car on way back where Jonny Kodjia would fit in team. Saw the picture of the manager after the first goal. I have criticised him at times, but he always said he wanted to build his team round Jack, and he is doing just that. He must be in bits after the last couple of weeks and his Dad will be really proud of him tonight. So looking forward to Fulham already
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Who were worse, for their big game they were abysmal?
Well based on performance on the day Norwich, Sunderland and Bristol City.
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Terry was very good in the Ndoye incident saving Jedinak from a red card.
Good point Olly. Jedinak could have easily gone for that but Terry quickly changed the focus and got N'doye sent off.
Did anyone else notice the ref thanking JT for his actions
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Good 2
Evil 0
See you in 10 years noses 8)
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Who's goal was better? Conor's today, or Snodgrass' against Sheffield Utd?
I think I'd go with Snodgrass', as it was a winner of a game that we could have easily lost.
But a goal is a goal :D and both were crackers
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Snoddy's goal every time. Both were excellent but Snoddy's was not just critical as a match winner but was a sublime piece of skill.
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Did anyone else notice the ref thanking JT for his actions
Yes indeed. After finishing the "paperwork" Ref came over and thanked Terry. Terry basically managed the whole incident once it kicked off.
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I feel Absolutely wonderful, thank you Steve Bruce
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I have waited a long time for Villa, England (rugby) and Gloucester to win on the same weekend. For it to happen when we beat Blues to go second is the whatever goes on the cherry on the icing on the cake.
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Job done, just got back home ,had a drink in Perry Barr , had a few beers. Back home, in, would you believe it ,a Birmingham Postcode.
If we ain't in the same Division as those fucking retards next year
, I will embrace all the bullshit they come out with, with glee.
If the result went the other way Chelmsley Wood would have sold out of Champagne til the cows come home - sad bastards.
FUCK OFF small heath AND CRAWL UNDER THAT FUCKING ROCK YOU CALL HOME
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Did anyone else notice the ref thanking JT for his actions
Yes indeed. After finishing the "paperwork" Ref came over and thanked Terry. Terry basically managed the whole incident once it kicked off.
Got to say I wasn't thrilled when he came into the club, but he has been magnificent. Has changed the attitude of the club, know Jack has benefited from having him around. I was worried that he would let his standards drop, how wrong I was. He actually seems to be really enjoying himself and wonder if Conte is regretting letting him go? I really hope if we go up he stays another year, I don't mind if he misses the Chelsea games tbh.
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After the dross I have watched the past 6 years, finally an atmosphere, performance, result, achievement and proudness in one game.
To the Bruce family, my sincerest condolences.
Jack - your now hero worshipped by the 3 Remy kids.
I was a bit deflated to see Thor dropped and King Leonidas back in only that I didn’t want to change a winning team. What do I know? I could see why he might have been upset as he had a blinder.
I was complaining a little about Hourihane not having a great game until he produced a worldie and I happily scraped egg off my face.
Heart in the mouth moment when Terry slipped and whatsisface hit the post.
Adomah was fab again and loved his crowning moment after he scored.
In the pre match interview Cotrill looked like a rabbit in the headlights which transferred to his players.
We could have had 5.
7 on the spin, record broken?
12 behind barce-hampton with them still to come to VP. Pressure is on them not us because frankly we look the nuts right now.
Glorious Monday morning with some Nose wankers in my office now 😁
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No bookings for Villa. That’s impressive discipline considering what was going on
I thought that the ref had a very good game
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For a second after Conor’s goal went in Bruce looked visibly emotional. He quickly regained his composure realising he needed to get Whelan on.
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Did anyone else notice the ref thanking JT for his actions
Yes indeed. After finishing the "paperwork" Ref came over and thanked Terry. Terry basically managed the whole incident once it kicked off.
Got to say I wasn't thrilled when he came into the club, but he has been magnificent. Has changed the attitude of the club, know Jack has benefited from having him around. I was worried that he would let his standards drop, how wrong I was. He actually seems to be really enjoying himself and wonder if Conte is regretting letting him go? I really hope if we go up he stays another year, I don't mind if he misses the Chelsea games tbh.
I've got a feeling that if we do go up Terry will see that as his swan song and retire. I wouldn't begrudge him that, but we could really do with him for one more season.
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We look like a team, it seems a long time ago.
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No bookings for Villa. That’s impressive discipline considering what was going on
I thought that the ref had a very good game
He was too lenient early on for me
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I’ve just remembered something.
An hour or two after the game, outside the Aston Social with a load of others, along came a Merc with a fella hanging out the sunroof saluting the crowd.
The fella was Ian Taylor.
Please tell me this is true...
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I have waited a long time for Villa, England (rugby) and Gloucester to win on the same weekend. For it to happen when we beat Blues to go second is the whatever goes on the cherry on the icing on the cake.
I’m with you there Mike, Gloucester city won too to complete the set for me.
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Not what it was, but a full Trinty is still a thing of beauty.
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Check out the bitterness on the ‘Villa thread’ over on SHA. Classic stuff.
You're not wrong ;D
I think this is my favourite: Glad it's over but for how long? Maybe a little contentious, maybe a bit of a hissy fit kind of a reaction, but this afternoon I thought to myself that I almost don't mind if they do go up (which I believe is now nailed on). I am sick of them, and I'm sick of these games now. I'll look forward to not facing them for a bit.
They've rolled the dice, shit or bust to return to the premier, at stake either survival or financial meltdown. Bigger clubs in the past have done the same and come unstuck, Forest, Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds, them feckers though, obviously come up smelling of roses.
They're up and I'm paying them no more mind this season, but am I alone in almost thinking "oh just go up then and f*ck off out of the way you bunch of jammy, weasly little snidey pricks
So much despondency and bitterness in one post.
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I have waited a long time for Villa, England (rugby) and Gloucester to win on the same weekend. For it to happen when we beat Blues to go second is the whatever goes on the cherry on the icing on the cake.
I’m with you there Mike, Gloucester city won too to complete the set for me.
I'm with you Mike except replace Gloucester with an amazing win at Exeter for the mighty Worcester Warriors (shame the England cricket team lost)
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Uncle Den told you.
Wish i was never woken tbh, absolute best dream ever..3 birds being really dirty, then i am awoken. Bitch lol.
Eight until now....im an idiot. But days like today and with my flock..i love you all. Our fans are simply the best, you are and always will be family. Love you all x
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This one is my favourite.
Look they are not up yet plenty of twists and turns to come but they are jammy feckers I will say that we are at a point now that if they don't go up it will turn into a financial meltdown for them but it's villa we are talking about here so they will come up smelling of roses probably,didnt mind playing them when I was a kid but just dread it nowadays I absolutely dispise everything that club stands for though,I will admit they effect a part of my life unfortunately
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They all weirdly seem to have this fantasy of: Villa not going up this season = financial meltdown.
Where the fuck they have got this notion from is anyone's guess. Maybe they think if they pray hard enough it will come true?
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This one is my favourite.
Look they are not up yet plenty of twists and turns to come but they are jammy feckers I will say that we are at a point now that if they don't go up it will turn into a financial meltdown for them but it's villa we are talking about here so they will come up smelling of roses probably,didnt mind playing them when I was a kid but just dread it nowadays I absolutely dispise everything that club stands for though,I will admit they effect a part of my life unfortunately
And breathe.
I love 'em. I've said it before, but God must be a Villa fan to have given us Birmingham City to laugh at.
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Aye.
Imagine if we actually had a club with a bit of pedigree on our doorstep; a ruthless outfit that could have taken advantage of our travails.
Instead we get That Lot.
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It's very very funny how much it eats at them to lose to us yet again. You'd have thought they'd be used to it by now but no, every game that passes a bit of them dies inside.
We have the best ground in the country, Albion have the highest, small heath have the coldest from being in our shadow for 143 years.
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They all weirdly seem to have this fantasy of: Villa not going up this season = financial meltdown.
Where the fuck they have got this notion from is anyone's guess. Maybe they think if they pray hard enough it will come true?
Maybe they think that just because their shitty outfit have been laughably mismanaged by criminal types - then it's about time we suffered the same fate? Bless.
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The beauty is that whilst they are obsessing about us and fantasizing about us falling foul over FFP they are issuing financial warnings and by all accounts are going to lose an astronimical sum for a team languishing around the relegation zone of the championship.
If I were them I'd pay more attention to their situation than ours, but then they wouldn't be noses if they did that would they?
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This one is my favourite.
Look they are not up yet plenty of twists and turns to come but they are jammy feckers I will say that we are at a point now that if they don't go up it will turn into a financial meltdown for them but it's villa we are talking about here so they will come up smelling of roses probably,didnt mind playing them when I was a kid but just dread it nowadays I absolutely dispise everything that club stands for though,I will admit they effect a part of my life unfortunately
I almost posted that one too. It's a doozy
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It's very very funny how much it eats at them to lose to us yet again. You'd have thought they'd be used to it by now but no, every game that passes a bit of them dies inside.
We have the best ground in the country, Albion have the highest, small heath have the coldest from being in our shadow for 143 years.
They must have huge vitamin D deficiency.
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They all weirdly seem to have this fantasy of: Villa not going up this season = financial meltdown.
Where the fuck they have got this notion from is anyone's guess. Maybe they think if they pray hard enough it will come true?
Surely we'd cut our cloth accordingly.
Something which were they to do, they'd soon realise they're going around naked.
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Check out the bitterness on the ‘Villa thread’ over on SHA. Classic stuff.
You're not wrong ;D
I think this is my favourite: Glad it's over but for how long? Maybe a little contentious, maybe a bit of a hissy fit kind of a reaction, but this afternoon I thought to myself that I almost don't mind if they do go up (which I believe is now nailed on). I am sick of them, and I'm sick of these games now. I'll look forward to not facing them for a bit.
They've rolled the dice, shit or bust to return to the premier, at stake either survival or financial meltdown. Bigger clubs in the past have done the same and come unstuck, Forest, Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds, them feckers though, obviously come up smelling of roses.
They're up and I'm paying them no more mind this season, but am I alone in almost thinking "oh just go up then and f*ck off out of the way you bunch of jammy, weasly little snidey pricks
So much despondency and bitterness in one post.
“Bigger clubs” ;D ;D
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Remember the Sports presenter on Sky News called Chris Skudder?
This is what he tweeted after the game...
https://twitter.com/chris_skudder
That's always their fall back option after a defeat, we all live in the shires (and Erdington) and have our Butlers inform us of the result.
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Aye.
Imagine if we actually had a club with a bit of pedigree on our doorstep; a ruthless outfit that could have taken advantage of our travails.
Instead we get That Lot.
It takes the pressure off when were struggling for sure, but I think can lead to complacency when we're better placed.
I suppose they could celebrate that, their sheer ineptitude in some way stifles our chance of success. And they'll get to go to the seaside more than us next year.
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I’ve just remembered something.
An hour or two after the game, outside the Aston Social with a load of others, along came a Merc with a fella hanging out the sunroof saluting the crowd.
The fella was Ian Taylor.
Please tell me this is true...
It certainly is mate. Massive smile on his face as he came past giving it loads. Magic
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I also lost my Dad this week. He wasn’t a Villa fan or really into Football at all but he always took an interest in my various rants and raves about the Villa with a wry smile. I thought of him today as me and my son celebrated knowing he’d have had a suitable little knowing smile and a cheeky comment to keep me from getting carried away. I put that down to his Yorkshire heritage. Great win today, super performance by the whole team with Jack absolutely superb.
Up the Villa!
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To compliment this :
18 Southampton 27 -12 26
19 Stoke 27 -26 25
20 West Brom 26 -16 20
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Condolences to you and your family AV82EC
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The beauty is that whilst they are obsessing about us and fantasizing about us falling foul over FFP they are issuing financial warnings and by all accounts are going to lose an astronimical sum for a team languishing around the relegation zone of the championship.
If I were them I'd pay more attention to their situation than ours, but then they wouldn't be noses if they did that would they?
Take notice of their ongoing financial meltdown rather than obsessing about us?! Come on AJ, you know their M.O.'s much better than that. ;)
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I also lost my Dad this week.
Up the Villa!
Really sorry to hear that fella. Nothing can make up for such a loss but I hope this win and promotion this season brings a little cheer to you.
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Remember the Sports presenter on Sky News called Chris Skudder?
This is what he tweeted after the game...
https://twitter.com/chris_skudder
That's always their fall back option after a defeat, we all live in the shires (and Erdington) and have our Butlers inform us of the result.
What a twat. Do bloser go full kit wanker in town?
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I also lost my Dad this week. He wasn’t a Villa fan or really into Football at all but he always took an interest in my various rants and raves about the Villa with a wry smile. I thought of him today as me and my son celebrated knowing he’d have had a suitable little knowing smile and a cheeky comment to keep me from getting carried away. I put that down to his Yorkshire heritage. Great win today, super performance by the whole team with Jack absolutely superb.
Up the Villa!
So sorry to hear that
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This business of never any Villa fans in the city centre amuses me. How often do you see Blue shirts in the city centre? I mean, really?
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Regardless of what Shankly said, football is never more important than life or death, but it does have the capacity to pick us up in the darkest of times. My condolences to you, AV82EC.
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Is this "you never see them in town" nonsense based on us not being like them, in that they're easily identifiable because you can fucking guarantee that all of them, be it jewellery, attire, phone case, all of them, somewhere about their person have got that bollocks bollocks on show, whereas we look like, well, just people?
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me too AV82EC
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Is this "you never see them in town" nonsense based on us not being like them, in that they're easily identifiable because you can fucking guarantee that all of them, be it jewellery, attire, phone case, all of them, somewhere about their person have got that bollocks bollocks on show, whereas we look like, well, just people?
Surely the obvious answer is that the match has finished and people go home? If we beat them it's par for the course Birmingham suppose if they beat us they have to go out on the piss and celebrate.
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Is this "you never see them in town" nonsense based on us not being like them, in that they're easily identifiable because you can fucking guarantee that all of them, be it jewellery, attire, phone case, all of them, somewhere about their person have got that bollocks bollocks on show, whereas we look like, well, just people?
Also we would tend to be at the match, rather than shopping in town when the game is on.
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Today needs renaming as the Jack Grealish Derby. They tried and even stamped on him but he was outstanding.
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I have waited a long time for Villa, England (rugby) and Gloucester to win on the same weekend. For it to happen when we beat Blues to go second is the whatever goes on the cherry on the icing on the cake.
I’m with you there Mike, Gloucester city won too to complete the set for me.
Evesham Exiles.
They’re gradually getting further away from home
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Sorry to hear your sad news Pete. Hope today helped a little.
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Very sorry to hear of your recent loss, AV82EC. My condolences to yourself & your family.
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Remember the Sports presenter on Sky News called Chris Skudder?
This is what he tweeted after the game...
https://twitter.com/chris_skudder
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cd411c3b-bc84-4e57-a493-0fce24b5bca1
That's always their fall back option after a defeat, we all live in the shires (and Erdington) and have our Butlers inform us of the result.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cd411c3b-bc84-4e57-a493-0fce24b5bca1
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Wow, thank you all very much for your very kind comments, it is appreciated.
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Remember the Sports presenter on Sky News called Chris Skudder?
This is what he tweeted after the game...
https://twitter.com/chris_skudder
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cd411c3b-bc84-4e57-a493-0fce24b5bca1
That's always their fall back option after a defeat, we all live in the shires (and Erdington) and have our Butlers inform us of the result.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cd411c3b-bc84-4e57-a493-0fce24b5bca1
well I am sacking my Butler he never confirmed
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Today needs renaming as the Jack Grealish Derby. They tried and even stamped on him but he was outstanding.
Blue nose mate said it was a foul against Jack and he made the lad stamp on him haha
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My daughter has special needs, so we were ok going into the ground. At the end of the game, we came across the same steward, whom knows my daughter. We were confronted by this woman whom was questiong my daughters disability. I noticed an id tag around her neck....sky fucking sports!!!
This bitch was telling the steward and every one else.She WAS THE BOSS!!!
It worked out well, since she wa surprised at my language, and suddenly bent. Complaint going to the club, since when do sky sports decide whom has a disability and not. White man drives over a Muslim....terrorist. Kids in Manchester slaughtered...mental illness. I fUCKING HATE SKY!!!!
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Is this "you never see them in town" nonsense based on us not being like them, in that they're easily identifiable because you can fucking guarantee that all of them, be it jewellery, attire, phone case, all of them, somewhere about their person have got that bollocks bollocks on show, whereas we look like, well, just people?
It all stems from them drinking in pubs around Digbeth and never seeing any of us around there apparently even though of course their ground is right on the doorstep there.
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My daughter has special needs, so we were ok going into the ground. At the end of the game, we came across the same steward, whom knows my daughter. We were confronted by this woman whom was questiong my daughters disability. I noticed an id tag around her neck....sky fucking sports!!!
This bitch was telling the steward and every one else.She WAS THE BOSS!!!
It worked out well, since she wa surprised at my language, and suddenly bent. Complaint going to the club, since when do sky sports decide whom has a disability and not. White man drives over a Muslim....terrorist. Kids in Manchester slaughtered...mental illness. I fUCKING HATE SKY!!!!
Was with you until the end, and I'm sorry for your ordeal but...huh?
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Even from thousands of miles away, a full and rocking Villa Park is a glorious sight to behold. Worth the 4am start to watch along.
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My daughter has special needs, so we were ok going into the ground. At the end of the game, we came across the same steward, whom knows my daughter. We were confronted by this woman whom was questiong my daughters disability. I noticed an id tag around her neck....sky fucking sports!!!
This bitch was telling the steward and every one else.She WAS THE BOSS!!!
It worked out well, since she wa surprised at my language, and suddenly bent. Complaint going to the club, since when do sky sports decide whom has a disability and not. White man drives over a Muslim....terrorist. Kids in Manchester slaughtered...mental illness. I fUCKING HATE SKY!!!!
Think you’ve got that the wrong way round mate. Mental illness is trotted out for white terrorists much more quickly and often than it is for Islamist ones.
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I also lost my Dad this week. He wasn’t a Villa fan or really into Football at all but he always took an interest in my various rants and raves about the Villa with a wry smile. I thought of him today as me and my son celebrated knowing he’d have had a suitable little knowing smile and a cheeky comment to keep me from getting carried away. I put that down to his Yorkshire heritage. Great win today, super performance by the whole team with Jack absolutely superb.
Up the Villa!
Sincere condolences to all your family and friends. I hope today went some small way to easing your pain and sense of loss.
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Like I keeping telling the noses. They are as relevant to us as Kiddy Harriers and that's a bit of a put down to the Harriers. Perhaps I should tell them they are on a par with Bromsgrove.
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Is this "you never see them in town" nonsense based on us not being like them, in that they're easily identifiable because you can fucking guarantee that all of them, be it jewellery, attire, phone case, all of them, somewhere about their person have got that bollocks bollocks on show, whereas we look like, well, just people?
It all stems from them drinking in pubs around Digbeth and never seeing any of us around there apparently even though of course their ground is right on the doorstep there.
It all stems from them being insecure twats that will cling to any old lie to try and feel better about themselves and their tinpot club.
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You're quite right PWS, I'm being far too diplomatic on them!
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That was my diplomatic answer as well, i'd have had to ban myself if i'd posted the full version.
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My daughter has special needs, so we were ok going into the ground. At the end of the game, we came across the same steward, whom knows my daughter. We were confronted by this woman whom was questiong my daughters disability. I noticed an id tag around her neck....sky fucking sports!!!
This bitch was telling the steward and every one else.She WAS THE BOSS!!!
It worked out well, since she wa surprised at my language, and suddenly bent. Complaint going to the club, since when do sky sports decide whom has a disability and not. White man drives over a Muslim....terrorist. Kids in Manchester slaughtered...mental illness. I fUCKING HATE SKY!!!!
Was with you until the end, and I'm sorry for your ordeal but...huh?
Carried away mate...pissed, and yes, silly last rant. Still fucking hate sky though....who the fucking hell was that woman, whom what right has she got telling Villa stewards what to do.? He came over after, really apologetic. Sky...man lol
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Hogan was immense today...MoM for me by far. Should of been six. They are definitely going down. Worst side vie seen.
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My 7 year old son finally Joe got football today. Hopefully we’ll talk about this in future years as Dad and son. He’s still running around the house now screaming the city is ours. Previous games he’s just seemed a little disinterested.
At 1-0 he’s saying “Dad, we need another here.” At 2 he’s going utterly mad with our mate the Dallow Lama.
Turned up at The Villa Tavern after our 3 hour drive from Dorset. Utter bedlam in there. He was speechless. I could just tell today was different. A class apart at the true home of football
Anyway,that was a ramble. What a great day. Up McGregors boys..... all the way from Bournemouth.
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Remember the Sports presenter on Sky News called Chris Skudder?
This is what he tweeted after the game...
https://twitter.com/chris_skudder
That's always their fall back option after a defeat, we all live in the shires (and Erdington) and have our Butlers inform us of the result.
Bloody hell, I'd forgotten he existed. Great day. Now I'm home, seen Steve Bruce's reaction quite a few times on SSN, definitely very emotional.
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In the Witton after the game, got talking to a couple of ours. All the way from Cornwall...round trip, Thats support... well done guys 8)
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From the outset I had the same feeling as when we won 5-1. If we'd been more clinical we'd have matched that score. The gulf in class was evident throughout.
They'll always be in our shadow & it kills them.
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My 7 year old son finally Joe got football today. Hopefully we’ll talk about this in future years as Dad and son. He’s still running around the house now screaming the city is ours. Previous games he’s just seemed a little disinterested.
At 1-0 he’s saying “Dad, we need another here.” At 2 he’s going utterly mad with our mate the Dallow Lama.
Turned up at The Villa Tavern after our 3 hour drive from Dorset. Utter bedlam in there. He was speechless. I could just tell today was different. A class apart at the true home of football
Anyway,that was a ramble. What a great day. Up McGregors boys..... all the way from Bournemouth.
Love it! There was a time when i would not even consider taking my kids to this game. Absolutely well policed today, and i know your lad loved the experience. Football has come a long way, thank god!
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From the outset I had the same feeling as when we won 5-1. If we'd been more clinical we'd have matched that score. The gulf in class was evident throughout.
They'll always be in our shadow & it kills them.
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Can’t argue with that 😀😀
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Snoddy's goal every time. Both were excellent but Snoddy's was not just critical as a match winner but was a sublime piece of skill.
Defo.
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My daughter has special needs, so we were ok going into the ground. At the end of the game, we came across the same steward, whom knows my daughter. We were confronted by this woman whom was questiong my daughters disability. I noticed an id tag around her neck....sky fucking sports!!!
This bitch was telling the steward and every one else.She WAS THE BOSS!!!
It worked out well, since she wa surprised at my language, and suddenly bent. Complaint going to the club, since when do sky sports decide whom has a disability and not. White man drives over a Muslim....terrorist. Kids in Manchester slaughtered...mental illness. I fUCKING HATE SKY!!!!
Was with you until the end, and I'm sorry for your ordeal but...huh?
Carried away mate...pissed, and yes, silly last rant. Still fucking hate sky though....who the fucking hell was that woman, whom what right has she got telling Villa stewards what to do.? He came over after, really apologetic. Sky...man lol
Too late mate, you’ve let your mask slip.
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Thoroughly enjoyable day.
Took the kids to their first derby game, they loved the atmosphere.
First half we were all over them, if we had scored early it would have been 4 or 5.
Thought at half time we would live to regret not scoring.
Second half we carried on the same tempo, and it was all the better attacking and scoring at the Holte.
Some great piss take singing "we're going up, you're going down" sang by all corners of the ground was just great to be involved in.
Loving the fact that "the city is ours" winds them up so much, we must keep reminding them of it at every opportunity in that case.
Oh yes, and they don't see us in town, coz they're all getting lost trying to find Sherlock Street.
UTV
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Hi Damo. Great to hear that Joe got to see the game today. Dallow Lama classic! Quite a few up from Dorset today. We saw plenty on the way back down the M5. See u at Fulham, I'm driving the Fallow Lama.
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This one is my favourite.
Look they are not up yet plenty of twists and turns to come but they are jammy feckers I will say that we are at a point now that if they don't go up it will turn into a financial meltdown for them but it's villa we are talking about here so they will come up smelling of roses probably,didnt mind playing them when I was a kid but just dread it nowadays I absolutely dispise everything that club stands for though,I will admit they effect a part of my life unfortunately
Refreshing admission.
Villa affect Every Blues Fan's Life. Every Day. It has been the same for well over 50 years and probably 140 years. There is nothing new. If Blues were Champions League winners10 seasons running and we were in the Northern Premier we would still affect them. It really is that simple.
As someone posted a couple of years back Villa, Blues and Albion fans have one thing in common, We Are All Obsessed by The Villa.
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They seem a bit pissed off about losing to us. You would think they would allow little old us our day in the sun whilst still being content in the knowledge that they are bigger and better than us, have more fans than us and carry the name of the city.
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Fantastic day.
Probably been mentioned already, and testimony to the spirit in the team at the mo but I love how as Connors shot hits the back of the net, Hutton turns and runs arms aloft in elation towards a screaming John Terry!
Bloody marvellous stuff.
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Yes I noticed that too. Briliant scenes!
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The Midlands is ours...The Midlands is ours. .. we take more away than you have at home..
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I’ve just remembered something.
An hour or two after the game, outside the Aston Social with a load of others, along came a Merc with a fella hanging out the sunroof saluting the crowd.
The fella was Ian Taylor.
Please tell me this is true...
It certainly is mate. Massive smile on his face as he came past giving it loads. Magic
And there was I thinking I couldn’t possibly like that man any more then I did already...
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Ah Terry Cooper and his insistence it was offside.
There's a circus in the town...
Huh, how?
Dean Saunders in 1993. Cooper and Jimmy Greaves had no idea what the offside rule was.
In your own half you mean as was the case
Cooper, greaves and whoever the defender was. That can be the only reason he was 5 yards in our half with Deano behind him.
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I like that we were able to bring on Grabban for Hogan to maintain the balance of that front four later in the game, as opposed to maybe Davis and change the way we play slightly to accommodate him.
I'm just a bit worried though that it looks like Jordan Bowery has grown a beard and tried to sneak back into the club in disguise...
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A couple of their fans have let their side down, saw a couple of them tweet "surrounded by Vile fans in the Square Peg". That can't be true? We don't venture into the city centre because we're scared.
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I like that we were able to bring on Grabban for Hogan to maintain the balance of that front four later in the game, as opposed to maybe Davis and change the way we play slightly to accommodate him.
I'm just a bit worried though that it looks like Jordan Bowery has grown a beard and tried to sneak back into the club in disguise...
With Jordan Bowery leading the line now we would be unstoppable. 14 wins-on-the-bounce unstoppable.
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A few of them on their website want Cotterill out after today. To be fair they are being shot down by a more measured majority who accept we are a better team than them. Although one did comment, "all of the team and Cotts should be hung on the crossbars at Stans* tonight for their lack of endeavour today and make an example for all who come after that they have to give 100% against the vile."
*I presume 'Stans' means the sty unless they are planning a mass execution at the houses of Collymore, Petrov or Staunton.
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A lovely routine win against the Rags, what a great day.
One thing that REALLY stands out is the way the players are looking out for each other. Quite a few times I have seen senior players checking on Jack, and being protective of him, Hourihane in particular. I love that.
Well done you Villa boys.
Commented on exactly the same, remember being at Newcastle away and Hogan was lying on the floor injured and not a single Villa player even went to check he was ok yet today every time they touched Jack or anyone else you had Snoddy/ Jedi / Terry et al standing up for each other as a team . Great , well done from Dr Tony to the ball boys, as a club we are on the move again. Maybe just Maybe proud history bright future.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFo1rhrLSO4
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All our players give a shit. I actually like Aston Villa again.
And we are going up.
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A couple of their fans have let their side down, saw a couple of them tweet "surrounded by Vile fans in the Square Peg". That can't be true? We don't venture into the city centre because we're scared.
Q.V. you’ll be pleased to know I was drinking up town Sat night, had a black Villa padded jacket on, only saw one bollock wearer all night, he thought briefly about saying something then must have realised that he didn’t have two hundred other bollock wearers with him and that I was quite happy to make his day if required .
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I roused myself having got home from my birthday party at 8.30am to follow that match on here and a dodgy stream. Just woken up again now. An absolute belter of a day. Life begins at 1874.
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All our players give a shit. I actually like Aston Villa again.
And we are going up.
Yeah they seem to love the club, just like us......we've got our Villa back
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Probably going to have a bad head in the morning but UTV.......
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For the first time in years we sang "And Its Aston Villa, Aston Villa FC.....GREATEST TEAM." and it actually felt it.
Steve Bruce, whatever you may say, has certainly restored belief in the club
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Still smiling 😀
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Still smiling x 2, in fact my face is hurting with all the grinning I've done all day.
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Not a bad feeling to take in to the week is it. Great performance from all the players, they all did the job they had to do yesterday and some (Jack, Jedi) put in exceptional performances. UTV!
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Nice birthday present. Thank you Villa.
Gees the collective psyche of that other club is complete utter desperation and resentment as a collective. They can go on being obsessed with us or whomever we're playing and we can completely forget about their existence and the horse they rode out of the centre of town on.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFo1rhrLSO4
I can't wait to see Terry at Fulham next week!!
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Check out the bitterness on the ‘Villa thread’ over on SHA. Classic stuff.
You're not wrong ;D
I think this is my favourite: Glad it's over but for how long? Maybe a little contentious, maybe a bit of a hissy fit kind of a reaction, but this afternoon I thought to myself that I almost don't mind if they do go up (which I believe is now nailed on). I am sick of them, and I'm sick of these games now. I'll look forward to not facing them for a bit.
They've rolled the dice, shit or bust to return to the premier, at stake either survival or financial meltdown. Bigger clubs in the past have done the same and come unstuck, Forest, Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds, them feckers though, obviously come up smelling of roses.
They're up and I'm paying them no more mind this season, but am I alone in almost thinking "oh just go up then and f*ck off out of the way you bunch of jammy, weasly little snidey pricks
So much despondency and bitterness in one post.
I do like how he says he's 'paying us no more mind this season' then goes on to post about us again twice afterwards. Marvellous.
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I actually feel quite cheerful heading to work on a Monday morning. This is very strange.
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Juan Pablo Angel
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@JUANPABLOANGEL
Fond memories of my time at @AVFCOfficial days! Great result today lads! #AVFC #secondcityderby #UTV #villapark ⚽️⚽️⚽️
4:51 PM - Feb 11, 2018
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The only slight downer on a fantastic day was that the game wasn’t in mid April so we could give them a rousing rendition of We’ll Meet Again..maybe next time, if there ever is a next time.
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Juan Pablo Angel
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Fond memories of my time at @AVFCOfficial days! Great result today lads! #AVFC #secondcityderby #UTV #villapark ⚽️⚽️⚽️
4:51 PM - Feb 11, 2018
Legend.
Geezer Butler tweeted too 8)
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Theres one nose in the office, I haven't said a word (honest), I just did my Leonardo Di Caprio . what a great day apart from couldn't get in the Aston social. oh well. the sun is shining.
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The only slight downer on a fantastic day was that the game wasn’t in mid April so we could give them a rousing rendition of We’ll Meet Again..maybe next time, if there ever is a next time.
The "going up, going down" more than made up for it. Seeing the whole ground doing it was a fantastic sight and sound.
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The hangover this morning is very real. Worth every moment of it though! What a day.
Echo sentiments on how fantastic Jack was and the atmosphere was next level. 7/7 - unreal form. Onto Fulham and if we can get a good result their then who knows what we can press on to do over the coming weeks!
Have a great week at work all!! UTV
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Still smiling x 2, in fact my face is hurting with all the grinning I've done all day.
me too Oz! Not got Foxtel, but was following the match thread on here. Watched a few YouTube clips today and it looked a great day out for Villa.
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Looking forward to hearing the Monday workplace pisstaking anecdotes from those back home tonight!
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I love Aston Villa, I love Villa Park, I love the board, I love every player, I love every fan but most of all today I love Steve Bruce. Those of us who have been through something similar (although not as awful as his few weeks) will know how hard that must have been. Glad that the lads put a smile on his face. Really moving watching him trying to control his emotions.
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It was so easy and we were so dominant it didn't seem like a derby game.
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The noses here arent saying much. In fact nothing at all.
I actually find the best way is not to say anything at all to them until about 11:00. I mean 2.0 against relegation fodder is a new run o mill result.
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The only slight downer on a fantastic day was that the game wasn’t in mid April so we could give them a rousing rendition of We’ll Meet Again..maybe next time, if there ever is a next time.
The "going up, going down" more than made up for it. Seeing the whole ground doing it was a fantastic sight and sound.
For me, the big difference between yesterday and last seasons game was our league position.
Last season, it was all about beating them to help send them down. Yesterday was all about beating them to help boost our own promotion push.
The 3 points is by far the most important thing, especially as the game was a potential banana skin. The fact that it has upset the grubby, bitter small timers from Solihull is an added bonus.
On the subject of the fans, well done to everyone who bought tickets for the Upper Trinity. I was sat opposite and the atmosphere and noise from that stand was excellent. It would be great to get that support back for the big games we have between now and the end of the season.
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It was a great day and a fitting performance and result for a fixture I think we will not see again for some time.
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Rob B- I guess a good wind-up would be to talk enthusiastically about going to second place and not even mention beating them- like you were talking to a Norwich or Sunderland supporter or something, just to rub in their irrelevance.
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The only slight downer on a fantastic day was that the game wasn’t in mid April so we could give them a rousing rendition of We’ll Meet Again..maybe next time, if there ever is a next time.
The "going up, going down" more than made up for it. Seeing the whole ground doing it was a fantastic sight and sound.
For me, the big difference between yesterday and last seasons game was our league position.
Last season, it was all about beating them to help send them down. Yesterday was all about beating them to help boost our own promotion push.
The 3 points is by far the most important thing, especially as the game was a potential banana skin. The fact that it has upset the grubby, bitter small timers from Solihull is an added bonus.
On the subject of the fans, well done to everyone who bought tickets for the Upper Trinity. I was sat opposite and the atmosphere and noise from that stand was excellent. It would be great to get that support back for the big games we have between now and the end of the season.
Yeah I was sat in the lower trinity and the upper section was making a lot of noise. We even joined in a few times lol. Reminded of the old trinity road stand. I remember them singing and it spreading right round to the holte. Great stuff. Keep it up guys.
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Jedinak and Grealish rightly getting all the plaudits but I thought Hogan worked his bollocks off upfront by himself, they couldnt handle his movement at all.
That was the worst blues support ive seen at our place by a mile, they're usually good for adding spice to the atmosphere but they offered nothing yesterday, maybe the years of losing at Villa Park, late goals etc has taken its toll on them but after criticising us for being quiet at there place earlier in the season I expected more from them.
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Yes Hogan was very lively and a goal for him would have been well deserved.
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Yes Hogan was very lively and a goal for him would have been well deserved.
gives his all, runs himself into the ground but I’m not sure he has the quality needed if we get back to the prem
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Rob B- I guess a good wind-up would be to talk enthusiastically about going to second place and not even mention beating them- like you were talking to a Norwich or Sunderland supporter or something, just to rub in their irrelevance.
Yep better to talk about the next game v Fulham - a proper big game.
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Fantastic day and a brilliant atmosphere. Haven't heard so much noise come out of the Trinity in a long time. The whole ground was bouncing. Did it feel a bit like the roar near the end of the Liverpool semi? Kind of feels like we we're on our way and confidence is finally returning after years of being on a downward trajectory. It feels like we're in control, measured, everyone knows what they're doing and go about their business. Teams will fear us now home and away and be thinking a draw will do. Loved Terry embracing Hutton just as they got to the tunnel - everyone seems up for it. I noticed Bjarnason's quick exit and he had the look of someone in need of somewhere to be sick or something quite quickly. Small point but I wonder if he wasn't 100%?
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Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... ;D
Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.
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Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... ;D
Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.
What an utter small time prick. Typical Bluenose delusion.
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Oh and I work in Derby and it’s all rather subdued in the office today. Spoke to one lad he’s shitting it.
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Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... ;D
Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.
What an utter small time prick. Typical Bluenose delusion.
The prat has probably never been anywhere near town in his life before or after a Villa - Blues game. He's most likely relying on the inaccurate hype that is posted on the internet.
You have to remember these morons have had their entire lives impacted by AVFC. They have nothing to come at us with so they start clutching at straws to find something that can give them some form of oneupmanship. The residing in Birmingham being the best they can come up with.
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The Scudder stuff was linked about 8 pages ago!
Bell end that he is!
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Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... ;D
Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.
He's quite right of course. I frequently don my top hat and order my chauffeur to drive me to VP from my six-bedroom mansion in Lichfield, why on earth would I wish to sully myself by visiting Birmingham city centre?
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What a great way to spend a Sunday lunchtime, the deluded sty dwellers came to piss on our parade, shame their team and their support never turned up.
I have not wanted him since he came in the door, not for where he was from, but how he wanted his teams to play the game, I was wrong Mr. Bruce, you have built from a very splintered base, a team ethos that is there for all to see, the football at times is not bad as well, whatever happens between now and May and the hard time you are now going through, this is one Villa fan who will happily have you to the end of the season and if we do go up, next season as well. Hope the loss gets easier, thank you Mr. Bruce.
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Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... ;D
Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.
Sutton Coldfield....as in the place that resides within the City of Birmingham in every sense.As opposed to where the vast majority of the Dogshite dwellers support is from,Solihull.
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I have a 'mate' who's welsh and a bluenose. This weekend has been rather fun.
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Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... ;D
Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.
Nice for them to have something to cling on to, the fucking helmet. Just because we don't all live within spitting distance of Tyseley incinerator doesn't make us any less relevant. If you read one of his replies further down though, he lives in Ascot now which, last time I checked, wasn't inside the Balti triangle.
Anyway, must dash as I'm off to pick up the latest issue of Horse & Hound.
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Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... ;D
Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.
Nice for them to have something to cling on to, the fucking helmet. Just because we don't all live within spitting distance of Tyseley incinerator doesn't make us any less relevant. If you read one of his replies further down though, he lives in Ascot now which, last time I checked, wasn't inside the Balti triangle.
Anyway, must dash as I'm off to pick up the latest issue of Horse & Hound.
A fine morning has been spoiled this end by poachers. Off to thrash them within an inch of their lives.
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My mate has posted the 'drank in town and didn't see a Villa fan all day' stuff, he didnt mention how many people he'd asked.
I think one day a few of them might work out that that this 'peoples club' stuff is rather undermined by the published attendances.
Love it.
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You couldn't move in the Yenton for Harris Tweed, yachting club ties and plates of roasted swan.
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My mate has posted the 'drank in town and didn't see a Villa fan all day' stuff, he didnt mention how many people he'd asked.
I think one day a few of them might work out that that this 'peoples club' stuff is rather undermined by the published attendances.
Love it.
Indeed Man City (Pre Oil Money) and Everton could always make a valid claim to being equals within their conurbation and had a lot of their own success even if their rivals won far more. The BugShites from Small Heath can't do that and 2 changes of names doesn't make it so either.
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I don’t see much wrong with Scudder’s tweet and I don’t think we should sing this city is ours. Unnecessary.
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The chant seems to have got under their skin so it's fine by me.
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Oh and I work in Derby and it’s all rather subdued in the office today. Spoke to one lad he’s shitting it.
Oh come on tell him to be a realist. Derby had done well to hang in second for few weeks but at best they are play off material and I wish Gary the best in achieving that.
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I don’t see much wrong with Scudder’s tweet and I don’t think we should sing this city is ours. Unnecessary.
Absolutely, and I dont think Brian Little could actually walk on water so that song can go as well.
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They're starting to warm up nicely on SHA....https://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,2426714 (https://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,2426714)
Enjoy the deluded babbling.
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The chant seems to have got under their skin so it's fine by me.
If anything, this goes to show that it should only be encouraged.
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My mate has posted the 'drank in town and didn't see a Villa fan all day' stuff, he didnt mention how many people he'd asked.
I think one day a few of them might work out that that this 'peoples club' stuff is rather undermined by the published attendances.
Love it.
I would say that the a lot of our support who live in Birmingham reside in the North side of the city, so why on earth would they go into town to watch the match? Maybe he should have visited a few pubs in places like Great Barr, Kingstanding, Erdington and New Oscott if he knows where they are of course.
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The chant seems to have got under their skin so it's fine by me.
Me too. They used to reply with "when Blues are at Wembley, the city is yours", but that is a bit past it's sell-by date now.
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Why does anyone bother looking at that stuff? You know they'll spend all of today telling everyone they meet about how they were in town/didn't see any Villa/sat in da Holt and sang all match. Some of the kids in their class might even believe them.
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Worcester is theirs Worcester is theirs.....don't get jealous, Worcester is theirs!
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It's very funny how much it winds them up. One day they'll evolve enough to realise that yes, we do have more support outside the city than they do, we also have more in it which is why we can pull 40K+ for a derby and think nothing of it while they cream themselves and type "CODE RED" at each other when it looks like they may get 25K at the sty.
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Worcester is theirs Worcester is theirs.....don't get jealous, Worcester is theirs!
Redditch and Rubery maybe, Bromsgrove and Worcester, no chance.
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The only town or city where there are more Blose fans than Villa is Solihull. Even then, there's not much in it.
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Where do you even begin with shit like this?
It's the ones from North of Brum that bug me. Why? Because there are other clubs from those areas that they really should be supporting.
Walsall Villa, Black Country Villa, brownhills, pelsall, staffs etc,....Have they not heard of Walsall, WBA, Wolves?
That is gloryhunting!
Worcester is a satellite town south of Brum ( as we all know)..I guess people there have to support a Brum team as Brum is probably
closest area to where there are LEAGUE clubs ( yes i know about worcs city) and there a few ex pat Brum folk there too i suspect
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Why does anyone bother looking at that stuff? You know they'll spend all of today telling everyone they meet about how they were in town/didn't see any Villa/sat in da Holt and sang all match. Some of the kids in their class might even believe them.
I enjoy feeling their pain.
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The 3 Blues ST holder I know I spoke to after the game and (this is more pleasing that actually winning - well almost ;)) all said the same thing more or less
* The significantly better side won
* It felt like a premiership side playing them as the gulf in class / ability was so evident
* one even admitted that they actually were surprised at how good some of our play was and was happy that it was not 4/5/6
They all criticised carrot muncher and said that it was really poor that they did not show a lot of the blues dogged spirit but accepted that we did not allow them the time of space.
One said that he had not really seen much of Jedinak but thought he was the catalyst for our strength as he owned the centre of the park.
They all hate the arrogance of Grealish but accepted he is was almost unplayable
They then slagged off their own team as expected.
Some would like a dubious penalty to rip victory from them - just to watch their heads explode. I much prefer when they just know they were done over by a much better footballing team and have no real answer to it
happy days ;D ;D ;D
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The only town or city where there are more Blose fans than Villa is Solihull. Even then, there's not much in it.
Not sure that is even true anymore. We hoovered up a load of new fans for a decade before they got promoted from all over the conurbation.
East Birmingham and 'North Solihull' are pretty much even stevens nowadays
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Where do you even begin with shit like this?
It's the ones from North of Brum that bug me. Why? Because there are other clubs from those areas that they really should be supporting.
Walsall Villa, Black Country Villa, brownhills, pelsall, staffs etc,....Have they not heard of Walsall, WBA, Wolves?
That is gloryhunting!
Worcester is a satellite town south of Brum ( as we all know)..I guess people there have to support a Brum team as Brum is probably
closest area to where there are LEAGUE clubs ( yes i know about worcs city) and there a few ex pat Brum folk there too i suspect
Ha ha, that’s ridiculous. I guess most football fans follow family loyalties. So you, your father, grandfather or even great grandfather probably grew up within a few miles from Villa Park. Families move around though, hasn’t this thicko thought of that?
As for glory hunters, we can’t be very good at it can we? I’ve been ‘glory hunting’ for decades and haven’t caught much glory yet apart from the early eighties.
Made me laugh too about Worcester, satellite town my arse.
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Yeah, we all know that Worcester is a northern suburb of 'Nam
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Having recently watched match now in full have to add that was fantastic win and that really villa players showing class of own. Deserved and would have liked Hourihane to have put ball in to box at end for Grabban to have a goal attempt. I liked hogan work ethic outstanding chasing down and making own chances. The opposition were not up to much and the football gods made sure the post kept out their one meaningful effort. Grealish is a pleasure and didn't like the rough treatment received. Good showing and needless reminder how much better the villa are. Fair play Bruce too
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The only town or city where there are more Blose fans than Villa is Solihull. Even then, there's not much in it.
Grew up in Solihull and can vouch for that!
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I don’t see much wrong with Scudder’s tweet and I don’t think we should sing this city is ours. Unnecessary.
Absolutely, and I dont think Brian Little could actually walk on water so that song can go as well.
If we are revisiting and revising our opinions of old songs does that mean that we all have to start caring about Chris Price having no hair?
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As a slight change of direction and back to the game (not sure why we are reminding ourselves who is the bigger and better supported club tbh)
Can I have a mention out for the ref - we have had so many poor ones in the division I thought he had a great game and kept it flowing which helped our game plan no end.
He got the sending off spot on as well, especially when JT told him ;)
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The 3 Blues ST holder I know I spoke to after the game and (this is more pleasing that actually winning - well almost ;)) all said the same thing more or less
* The significantly better side won
* It felt like a premiership side playing them as the gulf in class / ability was so evident
* one even admitted that they actually were surprised at how good some of our play was and was happy that it was not 4/5/6
They all criticised carrot muncher and said that it was really poor that they did not show a lot of the blues dogged spirit but accepted that we did not allow them the time of space.
One said that he had not really seen much of Jedinak but thought he was the catalyst for our strength as he owned the centre of the park.
They all hate the arrogance of Grealish but accepted he is was almost unplayable
They then slagged off their own team as expected.
Some would like a dubious penalty to rip victory from them - just to watch their heads explode. I much prefer when they just know they were done over by a much better footballing team and have no real answer to it
happy days ;D ;D ;D
If you went to the trouble of speaking to three Small Heath season ticket holders why didn't you go the whole hog and track down the other three for a chat?
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As a slight change of direction and back to the game (not sure why we are reminding ourselves who is the bigger and better supported club tbh)
Can I have a mention out for the ref - we have had so many poor ones in the division I thought he had a great game and kept it flowing which helped our game plan no end.
He got the sending off spot on as well, especially when JT told him ;)
I agree with the poor refs in division. However the ref should have second yellow for jenkinson foul and was then a red card. Gave unfair advantage to opponents.
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yeah, I thought Jenkinson was very lucky to stay on.
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I was shocked at the size of Stockdale - anyone else think he looked like an umpa lumpa?
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The only town or city where there are more Blose fans than Villa is Solihull. Even then, there's not much in it.
Grew up in Solihull and can vouch for that!
Not even sure that is true anymore. If we take the street I live on as typical there are seven Villa fans and one nose, an entirely reasonable octogenarian who had season ticket up to a few years ago. At least of the ones I know or have noticed anyway.
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They're starting to warm up nicely on SHA....https://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,2426714 (https://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,2426714)
Enjoy the deluded babbling.
Oh dear. They’re very bitter.
Awesome!!
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They're even trying to claim the Peaky Blinders ffs. Now I'm not a huge fan of PB but it winds me up no end considering it's set in Small Heath ffs
Villa have never, ever, had a presence in (birmingham) city centre. That's a fact. Not open to discussion. It has always been blue and always will be. Even the most biased, deluded DVB will admit that.They're starting to warm up nicely on SHA....https://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,2426714 (https://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,2426714)
Enjoy the deluded babbling.
Oh dear. They’re very bitter.
Awesome!!
You have to laugh
They're even trying to claim the Peaky Blinders ffs. Now I'm not a huge fan of PB but it winds me up no end considering it's set in Small Heath ffs
Villa have never, ever, had a presence in (birmingham) city centre. That's a fact. Not open to discussion. It has always been blue and always will be. Even the most biased, deluded DVB will admit that.
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Matt Kendrick making a mountain out of a molehill with this one... ::)
I suppose I'm going to be labelled as a prude by some for what I'm about to write...
It's just my opinion, but I find it OTT.
By all means exchange lighthearted banter (horrible word) with rival fans, but why stoop to this level.
Bragging rights should be about celebrating all that is good about your own club, rather than obsessing about doing down the opposition.
To go to the trouble of sourcing a Blues shirt and then laying it out in front of the turnstiles for people to walk all over...
What a waste of time and energy.
Time and energy that would have been better spent soaking up the atmosphere on the Holte, or even supping an extra pre-match pint.
Like I say, it might be me being a boring old prude, but I just didn't find it funny.
Each to his own I suppose.
Stay classy, folks.
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They're even trying to claim the Peaky Blinders ffs. Now I'm not a huge fan of PB but it winds me up no end considering it's set in Small Heath ffs
Villa have never, ever, had a presence in (birmingham) city centre. That's a fact. Not open to discussion. It has always been blue and always will be. Even the most biased, deluded DVB will admit that.They're starting to warm up nicely on SHA....https://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,2426714 (https://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,2426714)
Enjoy the deluded babbling.
Oh dear. They’re very bitter.
Awesome!!
You have to laugh
They're even trying to claim the Peaky Blinders ffs. Now I'm not a huge fan of PB but it winds me up no end considering it's set in Small Heath ffs
Villa have never, ever, had a presence in (birmingham) city centre. That's a fact. Not open to discussion. It has always been blue and always will be. Even the most biased, deluded DVB will admit that.
What does “a presence in the city centre” even mean? They’re mental.
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Someone should tell Matt Kendrick that a Small Heath shirt is about the only thing you can leave lying around without it getting nicked these days.
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Just changing the subject slightly - To me the away support was pretty quiet in volume.
Other clubs fans have made far more noise than they did
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I thought the shirt thing was a bit crap. Still, some will think it was bantalicious I suppose.
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The absolute irony of them deriding the 'City is ours' thing by claiming that most Villa live in their town, be it Worcester or Uttoxeter etc. One even seems to have been to all the pubs in Worcester yesterday to achieve a 90% score of all people watching the game being Blues.
They make life so easy.
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Matt Kendrick making a mountain out of a molehill with this one... ::)
I suppose I'm going to be labelled as a prude by some for what I'm about to write...
It's just my opinion, but I find it OTT.
By all means exchange lighthearted banter (horrible word) with rival fans, but why stoop to this level.
Bragging rights should be about celebrating all that is good about your own club, rather than obsessing about doing down the opposition.
To go to the trouble of sourcing a Blues shirt and then laying it out in front of the turnstiles for people to walk all over...
What a waste of time and energy.
Time and energy that would have been better spent soaking up the atmosphere on the Holte, or even supping an extra pre-match pint.
Like I say, it might be me being a boring old prude, but I just didn't find it funny.
Each to his own I suppose.
Stay classy, folks.
Maybe he should concern himself more with the gulf in class and ability between the 2 teams and the fact that they put up little or no fight in a massive local derby.
Surely that is what should concern him?
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I tend to go to games wearing only a small pin badge that would identify me as Villa. How anyone would know who I support without good eyesight or questioning me is a mystery.
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Matt Kendrick making a mountain out of a molehill with this one... ::)
I suppose I'm going to be labelled as a prude by some for what I'm about to write...
It's just my opinion, but I find it OTT.
By all means exchange lighthearted banter (horrible word) with rival fans, but why stoop to this level.
Bragging rights should be about celebrating all that is good about your own club, rather than obsessing about doing down the opposition.
To go to the trouble of sourcing a Blues shirt and then laying it out in front of the turnstiles for people to walk all over...
What a waste of time and energy.
Time and energy that would have been better spent soaking up the atmosphere on the Holte, or even supping an extra pre-match pint.
Like I say, it might be me being a boring old prude, but I just didn't find it funny.
Each to his own I suppose.
Stay classy, folks.
Maybe he should concern himself more with the gulf in class and ability between the 2 teams and the fact that they put up little or no fight in a massive local derby.
Surely that is what should concern him?
He is a Villa fan.
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Matt Kendrick making a mountain out of a molehill with this one... ::)
I suppose I'm going to be labelled as a prude by some for what I'm about to write...
It's just my opinion, but I find it OTT.
By all means exchange lighthearted banter (horrible word) with rival fans, but why stoop to this level.
Bragging rights should be about celebrating all that is good about your own club, rather than obsessing about doing down the opposition.
To go to the trouble of sourcing a Blues shirt and then laying it out in front of the turnstiles for people to walk all over...
What a waste of time and energy.
Time and energy that would have been better spent soaking up the atmosphere on the Holte, or even supping an extra pre-match pint.
Like I say, it might be me being a boring old prude, but I just didn't find it funny.
Each to his own I suppose.
Stay classy, folks.
Maybe he should concern himself more with the gulf in class and ability between the 2 teams and the fact that they put up little or no fight in a massive local derby.
Surely that is what should concern him?
He is a Villa fan.
"folks"? Right up there with calling people "guys" This boils my piss far more than anything that appears to boil his piss
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Matt Kendrick making a mountain out of a molehill with this one... ::)
I suppose I'm going to be labelled as a prude by some for what I'm about to write...
It's just my opinion, but I find it OTT.
By all means exchange lighthearted banter (horrible word) with rival fans, but why stoop to this level.
Bragging rights should be about celebrating all that is good about your own club, rather than obsessing about doing down the opposition.
To go to the trouble of sourcing a Blues shirt and then laying it out in front of the turnstiles for people to walk all over...
What a waste of time and energy.
Time and energy that would have been better spent soaking up the atmosphere on the Holte, or even supping an extra pre-match pint.
Like I say, it might be me being a boring old prude, but I just didn't find it funny.
Each to his own I suppose.
Stay classy, folks.
Maybe he should concern himself more with the gulf in class and ability between the 2 teams and the fact that they put up little or no fight in a massive local derby.
Surely that is what should concern him?
He is a Villa fan.
"folks"? Right up there with calling people "guys" This boils my piss far more than anything that appears to boil his piss
Hahaha! You must leas a very stressful life if your piss is boiled by 'guys' and 'folks'. I feel a musical coming on...
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My mate has posted the 'drank in town and didn't see a Villa fan all day' stuff, he didnt mention how many people he'd asked.
I think one day a few of them might work out that that this 'peoples club' stuff is rather undermined by the published attendances.
Love it.
That might have something to do with;
A) we had 40 thousand people sat a mile outside town in a big tin can actually watching the game
And
B) lots of sensible Villa fans would have avoided town to keep away from any possible trouble that is invariably caused by the 200 ‘small man syndrome’ idiots who can’t cope with a wine gum & inevitable ‘we wuz robbed by der Vile Tom’ defeat
And
C) it was just a standard game for us not a cup final
It’s nice to have a new Coventry - can we play you every week :-)
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Matt used to write for H&V.
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And now he writes for a rag that seems to hate our club.
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By city centre, they mean Digbeth and by Digbeth, they mean two or three Irish pubs. Funnily enough I've never seen much Blues drinking around Aston.
Presumably they're referring to when their main lot used to use Sam Wellers in the 80s.
When we palyed them in the cup the other year, you had loads of Villa in the Sun on the Hill, while the peasants were kettled into the Briar next door. Lots of Villa in the Shakespear too.
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I go to Digbeth all the time and never think of it as being either a "Villa" or "Blues" area, with the exception of about three pubs very close to The Sty that you probably wouldn't know about if you weren't one of them.
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I was shocked at the size of Stockdale - anyone else think he looked like an umpa lumpa?
His Missus after Christmas ?
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yeah, I thought Jenkinson was very lucky to stay on.
To be fair, he couldn't really have booked Jenkinson for that second foul, having not booked Chester for a very similar one just a few minutes before. So he was certainly consistent there.
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By city centre, they mean Digbeth and by Digbeth, they mean two or three Irish pubs. Funnily enough I've never seen much Blues drinking around Aston.
Presumably they're referring to when their main lot used to use Sam Wellers in the 80s.
When we palyed them in the cup the other year, you had loads of Villa in the Sun on the Hill, while the peasants were kettled into the Briar next door. Lots of Villa in the Shakespear too.
They mean the Bull Ring Tavern and Henneseys.
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I've drank in both. The only other fan I recall chatting about football with was a Hibs supporter.
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They're Blues pubs when a match is on but wouldn't say at any other time. I was in the BRT after the Bristol City match and there were a few Villa in there. You get fans of both clubs in the city centre but we outnumber them like we do in the city overall. I'd say that I don't know why they persist with this utter bollocks but we know why they do.
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Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... ;D
Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.
Sutton Coldfield....as in the place that resides within the City of Birmingham in every sense.As opposed to where the vast majority of the Dogshite dwellers support is from,Solihull.
Whenever I'm in Tamworth I usually see someone wearing a SHA shirt or club top. Always seemed to me a town with an above average number of their supporters living there so no different to us having fans in Lichfield.
Redditch is similar, indeed there's a Redditch blues flag you see at their games.
So predictably they're chatting BS with those claims, bless 'em.
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The only town or city where there are more Blose fans than Villa is Solihull. Even then, there's not much in it.
Grew up in Solihull and can vouch for that!
Not even sure that is true anymore. If we take the street I live on as typical there are seven Villa fans and one nose, an entirely reasonable octogenarian who had season ticket up to a few years ago. At least of the ones I know or have noticed anyway.
I live in Knowle and genuinely know hardly any Noses. There's one Nose in my son's year at school (several Villa). There's one Nose in the kids football team I manage (4 Villa).
The rest are glory hunters (Man City, Spurs and Chelsea mainly, these days).
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Their 'logic' is fantastic. Villa fans in Worcester = proof we're all out of town glory hunters. sha fans in Worcester, it's ok it's a satellite town. And they wonder why we look down on them.
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I support Villa because my Dad does - and he’s from Small Heath!
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Just changing the subject slightly - To me the away support was pretty quiet in volume.
Other clubs fans have made far more noise than they did
I thought their support was so-so in the first half - I was upstairs in the North Stand again, which i usually dislike, but it was suitably raucous yesterday. Admittedly they didn't have a lot to cheer - they were far more boisterous at Villa Park last season until Gabby came on.
Loudest I have heard so far this season were Sheffield Wednesday.
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Went to school in Quinton and can recall two Noses and one of them was a teacher. You'd think they'd be all over South Brum.
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I like the way Hourihane kindly gestured the way towards the tunnel when the ref produced the second yellow then red card so N'Doye didn't get lost.
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Confused.I grew up off Aston Lane,naturally grew up Villa.
Now live in Stourbridge so by their twisted logic who should I follow? Glassboys? Wolves? Albion? Lye Town?
And my late Dad moved from rural Roscommon to digs in Small Heath in 1947 .
So he should have followed ......oh fuck
(He was Villa all his life)
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Here's one talking sense:
"Much of the reaction over the past 24 hours or so on here and elsewhere.
Childish name-calling aimed at opposition supporters.
Moaning about the ref when we were clearly out-played.
Picking on individual players like N’Doye.
Here are the facts: we’re near the bottom of the table and were playing a team who had won six on the trot, hoping to get into the automatic promotion places. Where they play, and where their fans live, is irrelevant, as is the fact that they have probably been bragging all day at work.
I’m old enough to remember when we used to beat them regularly, and we used to gloat as if it were going out of fashion, so we’ve got to suck it up.
Any civilised football fan who read the sort of stuff that’s been posted on here today and yesterday would have a very low opinion of our support. We used to have a great reputation for providing a fantastic atmosphere at St Andrews, now many of us act like a bunch of spoilt brats when we lose against our local rivals."
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I sit in the North stand near the away fans and agree Sheffield Wednesday have been by far the best away supporters this season.
However they are the only away team to win at VP too.
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they must be talking about me
I have been in or around the Midlands all my life but never in Birmingham
sorry chaps for being one of them Villa glory hunters who lives in the shires
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Went to school in Quinton and can recall two Noses and one of them was a teacher. You'd think they'd be all over South Brum.
I reckon we have more supporters in South Brum than they do.
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Went to school in Quinton and can recall two Noses and one of them was a teacher. You'd think they'd be all over South Brum.
I reckon we have more supporters in South Brum than they do.
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Born in Kings Norton and lots of Villa at school, used to drink in Kings Heath lots of Villa again, when I go back to see the folks, you see as many tops and blues tops. I know some great Villa lads from south Birmingham, it’s more bollox from them.
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I don’t give a fuck what they think. Our fans are all over the world. Theirs are still struggling to master the wheel.
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they must be talking about me
I have been in or around the Midlands all my life but never in Birmingham
sorry chaps for being one of them Villa glory hunters who lives in the shires
Yeah, me too.
Work in Brum but have never lived here, always out in the shires like the Hobbit that I am. My folks moved out of Birmingham before I was born.
Sorry to validate our bluenose friends very insightful perspective on us fickle villa fans.
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The more we talk about them, the more important they are to us. They're best ignored until we play them again, which will be a long time coming, or they do something daft, which will be a lot sooner.
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The more we talk about them, the more important they are to us. They're best ignored until we play them again, which will be a long time coming, or they do something daft, which will be a lot sooner.
This.
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Their support is confined to little areas in Brum.
Our support is all over Brum, the Black Country, the shires and all over the country.
That's what happens when you're a big club.
They run the city centre and "Birmingham is blue" yet they wet themselves if they get 24,000 when they play us. Where are all these fans hiding? Absolute whoppers.
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If you ignore them it makes them even more upset, rise above them all fellow Villans.
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I was shocked at the size of Stockdale - anyone else think he looked like an umpa lumpa?
He kicks to the left
He kicks to the right
Oh David Stockdale
Your kicking is shite
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Where do you even begin with shit like this?
It's the ones from North of Brum that bug me. Why? Because there are other clubs from those areas that they really should be supporting.
Walsall Villa, Black Country Villa, brownhills, pelsall, staffs etc,....Have they not heard of Walsall, WBA, Wolves?
That is gloryhunting!
Because we are not defined simply by location.
Many people moved out of Brum to places like Tamworth and Lichfield (as our family did), or effectively creating 'new towns' like Burntwood, Gt Wyrley etc in the 50s and 60s - and they didn't stop being Villa fans. Then, as kids came along, many stuck with what team their dad supported; one of mine has, while the other started with us but her boyfriend took her to the Wolves! The first time I saw her in a Wolves top was the only time I have told her that she 'can't go out dressed like that'.
I do go to watch Hednesford and Rushall play, and I do look for the Walsall result.