League Cup Quarter Final - away to Small Heath

[TimTheVillain]

I'm confused, I was born in Marston Green when it was in Birmingham, am I a brummie or is it that I used to be one?

If you are born in England and move to spain to work, you don't become Spanish do you. 

Well, you have siestas, so yes you do 

[Chris Smith]

I'm confused, I was born in Marston Green when it was in Birmingham, am I a brummie or is it that I used to be one?

If you are born in England and move to spain to work, you don't become Spanish do you. 

Kevin Pietersen became English.

[pedro25]

My mates parents are English, but he was born in Germany as his folks lived there for a short time, but within a month of being born the family came back to England and he's not been back to Germany since.  He's not German though as far as I'm concerned.

If you were born in Marston Green only a very short time before it switched to Solihull your Brummy status is questionable, unless of course you then moved to Brum.  I wouldn't have thought Marston Green was part of Brum for very long, as it must have been a village in Warwickshire I guess for a long time to begin with before it was drawn into the bounds of the city, but I am only guessing.

[Walmley_Villa]

What about anybody born at Good Hope Hospital before 1974? As the main North B'ham hospital I would imagine a fair proportion of over 36's were born there from the North of the City? (I'm one of them). Does that make me a non-Brummie?

[sheldon nose]

what happens if you were born in china because your mom and dad worked there for a bit for the u.k.government.....does that make you chinese?

[Brend'Watkins]

what happens if you were born in china because your mom and dad worked there for a bit for the u.k.government.....does that make you chinese?

No, anybody born in China is a Brummie.  The Brummies have taken over China as predicted by you lot with almost all their citizens wearing Blues shirts since the arrival of that hairdresser in Bordesley.

[Olneythelonely]

what happens if you were born in china because your mom and dad worked there for a bit for the u.k.government.....does that make you chinese?

No, anybody born in China is a Brummie.  The Brummies have taken over China as predicted by you lot with almost all their citizens wearing Blues shirts since the arrival of that hairdresser in Bordesley.

Snigger

[peter w]

My missus worked in China for a month recently - Beijing - and the locals are still rather ambivalent towards English football. Of those that are the main clubs are the ones that you'd guess - Man u, Liverpool, Chelsea. oh, and guess which little club they'd heard of? Yep, Aston Villa. Guess which one they hadn't? Well, no point telling them.

As for the game itself - to reiterate for those that questioned it a few pages back - I want us to win. naturally. i really would prefer not to lose to them, but more because it will make them happier than ity will make us distraught. I'd rather they were always in the doldrums. But, there's no tension for me in the build up, there's no all or nothing about it, there's no bottom falling out of my world at the thought of losing.

i want to win, don't want them to, but if the worse happens then we've got a game on the following Saturday that's going to help me forget any defeat.

[Villa'Zawg]

I was born in Small Heath. I don't like this conversation.

[sheldon nose]

My missus worked in China for a month recently - Beijing - and the locals are still rather ambivalent towards English football. Of those that are the main clubs are the ones that you'd guess - Man u, Liverpool, Chelsea. oh, and guess which little club they'd heard of? Yep, Aston Villa. Guess which one they hadn't? Well, no point telling them.

As for the game itself - to reiterate for those that questioned it a few pages back - I want us to win. naturally. i really would prefer not to lose to them, but more because it will make them happier than ity will make us distraught. I'd rather they were always in the doldrums. But, there's no tension for me in the build up, there's no all or nothing about it, there's no bottom falling out of my world at the thought of losing.

i want to win, don't want them to, but if the worse happens then we've got a game on the following Saturday that's going to help me forget any defeat.

they would know where birmingham is mate without doubt......they would not have a clue that aston villa is a birmingham club though.......

[Chico Hamilton III]

Pat Macmahon from here was telling me just this week that he drinks in a Villa-themed bar in Shanghai.

Well, a bar with a couple of Villa flags hanging up at least.

And nobody he's ever met out there has ever heard of Blues. Then again, he's only lived there for the last 3 years and he only goes out every night of the week, talking to different locals every night about football

[JJ-AV]

What's this racist Gabby song?

[PaulTheVillan]

My missus worked in China for a month recently - Beijing - and the locals are still rather ambivalent towards English football. Of those that are the main clubs are the ones that you'd guess - Man u, Liverpool, Chelsea. oh, and guess which little club they'd heard of? Yep, Aston Villa. Guess which one they hadn't? Well, no point telling them.

As for the game itself - to reiterate for those that questioned it a few pages back - I want us to win. naturally. i really would prefer not to lose to them, but more because it will make them happier than ity will make us distraught. I'd rather they were always in the doldrums. But, there's no tension for me in the build up, there's no all or nothing about it, there's no bottom falling out of my world at the thought of losing.

i want to win, don't want them to, but if the worse happens then we've got a game on the following Saturday that's going to help me forget any defeat.

they would know where birmingham is mate without doubt......they would not have a clue that aston villa is a birmingham club though.......

It wouldn't take them long to work out who the biggest & most successful club in Birmingham is though. Never fear.

[Brend'Watkins]

Not sure about China but they've certainly heard about them in Afghanistan....

[PeterWithe]

What about anybody born at Good Hope Hospital before 1974? As the main North B'ham hospital I would imagine a fair proportion of over 36's were born there from the North of the City? (I'm one of them). Does that make me a non-Brummie?

Sutton is Birmingham though, if it isn't they'd better give me my council tax back.

I think it was the Duke of Wellington who said 'If a dog is born in a stable it does not make him a horse', although I'm not sure what that adds to the row.