Crowd Trouble

[bertlambshank]

That last line must be gutting for that lot.
[/quote"The Villa fans are used to beating Birmingham so they wouldn't have run on if they had won, even at their home ground."

[Gazza1982]

why don't all the Villa/Blose fans just sit down, have a nice cup of tea and jolly well sort this out.?

[willywombat]

Apparently took a real beating and may have a broken arm! I think he was in the Clements....

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Absolutely, hope the little shit is in severe pain. One of the few people I would visit violence upon myself given half a chance tbh

Regardless of who he is, it's still out of order.

Whilst I do agree with that, and chose not to go to this match to avoid violence, I am not particularly sorry to hear this, having been threatened by a certain ex player of theirs in the past. What goes around comes around I suppose.

[SmallHeathAlliance]

Hi - Blues fan in piece
For what its worth, thought our fans at end of match wednesday were a disgrace for running on pitch and gathering enmass  in front of your fans taunting / throwing objects
Although saw flare/seats thrown from your side, can fully understand this in retaliation to morons subjecting you to this situation in first place and actually thought majority of people were admirable and did not react.
Apologies personally to any of you caught up in it at the end.

Majority of us blues fans in the stands enjoyed the passion, the singing, all the banter of playing you especially under floodlights but were thoroughly annoyed and disappointed at the selfish idiots who ran on and subjected you all to that experience. \
Chris

[The Situation]

Just cos someone took a flare into the sty doesn't mean his first intention was to throw it at them - it only came to that unfortunate event because those retards thought it'd be a clever idea to storm the pitch and taunt our fans. Even if we still lost but NOT had those retards on the pitch there would of still been no reason to throw because if he wanted to throw it he would of thrown it in one of their stands; he threw it at the rabble on the pitch out of being provoked because they thought it'd be funny to wind-up our pissed off fans.

I don't mind flares being used, but only being used in the correct way... not throwing them as missiles at opposing fans. It was like some Russian or Italian Ultra's having a ding dong.

[Dave Cooper please]

Hi - Blues fan in piece
For what its worth, thought our fans at end of match wednesday were a disgrace for running on pitch and gathering enmass  in front of your fans taunting / throwing objects
Although saw flare/seats thrown from your side, can fully understand this in retaliation to morons subjecting you to this situation in first place and actually thought majority of people were admirable and did not react.
Apologies personally to any of you caught up in it at the end.

Majority of us blues fans in the stands enjoyed the passion, the singing, all the banter of playing you especially under floodlights but were thoroughly annoyed and disappointed at the selfish idiots who ran on and subjected you all to that experience. \
Chris

The thing is, despite all the bollocks posted on forums, and despite all the bravado from the minority on both sides, most of us are just football fans out to support our respective teams.
We shouldn't need Blues fans like Chris and Bill to come on here apologising, we know the majority of Blues fans are just like most of us!
For fucks sake, we work together, we drink together, we live next to each other, and we all love football. It would be great if we could get this through the thick fucking skulls of the dickheads who have yet again made us all look like arseholes.
I won't hold my breath.

[Villa'Zawg]

Hi - Blues fan in piece
For what its worth, thought our fans at end of match wednesday were a disgrace for running on pitch and gathering enmass  in front of your fans taunting / throwing objects
Although saw flare/seats thrown from your side, can fully understand this in retaliation to morons subjecting you to this situation in first place and actually thought majority of people were admirable and did not react.
Apologies personally to any of you caught up in it at the end.

Majority of us blues fans in the stands enjoyed the passion, the singing, all the banter of playing you especially under floodlights but were thoroughly annoyed and disappointed at the selfish idiots who ran on and subjected you all to that experience. \
Chris

The thing is, despite all the bollocks posted on forums, and despite all the bravado from the minority on both sides, most of us are just football fans out to support our respective teams.
We shouldn't need Blues fans like Chris and Bill to come on here apologising, we know the majority of Blues fans are just like most of us!
For fucks sake, we work together, we drink together, we live next to each other, and we all love football. It would be great if we could get this through the thick fucking skulls of the dickheads who have yet again made us all look like arseholes.
I won't hold my breath.

Fair play, well said both.

[greenwichvilla]

Hi - Blues fan in piece
For what its worth, thought our fans at end of match wednesday were a disgrace for running on pitch and gathering enmass  in front of your fans taunting / throwing objects
Although saw flare/seats thrown from your side, can fully understand this in retaliation to morons subjecting you to this situation in first place and actually thought majority of people were admirable and did not react.
Apologies personally to any of you caught up in it at the end.

Majority of us blues fans in the stands enjoyed the passion, the singing, all the banter of playing you especially under floodlights but were thoroughly annoyed and disappointed at the selfish idiots who ran on and subjected you all to that experience. \
Chris

The thing is, despite all the bollocks posted on forums, and despite all the bravado from the minority on both sides, most of us are just football fans out to support our respective teams.
We shouldn't need Blues fans like Chris and Bill to come on here apologising, we know the majority of Blues fans are just like most of us!
For fucks sake, we work together, we drink together, we live next to each other, and we all love football. It would be great if we could get this through the thick fucking skulls of the dickheads who have yet again made us all look like arseholes.
I won't hold my breath.

Fair play, well said both.

Seconded.

[Phil from the upper holte]

This clip at about 8:10 in shows them throwing things from their own end.

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You win your Biggest Game Ever and celebrate by throwing seats at the police.

Towards the end it looks like one city fan is having a go at another? Telling him to grow up maybe?

[TimTheVillain]

The whole 'running onto the pitch cos we've won our most important game ever' is so Hereford.

Villa fans left watching, penned in like that - it was actually very cowardly.

Blues are Blues, and will always be Blues.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

You would have thought given the history of toilet bashing they would have put one policeman on duty somewhere "near" the toilets.  Or would that require too much planning,

That's the answer - a toilet monitor! It used to work at school.

They should put a bloke in there selling aftershave and what not, that would sort it out and would also provide an extra revenue stream for the clubs!

[john2710]

Did anyone hear the terrible news about an ex blues player getting a real hiding after the match??? You may remember him.. Once lifted his shirt with a message for Villa in some tinpot trophy final at wembley... Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella.

Whilst its not right, some people deserve it more than others and I'm sure there are plenty of people who can testify to this.

What goes around, comes around.

[Somniloquism]

Just cos someone took a flare into the sty doesn't mean his first intention was to throw it at them

Yes, he obviously knew it would snow and thought he would have to help a plane perform an emergency landing at Birmingham Airport a la Die Hard 2.

Or maybe he lives up an unlit street and needed to light his way.

That would explain why he took a flare to the match but never bothered lighting it until the very end where he could lob it at fans because he was provoked.

[Villa'Zawg]

Tait gave a candid interview for a Blues fanzine earlier this year...

At the time we were a poor side and we had no money. There were no role models to look up to. training facilities were terrible. We would be sweeping terraces twice a week. It was hard. Football was secondary at the time.

we were running out to crowds of 4,000 people. We were getting beat, no one to learn from. Also I could remember looking around, thinking, don’t throw your litter there, I’ll have to pick that up on Monday! As it blew across the Kop I was thinking about it taking longer to do!

I turned down a contract at Blues because I wanted to see what my options were at the end of the season. Then I did my knee in and broke my leg at Leyton Orient two weeks later, actually I shattered my leg. It was horrific.

I’ll tell you if I see Lou Macari again he’s going to get a flying head-but, and you can put that in! I hate him – he really dumped on me. Some of the things he said to me were unbelievable. It was made worse being ex-Celtic. My Dad and I are big Rangers fans!

My parents had split up and I was mixing with people I shouldn’t, he got me moved to Solihull away from bad influences.

He took us to Dunstable for pre-season training. He made us run up heartbreak hill – called it because it broke your heart trying to run up it.

we would often scare our opponents in the tunnel before the start head butting them and all that. It was mad! We used to rough players up, and get into their faces. Obviously it would be frowned on now.

Can you give us an example? I don’t want to drop anyone in it. But I can remember one of our players head butting one of their centre forward. We all steamed in. We beat them in the tunnel AND on the pitch!

I got moved and converted into a midfielder by Dave McKay because I was the best runner... I hated it... I fell out of love with football for a while because of playing in the middle.

Danny phoned me up and said have you seen Heros and Villans. I said no what’s that, and he said it’s a Villa website and there are 14 pages of hatred towards you. So I joined and started winding them up and they banned me. Mind you I was a bit off the rails at the time!

Looking back though, I don’t regret it. It’s made Blues fans happy and I’m a Blues fan. I don’t particularly like Villa so there you go.

I was often in trouble with the Police. I was a bad lad. I was often knocking about with the wrong sort and the club said I had to stop being seen with hooligan elements. But I found it tough because I grew up with them. I know I should have done, but I can’t forget where I was bought up. I always went drinking in rougher pubs.

Part of the problem was that Mick Mills and I hated each other. I lost the plot in the end, I had to get away otherwise I was going to attack him.

I said I don’t like Wolves, I don’t like Villa and I don’t like Celtic. I wasn’t going to play for anyone just for a few quid!

Scotland approached Trevor asking him to confirm that my Dad was Scottish because they were interested in me playing for them... I said if you think I’m singing flower of Scotland at Hampden, you’re mistaken.

It was Gary Ablett’s birthday. None of the players knew. The thing is the chef was wearing a Villa top. He made a bee line for me and made some comment about Villa and Blues so I attacked him. I’m chasing the chef into the kitchen.

I have bought into a coaching company and have my own now. Midland Soccer Coaching kids all over the Midlands. Got about 500 kids. I take them to the Albion academy because they get well looked after there. Blues are poor with the kids to be honest in my experience.


Joys and Sorrows - Clicky

[Chris Smith]

Apparently took a real beating and may have a broken arm! I think he was in the Clements....

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Regardless of who he is, it's still out of order.

From what I hear about a certain ex-SHA player he's made his bed and cant have too many complaints about being on the receiving end.

As for the lad who has posted the film of his mates smashing up the toilets, word fail me.

"We was on your manor, taking the pisser".