I recently travelled on holiday to Northern California and went to visit a friend who I converted to a Villa fan in 96' when living up on the Mendocino Coast. He lives in a tiny village called Comptche in the middle of nowhere about 45 mins inland from the coast. It had been about 10 years since I last visited and was trying to remember exactly which driveway was his when I looked up to see a huge Villa logo on the side of his garage at the entrance to his driveway. He still follows the Villa fanatically and was fully up to speed with all things pre-season, signings and even the inner workings of our youth team. He came to the door wearing a Paul MacGath t-shirt and we spent hours talking Villa sat in the Californian sun under the Redwoods trees that grow in his garden.
Does Scotland count? In the queue for coffee at the Landmark Centre nr Aviemore and encountered a family of Villans (cazoo top). Opening gambit - as always with me - is to sing "Every week we follow..." and see if they join in.The Dad did, kids looked extremely embarrassed, as well they might.Then from the kitchen behind the serveover came a strongly Scots accented "We've got McGinn".Magic 👍
Quote from: Rodders on August 22, 2023, 12:14:14 PMDoes Scotland count? In the queue for coffee at the Landmark Centre nr Aviemore and encountered a family of Villans (cazoo top). Opening gambit - as always with me - is to sing "Every week we follow..." and see if they join in.The Dad did, kids looked extremely embarrassed, as well they might.Then from the kitchen behind the serveover came a strongly Scots accented "We've got McGinn".Magic 👍Brilliant. I do quite a bit of work in south Derby and see loads to villa tops around, the most my UTV’s get is the occasional smile, don’t think I’d I have the courage for a full on “every week we follow”!
Quote from: Bent Neilsens Screamer on August 24, 2023, 09:19:07 AMQuote from: Rodders on August 22, 2023, 12:14:14 PMDoes Scotland count? In the queue for coffee at the Landmark Centre nr Aviemore and encountered a family of Villans (cazoo top). Opening gambit - as always with me - is to sing "Every week we follow..." and see if they join in.The Dad did, kids looked extremely embarrassed, as well they might.Then from the kitchen behind the serveover came a strongly Scots accented "We've got McGinn".Magic 👍Brilliant. I do quite a bit of work in south Derby and see loads to villa tops around, the most my UTV’s get is the occasional smile, don’t think I’d I have the courage for a full on “every week we follow”!I start ever so gently and with raised eyebrows, like a chorister about to start singing the descant in Once In Royal David's City, then ramp up the volume when they join in. If they don't I just keep going and force them to out of sheer embarrassment (for me, obvs). By the time we get to the "Allez Allez" everyone's smiling.* * Except for the genuinely miserable sods who don't. Few and far between though.
It's only a short step from there to My Old Man, which you can threateningly leave lingering in the air like a three day loaf after too many trips to the carvery. No-one wants to get to the second line of that outside the stadium, do they?
Quote from: Rodders on August 24, 2023, 10:32:58 AMIt's only a short step from there to My Old Man, which you can threateningly leave lingering in the air like a three day loaf after too many trips to the carvery. No-one wants to get to the second line of that outside the stadium, do they? I had it in my wedding vows.