0% villa -Coventry city on the brink?

[SX150]

There was a huge dust up between cov and Leicester fan in earlsdon a couple of years ago about 5 miles from the ricoh- pub smashed , shops , cars etc and loads of arrests with shoppers caught in the midst- pre arranged apparently 4 hrs before the game.

Point acknowledged cd.

Outside the City Arms. I know somebody who worked there, said it looked nasty but not much really happened and the police had it under control.

Very little happened on a football violance scale but scares the life out of people who go quiet shopping in a local shopping street. People who don't want it and are not prepared or expecting it. It was all the usual hoolie dance stuff. I'm sure its only done for effect half the time. Pick a place where it can have maximum impact & publicity it seems.

[joe_c]

They don't seem to hold the same disdain for SHA though do they ?

No, even Coventry see the as an irrelevance.

I went to see Weller at the NEC a few months ago. Waiting at International afterwards both platforms were packed and a bunch of fat blokes waiting for the Cov train started singing sotv. Didn't seem to occur to them that we might not all be Villa fans.

Are you sure it wasn't "shit on the Weller" they were singing?

[Brend'Watkins]

There's a lot of hate for Cov fans here which I don't really understand.  The Cov fans I know have been fine, never a bad word about Villa really.  I know some of them probably do hate us but that's to be expected when you see where we are and where they are. Anyway, I was happy for them when they beat Spurs in the 86 cup final....now there's a club I like to see in severe financial bother.

[eastie]

A friend of mine went to see Jon gaunt at a night function and he said gaunt took the mic and led a chorus of 'shit on the villa' at the Belgrade theatre in Coventry, which he said the crowd loved so much that gaunt carried on conducting the crowd singing it for a few minutes- quite surreal he said to see folk of all ages singing along in a frenzy.
Bren this is nothing new and nothing to do with where we are it was going on over 30 years ago when they were more than on parity with us - take my word on it ,I've lived here that long and seen it, and as all the other posters who live here have said the same thing.

[PeterWithe]

A friend of mine went to see Jon gaunt at a night function and he said gaunt took the mic and led a chorus of 'shit on the villa' at the Belgrade theatre in Coventry, which he said the crowd loved so much that gaunt carried on conducting the crowd singing it for a few minutes- quite surreal he said to see folk of all ages singing along in a frenzy.

About as one way a rivalry as when we used to sing about Man Utd every week.

[eastie]

True peter, you would think their rivalry would be blues which is 20 mins or less away and a similar size club with similar history and ambition.

[Percy McCarthy]

There was a huge dust up between cov and Leicester fan in earlsdon a couple of years ago about 5 miles from the ricoh- pub smashed , shops , cars etc and loads of arrests with shoppers caught in the midst- pre arranged apparently 4 hrs before the game.

Point acknowledged cd.

Outside the City Arms. I know somebody who worked there, said it looked nasty but not much really happened and the police had it under control.

Very little happened on a football violance scale but scares the life out of people who go quiet shopping in a local shopping street. People who don't want it and are not prepared or expecting it. It was all the usual hoolie dance stuff. I'm sure its only done for effect half the time. Pick a place where it can have maximum impact & publicity it seems.

Quite the opposite, really.

[eastie]

Not sure it was that trivial, on the reports on the previous page around 100 were involved and many arrests resulting in jail,Injuries and a lot of damage to property and cars, the links are on the previous page.

Frightening what can happen when you pop out for a tin of beans .

[SX150]

There was a huge dust up between cov and Leicester fan in earlsdon a couple of years ago about 5 miles from the ricoh- pub smashed , shops , cars etc and loads of arrests with shoppers caught in the midst- pre arranged apparently 4 hrs before the game.

Point acknowledged cd.

Outside the City Arms. I know somebody who worked there, said it looked nasty but not much really happened and the police had it under control.

Very little happened on a football violance scale but scares the life out of people who go quiet shopping in a local shopping street. People who don't want it and are not prepared or expecting it. It was all the usual hoolie dance stuff. I'm sure its only done for effect half the time. Pick a place where it can have maximum impact & publicity it seems.

Quite the opposite, really.

They could have chosen the War Memorial Park 1/2 a mile up the road. Acres of open space where the only casualties would have been them looking for it. No have in a shopping street full of innocents who end up getting hurt. Shop windows getting broken, cars damaged etc etc.

[Percy McCarthy]

There was a huge dust up between cov and Leicester fan in earlsdon a couple of years ago about 5 miles from the ricoh- pub smashed , shops , cars etc and loads of arrests with shoppers caught in the midst- pre arranged apparently 4 hrs before the game.

Point acknowledged cd.

Outside the City Arms. I know somebody who worked there, said it looked nasty but not much really happened and the police had it under control.

Very little happened on a football violance scale but scares the life out of people who go quiet shopping in a local shopping street. People who don't want it and are not prepared or expecting it. It was all the usual hoolie dance stuff. I'm sure its only done for effect half the time. Pick a place where it can have maximum impact & publicity it seems.

Quite the opposite, really.

They could have chosen the War Memorial Park 1/2 a mile up the road. Acres of open space where the only casualties would have been them looking for it. No have in a shopping street full of innocents who end up getting hurt. Shop windows getting broken, cars damaged etc etc.

Or, for maximum impacy and publicity, at the game.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Bunch of puffs.

[SX150]

There was a huge dust up between cov and Leicester fan in earlsdon a couple of years ago about 5 miles from the ricoh- pub smashed , shops , cars etc and loads of arrests with shoppers caught in the midst- pre arranged apparently 4 hrs before the game.

Point acknowledged cd.

Outside the City Arms. I know somebody who worked there, said it looked nasty but not much really happened and the police had it under control.

Very little happened on a football violance scale but scares the life out of people who go quiet shopping in a local shopping street. People who don't want it and are not prepared or expecting it. It was all the usual hoolie dance stuff. I'm sure its only done for effect half the time. Pick a place where it can have maximum impact & publicity it seems.

Quite the opposite, really.

They could have chosen the War Memorial Park 1/2 a mile up the road. Acres of open space where the only casualties would have been them looking for it. No have in a shopping street full of innocents who end up getting hurt. Shop windows getting broken, cars damaged etc etc.

Or, for maximum impacy and publicity, at the game.

Too well policed.
 You know as well as me Percy these Hoolies love the impact these clashes have. That incident in that place was exactly the place for publicity.

[Percy McCarthy]

Funny, I didn't hear about it until today.

Wonder why Villa and West Brom, and Villa/Blues had rows at Spaghetti Junction and Aston Station respectively, hours after the games this season when they could have got more publicity and therefore longer sentences by fighting in the Bull Ring.

[MonsXI]

A friend of mine went to see Jon gaunt at a night function and he said gaunt took the mic and led a chorus of 'shit on the villa' at the Belgrade theatre in Coventry, which he said the crowd loved so much that gaunt carried on conducting the crowd singing it for a few minutes- quite surreal he said to see folk of all ages singing along in a frenzy.
Bren this is nothing new and nothing to do with where we are it was going on over 30 years ago when they were more than on parity with us - take my word on it ,I've lived here that long and seen it, and as all the other posters who live here have said the same thing.

happens when the Enemy concerts when they play in Coventry.

as far as the trouble between cov - leics it was pavement dancing at it's finest, no blows traded.

[Ads]

There was a huge dust up between cov and Leicester fan in earlsdon a couple of years ago about 5 miles from the ricoh- pub smashed , shops , cars etc and loads of arrests with shoppers caught in the midst- pre arranged apparently 4 hrs before the game.

Point acknowledged cd.

Outside the City Arms. I know somebody who worked there, said it looked nasty but not much really happened and the police had it under control.

Very little happened on a football violance scale but scares the life out of people who go quiet shopping in a local shopping street. People who don't want it and are not prepared or expecting it. It was all the usual hoolie dance stuff. I'm sure its only done for effect half the time. Pick a place where it can have maximum impact & publicity it seems.