0% villa -Coventry city on the brink?

[bertlambshank]

When was the last time the Tamworth played Coventry?

[Dave Cooper please]

When was the last time the Tamworth played Coventry?

1971. Camkin Cup final at Highfield Road, Tamworth won 2-1.

Not sure of the relevance of your question though.

[bertlambshank]

When was the last time the Tamworth played Coventry?

1971. Camkin Cup final at Highfield Road, Tamworth won 2-1.

Not sure of the relevance of your question though.

Have you been to Highfield Road when more than 300 people have been in it?

[Sexual Ealing]

I'm sad you see my views in that way dave, nothing said was exaggerated by me but your post greatly exaggerates it there- best wishes to you anyway , I was being sincere and honest.
Sadly the fact I support villa is something nowadays I keep quiet about and do not wear colours in public.

Didn't you say previously that you're 45? If so it's probably best that you give club colours a rest for reasons of personal dignity.

[bertlambshank]

I'm sad you see my views in that way dave, nothing said was exaggerated by me but your post greatly exaggerates it there- best wishes to you anyway , I was being sincere and honest.
Sadly the fact I support villa is something nowadays I keep quiet about and do not wear colours in public.

Didn't you say previously that you're 45? If so it's probably best that you give club colours a rest for reasons of personal dignity.

Now that's funny I'm 39.........oh shit.

[vilan461]

Sorry that you feel that way,yeh ive had abuse at grounds it goes with the territory,
 but all i was trying to point out was that the 3  "exaggerated" instances referred to all occoured away from the football ground arena:
                         spitting---in a shop in the City Centre,
                          smacking---at a music festival in the Summer time -out of the football season
                          car window -- on my drive overnight when i had travelled back from a Sunderland away game and was too tired  and forgot to remove a Villa Scarfe from the car window, obviously my own fault, living in Sky Blue Land
         
   

[Ian.]

We aint talking about all opposition fans here only Coventry City fans!all clubs have decent supporters, and most have some right nut- buckets,
   Sorry but eastie,bigad 82 and myself have all experienced  abuse at the hands of their fans at first hand--and i find it real alarming  and quite disappointing to find that some of our fellow Villans seem to be taking us to task ,and actually defending  the Coventry fans? wait till its your car window with a brick through, or your shirt spat, on or you get a smack becoz you dared to  show your luv for the Villa on display by means of a tattoo on display in Coventry---!!see if you are still standing their corner then!!!!!

  un f*****g believable,!!!! unity or what???

I see a slight contradiction there.....So all clubs except Coventry have good fans?
Sorry but my wife's family are from Coventry, most of them support Coventry and are a great family. Her uncle is one of the nicest people (when he's not throwing bricks through car windows  ) to walk the planet.

Unity? So would you defend the Villa fan I saw against Arsenal in a cup match just launching into a middle aged fella unprovoked?

[eastie]

How bloody stupid of those of us who live and work in coventry to think we maybe know more about what goes on in the city and the the depth of anti villa  feeling-of course someone who neither lives or works here knows far more about it than we woud ever do.

reminds me of an stevie wonder song !

[Rip Van We Go Again]

On the subject of the hand wringing over their demise and the effect it will have on their local economy, there was not one person on here who didn't gloat when we sent Newcastle down, they then had to make a few redundancies at the club, as do all clubs that go through the trap door.

I didn't see any self flagellation over that.



As for Coventry, they won't go out of business.
there is always some prat who'll take a club like that on, they're not exactly non league.

Also, Eastie lives there, so I think i'll take his word on how they feel about us over there, added to the work I did with a lot of them a couple of years ago.

[eastie]

well said fletch , portsmouth are living proof of that and have had a reasonable season all things considered.

[WikiVilla]

The old Highfield Rd, what a tip
Remember the old disabled 3 wheeler cars parked around the edge of the pitch ? WTF !!

[charlie659]

Because of the point I made earlier. If you know a club's fans despise your own then anything that happens to them is not going to cause a ripple of sympathy for me. Yes, they are people who have kids, families, workmates, Villa fans as mates, lives etc just like our own. yet they choose to go to their ground and be anti villa.

And if they're exactly like us what do you think they're making of our turmoil? Sympathetic because they've been through it? No, they'll be laughing at it as will most clubs. If we were facing financial meltdown do you think they'd be trying to raise money for us? course not.

If Coventry, or our friends in Bordesley, were to disappear over night I really wouldn't care less and no amount of altruistic 'We're All Football fans' camaraderie would make me think any differently. 89 other clubs mean little to me but they don't spend their times hating us. 2 do. i won't delight in Coventry's troubles but neither will I feel for them.

As I said - how many of them hate us, and how many aren't all that fussed? I sometimes think we get a  lot more worked up about Coventry than they do about us.

Speaking as someone who has lived amongst them, I can categorically confirm you're talking bollox Dave!

[eastie]

Morning wiki, ah the old sky blue 3 wheelers , I do indeed remember them, one of my neighbours used to drive in and watch the games there back in the mid 70s.

[WikiVilla]

Eastie did they only let them in because they were sky blue ?
Had some rucks over the years at Cov, that walk back to the station used to be like a bit of a safari

[kipeye]

Morning wiki, ah the old sky blue 3 wheelers , I do indeed remember them, one of my neighbours used to drive in and watch the games there back in the mid 70s.

I always thought that was the players car park.