That Rangers game

[ADVILLAFAN]

My father is Glaswegian and came down to Brum in the early seventies.

When he tried to get back into the Villa end for the second half he had this conversation:-

Steward: You can't come in this end.

Dad: I'm a Villa fan.

Steward: Not with that accent you're not.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Anyway - bloody buggers Rangers.

Supporting The Bully Wee Clyde is the way to go.

No sectarian bollocks for us (as we haven't got any fans).

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

My father is Glaswegian and came down to Brum in the early seventies.

When he tried to get back into the Villa end for the second half he had this conversation:-

Steward: You can't come in this end.

Dad: I'm a Villa fan.

Steward: Not with that accent you're not.

A few years back the VP ticket office refused to sell seats to my mate for a Villa v Leeds game because his card was Yorkshire Bank.

[dave.woodhall]

Villan for life - I wasn't there myself fortunately, but the reason the match was on a Saturday in October was due to World Cup qualifiers being played (I think on the following Wednesday night ?).

I wondered that but wasn't aware of the Saturday postponements. What is the norm now must have been a one-off or a season long experiment back then.

There was a normal Saturday programme but clubs could have games called off if players were called up for internationals.

[Big Dick Edwards]

That day was quite an experience for a 14 year old schoolboy such as myself. I've never seen anything like it since. I went out to the match quite early and saw loads of Rangers fans in drunken stupors lying in the subways and High Street in Birmingham City Centre at 10 in the morning! Days like that, and the West Ham away FA Cup quarter final in 1980 make you grow up quickly. I've hated Rangers ever since.