Witton Lane or Doug Ellis?

[Greg N'Ash]

Perhaps the club can offer Doug a compromise and agree to him being buried under it in exchange for letting them rename it in a sponsership deal. Hell, he doesn't even have to wait till he's dead if he likes.

[Cjamesk]

Witton Lane, my grandfather wouldn't forgive me if I referred to it as the Doug Ellis.

[not3bad]

My first ever Villa game was in the Witton Lane.  2-0 against Wolves, first goal a freak chipped backpass and second goal a John Deehan rocket.

[rjp]

It's Witton Lane for me too.  I seem to remember that someone asked the General about renaming it back when we were in fashion.  He said it'd be like 'poking him in the eye' and wouldn't be right.  I'd guess it'll be the Carlsberg stand or something like that not long after Doug's passed on.

[rob_bridge]

There is no Doug Ellis Stand. However there is some wording on the side of the Witton Lane Stand to that effect - an anomaly which is long overdue revising.

Wasn't the vote basically his son, lawyer and doctor or is that an urban myth I have peddled for best part of 2 decades after reading it in H&V way back when?

It should be the Ron Saunders Stand. The Holte is The Holte, as is the Trinity.

And I'm too young to remember it as anything other than the North Stand, though happy for that name to be sold to the highest bidder.

[Dave Cooper please]

I expect I'll regret this, but what have they renamed the City End to at Edgbaston?

The Birmingham End. I'm not sure it's official or just a tie-in with the sponsorship by VisitBirmingham.com who have adverts all over that bit of the ground.

Hopefully they'll rename it after Ian Bell soon.

[rob_bridge]

I expect I'll regret this, but what have they renamed the City End to at Edgbaston?

The Birmingham End. I'm not sure it's official or just a tie-in with the sponsorship by VisitBirmingham.com who have adverts all over that bit of the ground.

Hopefully they'll rename it after Ian Bell soon.

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Prefer it to be Gladstone Small - he complimented me on my Villa Top when I bumped into him at the Ashes in Brisbane last year.

[DeKuip]

Renaming the North End to the Witton End is more of a priority in my opinion - once the bulldozers eventually get to work on wiping football's ugliest stand off the face of the earth.

[TopDeck113]

I'd like it to be called The Whichever Multinational Is Stupid Enough To Give Us £5 million a year For Naming Rights Stand.

No, No, thrice No!

As far as multinationals are concerned, they can stick their Emirates/Etihad/Britannia/KC/Ricoh/American Express/King Power/Etc naming rights up their arse.

I'd rather have the Witton Lane called the Doug Ellis in perpetuity than have Villa Park sullied by naked commercial exploitation. 

[Lowendbehold]

I'd like it to be called The Whichever Multinational Is Stupid Enough To Give Us £5 million a year For Naming Rights Stand.

No, No, thrice No!

As far as multinationals are concerned, they can stick their Emirates/Etihad/Britannia/KC/Ricoh/American Express/King Power/Etc naming rights up their arse.

I'd rather have the Witton Lane called the Doug Ellis in perpetuity than have Villa Park sullied by naked commercial exploitation. 

For £5m a year, we could have afforded Scott Parker.

[TopDeck113]

We could have had Scott Parker based on the difference between having the name of a casino and the name of a charity on our shirt.

[Lowendbehold]

We could have had Scott Parker based on the difference between having the name of a casino and the name of a charity on our shirt.

"Two Scott Parkers there's only two Scott Parkers", Yep it goes.

I fancy that in those days if MON had wanted Parker he would have got him, Acorns or not.

[Villanation]

Witton, always will be.......

[cdbearsfan]

I'd like it to be called The Whichever Multinational Is Stupid Enough To Give Us £5 million a year For Naming Rights Stand.

No, No, thrice No!

As far as multinationals are concerned, they can stick their Emirates/Etihad/Britannia/KC/Ricoh/American Express/King Power/Etc naming rights up their arse.

I'd rather have the Witton Lane called the Doug Ellis in perpetuity than have Villa Park sullied by naked commercial exploitation. 

I wouldn't want them to rename the Holte, the Trinity or the stadium, but give us enough cash and you can call either of the other two stands the I Love Blokes With Big Arses Stand for all I care.

[Chris Smith]

I used to feel quite strongly about the issue, but now I couldn't care less what it is called. It will always be the Witton Lane to me, and the so called North Stand will be the Witton (End). And the Birmingham End at Edgbaston will be The City End.

I called the Hollies stand the Rea Bank the other day and felt very, very old.

It depends on who I'm talking to; instinctively I'll say Witton Lane but it's too much bother explaining to people who don't know the story.