If Villa ceased to exist.........

[London Villan]

I'd spend the cash I currently spend on the Villa on a few weekends away in Europe each year, watching the top teams in great cities... Munich, Milan, Spain or even further afield like Moscow, Kiev etc...

I'd definitely not have another team though, unless it was the re-incarnation of AVFC.

[badluckeric(gates)]

This is easy for me. League football would cease to exist for me and i'd return to my childhood days of travelling around following the historic Stourbridge Town.
Come on you glassboys!!!
btw, look how they are doing! can they make i8t 3 promotions in (i think )5 seasons.

[OzVilla]

No one, I just wouldn't care if the Villa weren't around. I can totally see why those without an affiliation to a particular team dislike football so much. 

By an large, the people who are involved within the game, players and administrators, have become wankers.

i'd just get more into watching the Rugby codes and Cricket.

[ADVILLAFAN]

FC Villa
Failing that I'd probably just do the 92. Visit every league football ground in the country. I'd be a geek about it to, rating them as I go along

Sounds like a good plan.

I could have ratings for various things:- Pubs nearby/ Fan's demeanor/ location and ease to get to/ food at ground/ area ground is in and so on....

[Pat McMahon]

I would howl like a mourning werewolf, weep a canal of tears and do my best to help rebuild the club from zero. If this were not successful I would ignore football completely.

[Risso]

I used to watch a fair bit of Wigan when I first moved up north, but as they're just another identikit Premier League team, I'd probably be the same as Chris, watching a bit of football but not supporting anybody else.  I've tried a few games over here, but it's barely any better than watching kids kick a football round the park.

[Concrete John]

Don't think I'd bother with football.  I only watch games on TV now if it's Villa or there's nothing else worth watching on and even MOTD is getting to be a 'well, I suppose I should' viewing.  Like lots of others, both on here and I'd guess also fans of other clubs, I only bother with modern football as I support my team, so if they were to go so would my interest in the game.

[Meanwood Villa]

It'd have to be FC Villa or whatever sucessor club came along. On the subject of watching other teams, some weekends I wake up with a yearning to watch some football and the Villa are too far away/too expensive and wonder about some local football but I just can't get myself motivated to do so. As others have said there's no-one else who I have the emotional attachment to like Villa. There are teams I prefer to do better than others but nowhere near the level of gut-wrenching pain or giddy joy I get from Villa

[frank]

When I moved down to the south-east in the early 1970's, I assumed (wrongly, as it turned out) that it would be too difficult to travel to Villa Park, so I adopted a London team as my second string - QPR, who were playing very exciting football at the time. I went to just one match, against Leeds (a draw, one of the 4 points Brian Clough got as Leeds manager) but felt nothing at all for my adopted team. It was just another football match, with no emotional involvement at all. So I abandoned QPR and started making the trek from Surrey, and now Sussex, to Birmingham. No regrets, despite, as Meanwood Villa says, all the frustrations, disappointments, heartbreak and agony, alleviated by the odd moment of elation.

[avwebby]

No team caan give me the raw emotion that Villa do it would be like a family member dying.
However I read a book Left foot in the Grave by Gary Nelson about life at Torquay utd when they stayed up because of Stevenage's ground. Best book ever about the haves and have nots so would support them. Or Woking in the blue sq sth

[lordmcgrath5]

It'd have to be FC Villa or whatever sucessor club came along.

And there would be one, no doubt about it.

So them and, as now, MSV Duisburg for me then.

[rjp]

It'd be a bit like asking an old heroin addict 'if you could go back to before your first hit, would you do it again?'.  The answer would be no, I'd keep an eye on FC Villa and maybe attend the odd match but I'd never allow myself to develop the kind of emotional attachment I have to the real Villa.

[TimTheVillain]

I'd move to Spain and support Valencia.

[Bernie Gallacher]

Walsall or Solihull Moors for me, with possibly the odd trip to see Cowdenbeath!

[Louzie0]

I would howl like a mourning werewolf, weep a canal of tears and do my best to help rebuild the club from zero. If this were not successful I would ignore football completely.

I'd go with this.  But then again...



God, it's difficult.  I'm still trying to imagine a world without Villa.....


Cut to World Without Villa...

'THERE WOULD BE NO WORLD WITHOUT THE VILLA!'  (dramatic voice production)

So, (images) cataclysmic hurricanes, armageddon and all 4 of the horsemen turning up and doing their thing...Sutton Town, Man Utd, Real, Juventus, and River Plate all spinning away into the ether...until there's a new order....

And the first thing to crawl up out of the sea and on to the land is a claret and blue dinosaur called...

 'Emile'!
 

Well, I'd like it.  Compared with The Final Countdown and no Villa.