Which areas are Villa? Which areas are Blues?

[Witton Warrior]

Growing up in Stourbridge late-70's I only knew one Blose fan (he was a really nice guy); the mix was Wolves first then Olbiun then us. Recently mostly Villa. That changes every couple of seasons when the first two get into the Prem and they remember who they support and put stickers in their cars.

I remember the infamous 0-3 night when 5 Blose fans were in Mr Q's surrounded by 40+ Villa (the majority of who were so young they had never seen us play each other).

[Villan For Life]

Shocking news that Chris has bought Robert Johnson's soul. What with the burglary and now this sale, the Francis's must be going through some hard times.

Is that Hard Times live at the Home of The Blues? I'd no idea that the Francis clan had such links to this wonderful music

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

Anyway it probably should be all red from all the midland plastic mancs and bindippers

Birmingham must have one of the highest rates of gloryhunting out of the major cities.

Does anyone in Aston actually support Villa?

And does anyone in Small Heath actually support Blues?

[Villan For Life]

Anyway it probably should be all red from all the midland plastic mancs and bindippers

Birmingham must have one of the highest rates of gloryhunting out of the major cities.

Does anyone in Aston actually support Villa?

And does anyone in Small Heath actually support Blues?

Does anyone actually care?

[Fergal]

My missus grew up and went to school in Edgbaston and Handsworth, and had never knowingly met a b-loser until I took her up the Prince Hal when she was seventeen.

Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that she met some who were too embarrassed to admit it.

Care to rephrase that?

[LeeB]

I'm sure there was a report about 2 seasons ago which said the average wage of blues fans was higher than the average wage of villa fans

You see that would only account for those actually working.

So the rags sample was taken from Jasper Carrot and Karren Brady, which obviously distorts the result somewhat.

[LeeB]

My old man reckons a lot of the staunch nose areas of the 70's gradually spawned lots of Villa youngsters when we won the European cup and the League which has led to them being pretty equal now.

Growing up in a Castle Brom, a lot of Villa Fans I knew had Nose dads.

[Matt Collins]

I grew up in handsworth and went to secondary school in Sandwell till I was 13. I met very very few blues fans in that time. In handsworth it was Villa or Liverpool (amongst descendants of immigrants with very few local ties) and at school it was all villa or the baggies.

I then moved to kings Heath and it felt like blues / villa was a fairly even split. It did feel like a class thing to an extent there. Our 'A band' at baverstock tended to live in kings Heath and support villa. B band tended to live in Druids Heath and support blues. I don't know if this has shifted much since; we were much better than blues then; the gap's now smaller.

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

tao, stop posting things like this

Steve Bruce for England.

[cdbearsfan]

I agree. But only cos I support Scotland.

[lichfield lion]

My old man reckons a lot of the staunch nose areas of the 70's gradually spawned lots of Villa youngsters when we won the European cup and the League which has led to them being pretty equal now.

Growing up in a Castle Brom, a lot of Villa Fans I knew had Nose dads.

Come to think of it, i'm not sure we should be admitting to this, as accusations of glory hunting could be thrown back at us!

[Percy McCarthy]

Ha! He thought nobody got the point, so had to make it again himself.

Be interesting to see what percentage of his posts don't include some thinly-veiled criticism of Villa fans.

[Chris Smith]

My old man reckons a lot of the staunch nose areas of the 70's gradually spawned lots of Villa youngsters when we won the European cup and the League which has led to them being pretty equal now.

Growing up in a Castle Brom, a lot of Villa Fans I knew had Nose dads.

Come to think of it, i'm not sure we should be admitting to this, as accusations of glory hunting could be thrown back at us!

Only people with no knowledge of football would say that, we've always had a far larger support than that tinpot bunch of wankers down the road.

I know we like to be fair minded but their support, home and away, for a city of this size is embarrassing.

[Percy McCarthy]

Correct Chris, it's pitiful. Not only that, most of them are scared of their own shadow. Is their another club in the world that does three-mile journeys on a fleet of coaches, so petrified are they of any contact with opposing fans?

[lichfield lion]

Dear oh dear, the obsessed " i believe all the hooligan books/stories" one is frothing at the mouth again.