Which areas are Villa? Which areas are Blues?

[The Laughing Policeman]

I took her up the Prince Hal when she was seventeen.

The Prince Hal you say? Marvellous.

Never heard it called that before.

Yet another contender for post of the year!
Very funny sir.

[Percy McCarthy]

It's not a euphemism.

 That would have been when she was sixteen.

[Risso]

Fergal made the joke first in any case!

[Dave Cooper please]

until I took her up the Prince Hal when she was seventeen.

Please tell me this is a euphemism!

*Edit* darn, too late!

[shipscat]

Hilarious Percy.

With regard to the question,the vast majority of the puppy shite devil's spawn will be supporting us by the time the evil mastermind agent Carson has finished his master plan,and they're playing Telford in their new  derby circa 2020.

[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.

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!

Their dads were usually the kind of fat bigoted idiots that even their own children wouldn't want to spend time with. That's why they came down the Villa with us.

[Mister E]

Never met any BN up here, but I was born and brought up in Shirley which was staunch BN territory.

But the Premiership years have blurred all the traditional football boundaries I suspect.

[charlie659]

Most of the noses I know try and align themselves as the Everton / Man City (pre-££££) type club from Birmingham. The fact is we are that club and Liverpool / Manchester doesn't have a Birmingham City sized club, just like Birmingham doesn't have a Liverpool / Man Utd sized club.
The only stronghold they have is the corridor along the Cov rd. North and West Birmingham are mostly Villa and everywhere else is pretty mixed - including the satellite towns (Tamworth, Redditch, Bromsgrove,Lichfield etc..).

[PeterWithesShin]

I lived in Bromsgrove for all of the 80s and back then it was more Villa than anyone else. There were a few noses and Albion fans as well as the usual mix of Liverpool/Manure fans. I doubt the small heath percentage has climbed much since then, although I bet the glory hunter one has.

[hawkeye]

If you go back far enough you would find that The Villa support came from far and wide, certainly all the Countys that surrounded Birmingham, those that will rmember the serpentine car park filled with coaches and the streets around the ground filled with cars full of people from all over the Midlands. There are still remnants of that support via THe Lions Clubs, the other lot do not have anything like that appeal outside of specific areas of Birmingham.
I have allways thought it a pity that the Club for many years has failed to develope this fan base. What is shocking is the fact that many Villa supporting Dads from the outllying areas end up buying thier kids Manure and Chelsea shirts

[charlie659]

If you go back far enough you would find that The Villa support came from far and wide, certainly all the Countys that surrounded Birmingham, those that will rmember the serpentine car park filled with coaches and the streets around the ground filled with cars full of people from all over the Midlands. There are still remnants of that support via THe Lions Clubs, the other lot do not have anything like that appeal outside of specific areas of Birmingham.
I have allways thought it a pity that the Club for many years has failed to develope this fan base. What is shocking is the fact that many Villa supporting Dads from the outllying areas end up buying thier kids Manure and Chelsea shirts

I am an old fart too and you are right that our appeal (and support) historically stretches further afield around the midlands, much like our peer clubs Everton and Man City in the North West - I was addressing the specific point about support in and around the city of Birmingham.

[Bad English]

I took her up the Prince Hal when she was seventeen.

The Prince Hal you say? Marvellous.

Never heard it called that before.

Ha! Ha!

[Percy McCarthy]

Earl Liburd says hello Daz.

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

One of the more realistic posters on SHA reckons they draw their support almost exclusively from an area the size of Blackburn in the bottom right-hand corner of Brum, which, he says, explains why they get crowds similar to t'Rovers.

So what your saying is that Birmingham City struggle to draw support from most of Birmingham?

I don't understand how Blackburn get crowds of 20,000+ when the Blackburn with Darwen borough has a population of only 140,000.

Compare this to Birmingham with a population of around 1,000,000 and the two clubs in the city get combined crowds of around 60,000.

[pauliewalnuts]

One of the more realistic posters on SHA reckons they draw their support almost exclusively from an area the size of Blackburn in the bottom right-hand corner of Brum, which, he says, explains why they get crowds similar to t'Rovers.

So what your saying is that Birmingham City struggle to draw support from most of Birmingham?

I don't understand how Blackburn get crowds of 20,000+ when the Blackburn with Darwen borough has a population of only 140,000.

Compare this to Birmingham with a population of around 1,000,000 and the two clubs in the city get combined crowds of around 60,000.

Why are you replying to posts made almost a month ago in moribund, pointless threads, which you yourself started?