What is the future of Villa Park?

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

Is the ground in Aston or Witton?

[Dave Clark Five]

Is the ground in Aston or Witton?

Are you that bloke who walks up and down outside Villa Park saying 'are the Villa playing today?' and 'what's the score going to be?' ?
He then asks the same questions to the next person he encounters.

[Legion]

Is the ground in Aston or Witton?

Are you that bloke who walks up and down outside Villa Park saying 'are the Villa playing today?' and 'what's the score going to be?' ?
He then asks the same questions to the next person he encounters.

I get the same every home game. Oddball.

[brian green]

That may be he bloke who used to roam around the players entrance saying "Are you Nigel Spink?"   Steve Hunt once said to him "How would you like a broken nose?"

[Dave Clark Five]

Another favourite of his is 'what time is kick off?' This is also said by the family who run the newsagents in Whitehead Road. They may be related.
Don't let them fool you into thinking they are thick. The son fiddles me every time I buy anything from that shop. Either that or he really thinks 2 x 69p = £1.58.
It is worth paying the extra few pence to watch this pillock at work.

[dave.woodhall]

Another favourite of his is 'what time is kick off?' This is also said by the family who run the newsagents in Whitehead Road. They may be related.
Don't let them fool you into thinking they are thick. The son fiddles me every time I buy anything from that shop. Either that or he really thinks 2 x 69p = £1.58.
It is worth paying the extra few pence to watch this pillock at work.

If you're paying him extra, who's the pillock?

[Dave Clark Five]

Another favourite of his is 'what time is kick off?' This is also said by the family who run the newsagents in Whitehead Road. They may be related.
Don't let them fool you into thinking they are thick. The son fiddles me every time I buy anything from that shop. Either that or he really thinks 2 x 69p = £1.58.
It is worth paying the extra few pence to watch this pillock at work.

If you're paying him extra, who's the pillock?

Call it my contribution to charity.

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

In excess of 50,000 tickets have been sold for the opening game at Old Trafford on 26 July and a double-header friendly featuring both the men's and women's teams will be confirmed for a date in July, with the event expected to take place in the north east.

David Beckham on course for London 2012 football team

We better not be missing out again 

[IFWaters]

I'd love to see the North Stand redeveloped, and with a bigger capacity.

I'm only in my 40s but to me one of the thing that people identify with the Villa is Villa park, its aura, its capacity, just what a special place it is.  I think a stand, done in the right way, would add to that.

I do think though that they would need to think of building a stand for different sets of supporters. The Trinity is the 'posh' corporate entertainment one (and that only fills up for 'big' matches), The Holte is for the die-hards, the WL is a bit of a mix including the away fans. The North Stand should be .... cheap and with areas and arrangements especially to suit families, pensioners and 'locals' - ie make the place very cheap and designed for people who might feel uncomfortable elsewhere.  Perhaps with pensioners lay on coaches to ship them in right to the stand and make sure there arent too many stairs.  A museum / a few permanent shops there would also be good (ie not just matchday shops, open it up as something useful for the local area)

Anyway, all good thoughts but Randy's skint so it wont happen.

[saunders_heroes]

In excess of 50,000 tickets have been sold for the opening game at Old Trafford on 26 July and a double-header friendly featuring both the men's and women's teams will be confirmed for a date in July, with the event expected to take place in the north east.

David Beckham on course for London 2012 football team

We better not be missing out again 

Missing out on what? Villa Park is for Aston Villa. Anything else is sacrilege.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

In excess of 50,000 tickets have been sold for the opening game at Old Trafford on 26 July and a double-header friendly featuring both the men's and women's teams will be confirmed for a date in July, with the event expected to take place in the north east.

David Beckham on course for London 2012 football team

We better not be missing out again 

Missing out on what? Villa Park is for Aston Villa. Anything else is sacrilege.

World Cup group games and FA Cup semi finals were acceptable. I wouldn't want our ground sullied by soem poxy Olympic crap.

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

In excess of 50,000 tickets have been sold for the opening game at Old Trafford on 26 July and a double-header friendly featuring both the men's and women's teams will be confirmed for a date in July, with the event expected to take place in the north east.

David Beckham on course for London 2012 football team

We better not be missing out again 

Missing out on what? Villa Park is for Aston Villa. Anything else is sacrilege.

So if the FA wanted to stage an England vs Brazil friendly at Villa Park you would kindly refuse their offer I take it?

[saunders_heroes]

In excess of 50,000 tickets have been sold for the opening game at Old Trafford on 26 July and a double-header friendly featuring both the men's and women's teams will be confirmed for a date in July, with the event expected to take place in the north east.

David Beckham on course for London 2012 football team

We better not be missing out again 

Missing out on what? Villa Park is for Aston Villa. Anything else is sacrilege.

So if the FA wanted to stage an England vs Brazil friendly at Villa Park you would kindly refuse their offer I take it?

FA Cup semi finals (and Euro championships/world cup) are the only other events acceptable at Villa Park. I couldn't give a shit about anything else. No one should ever put their feet on our sacred turf other than Villa and the team they are playing. The Olympics can go and f#ck right off. Football has no place at the Olympics anyway.

[pauliewalnuts]

In excess of 50,000 tickets have been sold for the opening game at Old Trafford on 26 July and a double-header friendly featuring both the men's and women's teams will be confirmed for a date in July, with the event expected to take place in the north east.

David Beckham on course for London 2012 football team

We better not be missing out again 

Missing out on what? Villa Park is for Aston Villa. Anything else is sacrilege.

So if the FA wanted to stage an England vs Brazil friendly at Villa Park you would kindly refuse their offer I take it?

I wouldn't refuse their offer - I don't own the club, I can't refuse the offer.

I probably wouldn't pay to see it, though, and if it turned out it wasn't going to be held at VP after all, I wouldn't give a flying one.

[tomd2103]

Don't forget that over the next few seasons we may see the introduction of safe standing areas in English grounds.  If that happens and say the bottom of the Holte and the North Stand are converted into standing areas, the capacity will rise anyway. 

With all the talk of money being tight, I am surprised that the idea of selling the naming rights of one of the stands hasn't been discussed (maybe it has in private but I can't recall seeing anything about it).  Changing the name of the Doug Ellis stand would be the obvious choice for me and would bring in some much needed extra revenue. 

As for the Olympics, I think it would have been a great addition to the rich history of Villa Park.  After all it has staged World Cup games, European Championship games and a UEFA Cup final, so having the Olympics would  have carried on that tradition.  It would have been a much more fitting venue than that lego creation on the outskirts of Coventry.