How many of you have lost the love like me?

[Chico Hamilton III]

Though my favourite was the time Kenny Sansom got a bollocking for turning up in a yellow and brown striped shirt. He explained that his wife had just thrown him out, and it was all he could find. He was on the verge of tears, apparently

You don't want to fuck Kenny Sansom around though. Wasn't his dad an armed robber and suspected by the police of being involved in the Great Train Robbery?

[TheSandman]

On the plus side, I've only watched MOTD half-a-dozen times this season. And needing to smash things to tiny pieces around 5pm most Saturdays means I've got quite a lot of firewood split.

I used to watch MOTD every week, read the match report of every game covered in The Times and watched loads of neutral games. I've knocked the first two on the head and only have neutral games on as background noise.

Still locked in that death struggle with the Villa mind.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I can't get Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes 'The love I lost' out of my head.

[Percy McCarthy]

I can't get Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes 'The love I lost' out of my head.

Consider yourself lucky. I've had 'Rockabilly Rebel' going round in my head all bastard day.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I can't get Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes 'The love I lost' out of my head.

Consider yourself lucky. I've had 'Rockabilly Rebel' going round in my head all bastard day.

AHHH those bastards.

Matchbox.

The lead singer looked about 60.

1980?

[Percy McCarthy]

Round about then I think.

[ozzjim]

On the plus side, I've only watched MOTD half-a-dozen times this season.

That's a positive i take, too. I doubt i've even seen it half a dozen times in the last two years.

I have also been avoiding sports sections of newspapers for a while (this season and last).

In the space of a week that's the Villa, MOTD, sports sections of papers and pubs you've told us you do less of than you used to.  Apart from telling us on here, what else do you do with all that spare time?

I still watch the games, I've just managed to extract the non Villa bit of football from my routine.

I used to watch that thing on Sky, Sunday Supplement, when we were doing well, and even then, it managed to annoy me deeply.

Don't worry, I don't tend to do anything constructive with the extra time.

Small children have gazumped the time I used to spend watching hours and hours of football.

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

I'm just the opposite. I moved to London when I finished school in the late 80's and the year I was going to work down there to save enough money for college turned into just over 20 years including a bit overseas and I've only just come back. I used to go to all the games in London and Villa became a really important link back to the Midlands and home.  Now i sit bouncing my baby boy on my knee and I'm positively misty eyed at being able to take him to the Villa in a few years and the fact that I live only 30 minutes drive away from VP fills my soul with joy.

As much as I love the club it takes on a different feeling over time. For me it affects my mood less on a day to day basis the older I get but it grows in my heart every year. I love going to a game and enjoying the VP community - makes me feel like I'm home. Wish we'd win a fu**ing game now and again though 

[Clampy]

I don't think i'll ever fall out of love with the Villa (well i hope not anyway) but if we lose, it dose'nt ruin my weekend. Nowadays it's a case of chat about it over a pint after the game or on the way back from wherever we've played away, then move on to the next one. Maybe it's me getting older, but i prefer it that way.

[brian green]

I don't fall out of love with them.   And with respect I do not think any of you do either.  You have lost your ability to get angry with them.   It will come back.

The worse they get and the more stupid the things done in the name of Aston Villa the more angry they make me.   That anger has to find a way out and it does by going to a game.   For a while I am calm until it starts to build up again.

I am addicted to Aston Villa and have been since that day in 1947 when I walked from Greet to Villa Park to see my first game.   My oldest brother who is 87 stormed out of Villa Park when we lost 3-0 at home to Port Vale in 1957.   He'll be back.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I don't fall out of love with them.   And with respect I do not think any of you do either.  You have lost your ability to get angry with them.   It will come back.

The worse they get and the more stupid the things done in the name of Aston Villa the more angry they make me.   That anger has to find a way out and it does by going to a game.   For a while I am calm until it starts to build up again.

I am addicted to Aston Villa and have been since that day in 1947 when I walked from Greet to Villa Park to see my first game.   My oldest brother who is 87 stormed out of Villa Park when we lost 3-0 at home to Port Vale in 1957.   He'll be back.

This.

I love this club. Born in Aston and always loved the Villa.
When we lose/play badly it upsets me for days and days and keeps me awake. Stupid I know but that's the way it is. At 57 years of age I'm still waiting to grow out of it!
Bugger!

[Steve kirk]

Although this and last season has knocked the stuffing out of me the Villa is still a massive part of my life, I dont go down as much now but when I do the walk to the ground after parking the car is still exciting, stopping off for a fanzine, having a look at my late Dads paver, and the biggest buzz of all is walking up the steps and seeing the stadium come into view, what happens after that is not quite so exciting but that is something we will have to live with for a while yet, I love them as much now as when I first fell in love with them in the 1960s, my love for non Villa related football matters has dipped but nothing changes regarding our wonderul VILLA.   

[KevinGage]

I've tried everything.

Getting new hobbies, leaving the country, moving to the other side of the world, the lot.

Didn't work.

If anything, it made me even more obsessive.

Maybe I'm just like one of those gullible, servile wags. Putting up with all manner of disappointment and bad behaviour and coming back for more.  Only I don't get asked to design a fashion range for Asda. 

[The Left Side]

I love the Villa so much and still am glued to the footy news whenever I get the chance but like the love of your life, you go through ups and downs. The last two years and the foreseeable future are the equivilent to not talking to her for a few days, in the grand scheme of things. I still love her but i'm really pissed off with her at the moment.

[brian green]

All the above.