How about a Villa v Celtic charity game ?

[Big Dick Edwards]

I don't see why the Rangers 'friendly' in '76 should have any bearing on the decision whether or not to have a charity match against Celtic 36 years later,  which would be taking place for very different reasons. They'd only get a limited amount of tickets for a start, secondly, there would be loads more Villa fans there, and thirdly, the travelling Celts seem to behave themselves on their travels.

There were reports that 80,000 Celts made the trip to the UEFA Cup Final against Porto, many obviously without tickets. The Glasgow fans are a breed apart, especially with a game in England to go to. If you think there would be loads more Villa fans there you're welcome to that opinion.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't see why the Rangers 'friendly' in '76 should have any bearing on the decision whether or not to have a charity match against Celtic 36 years later,  which would be taking place for very different reasons. They'd only get a limited amount of tickets for a start, secondly, there would be loads more Villa fans there, and thirdly, the travelling Celts seem to behave themselves on their travels.

There were reports that 80,000 Celts made the trip to the UEFA Cup Final against Porto, many obviously without tickets. The Glasgow fans are a breed apart, especially with a game in England to go to. If you think there would be loads more Villa fans there you're welcome to that opinion.

Oh no, not that story

If you listen to Celtic fans, you'd think half the population of Scotland went to that match.

FWIW I think it's taking a pretty dim view of Glaswegian football to think Celtic fans would kick off in a charity match for a cause like this. I'm sure it would take place in utter peace and in the right atmosphere.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It would be a love-in, whether at Villa Park or at Parkhead. Any Villa fan going up there for a Petrov fundraiser would be treated like a king. Personally, I'd like to see two games played, one at each ground.

[MonsXI]

It would be a love-in, whether at Villa Park or at Parkhead. Any Villa fan going up there for a Petrov fundraiser would be treated like a king. Personally, I'd like to see two games played, one at each ground.

Fuck it lets go the whole hog ala the SPL and play them 4 times!

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

was it really that bad?

 Yep

What happened?

[Sunny Villa]

DesOff course there will be trouble ,  this site represents a small amount of opinions. It is a decent outlet for all things Villa related, but take the emotion of Stans illness , and look at reality of stuff.
They will sing Pro IRA anti British stuff, to believe different is naive .

There will be a negative reaction that probably will be confontational.

There are a lot of none footbaling people that will have agendas from both sides.

If anyone was present at the Rangers game . Where do you think the celtic scarves and tricolours came from .

[MonsXI]

How come Celtic have played against plenty of English teams over the last 5/10 years with no trouble? Are those saying there would be trouble therefore saying it would come from our fans?

[VillaBobby]

And the lesson we have learned from this thread is.........Never let the chance to raise money for charity get in the way of a bit of bigotry from both sides of the argument.

If only life was that simple then we could arrange a charity walk.

An Orange march?

And the lesson we have learned from this thread is.........Never let the chance to raise money for charity get in the way of a bit of bigotry from both sides of the argument.

If only life was that simple then we could arrange a charity walk.

An Orange march?

Not In my name.

its a SELL OUT

Is that supposed to be funny or a question of my political leaning?

[VillaBobby]

How come Celtic have played against plenty of English teams over the last 5/10 years with no trouble? Are those saying there would be trouble therefore saying it would come from our fans?

They played Blues, trouble, they played Chelsea, trouble, they played United, trouble.

Was that because of the "English disease"?

Or maybe The people from those cities were the most blighted by Republican terrorism didn't take to kindly to patronising songs about Irish liberation meaning their fellow people being murdered sang about in some sort of romantic way that they were all the problem.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

You can talk about the peoples differences all you like, and yes there are differences.
But tell me the difference between these two clips ?
It's just a load of football fans, some from England and some from Scotland, offering up their support to a Bulgarian guy and his family.

[Sunny Villa]

How come Celtic have played against plenty of English teams over the last 5/10 years with no trouble? Are those saying there would be trouble therefore saying it would come from our fans?

Really no trouble , mmmmm look on well known sites such as YouTube and I

[pauliewalnuts]

Mind you, I can imagine the behaviour of some of the brain surgeons who follow us if we played in Glasgow.

[MonsXI]

How come Celtic have played against plenty of English teams over the last 5/10 years with no trouble? Are those saying there would be trouble therefore saying it would come from our fans?

They played Blues, trouble, they played Chelsea, trouble, they played United, trouble.

Was that because of the "English disease"?

Or maybe The people from those cities were the most blighted by Republican terrorism didn't take to kindly to patronising songs about Irish liberation meaning their fellow people being murdered sang about in some sort of romantic way that they were all the problem.

English disease?

Did they play Blues in the last 5/10 years? Was there trouble with Utd? Chelsea Celtic is always going to go off but purely because links between Rangers and Chelsea.

I was at the Ricoh when Cov played Celtic and no trouble whatsoever I also know there was no trouble when they played Man City.

Personally I would prefer to Bulgaria or a world xi

[Sunny Villa]

You can talk about the peoples differences all you like, and yes there are differences.
But tell me the difference between these two clips ?
It's just a load of football fans, some from England and some from Scotland, offering up their support to a Bulgarian guy and his family.


Wonderful .  and that how it should be. but you have to understand   it is different  when the inevitable politics will become involved.

Just out interest were these peaceful happy clappers not recently fined for crowd behaviour in Europe this year?

[VillaBobby]

How come Celtic have played against plenty of English teams over the last 5/10 years with no trouble? Are those saying there would be trouble therefore saying it would come from our fans?

They played Blues, trouble, they played Chelsea, trouble, they played United, trouble.

Was that because of the "English disease"?

Or maybe The people from those cities were the most blighted by Republican terrorism didn't take to kindly to patronising songs about Irish liberation meaning their fellow people being murdered sang about in some sort of romantic way that they were all the problem.

English disease?

Did they play Blues in the last 5/10 years? Was there trouble with Utd? Chelsea Celtic is always going to go off but purely because links between Rangers and Chelsea.

I was at the Ricoh when Cov played Celtic and no trouble whatsoever I also know there was no trouble when they played Man City.

Personally I would prefer to Bulgaria or a world xi

Yes there was trouble with United. Yes there was trouble with Blues.

3 main cities that bore the brunt of sectarian ignorance.

Perhaps you are right, welcome them down. Though I guarantee you one thing, There will be Brummies who will react to IRA songs, then you can give them all a knowing look and say, behave.