Are you a proud Villa fan today?

[levico]

Proud of the Villa but appalled at the lack of response from the club since Sunday. Have they actually expressed any regret or offered an apology to the fans?  The owner and executives just seem so remote and detached.

[peter w]

What? And we say sorry to them when we go to the likes of Liverpool and win?

[Villadroid]

Say it loud (We're cack but we're proud)!

 

[Risso]

If there's a toe curling thread of the year competition i nominate this one. More cheese than Sainsburys.

Indeed.

[Jimbo]

Even small heath fans are proud of their crock of shit club, so I don't see how an 8-0 defeat is going to erode our pride. But the fact remains, as a sporting entity, we've developed a pervasive losing culture, which we're well into the groove of by now. It's very hard to change that.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Proud of the Villa but appalled at the lack of response from the club since Sunday. Have they actually expressed any regret or offered an apology to the fans?  The owner and executives just seem so remote and detached.

I can give you a whole list of matches over the years that they have never apologised to me for. The number of times I have sat there seething waiting for the postman to arrive with my personalised letter from the club - it makes me so angry. Perhaps I should complain to somebody? There used to be something called The Consumers Association but it may have changed its name.

[Billy Walker]

Proud of the Villa but appalled at the lack of response from the club since Sunday. Have they actually expressed any regret or offered an apology to the fans?  The owner and executives just seem so remote and detached.

I'm glad we've kept everything behind closed doors to be honest. 

[Risso]

Proud of the Villa but appalled at the lack of response from the club since Sunday. Have they actually expressed any regret or offered an apology to the fans?  The owner and executives just seem so remote and detached.

Did you miss Paul Lambert's utterly original and by no means excruciatingly tedious "we'll pick ourselves up and go again"?

[brian green]

On the subject of pride.   Not only am I proud of Villa today, I am very, very proud of my daughter.   Every Christmas she has to entertain her partner's plastic gooner father and her bonehead knuckledragger uncle.

She came to see me this morning and related the whole sorry torment Christmas Day was for her.   The pair of them even went so far as when my daughter was making phone calls to chant "eight nil" at the tops of their voices just in case it was Villa fan she was speaking to.

I fully intend to mark the card of her partner's dad and point out that we treat his gooner son with good manners and respect and I fully expect the same treatment for my daughter.   As for her uncle I am going to stab the bastard (in effigy) (sorry mods).

[Toronto Villa]

Proud of the Villa but appalled at the lack of response from the club since Sunday. Have they actually expressed any regret or offered an apology to the fans?  The owner and executives just seem so remote and detached.

Did you miss Paul Lambert's utterly original and by no means excruciatingly tedious "we'll pick ourselves up and go again"?

What exactly would you have had him say in public? Maybe you would have preferred he gave them public bollocking Phil Brown style on the pitch after the game too?

An apology, FFS. Some people will be demanding another dinner also. It's sport. Sometimes it's shit, and shit happens.

[Risso]

I didn't want or expect an apology.  Something a bit more original than his usual "go again" bollocks would have been good after our worst ever result though.  There's a record for him to be proud of.

[Toronto Villa]

What's going to be more powerful that any apology or any one soundbite or statement is the performance today and going forward.

[TopDeck113]

The thing with modern football is that there will be a lot more teams getting hammered 8,9 and 10-0 in the next coming seasons.

You're spot on - and it's not just the relegation-bound whipping boys on the receiving end.  I imagine more than just us will be rewriting their record defeat stat over the next few years. 

[Chris Jameson]

I wonder if all those demanding apologies and refunds are the same people who demand their money back because they didn't find a comedian funny or found a play a 'bit depressing'? I have to deal with these people every so often and would dearly love to tell them to fuck off but unfortunately I'd get sacked.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't get this increasingly heard "I want a refund / apology" nonsense. That's the way it goes. Sometimes it is ace, sometimes it is awful, sometimes it is somewhere between.

All I want them to do is stop being shit, and not inflict dreadful results like that on us. I don't need anyone to tell us we're sorry. If we'd had player X, Y or Z dragged out for a cringey apology style post on the OS, the same people would be saying "fuck the words, show us the action".

However, all this "OMG I am so proud" nonsense does make me feel vaguely nauseous. It is just pointless nonsense, with the faintest of whiffs of BetterFanThanYow. It's not entirely unlike that "things i have heard on here this year" thread.

I don't mean any malice to the posters involved, and don't doubt their motives are sound, but really, there's no need.

None of us need to be proving to anyone how much we think of the club. Look at the vast amounts of time we spend talking about it on here, for starters. I wasn't feeling too proud after the Chelsea result. I was, however, feeling pretty sick, miserable and slightly embarrassed.