All us Villa Fans, miles away from home.

[Clampy]

Still miles away from home. Still missing VP. Still here watching the games on telly.

This'll help.
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Which reminds me, Paulie (if you're reading) i thought your piece in the latest one was very good.

[pauliewalnuts]

Still miles away from home. Still missing VP. Still here watching the games on telly.

This'll help.
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Which reminds me, Paulie (if you're reading) i thought your piece in the latest one was very good.

Ithangyew

[fbriai]

I've only just seen this thread. Good work, Dan.

I've not lived in Britain since 2001, so opportunities to go to Villa Park have been seriously limited in that period, but, my passion for the Villa is still strong. I consciously made the decision not to follow a team here when I moved to Italy in 2004. It just wouldn't feel right and I know that I would never be able to replicate the intensity of emotion that comes from being blindly attached to a club, nor would I want to. Villa is in the blood and I will never find a surrogate.

When we win I'm happy, when we lose I'm fed up, same as always, but, as I said to a mate who has been all over the country watching the matches this season a couple of weeks ago, I can only imagine how much sufferring you poor lot have had to put up with over the past few seasons. I know it only puts the better times into perspective and makes us enjoy them more, but having to watch some of the stuff you've had to watch must have been soul-destroying at times. I don't know whether I'd have survived it in the flesh. The distance at least allows me to detach myself a little from things. I can still send my lad to playschool on a Monday morning with his AVFC hat on without worrying about anyone giving us stick for it. I guess for me, it's become what Arrigo Sacchi called it: "the most important of the unimportant things".

That said, I am definitely what Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air called a Villa missionary. If you ever see anyone around Pisa wearing anything Villa-related, then you can almost guarantee that the person is either related to me or is a mate - or is me! The seeds of a Villa colony have been planted for the benefit of future generations.

Up the Villa! We still love you, despite the absence, and always will.

[eamonn]

Italians should dig the name, or any Mediteranean country. We're the easiest and prettiest English club name to pronounce.

[Risso]

Italians should dig the name, or any Mediteranean country. We're the easiest and prettiest English club name to pronounce.

Nah, I bet half of them think it's Aston Veeyah.  I think the easiest is "Martin O'Neill's Sunderland".

[fbriai]

Italians should dig the name, or any Mediteranean country. We're the easiest and prettiest English club name to pronounce.

Nah, I bet half of them think it's Aston Veeyah.  I think the easiest is "Martin O'Neill's Sunderland".

I imagine that to be the case in Spain, Risso. Over here, it's pronounced pretty well: 'Aston Veela', with a heavy emphasis on the 'ton'.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Italians should dig the name, or any Mediteranean country. We're the easiest and prettiest English club name to pronounce.

Nah, I bet half of them think it's Aston Veeyah.  I think the easiest is "Martin O'Neill's Sunderland".

I'd say the easiest club name for Jonny Foreigner to pronounce would be "Dogsheet"

[danlanza]

Italians should dig the name, or any Mediteranean country. We're the easiest and prettiest English club name to pronounce.

Nah, I bet half of them think it's Aston Veeyah.  I think the easiest is "Martin O'Neill's Sunderland".

I imagine that to be the case in Spain, Risso. Over here, it's pronounced pretty well: 'Aston Veela', with a heavy emphasis on the 'ton'.

After last weekends win i was walking in the Old Town Puerto Del Carmen when a young Canarian lad said '' Hello, i also follow Aston Veeya.''
He got into his Dad's car and his Dad was wearing this season's shirt and in the back window was a Villa scarf !! You see, not all kids, no matter where they are from are classless, glory hunters. His Dad has obviously educated him properly. Well done that man. You are right though fbrai, they do pronounce it Veeya or Veeyah. Still sounds good to me though.

[Lastfootstamper]

Something that's always stuck in my mind was from back in the early days of cable telly. I used to watch CNN a bit. We'd drawn Inter, not sure which time, and the bloke who'd been stuffed into a bad suit and drawn the short straw to cover "rest-of-the-world sports" called us "Ahst-on Veeyah". To be fair to Tom Hanks, it DID make it sound like a nice place to go on your holidays!

[danlanza]

Had first good Saturday night sleep in months after Reading game and just finished roof painting

Did you get any leaks durind the storm recently oldtimernow ?
Our roof was done 12 months ago so that was ok, but the window frames being wood let the rain piss in. Was fun walking around the living room in a mask and snorkel ! Cost me 80 euros the next day to silicone every window. Bloody weather.
I hear it is going to be 23c today with partial cloud cover, so we really should not moan i suppose.
The big freeze back at home does not look good at all.

[Vancouver]

Finally settled with the Wife on our impending childs name. Holly Jardine (her family name) for a girl and Samuel Villa for a boy. She wasn't sure if she wanted Aston or Villa so that might change again. I'm made up that she would. The Villa are pretty much the only family that I really care about now.

[danlanza]

Finally settled with the Wife on our impending childs name. Holly Jardine (her family name) for a girl and Samuel Villa for a boy. She wasn't sure if she wanted Aston or Villa so that might change again. I'm made up that she would. The Villa are pretty much the only family that I really care about now.

My lads first name is Samuel. Bloody good name. Good luck with the name choice Vancouver. Boy or girl, as long as they are healthy thats what counts. When they get to teenage years their name changes anyway. Villa Sam, Bob the dog, Mick Glasses, Blue Nosed Tony, ETC.

[Vancouver]

Finally settled with the Wife on our impending childs name. Holly Jardine (her family name) for a girl and Samuel Villa for a boy. She wasn't sure if she wanted Aston or Villa so that might change again. I'm made up that she would. The Villa are pretty much the only family that I really care about now.

My lads first name is Samuel. Bloody good name. Good luck with the name choice Vancouver. Boy or girl, as long as they are healthy thats what counts. When they get to teenage years their name changes anyway. Villa Sam, Bob the dog, Mick Glasses, Blue Nosed Tony, ETC.

When I was 16 I joined a county league team and everyone started calling me 'Villa'. I loved it. It spread the more people I met. I even dated a few girls who only knew me as 'Villa'. Some people even called me it over here but it's not the same. My wife was great about it when I said that it was important to me and said that Villa would be better as that is what everyone calls me. My best man had to make a little note at the beginning of his speech that any reference to Villa is me!
But yes, as long as he/she is healthy then they can be called what they like!

[peter w]

Finally settled with the Wife on our impending childs name. Holly Jardine (her family name) for a girl and Samuel Villa for a boy. She wasn't sure if she wanted Aston or Villa so that might change again. I'm made up that she would. The Villa are pretty much the only family that I really care about now.

Samuel Villa? What's his middle name? Ireland?

[eamonn]

When I was 16 I joined a county league team and everyone started calling me 'Villa'. I loved it. It spread the more people I met. I even dated a few girls who only knew me as 'Villa'. Some people even called me it over here but it's not the same. My wife was great about it when I said that it was important to me and said that Villa would be better as that is what everyone calls me. My best man had to make a little note at the beginning of his speech that any reference to Villa is me!

Haha, that's ace.