Villa Badges

[curiousorange]

On the subject of badges, I have found a great use for the season ticket badge the club has provided.

As I have to wear a suit for work most of the time [especially when visiting customers] I can wear the little badge on the lapel of my jacket without is being obvious that it is a Villa badge. Its a great conversation piece when someone asks me what is is.

I remember when I was doing some tutoring work a couple of years ago, and after I'd gone into an office to train a couple of people, the subject got on to football. On my suit, I was wearing a little silver lion rampant that I'd bought outside VP a couple of weeks previously. The girl I taught asked me who I followed and I tapped the badge and said I was a Villa fan.

"Oh," she said. "I thought you really like Peugeot."

[Nelly]

As has been mentioned it probably depends on which era you grew up in but it's this one for me. A thing of beauty. It instantly brings to mind memories of League Cup finals, Yorke in his pomp, Brian Little, etc. It forever tied the word 'prepared' to Villa for me.



I don't mind the current badge, it's clean and modern. I'm not one who has problems with the font either. I would have had "Aston Villa" rather than AVFC though.

[Villa in Denmark]

I remember when I was doing some tutoring work a couple of years ago, and after I'd gone into an office to train a couple of people, the subject got on to football. On my suit, I was wearing a little silver lion rampant that I'd bought outside VP a couple of weeks previously. The girl I taught asked me who I followed and I tapped the badge and said I was a Villa fan.

"Oh," she said. "I thought you really like Peugeot."

When we first moved over here we test drove a Peugeot (fancy paying 30K for a 407?).  Both kids wanted it because "it's an Aston Villa car"