Aston Villa v Bradford City Pre-Match Thread

[oldham_villa]

Setting off at 4pm - what are road conditions like in and around Aston?

I was just told that main roads are fine but everything else is an ice rink. I'm gonna come off at junction 7 and drive to Perry Barr Greyhound car park. I'm hopeful that should be fine as its a main road.

Drive carefully fella

[pauliewalnuts]

Bloody hell, The Windsor - haven't been there in years.  If you want the full on pikey experience, why not head up to the Square Peg?  you'll see things in there you never thought possible.

I can vouch for that! After spending a few hours in there years back nothing will shock me in a pub ever again!

To give the uninitiated a flavour, I once saw a young woman forcibly ejected from The Square Peg for being paralytic and abusive to staff and customers. Nothing unusual in that except it was at 9:30 on a Saturday morning.

The Square Peg is the only pub I have been in and approached by beggars on more than one occasion.

It's a fucking shit hole.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Setting off at 4pm - what are road conditions like in and around Aston?

I was just told that main roads are fine but everything else is an ice rink. I'm gonna come off at junction 7 and drive to Perry Barr Greyhound car park. I'm hopeful that should be fine as its a main road.

Drive carefully fella

You too mate - I was scheduled to be in Olham on Friday (St Chads) but I have now been asked to stay on Merseyside - (I work out of Bolton - Horwich) .

[Mazrim]

When in town before a match, one insists on Scruffy Murphy's.

[oldham_villa]

Weather here sounds similar to Birmingham, so things "should" be fine. I'm picking my cousin up in 30 mins then making a chilled journey down the M6. Side roads are garbage but the main ones are fine, although there will be ice patches no doubt.

He's a Latics fan so I'm hoping the Villa crowd impresses him tonight, and the lads on the pitch too :-)

[LeeB]

When in town before a match, one insists on Scruffy Murphy's.

Christ, I haven't been in there for eons.

Mind you, judging by the clientle often standing outside it looks like some kind of portal to the underworld.

[LeeB]

Weather here sounds similar to Birmingham, so things "should" be fine. I'm picking my cousin up in 30 mins then making a chilled journey down the M6. Side roads are garbage but the main ones are fine, although there will be ice patches no doubt.

He's a Latics fan so I'm hoping the Villa crowd impresses him tonight, and the lads on the pitch too :-)

I've been out to Nottingham yesterday and Derby this morning, and the main routes are fine, it was a little bit slippy in spots this morning but the traffic has cleared that up by now.

[oldham_villa]

Good good, cheers Lee. Can't wait for a pint in the ground now

[villa `cross the mersey]

The Windsor was a fine pub in its day - The finest Guiness and cheese and onion crusty rolls in all of the Midlands.Used to frequent there when I worked in town back in 1978. As a Civil servant we used to have flexi time - two hour lunches in there with the gaffer on a Friday was heaven - back to work for 90 mins and then down to the Midland Hotel Bar (The Buttery? for a game of darts). Days were so simple then!

[Lambert and Payne]

When in town before a match, one insists on Scruffy Murphy's.

I was in there on Saturday, what a shitehole

[Mazrim]

When in town before a match, one insists on Scruffy Murphy's.

Christ, I haven't been in there for eons.

Mind you, judging by the clientle often standing outside it looks like some kind of portal to the underworld.

I like the underworld.

[pauliewalnuts]

The Old Contemptibles is alright these days. Usually has Purity beers on tap. I quite like the Old Joint Stock, too.

I don't like the Wellington, though. I can appreciate the range of ales, but the stink of the place and the selection of miserable old blokes sipping halves gives it all the appeal of a hospital waiting room.

I saw the other day that massive old building on Bennett's Hill has become a pub now. Am sure it was a cafe before. Actually, think it might not be on Bennett's hill, but just off it, on a corner, has a big, round entrance "hall" with an ornate ceiling.

[N'ZMAV]

When in town before a match, one insists on Scruffy Murphy's.

Christ, I haven't been in there for eons.

Mind you, judging by the clientle often standing outside it looks like some kind of portal to the underworld.

I like the underworld.

I like the underworld too.

[dave.woodhall]

The Old Contemptibles is alright these days. Usually has Purity beers on tap. I quite like the Old Joint Stock, too.

I don't like the Wellington, though. I can appreciate the range of ales, but the stink of the place and the selection of miserable old blokes sipping halves gives it all the appeal of a hospital waiting room.

I saw the other day that massive old building on Bennett's Hill has become a pub now. Am sure it was a cafe before. Actually, think it might not be on Bennett's hill, but just off it, on a corner, has a big, round entrance "hall" with an ornate ceiling.

It's on Bennett's Hill and was a pub. It used to be Bennett's and was very nice when it opened before going downhill. It's reopened as something else.

[pauliewalnuts]

The Lost and Found, thats what it is called now.

Looks an impressive building inside.