Nigel Kennedy in The Grauniad

• #15 Reply
  Posted by bertlambshank on 31 Aug, 2013 19:40
• You never forget the first time you meet our Nige.
• #16 Reply
  Posted by spk on 31 Aug, 2013 20:14
• Nows here's a weird thing,I wonder if Nigel is reading this,or posts regularly under a different name.After all Im sure all mad keen loyal Villa fans read this site.
• #17 Reply
  Posted by lovejoy on 31 Aug, 2013 20:53
• I get the impress a lot of celebrities use football to appear to have the common touch. I think with Nige it's genuine.
• #18 Reply
  Posted by cdbearsfan on 01 Sep, 2013 11:35
• He was a football fan before it became popular to be one so I doubt it is band-wagon jumping.
• #19 Reply
  Posted by eastie on 01 Sep, 2013 11:59
• Decent bloke who has time for the normal fans and in no way looks at himself as a star fan - he is happy to be one of us and  a real down to earth good guy.
• #20 Reply
  Posted by danlanza on 01 Sep, 2013 12:07
• Anybody who paints their Jag claret and blue for a cup final, with a paint brush is good in my book. Villa 3- Manure 1. Ask him.
• #21 Reply
  Posted by Damo70 on 01 Sep, 2013 12:17
• I thought it was a BMW, not a jag. And I thought it was a few years before that because I saw it at at least one away game. Unless he painted a Jag too. Fair play to him either way.
• #22 Reply
  Posted by dave.woodhall on 01 Sep, 2013 12:20
• Quote from: Chris Jameson on 31 Aug, 2013 14:42

  I read it and couldn't get the thought of Ben Elton doing his youth TV presenter out of my head. Be honest, if he wasn't a Villa supporter most on here would think he's a bit of a dick!
  

  
  I'd think he was making previously elitist music accessible and good luck to him for it.
• #23 Reply
  Posted by Legion on 01 Sep, 2013 12:20
• It was a jag.
• #24 Reply
  Posted by Legion on 01 Sep, 2013 12:21
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• #25 Reply
  Posted by saunders_heroes on 01 Sep, 2013 12:22
• Quote from: Legion on 01 Sep, 2013 12:20

  It was a jag.
  

  
  He had both a jag and a BMW that he painted claret and blue.
• #26 Reply
  Posted by Yossarian on 01 Sep, 2013 12:26
• Does he still not want to go down until we start spending the cash?
• #27 Reply
  Posted by TopDeck113 on 01 Sep, 2013 12:27
• Quote from: cdbullyweefan on 01 Sep, 2013 11:35

  He was a football fan before it became popular to be one so I doubt it is band-wagon jumping.
  

  
  Exactly. The first time he entered my consciousness was when he picked up some award - a Brit? - in 1986 and said that the only thing that would make him happier was the Villa winning the Milk Cup. Anyone who was flaunting their love of football in the mid-80s was not doing it to be cool and, if anything, were setting themselves up as a social pariah.
• #28 Reply
  Posted by silhillvilla on 01 Sep, 2013 12:44
• Met him at St Mary's last season in the 1-4 game the highlight of the day for me.
  Previously met him in Birmingham about 88/89 when he had the jag and he pulled over and shook hands with us as we were wearing villa tops .
• #29 Reply
  Posted by Legion on 01 Sep, 2013 12:45
• Met him a few times whilst selling H&V. Always polite, friendly and ready for a chat.