View From the Opposition - WBA fan

[Jimbo]

I couldn't give a shit about Albion, and wouldn't dream of going on their bitter fan websites. Similarly, I don't go out of my house looking for nests of cockroaches, but if one comes in my house I'll stamp on it. I think that's what's happened here.

[cheltenhamlion]

Well said AV and I thoroughly agree. They are the dictionary definition of small time jizz biscuits.

[cheltenhamlion]

A further update on the Stripey I have referenced previously. Still not talking to anyone about anything. Not football, not work, nothing.

Outside of enforced conversations with customers he hasnt said a single word since our set to on the train and whilst waiting for it at 4pm Monday.

I know what he is. He takes it seriously. He goes regularly. He bloody hates us. Fair enough.

I find it very fucking funny.

[john e]

is being small time really a jibe, I mean is it really that bad

i get told i support a  small time team by loads of Man Utd, Chelsea fans etc down here

i always say well if being big time is to be like them, i prefer to just stay the way i am thanks

[walsall villain]

Let's be honest they are not alone in hating us around here, the hate from Coventry fans has always amazed me, we are not that close to them. Even the Albion supporting friends and relatives I have who  normally try to keep the banter with me civil were absolutely gutted we didn't actually manage to go down in the last 2 years and couldn't hide their feelings. When do you EVER here any anti Albion chanting when Villa are playing other opponents, NEVER, let's keep it that way. It shows what we really think, indifference.

[SashasGrandad]

Why didn't they wear their Mickey Mouse ears?

Or aren't we big enough for them?

[olaftab]

A baggies  colleague sent me this text:
"Hi Af,
Hope you are still gloating in the glory of taking a point from the Pride of the Midlands.......
PS Tarquin sent me your details - I immediately deleted the attached photo  of some trophy from the distant past......."

The picture is the European cup. I replied:
"yes haven't slept for two nights after us "winning" at the Superstadio de arena del Hawthornia. By the way how did you recognised a football trophy let alone the European Champions Cup?"

I am waiting for a reply!

[steamer]

Growing up on the Eastern side  of Brum, I did not know any Albion fans at school, going to college I met one, who was a pretty nice guy.
I always thought of them as a bit eccentric.
In 74, at the Hawthorns I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got beat up for my foolishness, I still harboured little ill feeling for them.
Revenge was a given when a warm welcome was extended to the boggies who came Villa Park, by those Villa Fans who decided to pay their monies and stand (or lie in wait) on the witton end for the return game.
How could you take seriously a crew that had one of their main men called Muttley, I ask you !
I became very cross with them when they broke Alex Copley's leg.
They have never been more to me than an irrelevance, oh and Astle loosing the World cup.
Watching the game on the T.V on Monday I was taken back by the level of Vehemence from their moronic looking fans, have they seen the crowd shots?
What is with this, "shit on the Villa, Viiiiiiila, " Malarky ?
They are an irrelevance, move on.   

[Clampy]

Stripeyfilth fans are very good at going quiet.

[Big Dick Edwards]

I see Black Country folk as your folk that sit in the corner of the pub with your pork scratchings reading the paper. Your Birmingham folk are those in the night club chatting up the women.

Hey, I like pork scratchings and reading the paper in the pub, and I don't like night clubs. I must be turning into a Yam Yam in my old age...

[Witton Warrior]

Growing up on the Eastern side  of Brum, I did not know any Albion fans at school, going to college I met one, who was a pretty nice guy.
I always thought of them as a bit eccentric.
In 74, at the Hawthorns I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got beat up for my foolishness, I still harboured little ill feeling for them.
Revenge was a given when a warm welcome was extended to the boggies who came Villa Park, by those Villa Fans who decided to pay their monies and stand (or lie in wait) on the witton end for the return game.
How could you take seriously a crew that had one of their main men called Muttley, I ask you !
I became very cross with them when they broke Alex Copley's leg.
They have never been more to me than an irrelevance, oh and Astle loosing the World cup.
Watching the game on the T.V on Monday I was taken back by the level of Vehemence from their moronic looking fans, have they seen the crowd shots?
What is with this, "shit on the Villa, Viiiiiiila, " Malarky ?
They are an irrelevance, move on.   

Having been battered there after the 3-0 in the 80's (4 of us only outnumbered 5 to 1 so fair play Olbiun) I had harboured ill-feeling until I grew up a bit - then they re-appeared and unleashed venom and vehemence in our direction out of any proportion to how we treat them - they remind me of a neglected child desperately screaming for attention.

As for Liam - why not pop into the Holte in January and see how far your reasoned arguments get you...

Right - Sunderland - a team with real Villa history!

[dave.woodhall]

I'm pretty sure the half time boos last season passed over the Channel and reached Calais. You were either booing your team and manager off the pitch for the umpteenth time last season, or it was a 45th minute boo to signify the number of years since you'd last won anything. I'm not sure which....

And as for us referring to you as small time, something that I've noticed is a bit of a bug bear for Albion fans. Well, you are....You did an applause in the eighth minute because a team you're obsessed with got beaten in a league game, you bring out DVDs when you draw and win football matches, you hold anniversary dinners for a team that won a league match at Old Trafford(!!), you sing the name of a former player who couldn't wait to move on from the club, you celebrate your manager being taken by England by holding an England day at your last away game, your sponsors make a banner with We Know What We Are written on it and your fans and players alike hold it aloft. Every song you sing mentions Aston Villa Football Club, your players wear under-layers with WKWWA printed on them, your kit man writes We Know What We Are on footballs and constantly lies to your own supporters about how many fans you're taking to your away games because he's so embarrassed about your shit support. You only take a following to Aston Villa and take a few hundred supporters everywhere else, yet can't sell out at home (for the third season running, I'd hasten to add - what's that about TV, kick-off times and ticket prices?!) in a game your own players describe as being like a 'Champions League' tie. Everything about your club is small time and tinpot. Let's make that abundantly clear.

You have my respect, sir, and my admiration.

[lovejoy]

I quite like it when oppo supporters come on here it adds a different perspective to the discussion. Lets not jump down his throat too much.

[Clampy]

I'm pretty sure the half time boos last season passed over the Channel and reached Calais. You were either booing your team and manager off the pitch for the umpteenth time last season, or it was a 45th minute boo to signify the number of years since you'd last won anything. I'm not sure which....

And as for us referring to you as small time, something that I've noticed is a bit of a bug bear for Albion fans. Well, you are....You did an applause in the eighth minute because a team you're obsessed with got beaten in a league game, you bring out DVDs when you draw and win football matches, you hold anniversary dinners for a team that won a league match at Old Trafford(!!), you sing the name of a former player who couldn't wait to move on from the club, you celebrate your manager being taken by England by holding an England day at your last away game, your sponsors make a banner with We Know What We Are written on it and your fans and players alike hold it aloft. Every song you sing mentions Aston Villa Football Club, your players wear under-layers with WKWWA printed on them, your kit man writes We Know What We Are on footballs and constantly lies to your own supporters about how many fans you're taking to your away games because he's so embarrassed about your shit support. You only take a following to Aston Villa and take a few hundred supporters everywhere else, yet can't sell out at home (for the third season running, I'd hasten to add - what's that about TV, kick-off times and ticket prices?!) in a game your own players describe as being like a 'Champions League' tie. Everything about your club is small time and tinpot. Let's make that abundantly clear.

You have my respect, sir, and my admiration.

I'd completely forgot about them applauding on 8 minutes last season. That just about sums up their silly obsession.

[pauliewalnuts]

And as for us referring to you as small time, something that I've noticed is a bit of a bug bear for Albion fans. Well, you are....You did an applause in the eighth minute because a team you're obsessed with got beaten in a league game, you bring out DVDs when you draw and win football matches, you hold anniversary dinners for a team that won a league match at Old Trafford(!!), you sing the name of a former player who couldn't wait to move on from the club, you celebrate your manager being taken by England by holding an England day at your last away game, your sponsors make a banner with We Know What We Are written on it and your fans and players alike hold it aloft. Every song you sing mentions Aston Villa Football Club, your players wear under-layers with WKWWA printed on them, your kit man writes We Know What We Are on footballs and constantly lies to your own supporters about how many fans you're taking to your away games because he's so embarrassed about your shit support. You only take a following to Aston Villa and take a few hundred supporters everywhere else, yet can't sell out at home (for the third season running, I'd hasten to add - what's that about TV, kick-off times and ticket prices?!) in a game your own players describe as being like a 'Champions League' tie. Everything about your club is small time and tinpot. Let's make that abundantly clear.