Should you support Villa or somebody else?

[Richard E]

My Dad grew up in Small Heath but his Grandad still, thank God, brought him up to follow The True Faith. I spent my childhood in Tividale and now live in Tipton but the question simply does not compute - how could anyone not be Villa? 

[PGW]

Now i did have a decision to make as i have no Villa background whatsoever, my father was a Taff who supported Cardiff but was living in Birmingham so as a consequence he had no local allegiance.
His mate though was a full on nose who asked my dad and me to a game - Blues v Everton 59/60 season and i went....shock horror!
I was fortunate i suppose that nothing on display that afternoon excited me. When i got home playing out with my mate,Pete, as you do at that age. Anyway i told him where i had been at the age of 5/6 he was shocked,anyway the upshot being he went home and told his dad(Sam).
Sunday morning knock on my door - Sam to see my dad!!!! Would i be interested in going down the Villa the following Saturday.

The rest his history....Thank the Lord for Sam & Pete Webb.

[Diablo]

Born at the old Sorrento hospital.

Me too! Do you tell people you were born in Sorrento?

No, but I am from now on (it sounds quite exotic) lol. Thanks for that :-)

[supertom]

Born at the old Sorrento hospital.

Me too! Do you tell people you were born in Sorrento?

No, but I am from now on (it sounds quite exotic) lol. Thanks for that :-)

You should, I've been to Sorrento and it's a bloody lovely place.

[Chris Jameson]

I grew up in Yorkshire so should support Liverpool or Manchester United.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Fulham would have been my closest team to support just shading Crystal Palace.  Incidentally my first ever Villa game was away at Craven Cottage in the old 3rd Division, we won 2-0 and so it began.

Lovely, Jon.

Myself, coming from the North side of the city, it could only be Villa. Three years in Sheffield (Utd), five in Leeds and over 20 years here (Sporting Clube de Portugal). In all that time I've only ever known two Noses. Two too many admittedly but reading this thread I realise just how lucky I've been, not that there's many out there. Villa fans I've met all over the place and every one a gent.

[Deano's Mullet]

Born in Kidderminster so Harriers would be home town club.
Nearest league club to me now is Crawley Town.
Nearest current Prem side is either Palace or Southampton. Not sure which is nearer.

[Darlo Dave]

Born - Solihull Moors (I refuse to entertain the idea of being born nearer to the Sty)

Raised - Tamworth (for a year at most). Then Erdington (in a family of Erdington based Villa fans).

Now - Darlington (who ground share with Bishop Auckland these days), but my nearest league club is Middlesbrough.

[Isa]

Arsenal were walking distance from my old house (and are still the nearest team to my new one) but I still think I made the sensible and correct decision in supporting Villa 

[ADVILLAFAN]

Closer to Blose, but probably closest to Solihull Moors, out of decent sized clubs. My father is from Glasgow and moved down here. Went to games for Villa and Blues and preferred us, even though we were a division below them at the time (we'd just come up from the 3rd tier).

Cheers dad 

[Steve kirk]

Born at the old Sorrento hospital.

Me too! Do you tell people you were born in Sorrento?

Then lived in Hall Green. Father was from Stourbridge and took me there for cleansing in the early 60's and I recovered equilibrium to start supporting Villa in 1971.

I was also born in Sorrento Hospital, sounds kind cool doesn't it.

[exiled on the wirral!]

Born in Walsall to a dad who played local football and didnt have any allegiance but did take me to Fellows Park a few times. It was my step dads, dad who took me to my first Villa game against Liverpool im January 1988 and i was blown away by the experience even though we lost....i was in the Trinity Road upper and i will never forget the walk up the steps and then seeing the pitch for the first time and being amongst a crowd of 46000, definetly a life changing experience.

I still have a soft spot for Walsall as my brother is a mad saddlers fan and i go to the occasional game with him.

My nearest football league team is Tranmere Rovers although i havent set foot inside Prenton Park since we lost 1-3 in the league cup semi in 1994.

My 6 year old daughter is officially a Villa fan and has been to a couple of games already which im quite proud of as her scouse relatives were trying to influence her otherwise.

[johnny from donny]

Doncaster is the obvious one for me, although growing up in the 70's there was a lot of kids saying I should support Leeds as they were a Yorkshire team (ignoring all the other teams in Yorkshire).
Going back a couple of generations, my grandfather was from a family of Albion fans. Fortunately he was a bit of an argumentative bigger and went with the Villa to be different, and two generations later here I am.

[Diablo]

Born at the old Sorrento hospital.

Me too! Do you tell people you were born in Sorrento?

No, but I am from now on (it sounds quite exotic) lol. Thanks for that :-)

You should, I've been to Sorrento and it's a bloody lovely place.

It looks it!! I've never checked photos of there before - Jeez! 15 years ago it could have been my chat up line lol

[SW9-VILLA]

Reading or Swindon.

Only support Villa because one of my old man's mates gave me a Villa shirt when I was a kid. That decided it.