View From the Opposition - WBA fan

[pauliewalnuts]

Putting myself in their shoes, it must be infuriating to have played us twice this year, gone 2 up inside 12 minutes at home, and then 2 up inside 8 minutes away from home, only to wind up taking 1 point from 6.

It's almost like they have some form of cultural cringe going on, where all their insecurity kicks in and they go to pieces with the excitement of taking something from the big club up the road.

[PeterWithesShin]

Their support was shit. Lots of noise when 1 and 2 up (not surprisingly) and then nothing when we made it 2-1 onwards until their third. And then fuck all once we were ahead again. They knew what they were for all of 8 minutes and then conveniently forgot the words to that song for the next 80 minutes.

Must be really hard for them to have their dreams and aspirations of finishing above us fading. Even more so to realise what they actually are, always have been, and always will be.

[saunders_heroes]

Horrible fans. Every time they scored their fans ran towards the Villa fans in the lower North looking for trouble. The sooner that club are relegated back to where they belong the better.

[Ad@m]

What words do they sing to 'Know what you are'?

[PeterWithesShin]

Horrible fans. Every time they scored their fans ran towards the Villa fans in the lower North looking for trouble. The sooner that club are relegated back to where they belong the better.

Worse than small heath for that. And a lot of them were proper 30+ year old blokes, not kids. Even running from the back of the stand to join in the rush towards us. A rush it should be added that was so intent on reaching us that a few stewards stopped them with relative ease. Sad twats.

[saunders_heroes]

Horrible fans. Every time they scored their fans ran towards the Villa fans in the lower North looking for trouble. The sooner that club are relegated back to where they belong the better.

Worse than small heath for that. And a lot of them were proper 30+ year old blokes, not kids. Even running from the back of the stand to join in the rush towards us. A rush it should be added that was so intent on reaching us that a few stewards stopped them with relative ease. Sad twats.

Spot on. Their fans seemed so bitter and angry. Decades of pent-up frustration of looking up at the Villa with envious eyes. Jealousy is horrible thing.
It was mighty fine watching their fans stream out at the end with their tails firmly lodged in between their legs.

[dave.woodhall]

Horrible fans. Every time they scored their fans ran towards the Villa fans in the lower North looking for trouble. The sooner that club are relegated back to where they belong the better.

Worse than small heath for that. And a lot of them were proper 30+ year old blokes, not kids. Even running from the back of the stand to join in the rush towards us. A rush it should be added that was so intent on reaching us that a few stewards stopped them with relative ease. Sad twats.

Spot on. Their fans seemed so bitter and angry. Decades of pent-up frustration of looking up at the Villa with envious eyes. Jealousy is horrible thing.
It was mighty fine watching their fans stream out at the end with their tails firmly lodged in between their legs.

One thing I have noticed about their support in the past two seasons is that they're a lot more arrogant/cocky/up for it walking down Witton Lane beforehand. They've started to believe their own hype.

[saunders_heroes]

Horrible fans. Every time they scored their fans ran towards the Villa fans in the lower North looking for trouble. The sooner that club are relegated back to where they belong the better.

Worse than small heath for that. And a lot of them were proper 30+ year old blokes, not kids. Even running from the back of the stand to join in the rush towards us. A rush it should be added that was so intent on reaching us that a few stewards stopped them with relative ease. Sad twats.

Spot on. Their fans seemed so bitter and angry. Decades of pent-up frustration of looking up at the Villa with envious eyes. Jealousy is horrible thing.
It was mighty fine watching their fans stream out at the end with their tails firmly lodged in between their legs.

One thing I have noticed about their support in the past two seasons is that they're a lot more arrogant/cocky/up for it walking down Witton Lane beforehand. They've started to believe their own hype.

And that ridiculous song about being the 'pride of the midlands' - do they not see that it's nothing but a back-handed compliment to Aston Villa? It's lovely to know that they judge all their "success" on where they finish in relation to the Villa.

[PeterWithesShin]

'Finished higher than the Villa' appears on their honours list.

[dave.woodhall]

They hate us as much as Small Heath do. The only differences are that they've got some sort of pride in their own achievements to dilute the bitterness a bit and it's only Small Heath's supporters who hate us. At Albion the loathing starts in the boardroom. 

[Pat McMahon]

1983.

Was that game 3-3 at half time as well? Memory may be playing tricks on me as I saw it on video years ago, was there a Brendan Ormsby goal?

Pretty sure Brendan got the winner

IIRC that is right.

I was absolutely gutted to miss this game but it was my sister's wedding that day and I was giving her away so couldn't get out of it. Lots of nerves in the church (from me about the footie, no idea about my sis) but one of my cousins had a pocket radio so we knew the result before the first beer of the day. Chuffed.

Funnily enough her second wedding is tomorrow, hot on the heels of this 4-3 win. . I should ask her to remarry every time we play the Boggies...

[Rudy65]

From where I was in the upper Holte, they were "vociferous" at 0-2 but not so much at 1-2 and definitely not at 4-3

Agreed, which I found strange. As soon as we got 1 back they went very quiet, livened up at half time after there third aNd then were very quiet in the second half

[PeterWithe]

Horrible fans. Every time they scored their fans ran towards the Villa fans in the lower North looking for trouble. The sooner that club are relegated back to where they belong the better.

It's all just posturing though isn't it, not many are seriously up for trouble.

[Damo70]

Their support was shit. Lots of noise when 1 and 2 up (not surprisingly) and then nothing when we made it 2-1 onwards until their third. And then fuck all once we were ahead again. They knew what they were for all of 8 minutes and then conveniently forgot the words to that song for the next 80 minutes.

Must be really hard for them to have their dreams and aspirations of finishing above us fading. Even more so to realise what they actually are, always have been, and always will be.

You are right in saying that apart from the odd half hearted stirring they were very quiet from 1-2 onwards. I think we genuinely took the wind out of their sails and after Weimann's goal they lost their belief.

[ez]

Putting myself in their shoes, it must be infuriating to have played us twice this year, gone 2 up inside 12 minutes at home, and then 2 up inside 8 minutes away from home, only to wind up taking 1 point from 6.

It's almost like they have some form of cultural cringe going on, where all their insecurity kicks in and they go to pieces with the excitement of taking something from the big club up the road.

They could have got a draw and a defeat against us without scoring but they did it scoring 5 goals