Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[PeterWithe]

I've not seen a ripped 'Lerner badge' before, it was always the circular EC winners one.

[Clampy]

The Mail's 'How Real Albion Fans behave' article has to be read to be believed.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The Mail's 'How Real Albion Fans behave' article has to be read to be believed.

You mean things like this.....

" West Brom were the best supported Premier League club last season based on the population of their local town compared to the average attendance.
If all of the 25,801 people that come through the turnstiles every match were from West Bromwich, a third of the town would be empty.
The town's population of 75,405 makes West Brom the best supported team per capita...."

[Dave]

Not to mention things like "Albion fans are well-known for wearing masks and wigs".

[paul_e]

The Mail's 'How Real Albion Fans behave' article has to be read to be believed.

You mean things like this.....

" West Brom were the best supported Premier League club last season based on the population of their local town compared to the average attendance.
If all of the 25,801 people that come through the turnstiles every match were from West Bromwich, a third of the town would be empty.
The town's population of 75,405 makes West Brom the best supported team per capita...."

I call bullshit, we're called ASTON villa and if all of the 35000+ fans we get most games were from Aston there's be no one left in the area and we'd have 8000+ people who happened to be passing through at the time and got dragged inside.

[PeterWithesShin]

Not to mention things like "Albion fans are well-known for wearing masks and wigs".

If I supported that lot i'd want to hide my identity as well.

[PeterWithesShin]

The Mail's 'How Real Albion Fans behave' article has to be read to be believed.

For some strange reason I don't recall them doing a similar article on us after the QF.

[ciggiesnbeer]

The Mail's 'How Real Albion Fans behave' article has to be read to be believed.

You mean things like this.....

" West Brom were the best supported Premier League club last season based on the population of their local town compared to the average attendance.
If all of the 25,801 people that come through the turnstiles every match were from West Bromwich, a third of the town would be empty.
The town's population of 75,405 makes West Brom the best supported team per capita...."

Christ how many conditions do you have to put in to make the number seem good?

"Kidderminster harriers are the best supported club based on number of patrons of the Comberton road chippy spread out over ten years within the 10-20k income bracket (excluding employment in agriculture)."

[Clampy]

Not to mention things like "Albion fans are well-known for wearing masks and wigs".

The Mail seems to think that Albion fans have 'class' for wearing Ginger Wigs in support of Paul McShane and Viking outfits for Thomas Gaardsoe. Oh, they also took a Spanish flag to a game for Pepe Mel. If it wasn't on the mail website, i'd have thought the whole article was a piss take.

[Legion]

NewsThump-esque.

[dave.woodhall]

That's what happens when you spend twenty years telling the world how lovely you are.

[aj2k77]

The Mail's 'How Real Albion Fans behave' article has to be read to be believed.

You mean things like this.....

" West Brom were the best supported Premier League club last season based on the population of their local town compared to the average attendance.
If all of the 25,801 people that come through the turnstiles every match were from West Bromwich, a third of the town would be empty.
The town's population of 75,405 makes West Brom the best supported team per capita...."

I call bullshit, we're called ASTON villa and if all of the 35000+ fans we get most games were from Aston there's be no one left in the area and we'd have 8000+ people who happened to be passing through at the time and got dragged inside.

This really tickled me.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The Mail's 'How Real Albion Fans behave' article has to be read to be believed.

You mean things like this.....

" West Brom were the best supported Premier League club last season based on the population of their local town compared to the average attendance.
If all of the 25,801 people that come through the turnstiles every match were from West Bromwich, a third of the town would be empty.
The town's population of 75,405 makes West Brom the best supported team per capita...."

I call bullshit, we're called ASTON villa and if all of the 35000+ fans we get most games were from Aston there's be no one left in the area and we'd have 8000+ people who happened to be passing through at the time and got dragged inside.

This really tickled me.

In terms of average attendance as a proportion of the population of a geographic area contained in your clubs name, Port Vale need only one person to turn up to be the best supported of 92 clubs in English League football.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Just been in a newsagents and noticed that the Mail have dedicated their entire front page to the (non) story about a Villa fan throwing a lighter onto the pitch after the Liverpool game. The headline also manages to get "Villa's 6-0 Drubbing" in.

They're taking the piss now.

[dave.woodhall]

Just been in a newsagents and noticed that the Mail have dedicated their entire front page to the (non) story about a Villa fan throwing a lighter onto the pitch after the Liverpool game. The headline also manages to get "Villa's 6-0 Drubbing" in.

They're taking the piss now.

And we're letting them, as we always have.