Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[KRS]

May be this "claret and blues" thing has come from the club...I've noticed it a couple of times in articles on the OS.

https://www.avfc.co.uk/News/2016/07/08/gollini-trains

https://www.avfc.co.uk/News/2016/07/05/petrov-returns-to-training

[paul_e]

I've gotta be honest I don't see why so many people who are insistent that the club wear claret shirts with blue sleeves are at all bothered that we're associated with claret and blue and sometimes get referred to by those colours, not anything I can get upset about.  I honestly can't see any insult in this as some seem to be implying.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

No problem with it...just sounds an bit cheesy...Roy of the Rovers...1950s...


We're The Villa.......THE VILLA!

And everybody knows it.


UTV!

[Stirchley Villain]

I've gotta be honest I don't see why so many people who are insistent that the club wear claret shirts with blue sleeves are at all bothered that we're associated with claret and blue and sometimes get referred to by those colours, not anything I can get upset about.  I honestly can't see any insult in this as some seem to be implying.

I think they keep repeating it hoping it'll catch on. They're wasting their time. It doesn't roll off the tongue, and as others have said anything with blues" in it doesn't sit well in B6.

[paul_e]

No problem with it...just sounds an bit cheesy...Roy of the Rovers...1950s...


We're The Villa.......THE VILLA!

And everybody knows it.


UTV!

Oh it's cheesy as fuck and it's not a term I'd ever use myself but I just don't get why people would be upset.

I've gotta be honest I don't see why so many people who are insistent that the club wear claret shirts with blue sleeves are at all bothered that we're associated with claret and blue and sometimes get referred to by those colours, not anything I can get upset about.  I honestly can't see any insult in this as some seem to be implying.

I think they keep repeating it hoping it'll catch on. They're wasting their time. It doesn't roll off the tongue, and as others have said anything with blues" in it doesn't sit well in B6.

If that's true then I'd argue that some in B6 are becoming as small time obsessed as the lot from small heath that they hate so much.

[Hillbilly]

Do you remember Hugh Johns used to describe the kits down to the enth detail during the commentaries.  Claret shirts with blue trim etc, etc....

I'd guess that was just a hangover from the black and white TV days.

[Nelly]

I think claret and blue is an obvious part of Aston Villa and people use a teams colours a nickname all the time. It's probably one of many, names we've got/been given.

I saw one of their headlines this morning was something like "why villa's attendances will take a battering this season" - I didn't click on but seriously, fuck The Mail.

[not3bad]

I tend to feel more offended when people naturally associate the claret & blue colours with West Ham. If calling us the Claret & Blues means people get the message that we are the original claret & blue team then it sounds alright to me.

[tomd2103]

I think claret and blue is an obvious part of Aston Villa and people use a teams colours a nickname all the time. It's probably one of many, names we've got/been given.

I saw one of their headlines this morning was something like "why villa's attendances will take a battering this season" - I didn't click on but seriously, fuck The Mail.

Not with us though.  Wolves, Baggies and Saddlers are used for the other teams in the Midlands and we've always been Villa or maybe Villans. 

[peter w]

Claret & blue I don't mind, they are our colours. Claret & blues however can get tae fuck.

[Toronto Villa]

that we play in claret and blue is a given. But we are not referred to as a the claret and blues. That's something the Mail are slipping into almost every article. Like somehow it is the club nickname. Have they been calling the Albion the navy blue and whites, or Birmingham the blue and whites?

[Stirchley Villain]

No problem with it...just sounds an bit cheesy...Roy of the Rovers...1950s...


We're The Villa.......THE VILLA!

And everybody knows it.


UTV!

Oh it's cheesy as fuck and it's not a term I'd ever use myself but I just don't get why people would be upset.

I've gotta be honest I don't see why so many people who are insistent that the club wear claret shirts with blue sleeves are at all bothered that we're associated with claret and blue and sometimes get referred to by those colours, not anything I can get upset about.  I honestly can't see any insult in this as some seem to be implying.

I think they keep repeating it hoping it'll catch on. They're wasting their time. It doesn't roll off the tongue, and as others have said anything with blues" in it doesn't sit well in B6.

If that's true then I'd argue that some in B6 are becoming as small time obsessed as the lot from small heath that they hate so much.

Do u mean me? I don't give a rat's ass about them. But I don't want Villa to be called "blues" in any shape or form ta very much.

[AV82EC]

No problem with it...just sounds an bit cheesy...Roy of the Rovers...1950s...


We're The Villa.......THE VILLA!

And everybody knows it.


UTV!

Oh it's cheesy as fuck and it's not a term I'd ever use myself but I just don't get why people would be upset.

I've gotta be honest I don't see why so many people who are insistent that the club wear claret shirts with blue sleeves are at all bothered that we're associated with claret and blue and sometimes get referred to by those colours, not anything I can get upset about.  I honestly can't see any insult in this as some seem to be implying.

I think they keep repeating it hoping it'll catch on. They're wasting their time. It doesn't roll off the tongue, and as others have said anything with blues" in it doesn't sit well in B6.

If that's true then I'd argue that some in B6 are becoming as small time obsessed as the lot from small heath that they hate so much.

Do u mean me? I don't give a rat's ass about them. But I don't want Villa to be called "blues" in any shape or form ta very much.

Have you had an irony bypass?

They're not being called blues they're being called Claret and blues.

[Jimbo]

They are trolls. They know it winds us up so they'll continue to do it. Don't read it and don't worry, the Mail will be gone soon enough.

[Stirchley Villain]

No problem with it...just sounds an bit cheesy...Roy of the Rovers...1950s...


We're The Villa.......THE VILLA!

And everybody knows it.


UTV!

Oh it's cheesy as fuck and it's not a term I'd ever use myself but I just don't get why people would be upset.

I've gotta be honest I don't see why so many people who are insistent that the club wear claret shirts with blue sleeves are at all bothered that we're associated with claret and blue and sometimes get referred to by those colours, not anything I can get upset about.  I honestly can't see any insult in this as some seem to be implying.

I think they keep repeating it hoping it'll catch on. They're wasting their time. It doesn't roll off the tongue, and as others have said anything with blues" in it doesn't sit well in B6.

If that's true then I'd argue that some in B6 are becoming as small time obsessed as the lot from small heath that they hate so much.

Do u mean me? I don't give a rat's ass about them. But I don't want Villa to be called "blues" in any shape or form ta very much.

Have you had an irony bypass?

They're not being called blues they're being called Claret and blues.

Ok let's call ourselves the claret and blues and be done with it then.