Aston Villa vs Birmingham City Pre-Match Thread

[Hookeysmith]

Looking at their web site it really is like they have won the lottery - how bizzare that its seemingly is all they actually care about

There has not been a single, articulate comment about a football match - all about vile this vile that and what they are going to do. As I said previously when they mention their players names I would not recognise one in the street if they came up to me

I am sure Yeovil fans would not go on like that if they had drawn Chelsea / Man u away

Oh and their comment about not filling our stadium - it seems their fans all went to the game disguised as cheap plastic chairs

[Damo70]

I would charge them all fifty quid a ticket, with the money going to Acorns and throw in a free and compulsory stadium tour.

[Percy McCarthy]

There was one brain donor on a Central News vox-pop yesterday who said 'I'm sure we'll sell our allocation and they'll get a full-house, been a long time since that happened'. Yeah, ten days you dozy twat.

[Jimbo]

Like the dimmest of playground antagonists, they will pick on any aspect of our club's culture or personality, and attempt, witlessly, to turn it against us.

We have influence outside the boundaries of north Birmingham, so therefore they will proclaim "Da vile ent proppa Brummiz cus they fram Wussta an' Lishfield an' Glossta, ennit?" while they wait for the bus back to Solihull.

Don't they understand the reason why few outside the slums of south Birmingham support them is because they are an irrelevance, totally insignificant in the world of football, and utterly repulsive to all sane human beings? Or the reason why most of their fans are Brummies is simply because they had the misfortune to be born into a whoop of shit-hurling south Birmingham sub-chimps, and that no outsider would ever choose to be a part of that sorry scene?

"Da vila are historians," because Villa have actually achieved things in their 140-year history; and yet since the knuckledraggers fluked a cup in the last decade, they've suddenly all become scholars themselves.

"Da Vile play in pink an' baby blue," which, with such sensitivity to colour, makes them sound like simian Laurence Llewelyn Bowens.

"Da Zulus will batta da vile," because that's what it's all about, football, having a crew of sad, bald, astonishingly thick 50-year-old apes in tacky sports gear, jumping up and down on the spot, hitting families with children as they pass by.

I've never come across such a pathetic troop of dimwitted cretins, consumed with bitterness and jealousy, so utterly obsessed with their illustrious neighbours, in my life.

The morons.

[Legion]

Excellent definition of the term 'Knuckledragger'.

[Witton Warrior]

I wonder if the Mail will try and stir it up pre-game with more Zulus in the Holte nonsense?

I'd say don't give them ideas, but they've probably been working on that and similar bollocks since about 11pm on Tuesday night.

They seem to have been working on it for the last 40 years in my experience and have yet to succeed!
Ditto for Olbiun, Coventry, Manure etc etc <yaaaaaawwwwn>

[Villa in Denmark]

There was one brain donor on a Central News vox-pop yesterday who said 'I'm sure we'll sell our allocation and they'll get a full-house, been a long time since that happened'. Yeah, ten days you dozy twat.

He was talking about selling out their allocation!

[Mortimer's Bear]

Like the dimmest of playground antagonists, they will pick on any aspect of our club's culture or personality, and attempt, witlessly, to turn it against us.

We have influence outside the boundaries of north Birmingham, so therefore they will proclaim "Da vile ent proppa Brummiz cus they fram Wussta an' Lishfield an' Glossta, ennit?" while they wait for the bus back to Solihull.

Don't they understand the reason why few outside the slums of south Birmingham support them is because they are an irrelevance, totally insignificant in the world of football, and utterly repulsive to all sane human beings? Or the reason why most of their fans are Brummies is simply because they had the misfortune to be born into a whoop of shit-hurling south Birmingham sub-chimps, and that no outsider would ever choose to be a part of that sorry scene?

"Da vila are historians," because Villa have actually achieved things in their 140-year history; and yet since the knuckledraggers fluked a cup in the last decade, they've suddenly all become scholars themselves.

"Da Vile play in pink an' baby blue," which, with such sensitivity to colour, makes them sound like simian Laurence Llewelyn Bowens.

"Da Zulus will batta da vile," because that's what it's all about, football, having a crew of sad, bald, astonishingly thick 50-year-old apes in tacky sports gear, jumping up and down on the spot, hitting families with children as they pass by.

I've never come across such a pathetic troop of dimwitted cretins, consumed with bitterness and jealousy, so utterly obsessed with their illustrious neighbours, in my life.

The morons.

An excellent summary.

[PeterWithesShin]

This is a match against a poor Championship side. Why does it deserve a thread so many weeks in advance?

Because we always have a thread for each round of the cups.

[tomd2103]

This is a match against a poor Championship side. Why does it deserve a thread so many weeks in advance?

Because as you point out they are a poor championship side. Who are skint. Who won't go far in any cup in the near future. So we won't be meeting them very often.

Which is nice.

According to Gary Rowett on the back of today's Birmingham Mail, Villa and Blues are "evenly matched".

[Hookeysmith]

Already getting shite from people I had genuinely forgot was Blose and could not give you directions to St Blandrews.

I work in Manchester and although they understand city rivalries it is hard to explain how one sided this obsession is with them. It has been mentioned that there cannot be a more one sided local rivalry when it comes to history, honours or glory. I think that is the thing that separates this derby from any other and the obsession they have with us

[kippaxvilla2]

This is a match against a poor Championship side. Why does it deserve a thread so many weeks in advance?

Because as you point out they are a poor championship side. Who are skint. Who won't go far in any cup in the near future. So we won't be meeting them very often.

Which is nice.

According to Gary Rowett on the back of today's Birmingham Mail, Villa and Blues are "evenly matched".

In the sense that they have had a good start to the season, we are still finding our feet with a shed load of new players, it is a derby, it is their cup final in so many respects and the pressure is all on us to win, I would say that is a fair summation, the hatred notwithstanding.

[kippaxvilla2]

Like the dimmest of playground antagonists, they will pick on any aspect of our club's culture or personality, and attempt, witlessly, to turn it against us.

We have influence outside the boundaries of north Birmingham, so therefore they will proclaim "Da vile ent proppa Brummiz cus they fram Wussta an' Lishfield an' Glossta, ennit?" while they wait for the bus back to Solihull.

Don't they understand the reason why few outside the slums of south Birmingham support them is because they are an irrelevance, totally insignificant in the world of football, and utterly repulsive to all sane human beings? Or the reason why most of their fans are Brummies is simply because they had the misfortune to be born into a whoop of shit-hurling south Birmingham sub-chimps, and that no outsider would ever choose to be a part of that sorry scene?

"Da vila are historians," because Villa have actually achieved things in their 140-year history; and yet since the knuckledraggers fluked a cup in the last decade, they've suddenly all become scholars themselves.

"Da Vile play in pink an' baby blue," which, with such sensitivity to colour, makes them sound like simian Laurence Llewelyn Bowens.

"Da Zulus will batta da vile," because that's what it's all about, football, having a crew of sad, bald, astonishingly thick 50-year-old apes in tacky sports gear, jumping up and down on the spot, hitting families with children as they pass by.

I've never come across such a pathetic troop of dimwitted cretins, consumed with bitterness and jealousy, so utterly obsessed with their illustrious neighbours, in my life.

The morons.

An excellent summary.

All very good except I am a South Birmingham chimp.

[Villa in Denmark]

This is a match against a poor Championship side. Why does it deserve a thread so many weeks in advance?

Because as you point out they are a poor championship side. Who are skint. Who won't go far in any cup in the near future. So we won't be meeting them very often.

Which is nice.

According to Gary Rowett on the back of today's Birmingham Mail, Villa and Blues are "evenly matched".

He's got to say something along those lines though, hasn't he?

He's not going to come out with "Well we're f¤¤ked before we start, the players will be hoping it's better than the last time they were there with Big Alex.  Meanwhile I can't lose.  Win and I'm a hero to the great unwashed and guaranteed a job for the next 5 years if I want it. Lose? Well hey ho, no one really expects anything else, and I got to see my team go marching on."

[aj2k77]

Blues are cack, if we can't beat them I'll eat Paddy Ashdowns hat.