Aston Villa vs Birmingham City Pre-Match Thread

[PeterWithe]

2800 is more than generous, they generally take a few hundred to away matches so there are going to be plenty of fans in their end who don't normally follow them away. They will probably send quite a few back.

[john e]

Just thinking about away fans in the Holte end when villa are playing

I presume the most would have been Rangers in the 'friendly'

I also remember West Ham used to get into the Holte in the 70's and cause a rumpus just as the teams came out, this happened more than once I'm thinking the same colours helped

Chelsea had a load in there once as well, but again it's over 30 years ago in the old standing Holte end pay at the turnstyle days

[PeterWithe]

I've heard there are going to be 300 Zulus in the Holte End, can anyone confirm this rumour? I'm not taking my sister to this if this is true...

Sadly its true, you wont be able to move for golden bollocks and silly hats.

[andyh]

I've heard there are going to be 300 Zulus in the Holte End, can anyone confirm this rumour? I'm not taking my sister to this if this is true...

Maybe she won't let you carry on  shagging her if you don't take her?

[aj2k77]

I've heard there are going to be 300 Zulus in the Holte End, can anyone confirm this rumour? I'm not taking my sister to this if this is true...

Only in your fantasies you fanny.

[Percy McCarthy]

My missus and her (female) mate are going, I'm meeting them there as I'm working til half-five. There's a nose hooligan wannabe (aren't they all?) at her work who tried to tell her it's not safe that night. She just laughed and asked him what time the coaches are leaving.

[Stu]

I’ve been putting a bit of thought into this fixture.

Living in yam-yam land as I have for the last couple of years or so, I have been exposed to the bitterness of the stripeyfilth to such a degree that they have become the main focus on my footballing shitlist and I admit that I have played into their coal-stained tatter mitts with regard to that. Blues have slipped into the background as a complete non-entity since their relegation and not living in Solihull any more has obviously meant that I don’t bump into too many of the denizens of hades these days.

However, I can feel the old fire coming back a bit now. The old nonsense is back from the dogshitters;

•   Villa fans aren’t from the city

•   hundreds of Zulus in the Holte End, taking the piss and taking over when the ticketing criteria suggests this is an impossibility, there will be HUNDREDS there

•   BCFC are the working-class team in Brum, when most of their support comes from Solihull and the surrounding towns (see first point for further evidence of cognitive dissonance from the village idiots)

•   a horde of them getting lost trying to find Sherlock St, despite the claim that they’re the real brummies from the city

•   talk of getting mobbed up in town and marching to VP like the police don’t read internet message boards and with the added inference that they would actually be able to find their own way there

•   old men talking about “what *really* happened on Rocky Lane”, like anyone with even a bit of common sense would give a flying fuck about that

•   having noted shitcunt Robbie Savage as a hero because he poked Olof Mellberg in the eye when he wasn’t looking (Mellberg got the last laugh in the 5-1 game, inbreds!)

•   finally winning a second trophy in 136 years of mind-bogglingly shit football teams and curiously dropping the ‘historians’ taunt

•   “we’ll be there” when they never fucking are since the Rover got closed down or something

•   moaning about ticket allocations when they barely have a home following let alone an away one

•   Stephen Carr’s wanker sign to the Witton End after losing to us yet again – he’s obviously a hero to these fuckwits now

•   being shit enough to be sold by the current owners of West Ham, robbing us of the comedy trinity of Pornodwarf, Mr Tumnus and Manjaw

•   being shit enough to be the only team in history to follow up that comedy farce with an even better comedy farce with their new hairdressing owner who is in gaol in Hong Kong over money laundering

•   somehow continually escaping receivership season after season after the actions of said new owner

•   making out they’re hardcases and then all getting official club coaches for the four-mile trip to VP (although to be fair to them they would probably get lost if they had to walk)

•   comedy diary listing our trophies and admitting how awesome it is to have more than one shelf in the trophy cabinet

•   knowing more about Villa teams of days gone by than we do because of their obsession with us….

…..anyone care to add to this? I’d forgotten about them until now, the twats. Let’s smash them.

[garyshawsknee]

Good post Stu. You forget to mention their hero, the fuckwit Paul Tait.

[Stu]

Good post Stu. You forget to mention their hero, the fuckwit Paul Tait.

Of course. He has that t-shirt framed in his house.

They took 500,000 fans to Wembley that day you know.

[Percy McCarthy]

Like you I'd forgotten about them. It's a good post Stu but I'm still struggling to remember them.

[Dmaund86]

The fact that most of their fans still don't actually know the words to the clubs anthem....... "We're off to Partizan........" Comical

[itbrvilla]

Anyone know anywhere in Fuerteventura that may be showing the game? Me and the wife will be missing it unfortunately, we don't talk about each others teams much except on derby day.

[Dmaund86]

Anyone know anywhere in Fuerteventura that may be showing the game? Me and the wife will be missing it unfortunately, we don't talk about each others teams much except on derby day.

Surely any sports bar will have it on with it being the sky game that night

[itbrvilla]

Excellent.

[Malandro]

Anyone know anywhere in Fuerteventura that may be showing the game? Me and the wife will be missing it unfortunately, we don't talk about each others teams much except on derby day.

The Irish bar will be