It's a bit like walking around the corner and being faced with 50 Millwall fans. No point in panicking just take your kicking and hope you come out of it in one piece.
I think it was around 1989-90, anyway, Villa had just played a midweek home game against Milwall. It was dark anyway and me and my dad turned down a side road off Trinity Road to be faced by around 15 Milwall fans, some bizarrely dressed as Surgeons, breaking in to a couple of cars. Thankfully I was only little so they must have took pity on us and instead of getting a hiding they offered us a lift home. My old man declined.