naming of the ground

[appyarryampton]

It will always be VP to generations of football supporters, so yes it does matter.
However due to the corporate finance, football has sold it's soul to the devil and a good percentage of us are complicit.
The best/worst analagy I can think of is Man Citeh.
Before the takeover, Etihad stadium etc. Citeh fans would have stayed to applaud Shaun Goater untie his boots, now they don't even stay to bid farewell to Pellegrini.
So if the 'big bucks' come, I suspect most of us will be going to the 'Shanghai/Nanjing/Prawn Sandwich PLC' stadium to watch our first Champions league fixture of the 2018/19 season.

[brian green]

I still call it Finsbury Park Railway Sidings.

[mr underhill]

those were the days - 'Feed the goat' !

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not fully convinced it would always be Villa Park to generations if it changed name, which would be my concern. North Stand and Doug Ellis are used by far more these days than Witton End and Witton Lane.

[appyarryampton]

I'm not fully convinced it would always be Villa Park to generations if it changed name, which would be my concern. North Stand and Doug Ellis are used by far more these days than Witton End and Witton Lane.

Yes, exactly. Future generations would call it whatever it was known as during their formative years.

[brian green]

You are right if course about new generations having new names for things but it is all cyclical.  I have always used the word "wireless" not "radio", language moves on and now "wireless" is hipsterspeak.  My Dad called a violin a fiddle, now Nigel Kennedy calls his instrument a fiddle.  Orchestras are now called bands.  My mother never used the word "street" it was always the "horse road".  When my grandchildren come to VP and I tell them not to run in the horse road, they think I am cool.  Things always come back to their point of origin.  It is written.

[cheltenhamlion]

In the sales particulars when BOA Merrill Lynch were hawking us around, naming rights to the ground to generate revenue was one of the key selling points they put forward.

[kippaxvilla2]

I would quite like the Rui Kang Pharmaceutical Arena.

[chrisw1]

I could live with The Oracle at Villa Park if it came with a few trophies.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

I could live with The Oracle at Villa Park if it came with a few trophies.

we will end up with ceefax or the test card with that girl and the blackboard

[four fornicholl]

Breaking news! American consortium from small city in California have bought us tonight!
Two birds, one stone

[HK Villan]

Naming rights in the Championship would be the square root of fuck all.

[DeKuip]

Breaking news! American consortium from small city in California have bought us tonight!
Two birds, one stone

Will we play in Orange?

[four fornicholl]

Breaking news! American consortium from small city in California have bought us tonight!
Two birds, one stone

Will we play in Orange?

Yes, but we continue in claret and blue

[kippaxvilla2]

I could live with The Oracle at Villa Park if it came with a few trophies.

we will end up with ceefax or the test card with that girl and the blackboard

Some people would be proud of the Telewest Arena.  We, on the other hand would watch games at the Teletext Arena.