Aston Villa v Only Rotherham United Post-Match Thread

[Pat McMahon]

The club shop normally sells pink and white stuff in the women's section.

If I drink a bottle of vodka and squint I get that. But a bar scarf is surely only to be claret and blue?

[PeterWithesShin]

Pretty sure i've seen proper light pink and white hats and scarves in the past in the club shop most years going back yonks.

[PeterWithesShin]

A quick Google found this, you can tell it's going back a bit because of the badge.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Does my missus wash you clothes too?

I have some beautiful old Fred Perrys only Percy would wear now.

Saying that, only a real man can wear pink so I guess they're no use to Percy.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Just saw the goals (christ I hate the lack of coverage in this league).

Second two were lovely .

[PeterWithesShin]

For anyone wanting see the goals and highlights you can watch here http://www.skysports.com/football/a-villa-vs-rotherham/358122

[Matt C]

Brief (and I mean brief) highlights here for those of us outside the UK: https://youtu.be/2jeenSPnhYs

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I think that deserves it's own thread. How can you love a team when you can't see them?

Thanks to Villa Worldwide I got to see some of the game but I can't rely on that for the season. I may as well go and find a new hobby to occupy my Saturday afternoons.

One thing I do know is that a big part of the selling value of the PL is full stadiums, no matter how small you are. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the world and it's about time the PL and the rights owners realised you've got to have a healthy body, not just the heart, to survive.

Something I noticed from the Facebook live streams today is what a global club Villa are, fans from every corner of the world. What happens when they can no longer see the games?

Food for thought..

[PeterWithesShin]

3 of our first 5 games will have been on live streams, it's not like we've vanished. By the end of the season I reckon 15-20 of our games will have been live. We managed to cope back in the day when teletext and the videprinter were the only way to know the the full time result as it happened if you weren't at the game, i'm sure folks can survive half our games not being live.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Back then we had radio, today was real tough.

Right now I'm still basking in a Villa victory but it would have been beautiful to share.

[PeterWithesShin]

Radio was nearly always only goal alerts though, so you find out as fast, if not faster, now with the internet. Bit different to watching teletext and waiting for the page with our game on to appear every few mins, or standing in the rain outside Radio Rentals at 4.45pm.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Standing outside Radio rentals in the rain.. we have exactly the same thing here now but they do it in air conditioned shopping centres.

[robbo1874]

For anyone wanting see the goals and highlights you can watch here http://www.skysports.com/football/a-villa-vs-rotherham/358122

not if you live in Australia you can't. Saw the goals on YouTube though

[passitsideways]

3 of our first 5 games will have been on live streams, it's not like we've vanished. By the end of the season I reckon 15-20 of our games will have been live. We managed to cope back in the day when teletext and the videprinter were the only way to know the the full time result as it happened if you weren't at the game, i'm sure folks can survive half our games not being live.

Is there a link somewhere showing which games will be televised, at least somewhere in the world? Want to know which games I should bother getting up for.

[PeterWithesShin]

Derby next week is live, Newcastle, Forest, Wolves, Brighton and sha games are as well. If you look at our fixtures you can work most out, any Sat 3pm game won't have a stream. And keep an eye on the 'Games Moved for TV' thread on here as each time they decide live games it will be added to.