SHA 1 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[Old Kodjia]

IF WMP had treated everyone as they did in the 70s and 80s yesterday, then it would have been every man, woman and child for themselves as we left the ground

WMP achieved there objective there was no major disorder, and no running battles on the streets, so they will look at this as the best result they could of hoped for.

I did not agree with the way we were treated at the end of the game but we got home safely.

The waiting in the stand, then in the concourse, then in the compound and then at regular points along a very circuitous route into the city centre was extremely tedious but the Villa fans were patient and well behaved. Like you, I thought the exercise was excessively cautious, but we have to agree that the police achieved what they set out to do.

I wasn't there yesterday and reading about all the hassle after the match, being kept in etc, I'm glad.  That said, I do agree that I'd prefer to read that than the stuff we've had to read in previous seasons regarding women and children being picked off.

People should never underestimate the hatred and jealousy that these muppets feel, every waking hour of their lives.  Coupled with any lack of morals and decency and you are left with a very dangerous combination.  I go back a long time with Blues, I know all the stunts they like to pull and every single one is cowardly, attacking smaller numbers and non-fighters when there is 0% chance of them losing.

Just listen to Blues fans talk and you see a difference straight away.  All this crap about Villa fans not being from Birmingham is laughable.  There are more Villa fans in Birmingham just as there are more outside.  Why do they come out with this nonsense and do they really believe it?  Not excluding the fact that Solihull is not part of Birmingham and wants nothing to do with it, loads of their fans travel in nowadays.  It's the way of the world.  These neanderthals still think it's the 1970's when everybody lived a sixpenny bus ride from the ground.

I'm glad the game is over and we can now move on, concentrating on our rebuild.  These scum bring out the worst in people, myself included.  Thankfully, they can all go back to their sh##ty little mundane lives again, until April comes around and they can prepare for their cup final again

[cdbearsfan]

I can't ever recall wanting to stay behind after a game to shout naughty words at away fans from behind a cordon of police.

What's the point?

[QuintonVilla]

apart from when the noses scored , don't you think they were rather subdued.

Very. As I said they were silent first half after the first 10-15 minutes, then piped up for 5-10 minutes after their goal and then back to near silence. The atmosphere was very flat and not at all intimidating from either side. I said it was the quietest away end we have had anywhere in the last 10 years and I stand by that, we were dreadful. The atmosphere was miles better from both sides in the cup game at VP last season, just shows what a difference kick off time and booze makes.

Both sides look rather silly after bigging our derby up and telling the rest of the country how fiery and fierce it is. All I've seen on Twitter and all I've had people saying to me today is how poor it was, there was no edge, atmosphere was crap etc.

Perhaps you could ring your friends in the ticket office and tell them not to sell to anyone who won't make a noise.

What friends are these?

[Tony Erdington]

I thought the ref was shit, in his distribution of bookings. and that affected the game, if he'd booked there lot as fast as booked our boys, they wouldn't have gone round the pitch practicing their drop kicks, bull charges.

[Richard E]

A lot of the home fans are still in the ground, bewilderdly trying to work out what that shiny metal thing the Warwickshire players were holding was.

[LeeB]

A lot of the home fans are still in the ground, bewilderdly trying to work out what that shiny metal thing the Warwickshire players were holding was.

Like the apes around the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey

[Salsa Party Animal]

Yesterday on my way back from Wembley Central station to catch a train back to Birmingham, after NFL match. A bluenose was talking/ranting to me moaning about Villa. I don't even let him know I am a Villa fan. A normal person would be talking about the NFL match we have seen. 

[Old Kodjia]

Yesterday on my way back from Wembley Central station to catch a train back to Birmingham, after NFL match. A bluenose was talking/ranting to me moaning about Villa. I don't even let him know I am a Villa fan. A normal person would be talking about the NFL match we have seen.

Most men think about sex more than anything else throughout a normal day.  Imagine being one of these divs, thinking constantly about Villa from the minute they awake. 

I couldn't have named one single player of theirs before last Friday when I watched them play Burton.  Do they not understand how utterly insignificant they are?  Nobody is interested in them and their crummy little football team.

[dave.woodhall]

Yesterday on my way back from Wembley Central station to catch a train back to Birmingham, after NFL match. A bluenose was talking/ranting to me moaning about Villa. I don't even let him know I am a Villa fan. A normal person would be talking about the NFL match we have seen.

Most men think about sex more than anything else throughout a normal day.  Imagine being one of these divs, thinking constantly about Villa from the minute they awake. 

I couldn't have named one single player of theirs before last Friday when I watched them play Burton.  Do they not understand how utterly insignificant they are?  Nobody is interested in them and their crummy little football team.

Including at least one of their supporters by the sound of it. Or did he think their cup final was being played at Wembley?

[kippaxvilla2]

Please tell me it isn't just me.  But watching it on the tv almost to a man, woman and child their fans at the front were horrible, snarling, Neanderthal ingrates don't you think? 

They really dislike us a lot more than we care about them.

I saw one woman mouth the words 'you blind cnut' to the Linesman albeit for giving us that ridiculous throw in.  Charming.

[Ads]

Language! She kisses her brother with that mouth as well.

[paul_e]

A facebook friend who is from a 100% rugby household (husband is a coach, both sons play at a decent standard in Leicester) summed it up perfectly for me yesterday when she (as part of a family full of noses) was fed up of the vile posts full of bad langauge and abuse from blues fans that had been going for about a week and found it interesting that her Villa, Leicester, Man U, etc supporting friends never posted stuff like it.  Someone (who turned out to be her aunt) replied saying it was just football bants that 'the egg-chasing homos' don't understand and she then couldn't understand why my friend was insulted by that.

This is why I get so frustrated when you get Villa fans talking about it like it's a big game to us and singing about them during matches, they're the nasty little club from down the road which has a massive inferiority complex and with a section of fans who think beating up some villa will somehow improve that. I accept the baggies as a proper derby (although because it was a game that was played so rarely when I was growing up I still don't see it as all that big a deal) but I'll never be able to see Blues as a rival.

[Dave Cooper please]

Yesterday on my way back from Wembley Central station to catch a train back to Birmingham, after NFL match. A bluenose was talking/ranting to me moaning about Villa. I don't even let him know I am a Villa fan. A normal person would be talking about the NFL match we have seen. 

Nah sorry, there is nothing "normal" about talking about NFL in any circumstances ever, it's utter shite.

[JJ-AV]

Didn't go on Sunday, but the locking the tactic of locking the away fans up is rough. I've been in that twice and it is about 90 minutes of annoyance, nuisance and frustration, while you're paraded around Digbeth like a naughty school child. They may as well just make it coach only.

[Mortimer's Bear]

They really dislike us a lot more than we care about them.

We really don't care about them, that's why we have a 1142 page thread about them on this very website.