Magnificent Aston Villa vs The (Not Very) Great Unwashed Post-Match Thread

[cdbearsfan]

I go to Digbeth all the time and never think of it as being either a "Villa" or "Blues" area, with the exception of about three pubs very close to The Sty that you probably wouldn't know about if you weren't one of them.

[brentastonb6]

I was shocked at the size of Stockdale - anyone else think he looked like an umpa lumpa?

His Missus after Christmas ?

[Flamingo Lane]

yeah, I thought Jenkinson was very lucky to stay on.

To be fair, he couldn't really have booked Jenkinson for that second foul, having not booked Chester for a very similar one just a few minutes before.  So he was certainly consistent there.

[shirley_villan]

By city centre, they mean Digbeth and by Digbeth, they mean two or three Irish pubs. Funnily enough I've never seen much Blues drinking around Aston.

Presumably they're referring to when their main lot used to use Sam Wellers in the 80s.

When we palyed them in the cup the other year, you had loads of Villa in the Sun on the Hill, while the peasants were kettled into the Briar next door. Lots of Villa in the Shakespear too.

They mean the Bull Ring Tavern and Henneseys.

[cdbearsfan]

I've drank in both. The only other fan I recall chatting about football with was a Hibs supporter.

[shirley_villan]

They're Blues pubs when a match is on but wouldn't say at any other time. I was in the BRT after the Bristol City match and there were a few Villa in there. You get fans of both clubs in the city centre but we outnumber them like we do in the city overall. I'd say that I don't know why they persist with this utter bollocks but we know why they do.

[SoccerHQ]

Cracking small time tweet from that bitter blue Chris Scudder from Sky news. He ticks every deluded Sty Dweller box with this one, though he did get the last bit right... 

Genuine observation here. ‘The city is ours crow the Villa fans’ But pre and post derbies they’re rarely in evidence in Birmingham city centre. Odd that, considering. Maybe Gloucester, Cheltenham, Staffs, Sutton and the shires. That said best team won today.

Sutton Coldfield....as in the place that resides within the City of Birmingham in every sense.As opposed to where the vast majority of the Dogshite dwellers support is from,Solihull.

Whenever I'm in Tamworth I usually see someone wearing a SHA shirt or club top. Always seemed to me a town with an above average number of their supporters living there so no different to us having fans in Lichfield.

Redditch is similar, indeed there's a Redditch blues flag you see at their games.

So predictably they're chatting BS with those claims, bless 'em.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

The only town or city where there are more Blose fans than Villa is Solihull. Even then, there's not much in it.

Grew up in Solihull and can vouch for that!

Not even sure that is true anymore. If we take the street I live on as typical there are seven Villa fans and one nose, an entirely reasonable octogenarian who had season ticket up to a few years ago. At least of the ones I know or have noticed anyway.

I live in Knowle and genuinely know hardly any Noses. There's one Nose in my son's year at school (several Villa). There's one Nose in the kids football team I manage (4 Villa).

The rest are glory hunters (Man City, Spurs and Chelsea mainly, these days).

[PeterWithesShin]

Their 'logic' is fantastic. Villa fans in Worcester = proof we're all out of town glory hunters. sha fans in Worcester, it's ok it's a satellite town. And they wonder why we look down on them.

[Richard E]

I support Villa because my Dad does - and he’s from Small Heath!

[Pat McMahon]

Just changing the subject slightly - To me the away support was pretty quiet in volume.
Other clubs fans have made far more noise than they did

I thought their support was so-so in the first half - I was upstairs in the North Stand again, which i usually dislike, but it was suitably raucous yesterday. Admittedly they didn't have a lot to cheer - they were far more boisterous at Villa Park last season until Gabby came on.

Loudest I have heard so far this season were Sheffield Wednesday.

[Ads]

Went to school in Quinton and can recall two Noses and one of them was a teacher. You'd think they'd be all over South Brum.

[Damo70]

I like the way Hourihane kindly gestured the way towards the tunnel when the ref produced the second yellow then red card so N'Doye didn't get lost.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Confused.I grew up off Aston Lane,naturally grew up Villa.
Now live in Stourbridge so by their twisted logic who should I follow? Glassboys? Wolves? Albion? Lye Town?
And my late Dad moved from rural Roscommon to digs in Small Heath in 1947 .
So he should have followed  ......oh fuck
(He was Villa all his life)

[LeeB]

Here's one talking sense:

"Much of the reaction over the past 24 hours or so on here and elsewhere.

Childish name-calling aimed at opposition supporters.

Moaning about the ref when we were clearly out-played.

Picking on individual players like N’Doye.

Here are the facts: we’re near the bottom of the table and were playing a team who had won six on the trot, hoping to get into the automatic promotion places. Where they play, and where their fans live, is irrelevant, as is the fact that they have probably been bragging all day at work.

I’m old enough to remember when we used to beat them regularly, and we used to gloat as if it were going out of fashion, so we’ve got to suck it up.

Any civilised football fan who read the sort of stuff that’s been posted on here today and yesterday would have a very low opinion of our support. We used to have a great reputation for providing a fantastic atmosphere at St Andrews, now many of us act like a bunch of spoilt brats when we lose against our local rivals."