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[Toronto Villa]

Algy consider yourself admonished. One of those stand in the corner of the room, turn your head to the wall and don’t fight the dunce cap moments in your life. You’ll be better for it.

[Risso]

Beautiful name, brilliant club.

I even love how we say 'The Villa'. From time to time, exiled in Bristol, I get asked about saying 'The' Villa when I say things like, "I'm not around on Saturday, I'm going to watch The Villa".

It's a perfect opportunity to remind them there are lots named United, City, Rovers, etc. but there is only one Villa.

It's a privilege that I was born and grew up 3-4 miles from Villa Park and that they are my club - as they are your club too. Up The Villa!

100%.  I always remeber my Grandad saying 'up the Villa,' every time we visited.  I had stickers with it on on the frame of my bed.  I love how UTV is still used so much - a phrase from a bygone era that still resonates with me.

Yep, UTV was a response to a sneeze growing up in my household.

Continuing the reverie, I love that my grandma had a system to keep my grandad informed of the latest score as he worked on a Saturday afternoon in his opticians shop in Cotteridge, however many rings for a villa/opposition goal etc.

Grateful we had those glory years with him including our greatest day together 4 years before he died, likewise our best chance since now, to get back up there.

My grandad died around the same time yours did by the sound of it Satyin. He lived with my nan in Mere Green. My earliest 'Up the Villa" memory was my nan going to her friend Auntie Pauline's house to have her hair cut, and they had a grey parrot that had been taught to say "Up the Villa" repeatedly. My Grandad would have been alive for (if not old enough to remember) 6 of our 7 league titles, and 6 of our 7 FA Cups.  Only three League Cups though, so swings and roundabouts!

[Risso]

I do the same. Wherever and whenever, the presence of another enlightened soul should always be acknowledged with it.

Same. It's just about a legal requirement isn't it? Our version of the masons' funny handshake.

[Drummond]

Me too. I do get the occasional odd look and faintly mumbled reply. Probably because Villans in Sheffield don't figure on seeing many others.

[Russ aka Big Nose]

Beautiful name, brilliant club.

I even love how we say 'The Villa'. From time to time, exiled in Bristol, I get asked about saying 'The' Villa when I say things like, "I'm not around on Saturday, I'm going to watch The Villa".

It's a perfect opportunity to remind them there are lots named United, City, Rovers, etc. but there is only one Villa.

It's a privilege that I was born and grew up 3-4 miles from Villa Park and that they are my club - as they are your club too. Up The Villa!

100%.  I always remeber my Grandad saying 'up the Villa,' every time we visited.  I had stickers with it on on the frame of my bed.  I love how UTV is still used so much - a phrase from a bygone era that still resonates with me.

Yep, UTV was a response to a sneeze growing up in my household.

Continuing the reverie, I love that my grandma had a system to keep my grandad informed of the latest score as he worked on a Saturday afternoon in his opticians shop in Cotteridge, however many rings for a villa/opposition goal etc.

Grateful we had those glory years with him including our greatest day together 4 years before he died, likewise our best chance since now, to get back up there.

My grandad died around the same time yours did by the sound of it Satyin. He lived with my nan in Mere Green. My earliest 'Up the Villa" memory was my nan going to her friend Auntie Pauline's house to have her hair cut, and they had a grey parrot that had been taught to say "Up the Villa" repeatedly. My Grandad would have been alive for (if not old enough to remember) 6 of our 7 league titles, and 6 of our 7 FA Cups.  Only three League Cups though, so swings and roundabouts!

Your mention of a parrot saying 'Up The Villa' reminded me of something I'd long forget. When I was a kid, maybe 6 or 7, I would get dragged by my Mom to visit her Aunty Bella in some high rise in the centre of Brum.

The only saving grace was the old lady repeatedly telling me that her parrot used to say 'Up The Villa'. Sadly the parrot died before we started going - though that is not a prompt for a Python sketch.

I'm not massively well travelled though I have greeted or been greeted by enlightened souls saying 'Up The Villa' in New Zealand, New York, Jamaica and lots of other countries.

Though the last time was six months ago when a little old lady in Downend Bristol said it to me because I was wearing a Villa top. She added, in a Brummie accent, "But for this bloody Covid, I would hug you bab!"

Never met her before or since, but by strange coincidence, I suddenly got some dust in my eye.

Up The Villa.

[thick_mike]

I shared an UTV with someone in Iceland (the shop, not the country) in Leighton Buzzard this week.

[cdbearsfan]

I was more impressed before the first bracket turned up. Still, I suppose I should have read the bit in brackets first as that's the rule.

[Drummond]

Article on Football Insider (Bullshitter) by Kelvin Maguire who's a football finance specialist.

That says something like... NSWE celebrating their Three Year Anniversary after the takeover in 2019...

Honestly.

[Dante Lavelli]

It’d be cool if the Villa Village stocked some Bucks gear (and visa versa).

[four fornicholl]

Millionaire David Bradley of Selby Villa anyone?!!

[eamonn]

It’d be cool if the Villa Village stocked some Bucks gear (and visa versa).

Interesting idea! Everyone wants to be associated with a winner. A casual sports fan goes into a Sports Direct store in London wanting to pick-up a Grealish Villa shirt and a Bucks vest only to be told that both items have long since sold-out.

[pauliewalnuts]

It’d be cool if the Villa Village stocked some Bucks gear (and visa versa).

I remember this conversation about the Browns.

[London Villan]

But they were rubbish.

[Brazilian Villain]

It’d be cool if the Villa Village stocked some Bucks gear (and visa versa).

I remember this conversation about the Browns.

So do I, let's just stock Schlitz beer instead.

[eamonn]

The Browns always sucked. The Bucks are winners.