A trip to Smethwick

[Ads]

What a ******.

[Drummond]

I fucking hate drums at games. See also Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield. They're all just fucking wankers.

[martin o`who??]

Lets not beat about the bush, the place is in a fucking time warp, even the Tardis couldn’t go that far backwards...

[SoccerHQ]

Honestly never used to mind them that much. They were just a local team we'd regularly beat like Wolves in the premier league up to about 2010.

Naively didn't realise how much they hated us like SHA do and then all this lording about best team in the Midlands when we went into decline. Didn't last long for them anyway.

More fool me.

[FatSam]

My view is that it is important to have local rivalries. I can’t really hate WBA, and do actually want them to be competitive and relatively successful (but not quite as successful as us) because then the rivalry becomes more prestigious and meaningful. Getting one over on some insignificant tin pot club doesn’t give me much satisfaction.

I really enjoyed the FA Cup QF in 2015 because we were both top flight teams and in with a chance of silverware. That is how it should be in a second city derby, but has happened so infrequently. Much like all of the West Midlands clubs, they haven’t had much success in recent years. They have though won a similar number of major trophies to Man City before their money came along.

I think about how Villa gave WBA money in the 19th century to keep them afloat. I can’t remember the details, and presumably it was before the league was founded, but it was obviously recognised that a rivalry was good, or at least we needed someone to play against.

I can’t take the Blues rivalry seriously because even in their most successful periods they haven’t got one over on us to the extent of actually winning major trophies (apart from the one league cup obviously).

[aj2k77]

These people are by and large dickheads.

[dave shelley]

I find that the limited intelligent  regulars that haunt the likes of WM and Talksport, along with the conglomeration of Noses, Stripey's , Dogheads and Coventarians that expend all their collective energies singing about us are more to be pitied than ridiculed.   A total inconsequence the lot of them along with their clubs.

[in exile]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the drum

[Fasth56]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the drum

Nothing depicts a small time club quite like a drum

[Legion]

I don't like to point it out but we had one once. Trinity Road. The idiot walked past me belting it furiously and nearly hit me in the head with the beater.

[tomd2103]

Honestly never used to mind them that much. They were just a local team we'd regularly beat like Wolves in the premier league up to about 2010.

Naively didn't realise how much they hated us like SHA do and then all this lording about best team in the Midlands when we went into decline. Didn't last long for them anyway.

More fool me.

They have even begun to come out in recent years with the same knuckledragging stuff usually associated with Blues fans.  I went to school with an Albion fan who I reconnected with on Facebook a few years ago and immediately noticed that he seemingly spent most of his time posting about Villa. After we beat them in the FA Cup to make it the second time in a week a few years ago, all he could muster was a post claiming that Albion had supposedly 'run' Villa.  You could almost feel the pain in his words and it was exactly the kind of desperation to claim any kind of victory in defeat usually employed by Blues fans.   

[Pvb1968]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the drum

Nothing depicts a small time club quite like a drum

What about a clacker?

[frank black]

I fucking hate drums at games. See also Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield. They're all just fucking wankers.

I know a member of the Sheffield band and can confirm you are 100% correct. Despicable knobhead he is.

[Pete]

My Mom's side of the family were West Brom, and I didn't really mind them. Then, 1977, Ally Brown and that 'tackle'. That turned me against them, and my antipathy endures.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the drum

Nothing depicts a small time club quite like a drum

"Pa-rum pum pum pum..."