SHA v Aston Villa: Pre-Match Thread

[olaftab]

I saw one of them abroad the other week.  Well, North Wales, if that counts.  There's millions of the fuckers in China though apparently.

There are about 57000 working at lungbrij for the Rover. All on night shift though.

[FrankyH]

We're scared of playing at the Sty apparently.

A place we've lost 3 times in the league in 35 years.

I think they mean that as fans we are scared of going there because they are all as hard as nails and we are a bunch of fannies. I have been going there since I was ten and the only thing I have ever been scared of is catching a nasty disease. Although at the Frank Worthington testimonial* in 1986 a bird** shit on my head.

*I think he played for them for about three years but apparently he is one of their legends.
** A bird from the sky, I think it was a pigeon. Just in case you thought it was a female nose who objected to me cheering on Villa from their main stand.

I remember going in the 80's when Gary Thompson scored a brace. I'll admit it was a nasty atmosphere , one I hadn't experienced before hand. One thing that did reassure me was the fact that there was probably as many Villa fans in the sty as bluenoses. Another fact they have wiped from their sad history.

[Richard E]

At that Gary Thompson game we were singing ‘there’s only 6000 Blues fans.’

[LowerNorthStand]

We're scared of playing at the Sty apparently.

I love this type of stuff in the build up, they always try and out do each other with this bollocks.

ALWAYS. When they came back up to the Prem I was young but I remember all the bollocks about how they would be all over Villa Park taking the piss. Didn't really happen that night

[LeeB]

They were all over Villa Park, well parts of them were.

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They were all over Villa Park, well parts of them were.

I had no idea the steps on the upper Witton were made out of rubber. 'Dem Noses sure can bounce.

[dave.woodhall]

They were all over Villa Park, well parts of them were.

I had no idea the steps on the upper Witton were made out of rubber. 'Dem Noses sure can bounce.

It's not big and it's not clever.

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You mean celebrating a Geoff Horsefield goal in a Villa end? Or believing 16 years worth of nonsense and thinking a foam hand in the eye was the only thing you'd need to worry about?

[dave.woodhall]

You mean celebrating a Geoff Horsefield goal in a Villa end? Or believing 16 years worth of nonsense and thinking a foam hand in the eye was the only thing you'd need to worry about?

You know full well what I mean. If you want to glorify all that nonsense do it somewhere else.

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I'm not glorifying anything. Just joining Lee in reminiscing about the most surprising and colourful night Villa Park has ever seen.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm not glorifying anything. Just joining Lee in reminiscing about the most surprising and colourful night Villa Park has ever seen.

If that's your idea of surprising and colourful there's really no hope.

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I'm not glorifying anything. Just joining Lee in reminiscing about the most surprising and colourful night Villa Park has ever seen.

If that's your idea of surprising and colourful there's really no hope.

Dust off your shift and F7 keys if you want, but it was an extraordinary game, extraordinary build up and an extraordinary atmosphere. I've been a season ticket holder for 28 years, plenty will have seen football from many more decades than that. But I've never been in B6 with an atmosphere or events like that before or since. Perhaps why just over 16 years later Lee and others brought it up.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm not glorifying anything. Just joining Lee in reminiscing about the most surprising and colourful night Villa Park has ever seen.

If that's your idea of surprising and colourful there's really no hope.

Dust off your shift and F7 keys if you want, but it was an extraordinary game, extraordinary build up and an extraordinary atmosphere. I've been a season ticket holder for 28 years, plenty will have seen football from many more decades than that. But I've never been in B6 with an atmosphere or events like that before or since. Perhaps why just over 16 years later Lee and others brought it up.

I thought it was a disgraceful night on and off the pitch but if you want to think of all that idiocy as something wonderful, feel free. Just not on here. 

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I'm particular about the words I choose. If I wanted to describe it as wonderful, I would have done. Seeing as we lost, and my reputation being known, I wouldn't use a positive adjective.

If I was to use a word it would be evil. I follow us everywhere. Home, away, Europe and I'll take my comments further, in 28 years and a handful of games missed, I've never exprienced an atmosphere like it. There has been noise, argy bargy, some disgraceful police brutality. But nothing like that.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm particular about the words I choose. If I wanted to describe it as wonderful, I would have done. Seeing as we lost, and my reputation being known, I wouldn't use a positive adjective.

If I was to use a word it would be evil. I follow us everywhere. Home, away, Europe and I'll take my comments further, in 28 years and a handful of games missed, I've never exprienced an atmosphere like it. There has been noise, argy bargy, some disgraceful police brutality. But nothing like that.

Neither have I and I hope I never experience another.