SHA 0-1 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[mike]

I know it feels good beating them 5 -2 on aggregate and they have been represented by a violent thug whereas we have a local boy, lifelong fan who picked himself up after a punch from behind and won the match... but it grieves me to my core that we aren’t Birmingham Villa. It makes the whole actual and moral victory somehow hollow that we didn’t have the integrity to change our original and historic name.

[LukeJames]

Thats the thing, I'm not sure why they despise him? Never really done anything personal or dis-respectful to them. Doesn't really wind them up like Gabby did. Is it because he supposedly goes down easily  or Is it simply because he's a Villa fan thats also a bloody good player that they have this  massive agenda against him?

[saunders_heroes]

I can not accept that most Blues fans condemn this idiot. I was lucky enough to be in Corporate hospitality at the Sty today albeit incognito. When fans around me realised what was happening to a person they cheered, laughed and clapped. At half time and after the game the chat was around he deserved it because he play acted to get Kieftenbeld  booked and that enraged the fans. One of them actually said "well that will teach him". So sorry but they are almost all abnormal.

Just look at the fans react when the punch was thrown, they were bloody cheering and applauding. Throw the fuckin book at them and dock ‘em points.

[saunders_heroes]

Thats the thing, I'm not sure why they despise him? Never really done anything personal or dis-respectful to them. Doesn't really wind them up like Gabby did. Is it because he supposedly goes down easily  or Is it simply because he's a Villa fan thats also a bloody good player that they have this  massive agenda against him?

The only crime Gabby committed against them was to score loads of goals.
Again, it the Brummie Villa fan thing. They just can’t handle it.

[clash city rocker]

If the F.A don't come down hard on them ,then it will be the beginning of the end for football.

[saunders_heroes]

It’s pure unadulterated jealousy.

[LeeB]

I know it feels good beating them 5 -2 on aggregate and they have been represented by a violent thug whereas we have a local boy, lifelong fan who picked himself up after a punch from behind and won the match... but it grieves me to my core that we aren’t Birmingham Villa. It makes the whole actual and moral victory somehow hollow that we didn’t have the integrity to change our original and historic name.

I know, and I'd like to say I'd trade all of our historic success just be able to say we were the last to win a trophy.

I also cannot sleep at night knowing I do not live in Birmingham, and would glady swap actual points for moral victories.

[mike]

I know it feels good beating them 5 -2 on aggregate and they have been represented by a violent thug whereas we have a local boy, lifelong fan who picked himself up after a punch from behind and won the match... but it grieves me to my core that we aren’t Birmingham Villa. It makes the whole actual and moral victory somehow hollow that we didn’t have the integrity to change our original and historic name.

I know, and I'd like to say I'd trade all of our historic success just be able to say we were the last to win a trophy.

I also cannot sleep at night knowing I do not live in Birmingham, and would glady swap actual points for moral victories.

It’s a fair point. If I was a Blues fan, I would probably never have moved away from Birmingham.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The ones in the stadium that cheered are, presumably, hypocritically condemning it, too. Anyone who has ever shouted "Zulu" at a match, or waited by the McDonald's at Coventry Road for hours to shout at Villa fans from the safety of behind a row of police is part of the problem.

It's their culture, it's all they are. The World would be a better place if they ceased to exist.

I cannot think of another club anywhere whose entire existence from top to bottom is based around another club. They live and breath Villa as much as we do.

I asked similar questions last night and the closest I could come up with was Leeds - Bradford. Leeds don't give a shit about them unless they're playing them and even Bradford aren't anywhere near as obsessive as the Rags. Maybe that's what makes the Rags unique.

[danno]

Trillion trophy stadium... however much I try I can't help but smile every time I read that.  It's so unashamedly naff.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd gladly give up all the trophies we've won if we could be called Birmingham Villa. Everything we do has a hollow feeling about it because of our name. None of you understand the hurt, the shame, the sleepless nights it causes, the empty feeling I have inside because of it, because none of you are Brummies!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I know it feels good beating them 5 -2 on aggregate and they have been represented by a violent thug whereas we have a local boy, lifelong fan who picked himself up after a punch from behind and won the match... but it grieves me to my core that we aren’t Birmingham Villa. It makes the whole actual and moral victory somehow hollow that we didn’t have the integrity to change our original and historic name.

I know, and I'd like to say I'd trade all of our historic success just be able to say we were the last to win a trophy.

I also cannot sleep at night knowing I do not live in Birmingham, and would glady swap actual points for moral victories.

It’s a fair point. If I was a Blues fan, I would probably never have moved away from Birmingham.

Very true. It's makes today's victory feel very much like a defeat.

[four fornicholl]

I'd gladly give up all the trophies we've won if we could be called Birmingham Villa. Everything we do has a hollow feeling about it because of our name. None of you understand the hurt, the shame, the sleepless nights it causes, the empty feeling I have inside because of it, because none of you are Brummies!

You don't have to be a brummy to love the Villa.

[LeeB]

I know it feels good beating them 5 -2 on aggregate and they have been represented by a violent thug whereas we have a local boy, lifelong fan who picked himself up after a punch from behind and won the match... but it grieves me to my core that we aren’t Birmingham Villa. It makes the whole actual and moral victory somehow hollow that we didn’t have the integrity to change our original and historic name.

I know, and I'd like to say I'd trade all of our historic success just be able to say we were the last to win a trophy.

I also cannot sleep at night knowing I do not live in Birmingham, and would glady swap actual points for moral victories.

It’s a fair point. If I was a Blues fan, I would probably never have moved away from Birmingham.

It kills me, I'm at least 800 yards as the crow flies from the border. It totally undermines me existentially.

[brian green]

I think all Aston Villa players should be Wesleyan churchgoers.  It all started to fall apart when we began to play matches on Good Fridays.  Might have a few Methodists in the stiffs.