West Ham United vs Aston Villa STAYING UP!!!! - Post Match Thread

[astonvilla82]

Turned off the phone and walked up Lickey Hills golf course for two hours before coming back and turned on the car radio,I don't care what Roy Keene,any Birmingham Wolverhampton or Albion, suppose we better include Coventry fans think,all I care about is Aston Villa football club, seen the bad and good times, so I know what this means to younger lads and girls, as the man said you don't choose Aston Villa it chooses you,mum passed away many years ago but she bought us a season ticket in the serventies,so thanks mum when having six children financially it was a lot, Villa Till I Die

[usav]

You do get a few Wolves fans in Ireland - mainly it's the fifties connection. However, the best way to tell national/international support is to look at BHX on a matchday. You'll see a couple of Stripeys, the occasional Nose and to be fair, a fair few Wolves fans. You'll also, most home games, see a veritable trail of claret & blue despondency leading to the Ryanair Dublin gate, and a good number off to Edinburgh & Belfast. We really are in a different league.

How do you know this?  Did you used to peddle the magazine at the airport?

[Clampy]

You do get a few Wolves fans in Ireland - mainly it's the fifties connection. However, the best way to tell national/international support is to look at BHX on a matchday. You'll see a couple of Stripeys, the occasional Nose and to be fair, a fair few Wolves fans. You'll also, most home games, see a veritable trail of claret & blue despondency leading to the Ryanair Dublin gate, and a good number off to Edinburgh & Belfast. We really are in a different league.

How do you know this?  Did you used to peddle the magazine at the airport?

By the way, we stayed up.

[Brazilian Villain]

I would suggest we're ome of the best supported clubs in Ireland.

Given our links over the past seventy years I would hope so. The trouble is that there's a massive gap between 'one of' and the best two or three.

During school/Uni here and up to 15-20 years ago I would say it was

Liverpool
Man U
Arsenal
Celtic (with most people having them as a second team)
Villa
Leeds
Everton
Man City
Tottenham

As Dave says there's a massive gap between the top 3 and the rest. I assume Chelsea and Man City have picked up a lot of younger fans given their higher profile nowadays but even so can't see them being higher than 5th.

[LukeJames]

You do get a few Wolves fans in Ireland - mainly it's the fifties connection. However, the best way to tell national/international support is to look at BHX on a matchday. You'll see a couple of Stripeys, the occasional Nose and to be fair, a fair few Wolves fans. You'll also, most home games, see a veritable trail of claret & blue despondency leading to the Ryanair Dublin gate, and a good number off to Edinburgh & Belfast. We really are in a different league.

How do you know this?  Did you used to peddle the magazine at the airport?

I have a tremendous image in my head now!

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Just massively relieved to get over the line.
Thought I'd "lost interest" before the restart but I have just been a bag of nerves as I ever was.
Massive credit to Deano and the players for turning things around in the last 4 games....two wins and two draws (and we should have won the two drawn ones!!!) and showing real resilience and character.
Watched almost all of the restart games with dear friends who lost their wife and mother during lockdown and hardly ever miss a game home and away. An enormously emotional day for them yesterday...we all felt that Hazel was with us all the way and was/is singing Sweet Caroline with so many other Holte Enders In The Sky.

We've done it the hard way, but let's build now and show the World what a wonderful club Aston Villa is.

[Risso]

The only Wolves fan I know is my uncle, who lives in Harlech, North Wales, which is basically Birmingham-by-Sea in any case.

[malckennedy]

Remember going to the Clarenbridge Oyster Festival (near Galway) in September 2003, it coincided with an international break weekend. Late on the Saturday evening, I was in our hotel bar with my wife (the other 2 couples we were with had gone to bed after having massive drunken fallouts with each other). There were 2 blokes at the bar discussing football, one a middle aged Geordie and the other a late twenties local. I joined in to discover that the young Irish lad claimed to be the secretary of the Galway Villa supporters club. He said there were over 20 members and that he was one of about half a dozen who made regular trips to matches.

As the conversation developed, we gradually deafed the Geordie out of the conversation, not maliciously, it just happened. The Villa fan knew his stuff and was certainly a genuine supporter. It capped a great day and it is gratifying to know that Villa has a good following all over Ireland.

[KevinGage]

Trying to think of Wolves fans I know...given I worked at Wolves Uni for 3 years, not many. There’s the person that used to stand down the front at Glastonbury with a Wolves flag, my son’s mate from Aston Uni that has failed and resat every year of his degree so far (he’s in his fifth year of a 3 year degree), and I bumped into Steve Bull in the Molineux Asda in his full kit once several years after he had hung his boots up.

Typical trampy tatters.

Still getting full value out out of his old kit.

[Clampy]

I know two. One is a season ticket holder and another travels absolutely everywhere with them and I mean everywhere. I think he's done the 92 grounds with them. Both lovely chaps as it happens.

[Ads]

I don't know a single one. I've never seen one up here in 10 years, although I have seen a smattering of Villa and done my best to increase the population.

[Brazilian Villain]

I joined in to discover that the young Irish lad claimed to be the secretary of the Galway Villa supporters club. He said there were over 20 members and that he was one of about half a dozen who made regular trips to matches.

Villa are a good fit for Galwegians. Galway United wear claret and blue and play at Eamonn Deacy Park plus the county's GAA teams play in Maroon so the colours gel.

[Hookeysmith]

Anyway enough about the filthy Dingles

I saw this and just checked if it was true

1988 / 89 season

'The Mighty Reds YNWA' wins Championship
Leeds Win 2nd Division (now Championship)
Villa finish 4th from bottom

It was written in the stars!!!

[lovejoy]

Was that the year we had to rely on West Ham not winning at Anfield?

[Brazilian Villain]

Anyway enough about the filthy Dingles

I saw this and just checked if it was true

1988 / 89 season

'The Mighty Reds YNWA' wins Championship
Leeds Win 2nd Division (now Championship)
Villa finish 4th from bottom

It was written in the stars!!!

Didn't Arsenal win it in 1989? Michael Thomas and all that.