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

[Deano's Mullet]

One of our drivers at work is a Wolves fan but he’s a southerner and a good lad too.

As for Wolves being bigger with more fans.... our attendances were 10k more than theirs this season and even in the championship when they stormed the league and we finished fifth we still had the biggest crowds in the division.

[Deano's Mullet]

One of our drivers at work is a Wolves fan but he’s a southerner and a good lad too.

As for Wolves being bigger with more fans.... our attendances were 10k more than theirs this season and even in the championship when they stormed the league and we finished fifth we still had the biggest crowds in the division.

Correction - we finished 4th

[cdbearsfan]

This should help put any of those upstarts in their place...





I had to chuckle, Corinthian, a team that only existed until 1939 has more major honours than the Blues !!!

You can't count Charity Shields. We should be fifth.

[cdbearsfan]

Mind you, they're counting the InterToto 😄

I think I made that Wiki page, years ago. I only included proper trophies.

[Villafirst]

The Dingles on Molineux Mix are so bitter about us! We even have our own special page: Aston Villa RIP.....Some hate us even more after yesterday. The hatred and vitriol is amusing and a bit sad really. A couple of good seasons and they think they're top dogs. The same fans who deserted them 7 years ago when in League One! Fact is, they've won fuck all in decades! Way above their station.

[russon]

I present an indie music radio show and am devoting all tracks to Villa tonight 😎. What tracks do you recommend? I’m goin with Such A Remarkable Day to start, be  cool if you’ll listen online 9-11pm www.mearnsfm.org.uk

See my signature line - play Eels.

Thanks - I’ll go with Fresh Feeling. (Had we gone down it’d have been It’s A Motherf#cker!)

[olaftab]

why the Bournemth fans moaning . We gave them 6 points ffs , what else do they want

They are moaning that soon they will be in League 1, home from home for them, their natural lair.

[Brazilian Villain]

You can't count Charity Shields. We should be fifth.

Correct, Chelsea are 4th but only overtook us in 2015 and Citeh are currently level with us in 5th on 20. They may shortly overtake us but hopefully not till next season at the earliest.

[CT]

For those calling us jammy here's the main things I recall from poor decisions by refs and VAR:


In our favour

Liverpool goal disallowed by VAR for very marginal offside
Palace goal disallowed for handball when off the shoulder
Sheffield United’s goal not picked up by goal line technology

Against us:
Kevin “Friend” disallowing a goal for a player diving who had been fouled twice in the build up
Blatant handball at Arsenal denied by Jon Moss – VAR fails to overturn it.
Blatant interference by Arsenal players in the wall not penalised by Jon Moss or VAR allowing Arsenal to score their second
Perfectly good goal against Brighton disallowed for a supposed foul on the keeper, who jumped into Wesley.
Penalty awarded against Mings at Leicester when the ball hit his shoulder
Shocking penalty decision by Jon Moss against Man Yew, again VAR fails to overturn a clear and obvious error confirmed later by the PL.
Blatant penalty for Spurs against Bournemouth not given by VAR later declared another error.
Mane not being sent off before he got Liverpool's winner.

I can't recall much else but there's probably a few more that have gone against us- on balance, jammy is not the word I would use.

As for Wolves fans,  I knew just one growing up in Smethwick,  and can't recall meeting any at all while living in London, Norwich, Hertfordshire, Sussex, and various parts of Europe.  Nor on my travels.  I've met loads of Villa, a surprisingly large number of bluenoses and and a fair few Albion, but no Wolves that I can recall. 

Wesley’s goal at Burnley. Offside by the heel of his boot, not even in the same phase of the game.

[AV82EC]

For those calling us jammy here's the main things I recall from poor decisions by refs and VAR:


In our favour

Liverpool goal disallowed by VAR for very marginal offside
Palace goal disallowed for handball when off the shoulder
Sheffield United’s goal not picked up by goal line technology

Against us:
Kevin “Friend” disallowing a goal for a player diving who had been fouled twice in the build up
Blatant handball at Arsenal denied by Jon Moss – VAR fails to overturn it.
Blatant interference by Arsenal players in the wall not penalised by Jon Moss or VAR allowing Arsenal to score their second
Perfectly good goal against Brighton disallowed for a supposed foul on the keeper, who jumped into Wesley.
Penalty awarded against Mings at Leicester when the ball hit his shoulder
Shocking penalty decision by Jon Moss against Man Yew, again VAR fails to overturn a clear and obvious error confirmed later by the PL.
Blatant penalty for Spurs against Bournemouth not given by VAR later declared another error.
Mane not being sent off before he got Liverpool's winner.

I can't recall much else but there's probably a few more that have gone against us- on balance, jammy is not the word I would use.

As for Wolves fans,  I knew just one growing up in Smethwick,  and can't recall meeting any at all while living in London, Norwich, Hertfordshire, Sussex, and various parts of Europe.  Nor on my travels.  I've met loads of Villa, a surprisingly large number of bluenoses and and a fair few Albion, but no Wolves that I can recall. 

Wesley’s goal at Burnley. Offside by the heel of his boot, not even in the same phase of the game.

Pedant alert, wasn’t it Jacks Goal.

[cheltenhamlion]

I love it when Wolves fans get all bitter about us and then try reassure each other that they are bigger than Barcelona and we are nothing but a ripple in the pool of super sized clubs. Always had delusions of grandeur that lot. It's funny how this Villa hatred only came to the fore when they finally finished above us for the first time since God was in short trousers. Bunch of ******.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

For those calling us jammy here's the main things I recall from poor decisions by refs and VAR:


In our favour

Liverpool goal disallowed by VAR for very marginal offside
Palace goal disallowed for handball when off the shoulder
Sheffield United’s goal not picked up by goal line technology

Against us:
Kevin “Friend” disallowing a goal for a player diving who had been fouled twice in the build up
Blatant handball at Arsenal denied by Jon Moss – VAR fails to overturn it.
Blatant interference by Arsenal players in the wall not penalised by Jon Moss or VAR allowing Arsenal to score their second
Perfectly good goal against Brighton disallowed for a supposed foul on the keeper, who jumped into Wesley.
Penalty awarded against Mings at Leicester when the ball hit his shoulder
Shocking penalty decision by Jon Moss against Man Yew, again VAR fails to overturn a clear and obvious error confirmed later by the PL.
Blatant penalty for Spurs against Bournemouth not given by VAR later declared another error.
Mane not being sent off before he got Liverpool's winner.

I can't recall much else but there's probably a few more that have gone against us- on balance, jammy is not the word I would use.

As for Wolves fans,  I knew just one growing up in Smethwick,  and can't recall meeting any at all while living in London, Norwich, Hertfordshire, Sussex, and various parts of Europe.  Nor on my travels.  I've met loads of Villa, a surprisingly large number of bluenoses and and a fair few Albion, but no Wolves that I can recall. 

Wesley’s goal at Burnley. Offside by the heel of his boot, not even in the same phase of the game.

Pedant alert, wasn’t it Jacks Goal.

It was.
I'm still fucking angry about it!

[brontebilly]

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.

Leeds popularity would go back to the Giles days but I don't think Leeds would be a traditional home of Irish ex Pat's in Britain unlike Liverpool, Birmingham or Manchester.

Arsenal had a number of Irish players back in the 70s/80s like Brady, Stapleton, O'Leary, Jennings, Rice....back at the time when Highbury/Holloway road was the epicentre of Irish ex pats in London.

Im not sure Celtic are as popular as they once were. Huge Donegal/Glasgow connection aside (Houghton, McGeady, McCarthy, Bonner even Given) . Sign of the times with the decline of the Scottish league and it's profile maybe.

If only Grealish had stayed in green, a resurgent Villa support across the Irish Sea would have been inevitable! Ticked a lot of boxes too, GAA background, bit of a rebel off the pitch and obviously once in a generation player. Rice/Grealish midfield would have eased a lot of future qualification worries.

[Sexual Ealing]

I love it when Wolves fans get all bitter about us and then try reassure each other that they are bigger than Barcelona and we are nothing but a ripple in the pool of super sized clubs. Always had delusions of grandeur that lot. It's funny how this Villa hatred only came to the fore when they finally finished above us for the first time since God was in short trousers. Bunch of c***s.

It's mad to me, as somebody who grew up in the late 80s/90s near Telford, that their passion for us is so intense. I knew loads of their supporters, and had a kind of soft spot for them as lower league strugglers (I was young).

[Tayls_7]

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.

Leeds popularity would go back to the Giles days but I don't think Leeds would be a traditional home of Irish ex Pat's in Britain unlike Liverpool, Birmingham or Manchester.

Arsenal had a number of Irish players back in the 70s/80s like Brady, Stapleton, O'Leary, Jennings, Rice....back at the time when Highbury/Holloway road was the epicentre of Irish ex pats in London.

Im not sure Celtic are as popular as they once were. Huge Donegal/Glasgow connection aside (Houghton, McGeady, McCarthy, Bonner even Given) . Sign of the times with the decline of the Scottish league and it's profile maybe.

If only Grealish had stayed in green, a resurgent Villa support across the Irish Sea would have been inevitable! Ticked a lot of boxes too, GAA background, bit of a rebel off the pitch and obviously once in a generation player. Rice/Grealish midfield would have eased a lot of future qualification worries.

Sammy Nelson.

Declan who presents Block Rockin' Beats on Today FM (major Irish radio station) is a huge Villa fan.