Spawny Vile bastards

[garyellis]

I don't usually comment on them they are such an irrelevance. They have gone from being the second city's second team to the second city's embarrassment.
When I think about it I feel a little cheated. Most big city clubs have real rivalry.
Celtic and Rangers, Liverpool and Everton, The Manchester clubs, we have Small Heath!

I don't understand the 'gone from ' bit, they've been an embarrassment since I started to follow football, which was about the time they lost at home to Altrincham, and barring their 'golden years ' under Bruce and McLeish when they were at best a dogged outfit, they've been that ever since.

Fair point I am probably being generous 😀

[Damo70]

Kawanka reckons they are outplaying teams week in week out but are being punished for individual errors.
Surely if you are making individual errors and the opposition aren't then they are clearly out playing you.

[Dave P]

I’ve said before but Villa fans and blues fans have one big thing in common.  We both like to talk about Aston Villa.

[john2710]

It absolutely kills them that we were on the brink of disaster after the Playoffs defeat. Everything generations of family’s had dreamt  about was going happen. The Vile were going out of business.....

Then one of their inbreds attacks Jack & from that moment on we’re on different trajectories. Whilst they hero worship a knobhead for punching an opponent’s player, we hero worship a genius footballer who almost single handedly drags his club out of a 10 year slump.

You get in life what you deserve....

[N'ZMAV]

our worst team in living memory and they still couldn't beat us - always in our shadow

GESSSTEEEDDDDEEEE!!

[N'ZMAV]

Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett:

"You're playing against a huge side from the Premier League in a local derby"

Even Rowett knew they'd never be bigger.

[VILLA MOLE]

our worst team in living memory and they still couldn't beat us - always in our shadow

GESSSTEEEDDDDEEEE!!

Clicked on this and went a bit cold ! Tim nice but dim at the helm

[john e]

I think one of the best quotes was from David Sullivan
It was so good I can’t even remember it

But it was something about us always been far better than they ever have been

[richtheholtender]

I think one of the best quotes was from David Sullivan
It was so good I can’t even remember it

But it was something about us always been far better than they ever have been

Wasn’t it something about never being able to compete with us?

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

It's embarrassing that their club name includes that of the country's second biggest city.

As the noses never fail to remind us. It's true though! 

[Percy McCarthy]

I think one of the best quotes was from David Sullivan
It was so good I can’t even remember it

But it was something about us always been far better than they ever have been

Wasn’t it something about never being able to compete with us?

I remember him saying something after we played West Ham in MON’s first season. We’d been on a bad run and he said something along the lines of “they haven’t won for ‘x’ number of games, they’ve got nothing to play for and they get 41,000. We can’t compete with that”. Purely from memory so don’t dig me out if I’ve got it wrong.

[Damo70]

our worst team in living memory and they still couldn't beat us - always in our shadow

GESSSTEEEDDDDEEEE!!

Clicked on this and went a bit cold ! Tim nice but dim at the helm

I can't remember seeing more police at Villa Park than I did that night. We were sent into the car park as I recall.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

In these troubled times we should try to have some empathy for the less fortunate.

Remember how as Villa fans we suffered from the start of the McLeish era to the end of Bruce.  The almost relentless misery and countless hammerings. Managers that were dour, depressing, dismal and dim. Some of the worst players in our history, many with awful attitudes and work ethic, many others utterly forgettable.

Remember all of that, and then consider, that if that exact series of events played out for Birmingham City, it would actually be considered their Golden Age.

They can only dream of multiple consecutive seasons in the Premier League escaping relegation, an FA Cup Final appearance and a narrow Championship play-off defeat.  One of their greatest ever strikers, and the emergence of a homegrown, world-class player.

That would be heaven to them.  Those would be the stories they'd tell their grandchildren.

So, have some pity for them and their wretched lot in life.

[cdbearsfan]

It's embarrassing that their club name includes that of the country's second biggest city.

*first. The City of London has a population of about 10,000.

[Risso]

"First biggest"? BE will be along in a second.