Press-ing on

[dave.woodhall]

There you are.

https://thebirminghampress.com/2022/03/aston-villa-and-the-natural-order/

[Risso]

There's nothing irrational about not liking Leeds!

[Lizz]

The only times I've ever felt afraid as a female at games the other club involved was Leeds.

[Legion]

Coventry City and SHA as a male for me.

[darren woolley]

Great read Dave.

[robbo1874]

Never been to the Dell or st Mary’s. Was the dell away end really worse than Highfield Rd? That’s the shittest away end I’ve ever been in. Remember as a kid having a bit of a flap feeling crushed getting out of there. Big fence down the middle meant you couldn’t see anything in the other corner at that end. Absolute toilet of a ground.

[Drummond]

There's nothing irrational about not liking Leeds!

Quite.

[brian green]

Great read Dave.  I put it down to auto suggestion but I found myself as I read your words touching a scar on the top of my head sustained from a dustbin lid thrown down on us Villa fans herded into that barbaric hell hole they used to call home.

[dave.woodhall]

Great read Dave.

My pleasure Daz.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I remember being in a worrying crush in the away end at the Baseball Ground.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

I agree about the baseball ground. Was that Cascarino's debut game? Frightening!
Another frightening ground was Loftus Road. Your feet not touching the terracing was scarey.

[Exeter 77]

A very fair assessment of yesterday and games against Southampton over the years (when was the last time anyone saw them abbreviated to So'ton?). I only went to The Dell once and wasn't in the away end but agree about Highfield Road as that never ever felt safe.

[LeeB]

The Dell and Shitefield Rd we're similarly awful, and Dave touched on something there with away fans not being welcome.

Not in a sense of hostility from the fans, that's a given, but from the clubs themselves. It's hard to put a finger on it, but it felt like they thought of you as lesser human beings.

[Richard E]

I remember being in a worrying crush in the away end at the Baseball Ground.

Me too. Literally not being able to move at times.

[clash city rocker]

Great read Dave.  I put it down to auto suggestion but I found myself as I read your words touching a scar on the top of my head sustained from a dustbin lid thrown down on us Villa fans herded into that barbaric hell hole they used to call home.

Would be worse now Brian as a wheelie bin would be attached to the lid.