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Author Topic: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?  (Read 14415 times)

Offline DeKuip

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2022, 10:04:19 PM »
Just Bayern Munich and Barcelona - we seem to have pissed them off somewhere down the Line.

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2022, 10:51:07 PM »
TBAR is our SHA.

Offline KnowRivalryJR

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2022, 11:56:57 AM »
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy, if that helps.

Hopefully, last weekend's performance might have made you rethink this and then you can take the survey with a more positive outlook!

(although thinking about it you may just replace the word we with VAR)

Offline KnowRivalryJR

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2022, 12:02:50 PM »
1 - Blues
2  - Rest of the teams in west mids

1) Rags 80%
2) Bitters 18%
3) Wolves 1%
4 Cov 1%

was how I split it based on last 45 years

Thanks for this input it's super interesting to see how you divide teams up and I hope you enjoyed the points-based breakdown feature in the survey!

Please do pass it on to any other fans of Villa (or other clubs) who may be interested in  :)

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #19 on: September 06, 2022, 12:33:38 PM »
That breakdown really depends on where you're from in the West Mids. For those of us in most of Brum it is the rags, sorry Blues, but if you're from the north west of the city or the black country then those figures will look very different. For example, the emnity held for West Brom from the editor of this fanzine is a thing to behold, and has produced some of the finest prose ever seen.

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #20 on: September 06, 2022, 12:38:19 PM »
Blues are rivals in terms of local bragging rights etc, but I've long stopped considering them as rivals in a sporting context.

Offline Smithy

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #21 on: September 06, 2022, 01:24:46 PM »
None. We are peerless.

Offline Risso

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #22 on: September 06, 2022, 01:44:58 PM »
You'd have to be nearly 30 to even vaguely remember Villa playing Coventry, so I guess that's one rivalry that's dying out.

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #23 on: September 06, 2022, 01:49:45 PM »
The fucking Right Side.

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #24 on: September 06, 2022, 01:58:31 PM »
Not sure which is easiest...to name the sides we hate or to name the sides that hate us. Not all are local in either column.

Offline nigel

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #25 on: September 06, 2022, 06:34:41 PM »
The 70’s was definitely blues.
In fairness they had a decent team in the 70’s too.

They  were above us early on as we started the 70’s in Div 3
By the mid 70’s we’d caught up and started to move ahead by the end of the decade.
The 80’s arrived and I don’t think we’ve looked back.

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #26 on: September 06, 2022, 08:35:15 PM »
TBAR is our SHA.

Is that still going?

1/ Birmingham City
2/ West Bromwich Albion
3/ Wolverhampton wundras
4/ Coventry City
5/ Coronation Street

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #27 on: September 06, 2022, 09:42:46 PM »
Owls……..or Gibbons

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #28 on: September 07, 2022, 08:49:39 AM »
Blues and whoever is in the top flight from the West Midlands this season.

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Re: Who are Aston Villa's Rivals?
« Reply #29 on: September 07, 2022, 09:43:27 AM »
TBAR is our SHA.

Is that still going?

1/ Birmingham City
2/ West Bromwich Albion
3/ Wolverhampton wundras
4/ Coventry City
5/ Coronation Street

What have Weathy County ever done to offend?

 


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