Manchester City vs Aston Villa Pre-Match.

[LeeB]

My old man has no interest in football and I'm a Villa fan thanks to my big brother, who was taken to his first game by our uncle and cousins against Liverpool and they're all reds. We won 3-1 and he still hates them more than anyone else (Liverpool, not our extended family)

It takes all sorts.

My nan and grandad were both gloryhunting Villa fans from the early days, when we used to win everything in sight, I get my love of Villa from them. My dad hates football, and my uncle, their other son, is a Wolves fan. One of his sons is a Villa fan, the other bizarrely, Sheffield Wednesday. My kids are all Villa, whether they like it or not.

My kids aren't interested in football but are 'Villa' if anyone asks. My daughter has on occasion tried to wind me up over it but has realised this is not a productive position to take. I think they'd both be genuinely worried by the blowback of saying anything else, which is as it should be.

[Axl Rose]

My dad is a filthy fox, my mum is a Cardiff swine. I'm Villa because of my mum's dad. 'The smartest ground in the UK', he used to tell me.

The first time my dad took me there, I was stunned. I'd only been to Filbert Street, the City Ground, Highfield Road and the Baseball Ground before that.

Both my wife and daughter are Villa whether they like it or not.

Up the fucking Villa. Fuck Man City

[dr.chekov]

My dad was a Chelsea fan who disliked Villa because we ‘cheated’ the Busby Babes (everyone loved that United team, so he said) out of the double in 1957.

He then moved to Birmingham with work and married into a Villa supporting family. Tbf he never put in much effort to make me a Chelsea supporter, made more effort trying to make me a Tory supporter, God love him.

[algy]

I long for the days when kids automatically followed in the family tradition of their choice of football club, when growing up not one of my extended family, which went into many dozens, followed any club but Villa. It seems to me that once a minority of clubs became all powerful, winning almost every competition, the need of many kids to identify themselves with a successful club overcame tradition. For many years the Premiership has not been a competition, it has been a coterie of four or five clubs battling it out between them with just, very occasionally, A leicester appears from nowhere, shines, then just as quickly fades. The reputation washing through the buying of Football clubs is just another example of how the governing bodies do not prepresent what is best for the game.
I am desperately clinging to a small hope that for once a club is held to account and the penalty is so severe that it will send panic through all clubs that have given the finger to rules and regulations.

I tend to agree.  Been trying to bring ours up as Villa-Wrexham supporters.

My granddad was the first Villa supporter in the family.  Before him, my great gran wasn't really interested in football.  She only ever went to one football match in her life - the 1923 FA Cup Final ... the first ever game at Wembley / white horse final.  My granddad said he wouldn't be interested in football either if the only teams he'd seen were West Ham and Bolton!  Anyway, she was convinced that *every* football match was like that, and so wouldn't let my granddad go to watch Swindon Town because there were 'too many people' and it was 'too dangerous'.  So my granddad followed football on the radio and in the newspapers - this was the early 1930s and coincided with Villa scoring 128 goals in a season.  He decided at that point that Villa were obviously the best team to support ... given he lived in the Cotswolds, it was either them or one of the London teams for top flight football that he could get transport to ... and so he took to going to watch the Villa.  That passed on to his kids (my dad & uncles), and then on to most of us.  We've all started on highs really - my grandad with the 128 goal season, my dad's first memory of any description was Villa winning the FA Cup in 1957, and I was 3 weeks old when Villa won the European Cup.  We've all then had a bit of a 'downhill' trajectory after that, really 


Anyway, our kids - they all know they're Villa supporters.  I've told them that, once they've been to see Villa, I'll also take them to watch Wrexham play since that's where we live.  Don't mind if they're Wrexham supporters with a soft spot for Villa or Villa supporters with a soft spot for Wrexham really, although I'd prefer the former.  As long as they support either the local team or the family team, not any crap side they've no connection with just because they happen to be flavour of the month.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Forget what goes on at the top of the Prem and go enjoy your tallest dwarf competition with Birmingham, Wolves and West Brom.

That’s pretty much what I do. And it’s what supporting your football team is all about - but I’m guessing you have no regional connection to the team you support and so have no idea what local rivalry is about. Having to engineer some sort of fake rivalry with Liverpool or Man City fans who also have no connection to the clubs they decided they will support

[aj2k77]

Man City are massive cheats but fuck them and fuck Man Utd even more who have spent the past 3 decades getting the smooth end of bent decisions. I'm Villa, my kids are all Villa, my Dad and his Dad and his were/are all Villa. As far as I know there's never been anything other than Villa in my family. We're pure bloods and thoroughly miserable because of it!

[Footy-Vill]

My old man has no interest in football and I'm a Villa fan thanks to my big brother, who was taken to his first game by our uncle and cousins against Liverpool and they're all reds. We won 3-1 and he still hates them more than anyone else (Liverpool, not our extended family)

It takes all sorts.

My nan and grandad were both gloryhunting Villa fans from the early days, when we used to win everything in sight, I get my love of Villa from them. My dad hates football, and my uncle, their other son, is a Wolves fan. One of his sons is a Villa fan, the other bizarrely, Sheffield Wednesday. My kids are all Villa, whether they like it or not.

My dad is a filthy fox, my mum is a Cardiff swine. I'm Villa because of my mum's dad. 'The smartest ground in the UK', he used to tell me.

The first time my dad took me there, I was stunned. I'd only been to Filbert Street, the City Ground, Highfield Road and the Baseball Ground before that.

Both my wife and daughter are Villa whether they like it or not.

Up the fucking Villa. Fuck Man City

In the present UK and Commonwealth Royal family The King doesn't seem to have the authority on which team his son's support:

Prince William of Wales is Aston Villa but his Dad King Charles III supports Burnley, and his brother Prince Harry, the Duke off Sussex is an Arsenal fan.

So you two are technically more powerful than the King in some respects!

[Legion]

My Dad was (and still is) Villa. I am Villa. My son is Villa. He loves it.

[eamonn]

Aren't Wrexham the most fashionable team in the UK to support now? Shouldn't be that hard to get kids on-board.

We still await Tom Hanks investment, maybe he can buy us a world-class centre forward in the summer.

[Russ aka Big Nose]

My family (both sides) are all Villa, apart from an uncle and his son (cousin bluenose is his name) and given mom was one of 8 and dad one of 7, that's a far few Villa fans - though not many go to games.

I grew up in B44 and no-one supported anyone other than the Villa, except one lad in my class who switched to Derby when we sold them Bruce Rioch. We were about 7 at the time.

I now live in Bristol and my two adult sons are Brizzle born and bred, though both support the Villa, even though one has no interest in football. The other one lives in London and as we have ST's we both travel from different places to catch up over a pint before sitting in the Holte End. UTV.

[Dr Butler]

Forget what goes on at the top of the Prem and go enjoy your tallest dwarf competition with Birmingham, Wolves and West Brom.

That’s pretty much what I do. And it’s what supporting your football team is all about - but I’m guessing you have no regional connection to the team you support and so have no idea what local rivalry is about. Having to engineer some sort of fake rivalry with Liverpool or Man City fans who also have no connection to the clubs they decided they will support

or Leeds....someone called it in the local pub last night the Roses Derby.....the fake noocastle supporting twat.

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The Doc

[pauliewalnuts]

I can think of three things that can go fuck themselves.

Man United, Man City and the city of Manchester. Plus the entire conglomeration of council estates connected by motorways that makes up ‘Greater’ Manchester.

[dave.woodhall]

I can think of three things that can go fuck themselves.

Man United, Man City and the city of Manchester. Plus the entire conglomeration of council estates connected by motorways that makes up ‘Greater’ Manchester.

That's four things.

[Risso]

I can think of three things that can go fuck themselves.

Man United, Man City and the city of Manchester. Plus the entire conglomeration of council estates connected by motorways that makes up ‘Greater’ Manchester.

Lots of Greater Manchester, like Wigan where I lived for ages, doesn't consider itself anything to do with Manchester whatsoever, and probably has more Scousers than Mancs if anything.

[pauliewalnuts]

I can think of three things that can go fuck themselves.

Man United, Man City and the city of Manchester. Plus the entire conglomeration of council estates connected by motorways that makes up ‘Greater’ Manchester.

That's four things.

Let's make it 8 rather than 3, then they can each go and fuck themselves twice over.