150th Anniversary game

[VillaTim]

Any news on a special kit ? I'd do this game and the corporate offers look good but due to work not sure I'd get there much before 8pm

[algy]

Mine too. American sports seem to have these kind of special event games (Latin American supporters day & the like). This feels like it’s very much being treated along the same lines - an easy way to make an “event” out of a game they know they’ll struggle to sell otherwise.

[claret+blue ed]

I do remember seeing somewhere that the celebrations would be over the full season, this does seem a money grab, but also I did read that this was the only game we could possibly wear a one off kit. VP also wouldn’t have been in a fit state to stage a pre season friendly as our early games proved

[VillaTim]

Crowd will do well to break 35k .

[andyh]

An alleged celebration game shouldn’t be played when significant numbers of season ticket holders are either not in attendance or have been displaced to give seats to opposition fans.  It is 100% playing on peoples emotions of not wanting to miss out to sell tickets.

This 100%
I am not going. I have missed a handful of games in 40 years but being kicked out of the seat I have had since the stand was opened has pissed me (and others) off, massively.

And I am sure West Ham will thrive with 6.5k of their fans down the whole side of the stadium. It’s a huge boost to their team.

Only Villa  would hold a commemorative game where there are more away fans in the ground than have ever been, in modern times.

[eamonn]

One-off kit, legends all around, VP under the lights with an away section contributing to the atmos and £25 tickets. Bring it on.

[AV82EC]

One-off kit, legends all around, VP under the lights with an away section contributing to the atmos and £25 tickets. Bring it on.

Wholeheartedly agree.

[Drummond]

One-off kit, legends all around, VP under the lights with an away section contributing to the atmos and £25 tickets. Bring it on.

See you there!

[KingstandingVilla]

I'm taking my son to this, I gave my season ticket up in 2011 to to concentrate on fishing, when my lad was 4 I took him to a game and it was a bit loud for him, me and his mom split in 2015 and she started takin him to the Albion, his heart was never really in it, his mom passed away last September and hes with me full time, and started watching the games on the box, now he lives breathes and sleeps Villa. So with tickets being cheap and available I'm taking him to his first proper game against West Ham, he's been and bought a shirt, and can't wait.. I'm half excited myself

[Percy McCarthy]

Quoting myself from the other thread about this game:


Anyway, me and the kids are going because its cheap, and if there’s a promotion on to make it so it’s not as dead as it otherwise might have been, like the Palace cup game, I’ll be happy.

I think of it like this. I’ve been to all the CL games, and the odd one in the league, and consider myself fortunate that I can go. My daughter tells me that she is one of only two kids in her class at school who’s parents are still together, and that some of the other kids are a bit envious when she tells them she’s been to the match. This is a game that I assume lots more families can afford to go to, it’s not a school night, tickets will be more easily available than usual, they can learn something about our history, and so can the viewers on terrestrial television. Whatever the motivation of Heck, all that seems positive to me.

I probably have a different feeling to most as it gives me a good excuse to book the Friday night off work, so it’s a win-win for me, as long as we erm… win.

[ChicagoLion]

Have a great day with your lad KSVilla.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Heck deserves absolutely no credit for this. It’s great that people can get to a game at Villa Park and that ticket prices are affordable so that kids and families can go. A bit like when kids and families used to go before Heck ramped the prices to such an extent that going to Villa Park is now a once a season activity to people who would previously have gone much more frequently. And the chances of us fielding our strongest team a week before we go to Arsenal and 10 days before Monaco…..

[DB]

Crowd will do well to break 35k .

Give it a rest.

[LeeB]

To be fair, in the 1873/74 FA Cup, six teams didn't even bother their arses turning up for matches, so maybe not that much has changed after all. 🙂

Which year did the rags forget to post their entry? I was going to try and work it out by taking away the years they won it but alas.

[Percy McCarthy]

To be fair, in the 1873/74 FA Cup, six teams didn't even bother their arses turning up for matches, so maybe not that much has changed after all. 🙂

Which year did the rags forget to post their entry? I was going to try and work it out by taking away the years they won it but alas.

Early 1920s, can’t remember exactly.