Aston Villa v Celtic Post-Match Thread

[Somniloquism]

Celtic fans could be banned from next Away game,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c8r53xe7mp0o

[astonvilla82]

Celtic fans could be banned from next Away game,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c8r53xe7mp0o

It's a major problem with both clubs, think Celtic have been fined approximately 5 times by UEFA

[Demitri_C]

That is seriously  appalling  and embarssing behaviour. Thuggery at its best.

Celtic fans were warned though countless times  not to sit with home fans. You always run the risk as some idiots will turn violent

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Exchanged pleasantries with a bloke as I walked from Aston station towards the ground we were remarking how it wasn’t as cold as we thought it might be. He was Scottish, not from Glasgow but Dunfermline. Goes to every Villa home game.

That is probably the same guy I remember talking to in Odense before an Intertoto game a few years back. He came to watch his home town club play a pre season friendly at Villa Park beginning of season 1969/70. He's been a fan ever since.

[Percy McCarthy]

Using republican songs is wrong in any context

Why?

Maybe I should have been clearer. Where it's intention is solely to cause offence.

The various Union Jacks there last night which aren't normally brought to Villa matches presumably were also only there to cause offence though.

Who would be offended by a republican song though apart from groupies of King Chuck. I think after years of colonialism and the following generational trauma a few songs are fair enough.

Not at a football match though. They're bound to antagonize some people.  I couldn't hear what the Celtic fans were singing but assumed it was some republican song and is what started some numbers in the Holte singing God save the King. The EDL lad behind me finished the rendition with "No Surrender" which made me laugh.

Brother was getting a programme outside the Holte pub and a group of young lads coming up singing No Surrender to the IRA, what made me laugh one was wearing a half and half scarf

UVF/IRA?

[pauliewalnuts]

Using republican songs is wrong in any context

Why?

Maybe I should have been clearer. Where it's intention is solely to cause offence.

The various Union Jacks there last night which aren't normally brought to Villa matches presumably were also only there to cause offence though.

Who would be offended by a republican song though apart from groupies of King Chuck. I think after years of colonialism and the following generational trauma a few songs are fair enough.

Not at a football match though. They're bound to antagonize some people.  I couldn't hear what the Celtic fans were singing but assumed it was some republican song and is what started some numbers in the Holte singing God save the King. The EDL lad behind me finished the rendition with "No Surrender" which made me laugh.

Brother was getting a programme outside the Holte pub and a group of young lads coming up singing No Surrender to the IRA, what made me laugh one was wearing a half and half scarf

UVF/IRA?

Team Ken / Team Mike (one for the ageing former Corrie watchers, there)

[john e]

I never went to the Hibs game but did go to the Celtic match, my lad went to both and says Hibs are still the best away fans he’s seen at VP, he’s 17 to give it some context

[Somniloquism]

They were already 5-0 down and out, so just treated it as the day out it was. Might have been a different story if it was the first leg or they were still in it. I was travelling back from Glasgow on the day and had to swap to the Edinburgh train halfway down. They were in high spirits then.

[john e]

They were already 5-0 down and out, so just treated it as the day out it was. Might have been a different story if it was the first leg or they were still in it. I was travelling back from Glasgow on the day and had to swap to the Edinburgh train halfway down. They were in high spirits then.

In fairness though the fact they were 5 down and still made a parade is pretty impressive

[Somniloquism]

They were already 5-0 down and out, so just treated it as the day out it was. Might have been a different story if it was the first leg or they were still in it. I was travelling back from Glasgow on the day and had to swap to the Edinburgh train halfway down. They were in high spirits then.

In fairness though the fact they were 5 down and still made a parade is pretty impressive

Some I spoke to had already bought match tickets, booked travel and hotels before the 5-0 first leg and then couldn't get their money back so decided to make it an experience. And IF they did get through, it was an experience they could say "they were there" for.

[bill]

The various Union Jacks there last night which aren't normally brought to Villa matches presumably were also only there to cause offence though.
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Most of them were on RN white ensigns with AVFC incorporated. See them at most games.

[RamboandBruno]

I never went to the Hibs game but did go to the Celtic match, my lad went to both and says Hibs are still the best away fans he’s seen at VP, he’s 17 to give it some context

Some people may not like the song and at the time some villa fans around me were booing, flicking the Vs etc, but 8-0 down on aggregate, a few mins left and lashing with rain, the Hibs fans belting out Sunshine on Leith, as one, is the best thing Ive ever heard from away fans at VP and Im nearly 51 and have been going forever

[Sexual Ealing]

Featuring Wee John McGinn not knowing the words.

[Dave]

No better football club song. Bollocks to all that Rodgers and Hammerstein nonsense.

[Monty]

Featuring Wee John McGinn not knowing the words.

Beat that. World class stuff.