alexpayne

Albion only really started caring about wolves because of circumstance. We were well out of their league and they were battling more with wolves at the time. Since Albion came back to the prem in the early 00’s they’ve changed their rivalries on a season by season basis. They’re a strange bunch.

Been Albion away 6 times and never seen anything more than gobbing off between the fans and a very minor scuffle on a train platform once. You our get off the train/tram. Home fans one way, away fans the other and it’s 2 minutes walk to the away end. Don’t get me wrong I **** hate the baggies, but it’s nowhere near the same as the blues. There isnt the same intensity and hatred when we play the Albion as when we play blues. The Albion fans absolutely hate us but they’re terrified of us.

We're not Premier League Aston Villa, we're Championship Aston Villa, battling for play-offs playing another Championship club. We're playing away from home, it's not expected that we smash them And anyway, I do not care whether anyone thinks its expected of us. A win over them is fantastic, its our biggest rival and it means everything to me, regardless of whats expected.

They brought 15 coaches and had 2 special trains put on for them last year. They regularly bring coaches to Villa park. Coaches are only on this year for us because of the railway lines being down for "repairs"

IT was a request by someone in the supporters club last year thats how they get round things. Because one person asked for it, we've all got to put up with it. Do WMP really think blues would actually be brave enough to try it on with 2100 people?

It's two hours anyway with the lock in. Each to their own, but I don't see the need for coaches, its Bladens wet dream. Hope everyone does their own thing and **** him over.

They haven't even opened their half of the upper tier yet apparently. All the usual old myths are out, they're all dead hard, working class and hard as ****. Were all tories who play with balloons and are shit scared of going there. We begged for a lock-in and if it wasn't for that they'd bash us all back to Aston. Seem to be forgetting in the days before our lock ins they stood behind the police vans mouthing and did nothing else down the hill. And that their supporters club asked for a lock in at VP but they couldn't have one because our ground isn't laid out suitably for that, which is why they ended up with their own special trains, their own train station and barriers protecting them from said posh tories. They're full of shit. Saying the police are basically stopping them selling out, the club have made it too difficult, not worth the hassle etc. In reality the police have stopped it from being a complete and utter embarrassment for them.

Heart says 3 0 to Villa, head says scrappy 1 0 to Villa, horrible feeling in my stomach says them.

So they're planning for months, and at the last minute Bladen realises they're not running trains? Yeah, alright. He's wanted to shove Villa fans on coaches since the cup game, he'll be buzzing.

Because its 10 mins in a taxi, or an hours walk from Aston. Or 20 mins walk from town. Max

I would be fuming if I was made to catch a coach, and in any case it wouldn't make much if any difference, because they'd still need to clear the whole of the Cov road and the roundabout. I just hope they get the same shit treatment as we did, hope they get an hour long lock in and a magical mystery tour all around Birmingham...

You weren't supposed to walk back to town at that point, the idea was you had to get the train for a complete unknown reason, its just that so many ignored it and did it anyway they had no choice. We went left there, **** waiting for the train there was around 1500 Villa fans in that shitty escort. It was shit, they should have closed the Cov road off outside the away end and let us straight out and escorted us down to the same Island, locking off all the pubs in Digbeth and the one on the top of the roundabout. Apart from them jumping on fences and taking a swing at someone from over the fence before throwing a coin **** all of note happened, as predicted.

Each to their own, but I absolutely love these derbies and it really took the edge off going down knowing we got 2 games against these ****. So many memories good and bad, but when we beat these its definitely up their with the best feelings.

I've only ever known Villa as a Prem side, playing mainly the same teams and going the same grounds year in year out. This season feels like a breath of fresh air too me. I'm seeing us play teams who I've never seen before and come to VP with a lot more enthusiasm and I'm enjoying the new grounds to visit and the local derbys. I could go another season if we stay down but that would be it for me, I wanna win promotion and get back up there. Also, insanely, we drop down a division and ticket prices for away games fall!

This is what I'm saying, people have built Albion up to be something that its not because its all we've had in the last few years. The tension and atmosphere when we play the shit is huge. Not helped by the fact last season was dog shit and even though we beat them, it was a smaller crowd than we all expected and it was a massive anti-climax