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imavillan

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  1. Is there a link confirming this? I've done a search and can't find anything on the Brent Council website or Twitter account. Nothing on the Brent Metropolitan Police Twitter feed. I've googled 'The Green Wembley fenced off' and the only thing i can see on this is an article in the Birmingham Mail which has no quotes or links to the direct information (typical from this rag). I would have thought there would have been some information widely available on this when searching.
  2. After us at Southampton, them at Real Madrid and looking at their squad....
  3. rammed beyond rammed, even a sardine in a can had more room !!!!! i went in there at 11am before last seasons playoff final. 10 deep at the bar and a nightmare to get served i ended up getting the underground, a few yards up the road, to The Windermere at South Kenton. (see my previous post further up)
  4. As there is not much cheer about the first team at the mo here is something to smile about.
  5. It's quite remarkable that this guy is playing in the Premier League.
  6. clueless garbage there keeper has not had a save to make we are desperate for points and what does Smith do.... take a defender off for a midfielder thats it, lets go for it
  7. While we keep doing the same week in week out with the same tactics which are clearly not working we can hardly be surprised by the performances and results !!!
  8. Mistake when they mentioned this on the commentary i thought wtf. Then the ex referee comes on and says ''at least they've admitted it''. Like that makes it all right !!!! I mean what a complete and utter joke. The worst of it is, i dont think the powers that be get it !!!!!!
  9. Next home match tomorrow @ Boldmere St Michaels 3pm ko.
  10. @Brumstopdogs Where are you man??? You are slipping up here old bean, slipping up. Tut, tut !!!!!!
  11. Shane Long always scores against us !!!! Any other team he cant hit a barn door, but us.....
  12. Anyone going to Benalmadena should surely spend some time here...
  13. For those who have tickets you can check the view from the seat you have purchased on the website below. http://www.wembleystadium.com/plan-your-visit/stadium-guide/view-from-your-seat
  14. I don’t know anything about your problem other than if it were me I’d take them back for either a refund or exchange as it appears From what you have said that they are faulty.
  15. this might sound obvious but anyone still trying for tickets on the official site, once you are on the stadium plan do NOT press the back button. if you see the error message ''error coming soon'' close this window and just keep on refreshing the stadium plan page. there are still the odd single tickets coming up. you just have to be quick and lucky. if you press back you will go back to the main tickets page and find it more difficult or nigh on impossible to get back in. this is how i got mine, albeit in the same section but not together. keep on trying for last years play off final i got mine the day after the sold out signs went up, so keep trying even tomorrow morning and beyond good luck
  16. Since the halcyon days I've been waiting for almost 40 years so i suppose another 10 is neither here or there. The only problem i have with it is i hope i will still be around to see it !!!!!
  17. With this point alone, i think Jack will be gone come next season regardless of our status. How can we pay or compete with clubs offering 200k per week???
  18. Lots of interesting stuff on this website. Well worth a look. It lists every Villa home and away kit throughout our history. Home kits link below http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Aston_Villa/Aston_Villa.htm Away kits link below http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Aston_Villa/Aston_Villa-change-kits.html credit @Kuwabatake Sanjuro from a previous post. Home kits Our first kit - 1874 - 1877 First one with the rampant Lion on - 1878 - 1879 First Claret kit - 1880 - 1882 Fist Claret & Blue kit - 1887 - 1890 The team's first colours were described as "scarlet and royal blue stripes" (i.e. hoops - vertical stripes did not appear until the 1880s). The following season they wore black and white tops and in 1878 they purchased a set of black shirts emblazoned with the Scottish lion rampant. William McGregor actually went to Scotland to purchase the lion motifs and they were subsequently sewn on by the sister of the club secretary (ref: The Aston Villa Chronicles). The following season jerseys replaced the original shirts but the lion motif faded badly in the laundry. Charles S Johnstone, an influential player, interviewed late in life said, "Our lion had no chance with the washing lady! He became pale and anaemic so Mac (William McGregor) was deputed to send to Scotland for thirteen lions on shields proper, which could be attached and detached at will....When they were duly attached you could hardly see the man for the lion - we were each as self-conscious as a bride in a wedding dress. We went on the field but the gorgeous lion got us down. We had a most awful whacking and the lion was relegated to the club notepaper and flags." Away / Change kits 1874 - 1888 Unknown 1888 - 1899 needs corroboration 1905 - 1906 In their early years Villa changed their colours frequently, with the old sets being passed on to the 2nd and 3rd XIs so it is possible that when colours clashed the team would play in their older shirts. From 1892 the Football League required home teams to keep a set of white shirts for use in the event of a colour clash. At the turn of the century light blue jerseys were used with a distinctive claret band at the neck, similar to Villa's regular first choice tops of the period. During the 20s and 30s, Villa's white change shirts were enlivened with claret and blue collars similar to those worn on their first choice tops and even a pair of horizontal bands. Like the first choice jerseys, these were made of ribbed wool with large collars of an unusual design. Originally these were laced at the neck with rather fetching tassles but these were usually discarded and the neckline became stretched out of shape.
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