Pongo's Socks

Carbone good 

Drinkwater shit 

22 minutes ago, 1974Centenary said:

ive shagged her

Lucky boy

10 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

Madonna looking good for her age

6 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Oh I don't know

I still would

1 hour ago, fruitvilla said:

Sounds a bit Hogwarts to me.

Hagrid: "You're a Villan Harry!"

Harry: "OH FECK OFF, I WANNA WIN SOMETHING!"

So what's the etiquette regarding celebs when you spot them? Saw David Bradley on his way into Trinity for the Stevenage game, was with my two lads who love Harry Potter, and I loved Bradley in Game of Thrones. Just didn't feel right to accost an 80 year old bloke for a selfie/autograph although I'd have loved to have said hello to him

1 hour ago, AstonMartyn88 said:

Sigh… would expect this from the lot across the city. (I know it doesn’t state he is a Villa fan but putting 2+2 together) 
 

https://www.west-midlands.police.uk/news/man-handed-three-year-banning-order-after-shouting-racist-slur-raheem-sterling-villa-park

Unfortunately we're bound to have the odd dick head 'support' us like other teams do. Got to say I think VP is so much better than it used to be with regards to this. Used to hear vile stuff from the odd idiot when I started going. Dont hear anything anymore (not to say it doesn't still happen). Confident now that 99% of fans would report any shite they heard 

2 hours ago, MrBlack said:

71yr old ST holder. Hit by a cone that was thrown outside the stadium. Not clear which set of fans responsible, presumably Leeds.  Concussed but now out of hospital.

FFS that makes me so effing angry. Some absolute d**kheads about. 

1 hour ago, Pelle said:

This reminds me of The Adventurer. I miss that place.

Yep used to LOVE the Ads 

4 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said:

Topic is what it says on the tin -- however you interpret that. I think I'll always be an outsider supporter because it just isn't possible for me to get to Villa Park very often, living overseas. That always strikes me as something "real Villa fans" would consider a starting place for any self-respecting Villa supporter. But I may be wrong about that. But what would be five things that, for you, distinguish the real Villa fan from not? Some kinds of things I envision but could be utter nonsense:

• Achieve a certain number of visits to Villa Park?
• Be born Villa to a Villa family?
• Get a Villa tattoo?
• Own the home kit?
• Buy a season ticketer?
• Go to such and such  a pub?
• Wrestle a Bluenose?
• Learn at least four Villa songs by heart?
• Be on Villa Talk at least 10 years.
• etc etc

 I know we don't get as many plastics as some clubs, so I reckon your lists of five things would be very different from other clubs or maybe alike in some ways, but what do I know? I want read about your notions, not mine.  

And by the way, never, EVER, wrestle a bluenose. Their short, dumpy, rotund physique (particularly the females) makes throwing manoeuvres impossible. Their extra digits gives them the advantage in the grapple. If you get into an altercation with one, just wave a bottle of shower gel around, they react like a vampire would to garlic.

3 hours ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

Nah, not having it. The only reason he was still at VP at midnight was because the traffic was still shit outside

1 hour ago, wedge said:

My old man couldn't get his head around the concept when we walked past the stalls selling them by the church when attending a game recently, was quite funny.

We saw a bloke there selling half n half coutinho scarves at the Liverpool game Boxing Day. My 9 year old said top of his voice 'who'd buy that rubbish', bloke selling them looked annoyed, but not as much as the two girls behind us who were both wearing them

43 minutes ago, Talldarkandransome said:

Luckily we don't get many tourists wanting to see Aston or Lozells. No half n half scarves.

We need safe standing, simple as that. There's nothing worse than being told to sit down, either by a steward or someone behind you. 

Already see plenty of half n half scarves down the villa 

5 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

We need to make Stand by Me our anthem it’ll be epic. All together now….

”there’s only one aLex Moreno ….”

oh wait wrong one..

I've seen you post this a few times. Which 'Stand by Me'? Ben E King, Oasis? Genuine question, and may I ask why you think this? As neither seem very rousing to me. I love both by the way, just can't see how/why they'd have any positive effect? No offence intended, genuinely interested to know why

I got it sang to me by a bunch of blokes behind the goal when I was a keeper in the 80s.

I was six

1 hour ago, Wainy316 said:

Yes indeed, they used to run a 1 week Villa football school out of there in the summer holidays in the early 90s.  

I remember seeing the posters but never got to go, my dad was tight

25 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

They look like they are in big time decline. Aging squad, salahs declining as is van dijk. They gonna need big big money to rebuild

Makes it even more annoying that we lost to them, they were there for the taking 

10 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

Samesies!  I think we’ve possibly spoken about this before but was it the ticket they gave from the QEMS football course things they used to do?

QEMS Tamworth? I went to school there. Now my eldest lad trains up there its weird seeing the place after all these years

Had a good game again. Does all the hard work. I know he doesn't score as many as we'd like, but I actually think they might be able to 'coach' a few more goals out of him. You can't turn someone into one of those instinct-driven, can-smell-a-chance-coming type players, but I think they might be able to work on his decision making. Like the chance in the first half, beats their defence for pace, wrong-foots the full back, turns inside, then instead of calmly slotting the ball into the far corner, tries to smash it in near post, dragging it wide. He does snatch at a lot of chances. I know in the heat of battle the blood might rush to his head, as I'm sure it would with most, but those little decision changes could add a few more goals to his tally I'm sure.

21 hours ago, villa4europe said:

It was the poor touch in the middle of the pitch that started everything

No one read that touch, Digne got attracted to salah rather than trying to win the ball, konsa then got dicked for pace, the midfield didn't track back, a fair bit of football got played and they scored... But it was still that touch that started it

For me it was more that no one reacted at all to it, kamara and young in different ways are complete passengers, they watch the whole thing, if the kid didn't score there was another Liverpool player right behind him

Just watched the game back (we were 2nd row in Holte so hard to see halfway line from down there), you're right that Mings touch on half way line started their attack. So I'd agree his mistake was influential. I still think if Olsen held his ground after he'd parried, to let defence deal with the rebound, we'd have kept that out. 

So we're both right

Forgive me, I'm not up for an argument. But Buendia is effing class

2 hours ago, bobzy said:

Who the **** cares.  People support teams irrespective of where they're from - it just isn't an issue.

I don't really care, but it is funny listening to the clowns at work/football arguing about who's best, Liverpool or Manure, in their Brummie accents. Safe to say I'm always reminding them they've never been to their respective shit-holes apart from a stadium tour, and that they're plastics

But I'm sad like that