AndyBM Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 This question appeared on a facebook group a while ago and thought it was a good question, so credit to whom ever on here that posted it. So i ask the same question on here, why is Villa hated so much by other clubs fans and the media? what has the club done so wrong? As far as i can see, we're one of the league founders, we've never done any dodgey transfer deals (only questionable ones) and as far as i am to understand, we are the reason why west ham play in claret and blue as we gave a spare kit to them (could be wrong) but at least it shows sportsmanship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 because football only started in 1992 and we have achieved nothing noteworthy since then. Plus we come from the midlands 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Are we Chelsea ? Confused ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butterfingers Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 9 minutes ago, AndyBM said: This question appeared on a facebook group a while ago and thought it was a good question, so credit to whom ever on here that posted it. So i ask the same question on here, why is Villa hated so much by other clubs fans and the media? what has the club done so wrong? As far as i can see, we're one of the league founders, we've never done any dodgey transfer deals (only questionable ones) and as far as i am to understand, we are the reason why west ham play in claret and blue as we gave a spare kit to them (could be wrong) but at least it shows sportsmanship. I see a lot of it as jealousy. We're not in the top 5 bracket but have had reasonable success in the PL, qualifying for Europe on many occasions. Other teams resent this Who cares anyway? I don't particularly want to be liked by other teams fans-We must be doing something right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Nobody likes winners... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwj Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 (edited) I don't think we are? Most fans I speak to from other (non-Birmingham) clubs are pretty ambivalent towards us Pundits are being pricks at the moment because we're easy pickings for a good headline. Edited January 12, 2016 by mwj 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 11 minutes ago, AndyBM said: This question appeared on a facebook group a while ago and thought it was a good question, so credit to whom ever on here that posted it. So i ask the same question on here, why is Villa hated so much by other clubs fans and the media? what has the club done so wrong? As far as i can see, we're one of the league founders, we've never done any dodgey transfer deals (only questionable ones) and as far as i am to understand, we are the reason why west ham play in claret and blue as we gave a spare kit to them (could be wrong) but at least it shows sportsmanship. We have shit annoying fans, I know a lot of people who support other teams that say this about Aston Villa. I imagine the media don't like us because we are not based in London or Manchester and the media don't seem to like Birmingham in general as a city anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Well I live in Sweden and here pretty much no one under the age of 35 cares about us at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 We're like a bad lingering smell that won't go away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 We're not hated in general because we're not a threat to anyone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 1 minute ago, Swerbs said: We're like a bad lingering smell that won't go away. "The proverbial turd that won't flush"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hycus-flange Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 3 minutes ago, Swerbs said: We're like a bad lingering smell that won't go away. This will change in May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claretman Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I don't think we are overly hated; I think any hatred of us has gathered momentum over the last few years as we are a big club and people like to see big clubs relegated for the hilarity factor (think Newcastle recently). We have been stinking up the league for a couple of seasons and people have had enough of us. Unfortunately there are also a few of our fans who are complete imbeciles who give us a bad name. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulver Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 26 minutes ago, AndyBM said: why is Villa hated so much by other clubs fans and the media? what has the club done so wrong? it's not. you're imagining it just like those folks that insist the media hate us 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Pretty much all of the Midlands, we were a big fish, I think even the glory hunter fans around here (I'm surrounded by Utd and Liverpool fans) still have that anti villa mentality Various other clubs for various other reasons, we've got a lot of history with various clubs, relegated a few, bought star players off a few others, managers off the likes of Norwich I think the comments about Birmingham are right, we're an unfashionable team in an unfashionable city, with the C&B specs on I think even in MONs heyday when we were 3rd in the league with 3/4 England players in the team and youth players on the brink of it we never had the same sort of gushing that Southampton got in the last couple of years Then I think you can add in that we offer very little to the PL, us going down is massive for English football, I'd say more Leeds than Newcastle, and I think that'll make the media very excited and almost wishful for it to happen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 We're disliked in the West Midlands and pretty much irrelevant everywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 You have to be successful to be hated beyond your local rivals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark Albrighton Posted January 12, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2016 We're not hated so much as seen (rightly or wrongly) as irrelevant. My impression is the view of the club is generally "yeah Villa are a big(ish) club, good stadium, they won a load of stuff in the old black & white days, think they won a European cup in the 80's too, think it was Dean Saunders who scored the winner, but that's about it". I've always felt that a lack of seriously successful local rivals has never helped us with regards to the media. Roughly speaking, Everton are a club the same size stature as us (based on historical significance, fan base, stadium, trophies) and to a lesser extent maybe Spurs. Yet both of those clubs have massive, media friendly derbies with Liverpool and Arsenal respectively to get everyone excited. We have small heath and the baggies. With the current novelty exception of Leicester, I've always felt there's an overall apathy towards midlands football which is a shame considering how crucial the region was in the early days of the game. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChrisVillan Posted January 12, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2016 Are. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godders Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 We're not hated. We're just s**t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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