Podster Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 I see a fair amount of Villa here in Telford, and lots of Wolves but very rare to see a nose, in fact I cant remember last time I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa 59 Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 I'm in the West Country in-between Bristol and Weston Su Mare. Quite a lot of Villa around here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podster Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 I lived in Portugal from 1995 to 2010 and it was common to see tourists in the Algarve in a Villa shirt, however what surprised me was I have seen portuguese guys wearing a Villa shirt in Lisbon on several occasions 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 .... Mate 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobbyrob Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 On 14/06/2023 at 22:50, catanzaro said: Erdington boy here.. Villa 99.95% in the eighties.. moved away in the 90’s as a twenty year old.. no idea now what the percentage would be for Villa now in Erdington but I would hope 99.94%.. More or less still the same. Probably 99.96% Villa now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 On 14/06/2023 at 00:48, TRO said: I Live on the outskirts of Tamworth Now Is that a sister project to Villa Live 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Off the top of my head my old footy team mates from north Brum I can think of 12 villa fans, 4 blues, 1 baggies, 3 Man u, 2 Liverpool and one Arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brommy Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 (edited) A small sample size - I was at a barbers in Rubery for 20 minutes on Saturday morning. 4 football shirts were spotted passing on the high street. I'm pleased to say 3 were Villa (including a circa 1988 Hummel Mita Copiers home shirt) but the fourth was a lad in a man citeh shirt. I'm assuming it would have been a manu shirt around a decade ago. Edited June 17, 2023 by brommy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 1 hour ago, brommy said: A small sample size - I was at a barbers in Rubery for 20 minutes on Saturday morning. 4 football shirts were spotted passing on the high street. I'm pleased to say 3 were Villa (including a circa 1988 Hummel Mita Copiers home shirt) but the fourth was a lad in a man citeh shirt. I'm assuming it would have been a manu shirt around a decade ago. and the 3 Villa, might have been Blues......I thought Rubery/Longbridge/ Northfield was Blues territory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 On 16/06/2023 at 00:04, Podster said: I lived in Portugal from 1995 to 2010 and it was common to see tourists in the Algarve in a Villa shirt, however what surprised me was I have seen portuguese guys wearing a Villa shirt in Lisbon on several occasions Probably John Terry and Steve Bruce on holiday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 On 16/06/2023 at 01:04, Podster said: I lived in Portugal from 1995 to 2010 and it was common to see tourists in the Algarve in a Villa shirt, however what surprised me was I have seen portuguese guys wearing a Villa shirt in Lisbon on several occasions And then villa decided to stop selling the new kit before people went on holiday 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brommy Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, TRO said: and the 3 Villa, might have been Blues......I thought Rubery/Longbridge/ Northfield was Blues territory. Not a single blose shirt in sight but perhaps the Villa shirts were being worn ironically! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 4 hours ago, brommy said: but the fourth was a lad in a man citeh shirt. I'm assuming it would have been a manu shirt around a decade ago. I'm seeing more Man City shirts... not just kids either, but fully grown humans. A few wearing older Man City shirts as they try and convince people they've always supported them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCGB Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 2 hours ago, TRO said: and the 3 Villa, might have been Blues......I thought Rubery/Longbridge/ Northfield was Blues territory. I don’t think so! I’m born and bred in Northfield and live in Rubery! Big Villa area’s including Weoley Castle. My brother’s funeral was at Lodge Hill yesterday. We all wore Villa shirts and the crematorium was rammed. Everyone from Northfield and all Villa!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisvilla4 Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Ex kingstanding lad here. Moved away in the mid 90's aged 20. The estate where I lived was more blues than villa. Seemed to be a bit of an anomaly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moustache of Teale Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 I was born in Birmingham and have lived in the south or west of the city most of my life. My parents are from Ladywood and Great Barr and I have relatives and friends in north Birmingham. My view on how local team support is spread is this: North: Kingstanding, Streetly, Perry Barr, Great Barr etc - heavily Villa North East: Castle Vale, Erdington, Sutton etc - heavily Villa East: Chelmsley Wood, Castle Brom, Stechford, Sheldon, Yardley etc - heavily Blues over this side South East: Acocks Green, Solihull - again, a lot of Blues South: Moseley, Kings Heath, Kings Norton etc - quite a mixed bag but I’d say Villa fans outnumber Blues South West: Selly Oak, Northfield, Longbridge etc - again a mixed bag but these days more Villa than Blues West: Harborne, Quinton, Bearwood etc - more Villa than anything else but some Blues and also Albion due to proximity to the Black Country North West: Winson Green, Handsworth, Handsworth Wood etc - majority Villa but also a fair few Albion Not even going to give my view on spread of support for Liverpool, Man U etc as the glory-hunting words removed can’t be taken seriously. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 3 hours ago, AVFCGB said: I don’t think so! I’m born and bred in Northfield and live in Rubery! Big Villa area’s including Weoley Castle. My brother’s funeral was at Lodge Hill yesterday. We all wore Villa shirts and the crematorium was rammed. Everyone from Northfield and all Villa!!! Oh....I am surprised.....I always thought it was a blue nose zone......albeit pleasantly surprised. sorry for your loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podster Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 6 hours ago, TRO said: Probably John Terry and Steve Bruce on holiday. lol you are probably right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLVillan Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 I grew up in Solihull and was definitely outnumbered by Small Heath fans growing up in the 70s and 80s - although the balance changed quite a bit in the early 80's when we were Kings of Europe. Slightly off the topic here, but I now work as ground agent at the airport here in Melbourne, Florida (close to Orlando) and we get about 15 TUI charter flights a week from Birmingham, Newcastle, Gatwick, Manchester, Glasgow (one a week from Bristol too!). Always interesting to see the footy shirts as people deplane. Birmingham Flights - about 50% Villa with the other 50% a mix of Small Heath, Baggies, Wolves, Forest, Cov, Leicester and Stoke. Manchester - 50% Citeh, 20% ManUre 20% Bin Dippers and 10% others like Everton, Bolton Gatwick - mixture of most of the London clubs and Brighton. High number of West Ham this week. Newcastle - 90% Newcastle and 10% Sunderland/Middlesborough Glasgow - 80% Rangers/Celtic with a few Hibs and some occasional others. Met a nice family last year all decked out in St Mirren shirts. Turned out they were friends of the Super McGinn family - nothing but nice things to say about the family. Bristol - mostly scarecrows and a few Cardiff supporters. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 9 hours ago, Xela said: I'm seeing more Man City shirts... not just kids either, but fully grown humans. A few wearing older Man City shirts as they try and convince people they've always supported them. You won't find a city fan who didn't watch them in division 3 it's really weird. Every single one of them leaps to tell you how they watched them at Maine Road in the bad old days. Ha. Not a football club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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