Threat of villa

[Nymzee]

You don’t remember 2005? Granted it’s not exactly the CL it is today.

It wasn’t CL as it was back then either.

 

[LucBesson]

As an armchair fan these days, I have nothing against Villa. And I like Emery as well. Gives hope to the league that someone can wrestle their way into contention too.

From my years of going to the match, Villa fans irritated the life out of me. Easily one of the most annoying fanbases in the country.

 

[TraffordBlue]

I do, but we didn't play in the Champions League, we played in a qualifying game, might be semantics but we didn't make it. We were robbed, granted.

We were robbed multiple times...

First because we had to even play in a qualifier (Villa & Newcastle came 4th recently just like us, and got a place straight in the main competition)

Second cause we drew that years semi finalists, Villarreal

Third by Collina

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

spot on. For people not from the area they may be surprised how little Small Heath support is outside of 'their' areas (East Birmingham - which still has a sizeable Villa contingent) and SE Birmingham ( same as above but also with Albion thrown in). Got to the Black Country and you'll find hardly any Small heath around. Which is why you're comfortably a bigger team than them in the area.

No one cares about Birmingham City outside of their strongholds.

They don't even snaffle support from neighbouring north Warks. Mostly Villa of Coventry.

 

[Tommy Chong]

We were robbed multiple times...

First because we had to even play in a qualifier (Villa & Newcastle came 4th recently just like us, and got a place straight in the main competition)

Second cause we drew that years semi finalists, Villarreal

Third by Collina

Never forget...

Bald headed tit!

Together with the RS shafting us once again.

We finished above them, 4th and them 5th. But because they spawned the CL title in Istanbul the year before, as champions, they had to be in the CL to defend their title, making it harder for us to get in. They didn't want too many English teams in the CL, that's ultimately why we got screwed.

 

[davek]

Don't remember us playing in the Champions League Dave.

The CL is tat.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

The CL is tat.

Honestly, you're not wrong these days. The 90s was pinnacle Champions League. It meant something.

 

[Tommy Chong]

The CL is tat.

The fact that UEFA use a 5-second sample of the choir's chorus from the coronation anthem that Handel composed for King George II all the way back in the early 1700's sums it up, really. Jarg, classless and cheesy as fck!

The fact that King Charles III is also a kvetch and incredibly clueless tithead who didn't even think of commissioning a contemporary classical music composer to write his own unique coronation anthem, but instead just took the half-assed slackers approach and decided Handel's composition from 300 years ago is 'Good Enough', is just indicative of where we are.

Did you know that when Charles was being coronated and the West Minister Abbey sang it, 90% of the comments on social media were along the lines of: 'Why are they singing the CL theme song?!? Is Charles a footy fan?! Does this mean that he's now also the king of football?!?'

Hand to God, honest truth...