How can the country acknowledge the rivalry when, firstly, it doesn't understand it and secondly, openly laughs at it.
Most older BHA fans, scratch their heads and wonder where it all came from. Amongst them, it doesn't generate a fraction of the passion and fervour that many of the younger...
Talking of the mighty Glenn, where are all the small minded, shallow and sad individuals who couldn't find it in their hearts to welcome him back. Apparently they weren't going to acknowledge a single goal he scored. Pathetic.
I have been informed that this is because he once donned the shirt of...
Oh how the Mighty have fallen.
When they beat us ( deservedly so ) they were hunting us down. We were going to bottle it. Since then....4 POINTS OUT OF EIGHTEEN!! Even after sneaking a point at Toon, they were bigging it up. But they forgot they had the on fire Wolves up next and the powerhouse...
Well I'm glad you saw it that way.
It was a mile away from the performance at Wolves. It was flat, it lacked any sparkle and resembled a training run-out. Key players went through the motions and because of their popularity, they get away with it. Too many fans are letting the players get away...
Judging from the expression on the faces of CH and TB last night, they were expecting more from the players last night. It was a performance lacking any intensity, any passion and any desire. They let themselves down and they let the fans ( who were superb ) down. Once the goals went in it was...
Not a cat in hells chance.
As soon as I saw on here, on the first morning, fans saying that they had got 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 tickets, I knew the allocation would barely last into the second day. The only hope would have been Villa offering the upper tier of the North Stand, as they do for cup games...
Indeed.
No surprise that in this highly sensitive, easily offended, precious little world we all now live in, football fans are offended by not being clapped by players. I don't expect to be clapped by any player. I don't deserve it. It would be hypercritical. I spend most games tearing players...
When Akpom started his first match for us, I expected something reasonable from someone out of Arsenal. What we got was precisely nothing. No pace, no aerial ability, no first touch, no positional sense, no running into space and no general awareness of what was going on around him. He was like...
To be fair, another 500 odd tickets won't make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. It is clear we are capable of selling well in excess of 7000 tickets, possibly even a lot higher. Our only chance of satisfying a lot more demand was if Villa had given us the upper tier of the...
Any extra concession from Villa was extremely unlikely given that the relationship between the two clubs is probably still a little strained, even though ' Barrygate ' was a long time ago.
To have any chance of the play-offs, Villa have to win their remaining five games ( Reading H Fulham A Brum H Blackburn A BHA H ) They then have to rely on Wednesday not winning a single remaining game ( Cardiff H QPR A Derby H Ipswich A Fulham H ) and picking up two points or less out of that...
Lets hope we don't finish this season like we did then....two points out of the last twelve and the winning gap closing to two points. The long unbeaten home record dented by Saints and Huddersfield. Lets be honest, we deserved to win that league by a bigger margin but after the euphoria of...
They are only obliged to give us 2000 by the new EFL rules and they have already exceeded that. Reading are getting 2765 for Villa Park, this weekend, which I believe, is more than our allocation.
Don't hold yer breath.
The bookies ( who get close on most things ) have been putting Huddersfield on a maximum of 85-86 points for some time now. With 8 games left, they have got to go some even to reach this figure.
I was always a bit surprised by fans suggesting that they were likely to get 93 points or more. It...
A little while back, I kept hearing fans from other clubs, announcing that Brighton always bottle it. A Fulham fan told me that we always fall away at the end of every season.
We'll see.
To suggest It developed organically is nonsense. It developed, purely and simply through Mullery and Venables and their dislike for each other. They fanned the flames and Palace fans, desperate to get away from Millwall, jumped at the opportunity to tackle our rather less formidable set of...