Credit to the Villa players

Thought it was both courteous and respectful, from players and fans alike, and I'd like to think we would reciprocate if the roles were ever reversed. Certainly made Salah's departure look comparatively lonely, which was undeserved.
 
From personal experience, I don't think Villa fans - as a collective - really started to behave like bellends until that 2020 League Cup Final. I'd always found them ok before then - you could certainly drink in the pubs around Villa Park on a match day without too much hassle going right back to my first away game there in 1991. That said, recent trends were bucked when I met one in Portugal the weekend before last who was fine and was buzzing that he had a ticket to their final in Istanbul, and bizarrely when following the buses around the parade route yesterday I got talking to someone who I presumed was a City fan but turned out to be a Villa fan.
 
M18CTID said:
From personal experience, I don't think Villa fans - as a collective - really started to behave like bellends until that 2020 League Cup Final. I'd always found them ok before then - you could certainly drink in the pubs around Villa Park on a match day without too much hassle going right back to my first away game there in 1991. That said, recent trends were bucked when I met one in Portugal the weekend before last who was fine and was buzzing that he had a ticket to their final in Istanbul, and bizarrely when following the buses around the parade route yesterday I got talking to someone who I presumed was a City fan but turned out to be a Villa fan.
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My experience is every single one I’ve met away from the game is sound. Not too anti City and mostly positive about us and our football. Worked with a couple and the Mrs has a mate who’s married to one etc. never had any real arguments with any of them away from the match.

Then I start to like them, until we play them and I come into contact with their match going fans and they’re utter bellends. Sunday should have been a good laugh, both fan bases celebrating trophy winning seasons and respect across both players.

Some of their fans clapped and a small amount stayed for the presentation which was nice, but a lot were the usual gobshites, booing and jeering Stones and Bernardo and were well mouthy before and during the game.

They were cunts at Wembley in 2020 and again in 2022 when we won the league. Constantly singing about Salah scoring when he hadn’t to get a reaction and mouthing off when we were losing, they all immediately left at FT that day too, which was poor considering the vitriol they’d given out.

Compare to West Ham, who we’ve had two final days with, who genuinely seemed pleased for us and didn’t mouth off at all, it’s night and day.

Villa have something of the Rags and Scousers about them. A toxicity in their fanbase that makes them unlikeable. What is bizarre though is that it only manifests when they’re at games it seems.
 
M18CTID said:
From personal experience, I don't think Villa fans - as a collective - really started to behave like bellends until that 2020 League Cup Final. I'd always found them ok before then - you could certainly drink in the pubs around Villa Park on a match day without too much hassle going right back to my first away game there in 1991. That said, recent trends were bucked when I met one in Portugal the weekend before last who was fine and was buzzing that he had a ticket to their final in Istanbul, and bizarrely when following the buses around the parade route yesterday I got talking to someone who I presumed was a City fan but turned out to be a Villa fan.
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He must have stopped over in a city centre hotel for a day or two after Sundays game, and wandered into our parade crowd on bank holiday Monday ..... that's the sort of thing I'm more than capable of doing myself if citys last game is in a city worth staying over in, and they've got any kind of celebration going !

You get some of your best days and nights out when you least expect to !

I went on my own to watch City in a friendly at Hull City back in 2004, which we won 4-0 ... i fully intended returning back to Manchester after the game, but i ended up stopping there three or four days, getting bladdered each night and clubbing it with a couple of Hull City fans!!

Wife wasn't best pleased on my eventual return though, she's never really liked to hear of me enjoying myself !
 
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Ban-jani said:
My experience is every single one I’ve met away from the game is sound. Not too anti City and mostly positive about us and our football. Worked with a couple and the Mrs has a mate who’s married to one etc. never had any real arguments with any of them away from the match.

Then I start to like them, until we play them and I come into contact with their match going fans and they’re utter bellends. Sunday should have been a good laugh, both fan bases celebrating trophy winning seasons and respect across both players.

Some of their fans clapped and a small amount stayed for the presentation which was nice, but a lot were the usual gobshites, booing and jeering Stones and Bernardo and were well mouthy before and during the game.

They were cunts at Wembley in 2020 and again in 2022 when we won the league. Constantly singing about Salah scoring when he hadn’t to get a reaction and mouthing off when we were losing, they all immediately left at FT that day too, which was poor considering the vitriol they’d given out.

Compare to West Ham, who we’ve had two final days with, who genuinely seemed pleased for us and didn’t mouth off at all, it’s night and day.

Villa have something of the Rags and Scousers about them. A toxicity in their fanbase that makes them unlikeable. What is bizarre though is that it only manifests when they’re at games it seems.
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I remember being over for a game against them a good while back (the Balotelli hat trick game, IIRC). Was in the Waldorf before the game and got chatting to 3 or 4 middle aged Villa fans. Have to say, they were the soundest people; they'd pass for City fans. We got chatting about that great side they had in the early 1980s; they were very knowledgeable, and in no way gobby. Compare and contrast to the wankers at Wembley in 2020.
 
M18CTID said:
From personal experience, I don't think Villa fans - as a collective - really started to behave like bellends until that 2020 League Cup Final. I'd always found them ok before then - you could certainly drink in the pubs around Villa Park on a match day without too much hassle going right back to my first away game there in 1991. That said, recent trends were bucked when I met one in Portugal the weekend before last who was fine and was buzzing that he had a ticket to their final in Istanbul, and bizarrely when following the buses around the parade route yesterday I got talking to someone who I presumed was a City fan but turned out to be a Villa fan.
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They booed Gareth Barry and made fake money for when we played them.
 
Eaststander1 said:
He must have stopped over in a city centre hotel for a day or two after Sundays game, and wandered into our parade crowd on bank holiday Monday ..... that's the sort of thing I'm more than capable of doing myself if citys last game is in a city worth staying over in, and they've got any kind of celebration going !

You get some of your best days and nights out when you least expect to !

I went on my own to watch City in a friendly at Hull City back in 2004, which we won 4-0 ... i fully intended returning back to Manchester after the game, but i ended up stopping there three or four days, getting bladdered each night and clubbing it with a couple of Hull City fans!!

Wife wasn't best pleased on my eventual return though, she's never really liked to see or hear of me enjoying myself !
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3 or 4 days in Hull Old Town pubs ? My idea of heaven.
 
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