Villa fans

Dirty Harry said:
I always supported English teams in Europe back then, some of my favourite footballing memories in fact and can probably still recite most of the Forest, Ipswich, West Ham, Everton, Villa and Liverpool sides , and was always really pleased for their fans, interestingly though, despite this, it was only ever the red dippers who’d gob off and “rub it in your face” as if you didn’t want them to (weird fuckin cunts).

With the benefit of hindsight and how football and it’s fans have “developed”, I genuinely wish I’d cheered on the other teams in the cases of Villa and the red dippers, both insufferable cunts.
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My thoughts entirely. I wanted any English team barring Uniturd to do welland enjoyed those teams success. How times change. If I knew Liverpool and Villa were going to turn regress to what they are now, I would not have been so supportive. I expect Forest fans to sing "you'll never win that" about the Chimps League as a wind up. Having known several Forest fans - sound, proper supporters -I cannot imagine their fans being such arseholes like Villa and Liverpool fans predominantly are.
 
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01282 said:
Fuck me I never realised that. 4 rounds and you’re in the final. The difficulty was winning your league the season before I guess.
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Liverpool and Bayern got byes in some of the rounds in the 70s on the way to winning the European Cup n’all. Piss easy to get to the final in those days.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Liverpool and Bayern got byes in some of the rounds in the 70s on the way to winning the European Cup n’all. Piss easy to get to the final in those days.
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Which is why when people say winning the European Cup was a bigger achievement than the Champions League they are talking utter bollocks, as if 32 league champions represent the best 32 clubs in Europe.
 
Zabbasbeard said:
Eh?

Forest winning the European Cup twice is the most memorable of all the English sides in that competition and arguably the greatest achievement given where Clough and Taylor found them in the middle of Division 2.
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Agree luckily they will not remind us when we play them.lol
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Which is why when people say winning the European Cup was a bigger achievement than the Champions League they are talking utter bollocks, as if 32 league champions represent the best 32 clubs in Europe.
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Very true mate, although tbf, back then, players generally played in their own league with a few exceptions, and invariably the top two or three teams (in some cases, the vast majority of the top team) made up most of the national team, so the quality wasn’t quite as poor as it looks on paper in a lot of cases (still agree though).
 
The sooner Villa fans realise that their one and only league title since the Titanic sank was a complete fluke and only came about because the best team in the country at the time - Ipswich - had a fixture pile-up due to fighting for trophies on 3 fronts as opposed to 1 - the sooner we can have a constructive debate with them. No league title in 1981 of course means no European Cup in 1982. In any case, Forest have won the European Cup twice as many times as Villa and actually had to get past the European Cup holders - Liverpool - in the first round when they won it in 1979.
 
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