I like Villa and think its a club very similar to ours in many ways, I know a few Villa fans and most of them are knowledgeable decent fans, however, some of the jealousy from certain sections of their fan base since our takeover has gone beyond banter and instead turned to petty sniping and jealousy fueled hate. I used to post on BBC 606 and a few years ago one random day Villa fans invaded the City board fictitiously posting how City were bidding 30 million for Ashley Young, how 'devastated' they were to be losing him to us and basically deriding the fact that a Villa player would consider joining us, they even encouraged other football fans to post the same rumour to wind us up so they could laugh at our clubs ambitions and mock our fans...Well who were the arrogant ones in that scenario, who were the ones who ''lacked class'' as we're all too often accused of? Fast forward two years and Milner and Barry both star for City in a fantastic win against Liverpool, just days after Villa's 6-0 defeat at Newcastle.
I have nothing against Villa and the majority of their fans, and seeing two of their former players putting in a performance like Barry and Milner did last night would be a difficult pill to swallow. As someone said it was horrible to watch SWP turning out for Chelsea. However, as sympathetic as I am when something goes wrong for Villa (a good club) I can't help but think about the minority of idiots on 606 that day and wonder if they're laughing on the other side of their faces now.