On Villa forums we often like to disparage other teams as much as possible, guess it is the tribal nature of the game. So in a new serious of blogs I will post the views of other fans on what they think of Villa as often we get blinded to our own team.

The four teams I have picked are Everton, Man City, Liverpool and Spurs who all are direct competition for that valued 4th Champions League spot. I will start with Spurs as often they are vilified on the Villa forums so what I will post from them may surprise a few because unlike us towards them they are quite complimentary to us. It is noticable that they have said we are fickle, I think the booing at the Wigan game and especially at half time in the perception of other fans caused us a lot of damage.

The forum I used was Vital Spurs

steveperryman

Villa have a good following, yet you fall well behind when it comes to global support.

Villa are a good side, but you lot don’t play the beautiful game, you tend to grind out results, which to be fair, you do rather well.

There’s an english core to your team, so much respect for that, but like us you don’t utilise your squad properly. I blame the managers for that, both are headstrong & set in their ways. Both managers are strict disciplinarians, neither suffer fools gladly.

Villa fans must be the most fickle on terra ferma. Nobody, & i mean nobody moans like a Villa fan.

You can boast of a proud history, so we also share that in common.

You are also bottlers, & we most certainly share that in common.

Have i left anything out? Yes i believe i have. We both live in mortal fear of losing our beloved star players to the vultures, aka the Top 4.

Dimitar Corelone

I think your manager pretty much has the same problems Harry does. One track minded, refuses to make use of the squad and won’t acknowledge we need new fecking strikers.

Villa are a well run club though with an English core so I can’t say I have anything against them, except when we play obviously.

Your fans are more fickle than ours though and that’s pretty extreme, I was amazed at the number of your lot calling for Martin O’Neils head when you were actually in the top 4 for a long period. Amazed me.

liamspurs14

dont reall give 2 hooters about villa so why you coming on here? except id have james milner all day long give you jenas keane and crouch for him lol

innispurs

For most of my football supporting days, Villa really meant little to me. They have never had a large Irish following so I never met any fans here at home. I probably thought your European Cup winning side was the poorest of the English sides to have won it but I was not especially bothered – congrats anyway!

Two things changed my perception of Villa. One, you got the man I hoped we’d get to manage us – Martin O’Neill (whom I knew slightly at school all those years ago) and he began to work wonders on your standing. Now you are one of our main rivals for that elusive CL spot.

The other thing that changed was Vital Villa fans swarming all over our site last year when we were in the doldrums and laughing at our plight which I thought was a bit inelegant and lacked class. But there you go. Now there seems to be a bit of an edge about Spurs/Villa relationships.

We do share one thing – past glories and little recent history so we tend to have a nostalgic streak in both of us!

griddo

I have no problem with Villa,but cant see them breaking the top 4,i think they are the weakest of the contenders tbh,but if it wasnt us,i would rather they upset the applecart,Gabby and Heskey are awful strikers,they need to improve there for a start,and not enough guile in the middle of the park,and with the striking options they have,or lack of,thats the least they need,they are a regimented side like all MON sides,but only have the one gear for me,i hope they win on weds though..

spursex

I like Villa – aspirational club, with a sensible Billlionaire owner who wants to build on a solid base; a similiarity we share.

Always liked my trips to Villa, fans there are pretty genuine, although I’d say that they all also seem to have this local trait of being able to moan about everything and anything! In fairness many of them prepared to spend their last spare penny in tough times to follow their team. A team with history, much like us and who like us are desperately trying to break into that top echelon and shake up the status quo.

Don’t like the way you’ve played ‘park the bus’ sometimes this season at home (especially against us), but again in fairness MoN seems to have made it very effective, and you’ve shown us how you can grind out results when necessary, even if it would make me go hunting for a knife to slit my wrists with if I had to watch it game in game out….Having said that think you’ve been a different team again since Downing came in, Young moved to where he should have been playing and Milner finally moved into the middle and now seems intent on being everything I thought he could be.

Like us, you have a problem with you captain who I cannot see anything worthwhile in – but then a lot of fans say exactly the same about ours!

If we can’t get forth spot, I hope it’s Villa.