Villa Park Redevelopment

[exigo]

The final trophy is the women's championship win in 2019/20. Good that's there, but that means then including the equivalent men's second division titles – it's the fact that they've chosen to use the division one trophy silhouette to represent the division two trophy, which looks nothing like it, which is either small time or really badly researched.

[exigo]

What are the 6 at the right hand?

Four FA Youth Cups, the final one is the Women's Championship Trophy. Think the other one is the European Super Cup in 1983.

[Villan82]

Well, what can we say? it's all very 'on brand' with their determination to put lipstick on something that was past its sell-by 15-20 years ago. The stand that holds us back.

[pauliewalnuts]

I fail to see how anything to do with trophies is Small Heathen.

Including second division titles. That’s either a bit small time, badly researched, or the work of a clairvoyant.

[Ads]

I fail to see how anything to do with trophies is Small Heathen.

Including second division titles. That’s either a bit small time, badly researched, or the work of a clairvoyant.

Fair enough, but what's the connection with the Atari 5-a-side winners 1983? Or the ashtray from Barca boys down the road?

[PeterWithesShin]

Celebrating winning the second division is a bit crap, having the wrong trophy for it is really shit.

[Risso]

Yep, that's embarrassing. We got a trophy as well for beating Derby in the play off final, I wouldn't want that parading either.

[VillaTim]

They are trying to beautify the North Stand facade . They should just restore it to its original form give it a good clean maybe change the windows and leave it at that .

[Toronto Villa]

The vast majority of fans won’t be counting the trophies let alone thinking it’s small time or not to have x trophy on it or anything that might be missing. That isn’t to say if they commit to that project it shouldn’t be accurate. But for most it will be glance at it and move on. Most are not internet/social media crowd paying that close attention in the summer.

[Brazilian Villain]

They are trying to beautify the North Stand facade . They should just restore it to its original form give it a good clean maybe change the windows and leave it at that .

Agreed, putting the trophies (any of them) on the facade is small-time stuff.

[Mellin]

I know and it'll bother me every time I see it. On the flip side we're not actually in that league anymore so it could be worse.

[Ads]

Arsenal do it inside their ground.

[PeterWithesShin]

It doesn't matter how often it's looked at, it shouldn't feature the wrong trophies when trophies is the whole point of it being there.

[Beard82]

I know the subject has been discussed to death - and there is a lot of different opinions on this - and I do respect both sides of it - so apologises for bring it back up

But - I went wembley on Thursday to see Bruce Springsteen.  It was an amazing gig - but also the first time I have been to the "new" Wembley.   For me it just reiterated my feelings about moving - as a venue I found it completely devoid of character.   We still had ridiculously long queues for a beer - as I saw a poorly trained member of staff opening cans of warm stella and pouring them into pint glasses disposable thin plastic "glasses".   

There badly designed queuing system - all posts no straps between and lower than waist height meant as soon as I got my first round of drinks and tried to move away from the shit show I walked into a post below my eye line (and waist line) and spilt half my round and ruined any chance of there being any more "little" beards.

The atmosphere was pretty poor - and basically - I wouldn't swap anything about wembley for what we have now at Villa Park.  It was a corporate bowl of averagness.  Thats not to ignore all of the cons about Villa Park - but it reminded me how good we currently have it - and the sense of intimacy and atmosphere we get there.   

[pauliewalnuts]

You should go to a football match there really if you are comparing that to what we have now.

I've been four or five times to matches there and it's generally very impressive.