St.Andrew's, home of the Birmingham City
Birmingham. One city, two completely different professional football clubs. Two different forms of understanding the most popular sport worldwide. Aston Villa, founded in 1874 and also known as the Villans, wear claret and blue shirts and have been battling on the grounds of professionally organized football since its inception. Villa’s neighbours and sworn enemies are Birmingham City F.C., nicknamed the Blues and whose fans are well-known as Bluenoses.
At this point, you, the reader, might be thinking to yourself that I’m not telling you anything you did not already know. Well, that is certainly true, as far as I know this might be something that basically runs in your blood, something that is so deeply ingrained in your everyday life that all these facts strike you as superfluous. In fact, you probably took sides even before your teeth started to show. Whereas myself, I never got a chance to do that. You see, I wasn’t born in good old England but in the sunny Spain, where the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona reign with undisputed authority and the rest of teams have to settle for the scraps. This said, the obvious question is what will I be writing about. The answer, of course, is Birmingham City and Aston Villa. Evidently, I will spare myself the agony of trying to imitate a local match reporter. What I will do is plain and simple: I’ll just go to watch the upcoming games with the local fans of both teams and they will have to talk me into supporting their beloved side. Will I become a Villa aficionado or will I end up rooting for Alex McLeish’s bunch of laborious players?
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