Aston Villa FC

A football club from the Midlands who over the last 20 years have turned a run down and dirty part of the Birmingham into a slightly less run down area with a nice very ground. The ground itself, Villa Park, was kindly modernised for them by their old owner and lifelong president Doug Ellis, who happened to own a construction company to whom all contracts were awarded so there’s no question as to Mr Ellis’s loyalties. For many years the fans wished for more to be spent on the team, but in his foresight Mr Ellis realised that to sell the club and get the most return he had to have a good stadium, or at least that was what the shareholders were told. In either case it appeared that he was correct as he sold the club to Randy Lerner, who is the current owner, but with the recent credit crunch probably wishes he hadn’t. The Aston Villa fans are a closely raised group of individual, almost family like in their appearance, the number of toes is said to range anywhere from 4 to 12, local NHS trusts have stated this is the best and almost only way to tell them apart from each other. They can be heard singing a number of one syllable songs on match days with “villa” repeated a number of times being the favourite. They also sing a song “Holte enders” but from an outsiders view this is a strange one, as only one of the stands is called the Holte end so technically only that stand are Holte enders, but its appreciated that this is a technicality and completely lost on their fans.