Aston Villa vs. Houston Dynamo

What an awful killer headache those damn jello shots gave me !!! Woke up feeling like i was hit by a train . Went downstairs to find Peever ordering a beer , so i sat down had some breakfast and pecked away in my hungover state . This was game day and i was not game for beers , uh-uh not today . We were all down in the hotel restaurant and as usual Club Quarters is a decent place to stay , i stayed in a Club Quarters in Chicago and that was cool too . After pecking away i headed back up to my room to send some messages for work and lay down for awhile .... so glad i didn't get the " we see you sneaking out song " because basically i did :P

When i felt well enough i got in touch with my travel buddy Bert and we meet in the lobby , we met up with fellow Villan Lee Jackson who is a California Villan that actually played in our Supporters club game vs. Houston's supporters ... unfortunately our lads lost but i think everyone won in the end as the Houston Dynamo gave our players free tshirts and had a bunch of beers for them , that is pretty classy and i know that Lee said he enjoyed the cold beers in the hot Houston heat :)  of course we are talking about this as we are on our way to Lucky's Pub which is where we are planning to have our raffles and generally pre game piss up . This place was huge and spitting distance from the BBVA stadium . I ordered myself some chicken wings and ...... a cola , yup i ordered a cola i was feeling like a train wreck still and my throat was done by all the singing the night before at The Flying Saucer . Bert ordered me a beer and i swallowed half of it but couldn't swallow it ,sorry Bert i hate passing on beers :( . The raffle was organized by Rick Leong who is another California Villan , great job Rick ! For those wondering all proceeds go to this wonderful charity that Aston Villa and its fans supports called Acorns Children's Hospice check them out  www.acorns.org.uk/ .

We then began on our way to the stadium to hang our flags and take over whatever seats we want because we are Villa and we do what we want HAHAHA ! just joking but really its a free for all over where to stand , we only sit during half time . So on the way in Peever remembers that Rick has his ticket or at least think he has his ticket as he booked them for us months ago and sent us the email to print tickets out .... Peevs didn't read the email i guess LOL ! So Bert and myself went in to find Rick and when we found him he said he didn't have his ticket printed out ... obviously right :P So he found the ticket for him online and went down to find him to scan it but Peevs impatiently bought a ticket and stormed the grounds . Oh well at least we are all at the grounds together now :) 

The game starts and so does the singing and the beers started to flow . Bert grab us a round , yeah i had to have a beer and of course he grabs this giant monster can for us to guzzle , in this heat you have to drink fast before it turns to warm piss and trust me you have to basically chug ! We saw a beer vendor and sang him a few songs to entice him to come up and he reluctantly did , it was a far walk as we were in the last rows up in the nose bleeds . He ran out of beer quick and i needed to repay the round to Bert along with refilling myself as the first one was pretty good so being the impatient guy i am i went down at around the 35th minute and headed back as fast as i could only to find the beer guy heading up the stairs and as i walked up the first set of stairs i just barely missed watching Joe Bennett scoring his 40th minute goal , and eventually the only goal of the game . Yeah shitty and by the time i got up the long walk up those stairs i had just missed the celebrating :( We sang our hearts out for the whole game anyway . Villa played a great game and even won a cup The BBVA Compass Charities Cup . YAY ! The only thing i really wondered about at the end of the match was why were The Villa players walking away without coming over to our end to give us a clap ?????? They did the same thing in Dallas and some of the supporters were upset there .... I would like to think its because they are exhausted from the heat .... but really why ?

After the game we were leaving the stadium and encountered some knob with a Chelsea flag that was taunting us and really deserved a good kicking . I am not sure why anyone would bring or wear another teams jersey that is not even playing at the match let alone a bloody flag ?!?!?!?! You honestly deserved everything everyone called you LOL ! What fun it is yelling chants at a cornered little rat :P I know its mean but its the way it is and if you don't like it then don't bring a stupid flag supporting another team that is not even there ... nobody there cares about who you support if they are not there playing .


When we got back to Lucky's i turned back to cola , yeah the beer didn't taste great again . Still hungover . Its crazy how many Texans we met the first night that we invited to come watch the game with us and actually showed up ! The people we met were all great and amazed at our supporters and how fun we are . Even our waitress Jenny showed up from the night before . Yeah from the bar we got cut off at LOL ! The Flying Saucer and she brought her friend Jessi with her too and they were good fun getting in on our chants as we chanted Jenny is our leader !!!! It was entertaining seeing our new found Villa fans get in on the fun . The whole time i was looking for a Villa/Dynamo scarf that most clubs sell to commemorate the game and i searched high and low then saw this nice young couple sitting quietly at the bar and i approached them like a shark HAHAHA . I kindly told them that i was desperate to buy a scarf and they obliged to give me one as they wouldn't sell it to me but were happy to give it to me :) That is how nice people are around these parts but i wasn't having it that way , i bought them a couple drinks and that made them happy too . I told you i would mention this Ty Ronan ! Thanks again .

Over the evening i kept meeting and getting to know more people and one guy i met and had some great conversations with was Mark Forrester who is a Brit expat living in Dubai that came all this way to watch Villa ! How amazing is that in itself ? He was the Dubai Villan and it was great meeting him as now i will have someone to watch a game with if i ever go back to Dubai ... which i have been contemplating for some time as it is 10 years since i have last been there and i assume it has change ALOT . Great meeting you Mark ! Well every good night has to come to an end and when Bert turned to me and said lets go i did not hesitate as we found others wanting to leave too and didn't want to be alone as we had a feeling it was a bad part of town . There was a woman we met in Dallas at the airport that said where we are staying is nice but if you walk a block the wrong way we will end up in some rough neighbourhoods . We got an Uber cab to the hotel and once again you gotta check this site out and download the app and try it ! Follow this link and get a free credit :) www.uber.com/invite/adrianm93

Well that was quite a long day . Got to my room around midnight or so and the next day i had to head back to Toronto , with an ice hockey game to play on arrival i must get some rest .