Oh my beloved football club in the city i call my second home ... Aston Villa , the things i will endure to come see you . Yeah I'm a bit mental visiting Birmingham so much but here's the deal OK . Really its because of this club that i got to meet all the fantastic people that i get totally hammered with every time i see them hahaha ! On a serious note they are not just piss heads , everyone i know in Birmingham that are Villa fans are class . They all do everything they can to make me feel welcomed . Whether its buying me a pint or letting me crash on their couch or dropping me off from an away game , i swear things go so swiftly when I'm there ... well not all the time hahaha !
So yeah I'm catching up on my blog today as much as i can and this happened on Saturday :) yes i got totally demolished . The game time was a 5:30 pm kickoff when most games are 3 pm which means more drinking and that is exactly what we did . First i had to meet up with Aideen who flew in from Dublin again ! And Dave Wordley who was taking the train in from Redditch , we met in Benalmadena for that Malaga FC game i went to ... he was the token Villa fan from the Guiri Army :P As i said earlier the things my Villa mates will do . Dave came in just to spend the day with me ! Awesome ? Yes .... Aideen knows most of the same people i know so i won't take the credit that she came to see me , but that being said ... she flies over whenever i am out there !!! We met near the Villa shop on New St. then hopped in a taxi to go to The Aston Tavern which i really like . It has posh prices though as i was paying 14 quid a round which is closer to $30 for only 4 drinks :( yeah our canuck buck really sucks LOL now I'm a rapper hehehe . But as you can see in the photo the place is nice , with chandeliers and such ... i like it there . 
After spending bundles of Canadian dollars switched into pounds we all decided to head to the Lions Club Lounge which you need to be a Lions Club member to be able to enter . I am a Toronto Lion /Kidderminster Lion and the guys i always meet up with and who i actually met up with at the Tavern are the Kiddy Lions ... in particular Paul Harris and Ben Mitchell as the rest were meeting us in the Lounge for 3 pm . By this point i think i have had roughly 5 pints .... when we got to the Lounge the other regulars were there . Gotta mention Mark "Elvis" Byworth and Pete Aston :) the rest of the gang were there too with way too many names to mention ... regardless Kiddy is always well represented ! We stuck around in there drinking up until 5;15 and i think i had another 4 or 5 in there as well before heading to our seats in the Lower North End . If you are a Villa fan it is in that little corner spot in block R7 . I've never sat there so i decided to give it a crack , and i was told the seats might be a little smaller . Kathleen and myself are sitting there on our own so it was kinda nice except it was kinda rain/snowing and our seats were not covered :P doesn't really bother me but the missus isn't too happy if you know what i mean . Regardless she's a trooper ! 
I didn't mind the seats aside from being so close to the pitch that we couldn't really tell what was going on in the other end without watching the video screen :( when the action was in our end though it was pretty cool . All in all it was worth trying it out and Villa put in another good effort on the day which is a bright spot in an otherwise bleak season which i am almost certain we will be relegated but it still doesn't change my desire to go back at least one more time this season . Villa had their hands full playing to surprise top club on the season Leicester City . The Foxes at this point last year were in our position which is dead last but have made some very fortunate signings ... alas i don't think they were 10 points a drift as we are now and at this point we need to get wins instead of draws . As i said the lads put in a good shift and pulled out a 1-1 draw even having the ref pretty much wearing a Leicester top . The away fans were opposite where i sat and i can say they were loud in the first half but they were pretty quiet by the end of the 2nd half .... it was a great game with a big penalty save for our new keeper Mark Bunn and we did get a bit of luck when big Rudy Gestede scored a goal that was obviously a hand ball but that is the luck we need to keep rolling on i guess and i will take that . During half time i necked 2 pints and had a Pukka Pie ... standard .... on to the next beer . 
So off to the Lounge to meet the Kiddy Lads and then pops out Tom Gillis ... oh no ... we are all fucked now ! When this guy is around people forget things for days because of the amount of drinking that just follows his good spirited manner . He doesn't force it on us , you just tend to want to drink more for some reason when he is around as if he were some Belgian sorcerer . Always greeted with a FUCK YOU ! with the reply FUCK YOU TOO ! it was definitely the beginning of the party now .... i think i had 2 or 3 pints then we headed to the Aston Social Club which i am really not a fan of but fuck it ... I've had some shitty experiences there before like when they refused me entry after Man U game at beginning of season :( I'm hesitant but didn't want to call it a night . Its the regular scene there , every one's getting pissed and we join in ! We met up with the Northern Ireland Lions and had a really good time actually drinking and dancing and honestly i don't full remember how long we were there but i reckon we were there until at least midnight .... now remember , we were in the Lions Lounge for an hour after the game as that is usually how long you can stay there and the game ended at 7:30 pm so from around 8:30 pm until midnight we were in the Social . I have no clue how many beers i had in there but i would say i had about 20 on the day and when we were asked to leave ?!?!?!
OK here is where it gets sloppy ... the bouncers came over and said they are closing and there is a row of taxis waiting outside for us and out we went . When we got outside there were no taxis at all ! Wow that was polite ? Ok so we are asked to fucking leave and now we are standing outside in the bloody snow , most of us are already sick and not only that .... we are the only one's asked . Doors get locked and they carry on ... thanks ! We waited outside for about half an hour for taxis to show up , i know i was totally drunk but we are not in the posh part of Birmingham and its late and we are drunk and sick and getting soaked . It didn't bother me so much at the moment but now in hindsight it doesn't sound so cool does it ? My girlfriend was livid over the whole situation and she said there was one fellow that realized we were still standing outside and called us a taxi so there was some comfort knowing that somebody inside there gave a shit about us . I passed out in my taxi after we dropped everyone off and didn't have much trouble falling asleep in my nice big bed at Jury's Inn ... I highly doubt i will ever even remotely consider going to the Aston Social Club again , that is twice I've been burned there and it won't take me three times to say never again .
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