Not trying to play big club vs small club card at all, but a lot of our older fans are arrogant and too expectant and people don't like that. Without a doubt Baggies see Villa as more of a derby than we see them though. Though recently as the only two West Midlands teams in the Prem it has become slightly more of a thing. In terms of West Midlands I'll try to break it down:īlues and Villa is the Birmingham derby and that is fairly heated.īaggies and Wolves is the Black Country derby and they don't like each other very much either.īaggies and Villa is traditionally a huge rivalry although it has died down for the last twenty years or so. The lines can be drawn pretty distinctly I imagine, but with fans in the Midlands.I don't have a clue.

Manchester United are an appropriate example, as they have their city rivalry with City, their I-fucking-hate-you-and-your-newborn-children rivalry with Liverpool, and their rivalry with Leeds United, which I don't even actually understand myself.

With other examples, there can definitely be a few major rivalries that define the fan culture in different ways. Obviously both Glasgow teams have other rivals, such as the Rangers' rivalry with Aberdeen and the Old Firm's mutual distaste for the Edinburgh teams Hearts and Hibernian, but the rivalry they share with each other is close to all-encompassing in the big scheme of things. In most instances across the UK that I can think of, the animosity shared between one particular fanbase and another tends to outshine any other rivalries, the case of the Old Firm rivalry in Glasgow being an obvious example that I can use to exemplify this. There are so many colours in such a highly populated region of England, and I can't help but wonder at the intertwining roots of hatred that must have evolved over the years when one considers the inconsistent and wildly diverging prospects of all the teams involved (no offense), as well as the geographical confusion, the only conclusion would be to assume that its layers are dense. This is directed to fans of Villa, West Brom, Wolves, Birmingham, Coventry, Forest, Derby, Leicester, Notts County.forgive me if I've forgotten anyone.

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