We don’t seem to have a Club page so…

A long-standing gear-grinder with me, Winnie will remember.

The Club charges me International postage (Ireland) on merch etc.

Then with AVTV, they do not include Ireland as overseas/International enough, regarding live coverage, for overseas customers.

Then to cap it all, when we renewed our Memberships (occasional ticket necessity), both to be delivered to the same address, both on the same transaction, they pump me for 2 separate International delivery charges, 19:90 sterling/24 euro in total. To put that into perspective for you folk, over here that’s just under 4 Pints of Stella in a pub, or 12 cans from the offy.

Now it has been this way for many a year, so I can’t blame Boris, or Brexit, or Mings, or even Leon Bailey’s aversion to tracking back and tackling.

It’s a rip-off, pure and simple. Ex-Pats and Overseas die-hards are being ridden rotten. They are expected to smile politely throughout, having their loyalty tested. It’s akin to mental torture/abuse, for those with a long-standing love of all things AVFC. How do I justify it? Ah but a real fan would, etc, etc.

I would imagine it’ll be like loving the wife but hating her cooking. Sooner or later a row will escalate out of hand, and fill a divorce lawyer's pockets with gold. And you’re left with worse cooking than before and the love of your life is gone. So you put up with the cooking like I’ll put up with the Villa pick-pockets, until? Fk knows.

UTFV