Wolves or Villa.

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I would much prefer the Wolves to win. The Vile have always been the real enemy as far as I am concerned. I was in the middle of the ‘ Battle of Perry Barr’, early 70’s if I remember correctly, we won at Vile Park with a late goal, again, if my memory is correct, from John Trewick. I was going home on the No 11 bus along Trinity Rd and the Vile fans were stoning all the vehicles on the road, buses particularly. Everyone was turned off the buses at Perry Barr where a massive street battle ensued! The bus that I was on was all Albion except one Viler upstairs; he was thrown down the stairs head first! Mayhem. I disliked the Vile before that but much more so afterwards. Earlier than that, in the sixties, we Albion fans got into the Holte End early before the match and were behind the Vilers ( well before segregation came in) and it was around Bonfire Night, we all had penny bangers and jumping jacks that we threw down into the Vilers! Great stuff! Happy days.

Wolves just about nick it for me based on a similar experience as ketts. I was at their ground to see us lose 1-0 in the 80s and it was just non stop out and out nastiness from the Villa fans during the entire game and after. They were actually tossing glass bottles into our away end. Coins rained on us constantly throughout, loads of us were hit by em. After the game, we ended running along the road as the police failed to protect us from a running mob. On the bus we were targeted at a roundabout by idiots with stones who smashed every single window on the bus, we were showered in glass. Ive not been back since.