VILLA CLOSE IN ON UCL FOOTBALL & BIRMINGHAM CITY ON THE BRINK OF RELEGATION | Second City Podcast

We’re well in to the home straight for 23/24 - as Villa prepare for a huge European Semi-Final against Olympiacos, Blues prepare for their biggest match in years as they face Norwich on Survival Saturday. As well as discussing the weekend’s results, Dan and Callum talk Dion Sanderson, Unai Emery’s contract extension, spending caps and the Blues Women’s team, before giving their predictions for a season-defining week.
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Chapters:
02:21 - What We’re Wearing (Birmingham City)
09:15 - What We’re Wearing (Aston Villa)
14:31 - Reaction to Huddersfield Town 1-1 Birmingham City
26:00 - Reaction to Aston Villa 2-2 Chelsea
37:22 - Housekeeping (Dion Sanderson Drink Driving, Unai Emery Contract & Premier League Spending Cap)
46:12 - Preview of Aston Villa v Olympiacos
48:43 - Preview of Birmingham City v Norwich City
54:35 - Preview of Brighton & Hove Albion v Aston Villa

[@petercollins5861]

P.S. Good on the Birmingham CIty chap. It has to be tough to listen to the guy whose team (your bitterest rival, by the way) is on the up when your team is struggling. Things eventually come around. I hope you get your new stadium and that it triggers a glorious upsurge in results for you. It'll be good times when the Second City derby is consequential again and the rest of the PL are watching, enviously, the very best of English football. Peace.

[@JJ-yl2mi]

Hope BCFC stay up hopefully you can regroup next season and push on I want the Birmingham Derby back.

[@ramma8881]

Fuck that shit i hope they rot in league one

[@FMRAGE-t8w]

Great channel! UTV and hope blues don't go down! Also when you go through the clothing.... we need to see and hear more about the underwear 😂

[@espendidriksen1983]

Just discovered your channel. Bit weird,like Glasgow United podcast. But power to you both. There is enough hatered in the world,and after all this is only football. UTV!

[@lrye-xyz]

Great to see rival's talking. Would be interesting to have an all Midlands conversation. Would love to see the Midlands reclaim its place as the centre of English football. I'm a villan, but really hoping that BHFC stays up.

[@JohnLovesSpain]

Good pod guys, like the format, sub and like - UTV

[@dannotdanny]

Great concept, Lads. Gets the sub 👍

[@Scotty-UK]

Come on canaries 👍

[@user-br5in4dd4n]

I had the same problem getting tickets. Absolute joke after having been to 21 matches including all 7 conference league Fixtures.

[@2ndCityPod]

The ticketing website at Villa can be temperamental as it is and with the criteria they set they were just asking for huge amounts of trouble. Also, it’s not particularly fair given that away tickets are based on loyalty and the Home tickets didn’t really follow suit

[@petercollins5861]

What I can't understand is, City were 6th (?) or so when they fired the guy and got Rooney? What was the reasoning there? You're on the up, things are good, let's sack the manager? And it's been downhill since then, except now you've got the original guy back? Jesus. From the outside, it looks like ownership had a deliberate bottling in mind, but why? And what happens with League One Birmingham City? Too many questions. I had the opportunity and privelege to watch The Villa, in the Conference League against Ajax, at Hennessy's Bar in Digbeth back in early March. It was the first time I ever got to watch Villa play in the company of other Villa fans. But, they said, "Normally you wouldn't come here, this is a Birmingham City pub." I know that you can probably see St. Andrews stadium from that spot, but it was strange to think that things are so territorial in Britain's second city, given that the rest of England seem to relish shitting on Birmingham, which is a wonderful place. That weekend, we had our first pilgrimage to Villa Park, where Tottenham humilated us, 0-4. So it goes. Anyway, good on you for promoting West Midlands football in general and Birmingham football in specific. Up the Villa!! I live in northern British Columbia, Canada.

[@LteasAVFC]

Im devastated i couldn't get a ticket 😢

[@2ndCityPod]

Was as mad as buying cup final tickets!

[@MarkDavis-pp5ux]

This is like an half and half scarf .......

[@villaloyal]

This channel should be closed down serves no purpose