Aston Villa vs MSK Zilina - Away End

I, pretty randomly, decided I wanted to goto this game. I'd always wanted to be in the away end with a Foriegn team at an English ground. Most of the time, theirs never been foriegn teams anywhere near Leicester! But with Villa qualifying I thought I'd finally get the chance.

They were drawn at home to Ajax & Zilina. Ajax would probably have been extreamly mental and not sure if they'd welcome english people. I didn't think I'd have a chance of getting a ticket either.

Didn't expect Zilina to bring many fans at all, certainly didn't expect them to bring about 700 like they did! I didn't expect them to be to violent either and attack us just because we didn't follow their team!

I managed to rope Brinner & Ramp into coming with me. Due to traffic and the usual lateness we didn't get time to look round Villa park.

Holte End:Trinity Stand:North Stand:MSK Zilina fans:Tommo?Teams come out:
Ashley young comes over to take a corner. There was a very small minoirty of racist chanting from the Slovak's. My only problem with them really.
The Zilina fans were quality, a small group of Ultra/Nutters gathered just infront of us.

None of us actually expected Zilina to even stand a chance but they played some nice stuff and then scored, rather luckily from a cross which the keeper couldn't deal with. The goal celebrations were pretty mental really.I was taking a video of the fans just after they'd scored when they went and got a 2nd. I got the goal celebrations on video too!

(I have spent about 2 hours trying to upload it to youtube, and it'll probably only get removed due to copyright laws. If anyone wants its i'll email it to them!)

It was a well built up goal as you may have seen. Some lovely football that Arsenal would have been more suited too.

I took another video on my phone too as my camera was playing up, this chant I didn't understand, but it involved jumping around like a loony! Quality!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=STPvTxG1jag


Villa got one back and probably deserved a point but Zilina held out despit loosing a man. They will forever remain in our hearts for coming to one of their biggest games in history and playing some great football and winning. Their fans got even more lively towards the end, and our favourite chant involved half the away end singing "MSK" the other "ZILINA!". Loved it!

Final Whistle:Players celebrate with some funny dance:
At the end of the match the players all came over to the away end and the thing where they all link arms and raise them with the fans. (If that makes sense). The victory dance or whatever the europeans call it. I love it, one of the reasons I like european fooball over English, when an English team wins they clap their fans off, if your lucky. After every win, and sometimes draws foreign team players will celebrate with the fans properly!
A memorable day f'sure. Next up is Kettering vs Notts County, but Doubt i'll make a post as theres only 2 of us going, everyone else seems to be feeling the pinch or just generally being boring!

Carlisle on saturday. Oh the fun.

Most of my reports end with a picture of ben/dave looking daft/like a 12 year old, but he didn't come to this one so I had to improvise.