Booing is beautiful especially when bottling Downing is the target

To boo is something that every football fan should try, but not too often.

To boo every player who returns to our club after leaving makes us fans look like world class thickos, like those Villa fans who booed Ashley Young against ManYoo.

Or like booing your own team at half time when we are third in the league.

Booing all the time takes the sting out of the boo. It removes the boo’s power as it needs to be reserved for John Gregory, a really bad team performance and players that really deserve booing.

And I’m not talking about characters like Balotelli either.

I’m talking about lilly-livered traitors like Stewart Downing.

I am going to boo Willow the Wisp as loud as I can. In fact I am going to give up the fags until the game so I can boo at my optimum level.

Why am I going to boo him and not Ashley Young?

Simple, Ashley Young played the for the team all most non-stop and when it came to leaving, which we all knew he would because he deserves Champions League football, he didn’t talk rubbish to the press, unlike Downing, who talked more rubbish than a Jeremy Kyle guest let loose on the green room free vodka.

“I wont leave the Villa even if we get relegated,” thanks Stewpot but we were never going to get relegated were we and as soon as Liverpool came in for him, after amazingly having a good game against them in the last match of the season, he was off quicker than Liam Ridgewell dodging his wedding vows.

He showed no loyalty. We took a chance by signing him when he was injured and paid his wages for the best part of a season before he even kicked a ball for us.

That alone should have made him think that he should have at least hit top form before leaving the Villa, but he never did, or perhaps he did and he is one of the most over-rated players in the Premiership.

Throughout his first full season all we heard was ‘wait until he has a full pre-season’ and then last year he did, and he was great for about 15 games at the start of the season until he faded faster than the colour in his cheeks when he has to go in for a fifty fifty.

Us Brummies dont like a bottler. And boy Downing could bottle, sometimes it was as if he’d brought a handbag with him to hide behind when a crunch tackle approached.

Countless times the whole ground tutted in unison as he bottled a challenge, and for a midfielder being too scared to try and get the ball back is unforgivable.

You know for a fact he’d be the one turning up to visit you in hospital without a scratch on him saying “What fight? Can’t believe I missed the whole thing.”

At best he is a good Premiership player, nothing more, and that is only if he hits top form.

How many chances did he spoon over the bar or wide and how many balls did he spray into the stands? His Liverpool career started brightly but after hitting the bar his form has nosed dived and now he is struggling to even get in the team.

The fact he is in the England team says more about the state of our national squad more than his ability.

Now he is wilting under his massive overinflated pricetag as the Scousers who thought they were buying a Rolls Royce realise they’ve landed a clapped out yellow banger.

So get your booing lungs out and boo Mr Downing, it’s not even if he will get angry and punish us, he has no fight in him in fact he’s probably going to bring his mom along so she can stick up for him in the car park.

So clear those lungs, hack up any unwanted phlegm and feel proud to boo your heart out!

Up the Villa.

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