Half my family were evacuated from Birmingham and settled in Scrumpyshire due to a bloody big nazi bomb obliterating their tenement home... When I was a boy, my Uncle who was middle aged in the 1960s, constantly regaled me with stories about his beloved Villa suffering at the vicious feet of "Dirty Derby"....??? Googling "Dirty Derby" - these days it seems to be a very common diluted term applied to all and sundry.. But back in the 60s my Uncle was digging deep back into his cultural history & emotional memory.. probably before World War 2..??? perhaps a single legendary pitched grim bloody battle of studs, mud, and blood.. Now long forgotten...?????? Now if football was still played as pugilistically like that.. I'd might take an interest in the game...
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