Brummie and a Blues man through and through! used to watch the Villa too in the days when footie was an entertainment and not a tribal madness.
The musical play I wrote the songs for (script malcolm Stent) has been on five times in Brum, last time doing sell out business with Jasper Carrot and Dave Willetts ( who took over from Crawford in "The Phantom..") Could we get anyone from London agencies to come and see it? "Oh, that terrible accent!" was the response. One agent even suggested we re-write it in Cockney.
However, it won't lie down and goes on tour for 9 weeks next September, mostly in the greater West Midlands, but it may escape farther.
We'll keep right on to the end of the road with it and fight the prejudice against us as well as we can.
Sometimes it feels like racism.
Any road up,keep out a the 'orseroad, tek the busz, and I'll see ya rounf the back a Rack'ams.