You don’t have to be an Aston Villa supporter—or even a football fan (not that the two things are necessarily related)—to appreciate the miserable poetry of this eBay item description. It’s of a Villa away shirt dating from about a year after I could last reliably name all the members of the first team.
29Sep05 — 4
Surely Villa’s home is the Midlands, so what’s the post doing in the ‘Grim up North?’ category?
Probably “Grim up North of Watford”.
The description is of and the shirt was signed at a game played away to Newcastle United and it certainly sounds like it was a grim event.
Fair point. I did read the description (and it was amusing) but it clearly slipped my mind. Apologies.