{"id":460907,"date":"2026-05-22T00:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460907\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:17:15","slug":"sea-of-claret-and-blue-as-fans-turn-out-for-villa-victory-parade-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460907\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea of claret and blue as fans turn out for Villa victory parade &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans celebrate as Villa lift trophypublished at 19:06 BST 21 May<\/p>\n<p>19:06 BST 21 May<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Well, things have been winding down &#8211; at least in terms of the official show and tell (showing the trophy, telling that &#8220;we&#8217;re by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unofficially, though, the fans are going to continue well into the evening, on licensed premises, we imagine, rather than the streets we&#8217;ve been showing you all afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But we&#8217;re not done&#8230;. There are plenty more tales to bring you, and pics you&#8217;re yet to see.  Speaking of which, here&#8217;s that trophy lift in glorious claret and blue technicolour&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Villa players on a bus lift the trophy in front of fans.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9430e640-de79-437b-8381-a68d416d45cb.jpg.webp\"  width=\"5844\" height=\"3850\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Villa fans packed into a square during the parade.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/821bfe21-1f8a-478e-b87d-e4647f1d2c38.jpg.webp\"  width=\"6000\" height=\"3380\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fans celebrate in Birmingham during the Aston Villa parade.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0edd4fba-21f1-49d7-84be-551e5950a9d6.jpg.webp\"  width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans celebrate as Villa lift trophypublished at 19:06 BST 21 May 19:06 BST 21 May Well, things have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-460907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}