{"id":439035,"date":"2026-05-21T22:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/439035\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:32:14","slug":"john-mcginn-jokes-prince-william-should-buy-drinks-after-villas-historic-europa-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/439035\/","title":{"rendered":"John McGinn jokes Prince William should buy drinks after Villa\u2019s historic Europa win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Scottish footballer said the long-time Villa follower visited the players before the match to wish them luck.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was in the dressing room before the game. He is a massive Villa fan so he was never going to miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AstonAston Villa John McGinn invited Prince William to celebrate the team’s historic win \u2013 and bring his credit card. Photo \/ Arife Karakum, Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old royal shared his excitement to Instagram, signing off with VTID and UTV, short for \u201cVilla \u2018Till I Die\u201d and \u201cUp The Villa\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmazing night!! Huge congratulations to all the players, team, staff and everyone connected to the club! 44 years since the last taste of European silverware,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpecial shoutout to Boubacar Kamara who has been out injured but is such an integral part of our team and helped lay the foundations of this success.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales was seen supporting his team at the Birmingham fixture<\/a> of the semi-final earlier this month, a commanding win that secured their spot in the Europa League finals.<\/p>\n

\"PrincePrince William could be seen filming during the major European league final in Istanbul. Photo \/ Dan Mullan, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s result is the first European trophy win in Prince William\u2019s lifetime, with Villa last lifting continental silverware in 1982.<\/p>\n

Supporters were filmed singing in the streets of Turkey, kicking off a series of wild festivities for the Midlands club.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow afternoon a victory parade of open top buses will travel through Birmingham\u2019s Jewellery Quarter as the city celebrates the club\u2019s triumph. <\/p>\n

It follows Arsenal\u2019s crowning as Premier League champions yesterday, the North London team\u2019s first league title in 22 years.<\/p>\n

Famous \u201cGooners\u201d came out in force to support the team at the Emirates Stadium, including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton and legendary player Ian Wright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish footballer said the long-time Villa follower visited the players before the match to wish them luck.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,170231,134101,3167,13381,9063,59972,224366,17247,35902,6628,5126,19755,38887,224364,111,139,69,224365,4940,9855,3271,213,53316,7187,4412,9966,112297,10744,6027],"class_list":["post-439035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-angling","tag-aston","tag-buy","tag-captain","tag-celebration","tag-cheekily","tag-dime","tag-drinks","tag-europa","tag-historic","tag-john","tag-join","tag-jokes","tag-mcginn","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pint","tag-prince","tag-royal","tag-should","tag-sports","tag-suggesting","tag-team","tag-teams","tag-villa","tag-villas","tag-william","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}