{"id":656807,"date":"2026-05-21T17:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656807\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:11:19","slug":"thousands-of-aston-villa-fans-line-streets-for-europa-league-victory-parade-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656807\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Aston Villa fans line streets for Europa League victory parade &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First glimpse of a buspublished at 17:12 BST<\/p>\n<p>17:12 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8ead3eeb-0e6e-4917-84a5-a9466c2158d9.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Mike Taylor<br \/>in Birmingham<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From what I can see, the players must be pretty much all on the bus because the top deck of the middle vehicle on which the players will ride &#8211; that&#8217;s the claret-coloured one &#8211; looks pretty full. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You wouldn&#8217;t get the conductor up there now to check your tickets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So I think they must be nearly ready to set off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bus\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b6003d74-4646-4722-80fb-f1351d827b5f.jpg.webp\"  width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first of the fleet of three has some of the club&#8217;s media on board, and also by the look of it, some family members of the players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">if you&#8217;re waiting on the route, the first thing you&#8217;ll see, though, is going to be the police outriders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First glimpse of a buspublished at 17:12 BST 17:12 BST Mike Taylorin Birmingham From what I can see,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-656807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}