Fabian Delph made his return to Aston Villa today and fans made sure the club’s former captain was left in little doubt about their feelings for him.
The England midfielder joined City just days after committing his future to Villa Park and was roundly booed when he was brought off the bench by manager Manuel Pellegrini in the second half of the scoreless draw.
A few fans went one step further, however, holding up colourful toy snakes with Delph’s face attached, which elicited a mixed reaction from Football Twitter.
Aston Villa fans have brought plastic snakes for Fabien Delph 😂https://t.co/9u3UJEDH6T
— Fields of Anfield Road 🇵🇸 (@FOAnfieldRoad) November 8, 2015
"@CentreTransfer: Aston Villa fans have got inflatable snakes😂 pic.twitter.com/rah6lheZ7K"@carloz_martin1
— Jono (@Jonocardoso) November 8, 2015
Aston Villa fans waving around inflatable snakes as Fabian Delph comes on to replace Yaya Toure 🐍🐍🐍🐍.
— Matthew Squires (@mattsquires22) November 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/AWright002/status/663372319411322880
Unreal banter from the Villa fans holding up inflatable snakes on Delph arrival on the pitch #lovethat hahahahahaha
— adie Lawton (@adielawton) November 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/DanAsp19/status/663373367106543616
https://twitter.com/rach_wbafc/status/663372532595167232
Classless Villa, actually purchasing toy snakes because of Delph. Move on lmao we had to with a club legend, Delph is nothing.
— Joe (@karizmaJB) November 8, 2015
