William has Wetherspoon pint with Aston Villa fans

The Prince of Wales has visited a Wetherspoon pub to bask a pint with chap Aston Villa fans, chatting astir the nine up of their upcoming match.

Prince William joined 8 supporters astir a radical of tables astatine the Birmingham pub, earlier the fans, each play summons holders, made the travel to the club's distant lucifer astatine Everton connected Wednesday.

He sipped connected a pint of Bulmers cider arsenic they chatted astir their beloved nine for astir 30 minutes, though unit astatine the barroom were tight-lipped astir who paid for the circular of drinks.

One instrumentality said the prince was a "genuine bloke who truly loves Villa" and that helium besides weighed successful connected the Premier League fixture, saying helium "thought it would beryllium a pugnacious game".

The pub travel was organised aft the prince asked the shot nine to put a gathering with immoderate die-hard supporters.

Daniel Jones, 18, a sixth signifier assemblage pupil from Burntwood, Staffordshire, said the prince was a "lovely guy, due down to earth" who "loves Villa and the passionateness we each share".

"I deliberation if helium didn't person different commitments helium would person loved to beryllium astatine the match," helium added.

John McEvoy, 64, from Solihull, who runs a catering instrumentality business, said: "William said a household person took him to his archetypal crippled - Villa against Bolton - and he's loved the squad ever since.

"He said helium would beryllium watching the lucifer connected TV tonight. He was conscionable a truly nice, genuine bloke who truly loves Villa."

Prior to visiting the London and North Western Wetherspoon wrong the city's Birmingham New Street railway station, the prince was successful Birmingham to be the College of Paramedics inaugural exigency and captious attraction conference, having been named a patron.

A triumph successful the match, which kicks disconnected astatine 19:30 GMT, would determination Aston Villa up to seventh successful the Premier League table.

They look a stern trial against Everton, who are 16th successful the league, aft the Merseyside nine reappointed erstwhile manager David Moyes.

Mr McEvoy added: "William thought it would beryllium a pugnacious crippled contiguous arsenic (Everton) person got their aged manager backmost and teams get a bounce erstwhile they person a alteration of manager."

The prince is simply a lifelong Aston Villa instrumentality and began supporting the nine portion astatine school.

"A agelong clip agone astatine schoolhouse I got into shot large time. I was looking astir for clubs. All my friends astatine schoolhouse were either Man United fans oregon Chelsea fans and I didn't privation to travel the tally of the mill teams," he told the BBC successful 2015.

"I wanted to person a squad that was much mid-table that could springiness maine much affectional rollercoaster moments."

Earlier this season, he mislaid his voice having been successful the stadium for the club's archetypal Champions League location lucifer successful 41 years, which saw them bushed German squad Bayern Munich 1-0.