Residents living near a historic Premier League ground have revealed how rowdy football fans make life a misery - by smashing windows, vandalising cars and dumping rubbish in gardens. <br /><br />Villa Park in Aston, Birmingham, has been home to Aston Villa for 126 years and attracts royal fans and Hollywood megastars to its 42,640 capacity stadium. <br /><br />It is one of Britain's oldest grounds and will also host European football next season after Villa secured 7th place in the Premier League.<br /><br />But residents living next to the famous stadium have now told how life can be a "nightmare" on match days as thousands descend on the residential city suburb. <br /><br />They revealed their house and cars windows have been smashed, driveways regularly blocked by parked vehicles and how fans urinate in their front gardens. <br /><br />Other locals are forced to clear up discarded litter themselves and say they plan going out by studying the fixture list to avoid the mayhem of match days. <br /> <br />Abu Zaman, 26, is a Villa fan but says living near the team he supports isn't all it's cracked up to be as his car has been damaged on multiple occasions. <br /><br />Business owner Abu, who has lived on Trinity Road all of his life, said: “The parking and the traffic are really bad. <br /><br />"We get people who scratch our cars and previously had people smash our windows. <br /><br />“Our road is shut on the day. On a match day you have to wait for the game to start at which point your whole day is wasted. <br /><br />“Then there's the parking, the litter and the vandalism. The roads are open but the supporters are walking on the road and blocking them. <br /><br />“In the 26 years Villa have only approached us for once for planning permission for the ground extension, they don’t care about the local community. <br /><br />“As long as their pockets are lined, they don't care. It’s all about tickets and season tickets for them. <br /><br />“The roads are covered in alcohol bottles, burger wrappers, pretty much everything.” <br /><br />Villa have had a near 10,000 seat new stand approved in the past few months, which locals fear is just going to make the problems worse.<br /><br />Dad-of-one James Payne, 35, who lives on neigbouring Endicott Road, added: "This is a built up area, the infrastructure can't support even more fans.<br /><br />"It's bad enough as it is - having to wade through a sea of beer bottles and takeaway wrappers just to get to your front door. <br /><br />"We've had people urinating in our front garden, I'm sure people act like they wouldn't usually do when they go the football. They turn into yobs.<br /><br />"Someone once ripped our fence post up and began attacking a rival fan with it. It's just bonkers. <br /><br />"They get famous fans like Prince William and Tom Hanks seeing all the glamour of Premier League football - but just a stones throw away for us it's a nightmare."<br /><br />Andrea Sawyers has lived on Trinity Road since 2012 and said she and her mum have to clean up huge piles of litter left behind by fans themselves. <br /><br />Mum-of-two Andrea said: “I’m a bit of a Villa fan, I’m not a massive one"
