Villa Reserves vs. Newcastle
I’ve not caught a home reserve game for some time, not since they were shuttled away to Bodymoor Heath and the indignity of closed doors, so apologies if I’m as rusty as the doors on Alex McLeish’s...
View ArticleWhich Path to take...?
It has been the same all through the years that I have supported us. The team that won promotion in 75 was soon broken up to create the swashbuckling one from 1977 (Gray, Little AND Deehan all getting...
View ArticleWhat a difference a win makes!
Three substitutes combined to give us our first home win for four long months yesterday. The usual chorus of “you don’t know what you’re doing” greeted the first of these three substitutions. But it...
View Article4 Minutes almost produce an unexpected comeback
Yesterday was a day for our captain who with great courage was at the game bedecked in his Villa coat and sitting alongside his wife and children. Before the game he was in the dressing room to wish...
View ArticleHuth ball goal stands and denies us a rare win...
The lowest home league crowd of the season yesterday witnessed our make shift injury ravaged team fail to add to the 4 home wins we have managed so far this season at Villa Park and try as they did...
View ArticleBendtner is unlucky and it
Clubs that are below us continue to pick up unexpected points against teams that we tend to roll over against. We like Wolves are much more predictable as proved the case when we got another point as...
View ArticleWe have never had it so bad at Villa Park!
This was grin to grimace in 2 short stunning minutes. On balance of play we did not deserve to lose but you do not always get what you deserve. Defeat in a relegation 6 pointer has left us relying on...
View ArticleWell that's that then. Relegation here we c...
While the teams below us continue to pick up unlikely points, we continue to play in a manner that attempts to avoid defeat. Which might even be excusable if we were managing to avoid defeat. But...
View ArticleStaying up by default.
We still look as incapable on our own, but thankfully results elsewhere have helped us out.Nothing has changed at Villa Park since the Bolton result and yet now, thanks to those other results, I along...
View ArticleSafe at last!
So we did find a point from somewhere and that along with Albion’s point at Bolton has spared us from the last day of the season relegation anxiety that now awaits others. We did not get there with a...
View ArticleThank you World
It's sad of course that someone has to lose their job, but let's be clear, the decision to appoint big 'eck was a huge mistake. An enormous error of judgement that still completely astounds me.After an...
View ArticleSomething to be happy about!
1. Young players coming through. It doesn’t matter if you think they are good enough for the Villa first team or not. We have raised the experience levels and development curve for a lot of our...
View ArticleFrom an Aston Martin to a Lambertghini in 2 years
OK so we've had a 2nd hand Renault and a Reliant Robin in between our 2 supercars but that just makes us appreciate the new wheels all the more. Right, that's enough of the poor motoring puns. Meet the...
View ArticlePaul Lambert's Villa Revolution
Summer of 95 Aston Villa had just narrowly avoided relegation with Brian Little taking charge midway through the season, Mark draper, Gareth Southgate and the bandana wearing Savo Milosevic the key...
View ArticleWe're passing the ball
…came the chant. And what a delight it was. The triangle of passes all over the pitch led by the industrious Delph, promising KEA and floating Ireland looked slick and quite refreshing. The game ended...
View ArticleI'm a Villa fan, it's what I do
We are now firmly in the era of the digital age. An era where people have been arrested for threatening to blow up airports simply because of poor customer service, riots have been organised purely as...
View ArticleA Statistical Look at Villa vs West Ham
It's goals that win games though and despite Nathan Baker winning 8 Aerial Duels the 2nd highest all weekend behind Ryan Shawcross, West Ham once again exposed Villa’s vulnerability from Set Pieces...
View ArticleVilla chase Defoe ahead of West Ham trip
But such has been the turnaround in the mood around the Midlands club with Paul Lambert's appointment that you'd be smart to bet on Aston Villa to take at least a point, if not three, away from West...
View ArticleSend for reinforcements!
It is perhaps too early to mention the R word unless you are Robbie Savage. But our first home game of the season was nothing less than relegation form and will have added some credence to his...
View ArticleDown but not out!
This was a no win game that we did win. Had we lost the press would have had a field day and the pressure on the team would have increased considerably on what it already is. But as we won it will just...
View ArticleSquad assessment
Squad for United States Tour Goalkeepers: Given, Guzan, Marshall, Siegrist (on Olympic duty) I would say this is pretty strong and about as good as a club at our current level can expect. Yes Given had...
View ArticleWhat's On Lambert's Mind This Week?
Whilst I feel for Shay, I think I speak for the entire Villa Park faithful when I say that this is a breath of fresh air following the previous manager’s apparent reluctance to tinker with any more...
View ArticleThis win could be the start of something big!
The lion awoke and roared yesterday and chased away an over confident swan in the process who had thought it safe to stroll onto our turf for a second season and had planned to leave unscathed again...
View ArticleDarren Makes His Point!
This may now be our worst start to a Premier League season ever but we are a young team that will get better as the season wears on and as we grow more used to playing together and playing the sort of...
View ArticleA “must win game” that we failed to win!
This was a six pointer albeit it was only our ninth game of the season. We now need to get points in the forthcoming games that on paper we would seem to have little chance of winning to try to keep...
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