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The Peace Cup Final – Aston Villa vs Juventus – Sunday KO 21:00 BST

Well after the Malaga game who would have thought we would be playing in the final – Juventus after a good 2-1 win against Madrid We showed so much spirit and determination against Malaga even wth half the team full of kids and squaddies can you rule us out The last time we played Juve [...]

Aston Villa vs Porto – 2-1 – Full Time

Peace Cup Semi Final Well what a game, a friendly no way, 8 bookings, a sending off and a duff referee, Despite this we played excellently throughout and fully deserved the win. We started the game slowly but Albrighton as he did throughout the game crossed brillaintly for Heskey to tap in, then we dominated [...]

Aston Villa vs Porto – Peace Cup Semi Final – KO 19:30 – Friday

So we have made a Semi-Final !! Ok so it is a friendly tournament but the signs were positive on Wednesday but the injury to Petrov obviously soured the game and it is likely he will miss the start of the season. Porto are a class above the standard of Malaga and Atlante and it [...]

Aston Villa vs Atlante – 3-1 – FT – Petrov Injury-dislocated shoulder

Well that was an excellent game !! End to end for the 2nd half and a bit competitive with MON sent off for a row about a foul on Ash Young. We went 1-0 down in the first half when we got hardly out of the blocks but a goal from Albrighton at the end [...]

Darren Bent Rumours to Villa ?

As the noise grows that we have come in with a last minute bid for Darren Bent and thus blocking Sunderland it is worth reminding you of the following post from a few days back on this blog. Darren Bent to Villa Sometimes ITK information is not always false.

Atlante vs Aston Villa Preview

This is the last group game in the Peace cup and Kicks off on Wednesday 29th July at 19:30BST, streams are available and I will update you when I can. After Atlante’s impressive 3-1 defeat of Malaga we will have to win by two clear goals to progress to the Semi Final’s of this pre [...]

Injury Updates

Following on from the game from Malaga it appears Heskey has recovered well from slight concussion and may be considired for the game against Atalante. Freddie Bouma despite going out to Spain has yet to start training properly and according to MON is a ‘few weeks’ away from doing so. Luke Young has been sent [...]

100 links and counting

Thats right, with still a month to go we have finally hit the magic 100 link mark ! Needless to say that most have been rubbish and not happened but it has to be said all the moves that had happened were actually mentioned in the links some time before. Therefore I do not expect [...]

Malaga vs Aston Villa – Peace Cup 1-0 FT

Not much to write about really, hot humid conditions led to a slow game in which we did OK without threating and a weakened Malaga team had the better of it, without looking like scoring. However a poor parry from a cross from Freidel led to the winning goal. Malaga could have had two players [...]

Young to stay

Despite MON’s recent comments a week ago it did not stop the press from speculating that Liverpool amonsgt others were still sniffing around Ash. So of course we have had to deny it again through both Martin O’Neil and importantly Ash himself as it is shown below, I hope this will settle everyone down !! [...]