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Knight has left for Bolton

It has been rumoured for a few days now but the OS has now confirmed that Zat has left for Bolton for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £4.5m which does represent a small profit. This news whilst no great shock to me is strange in the timing as the whole squad is in [...]

New Home Kit Revealed

Proper home kit, no gimmicks, right shade of claret I like it !!

Excellent News on Freddie Bouma

From MON in the Express and Star on Freddie’s inclusion in the Peace cup The manager said: “He is back training. He is pretty happy with proceedings and it’s just taking a bit more time. “He had that setback but seems to have recovered from that. “I reckon he might be back some time in [...]

New Home Shirt details and possible leak ?

From Villatalk, someone has found the following website selling the New Villa shirt when it has been released Oh dear, I just hope this description is not true Made with Nike’s DriFit materials to keep players dry and cool, this football shirt includes the teams Sponsor logo, the charity Acorns, as well as styling from [...]

Peace Cup Squad and Preview

Villa have just announced the squad for the Peace cup in Spain. The sqaud is as follwos with no shocks and even Salifou in it ! Encouraging that Bouma is in the squad !! It should be noted that James Milner and Craig Gardner are missing but this would be I guess due to the [...]

Transfer Update – Naughton, Borowski, Disitin and Hangeland

Some more updates on the links we have seen. Kyle Naughton today joined Spurs, I am disappointed at that he was always a major target for me but it appears we dropped any interest we had a while back. Even though I dislike Spurs I think they have a little gem with him. Tim Borowski [...]

Colchester United 2 Villa 2

TEAM that started was VILLA: Friedel, Cuellar, Knight, Davies, Shorey, Osbourne, Reo-Coker, Sidwell, Albrighton, Harewood, Bannan. Subs: Parish, Lichaj, Lowry, Roome, McGurk, Hofbauer, Herd, Clark, Weimann, Collins. Scott Vernon scored for Colchester from a freekick 2nd half and Weimann comes on for Albrighton Ashley Vincent scores for Colchester Sidwell scores again after a little Barry [...]

Colchester Friendly Preview

We visit a brand new ground tonight with what promises to be more of the same after Saturday. I would imagine the squad to be exactly the same as most of the senior players only just returned training on Monday and it gives a new chance for Albrighton, Weimann and Bannan to impress once again. [...]

Bullring to Bullring – unveiling of the new Villa home shirt

Well expected the unveiling today after the OS in their Posh match report hinted at this but in fact a bit of PR gimmick by the PR department and marketing Birmingham. Basically two OS reporters, Capt’n Jack Woodward and Paul Brown will be driving 2000 miles from Birmingham Bullring to Malaga Bullring for the Peace [...]

New Home Shirt

The new home shirt will be unveiled on Monday afternoon