Archive | December 2009

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Darius Vassell’s blog

It has come to my attention today of the blog that Darius Vassell is writing as he plays for Ankaragucu in Ankara, Turkey. It comes across as a very lonely place he is currently in and as a former Villa player and fellow Brummie I ask you take a few minutes to read the blog [...]

Title challenge is a serious prospect

If any other team was just 6 points from the leaders at Xmas, we would be saying they are title challengers especially if a member of the exclusive ‘sky 4’ club. So we are in that position and should not be ashamed to proclaim that we are challengers. Now especially after last season and with [...]

Sunday Transfer rumour round up

This will be updated as the day goes on, to start with in the Mirror they are saying we will not be interested in any moves after this quote from MON “I wouldn’t see at this minute us being active in bringing players in January. Things change, but as we speak I don’t think we [...]

Clean sheets the way to success

All good teams rely on their defence to succeed, it is no good needing to score 4 every game to win !! So with 4 successive clean sheets we are well on the way to success as we can create chances. What we saw today was a team very confident to hold onto the lead [...]

Revenge will be served cold on Saturday

Revenge is a dish served cold says many wise people and 10 months on from the disastrous game which turned our season we now have our chance to serve that dish. Stoke will provide no surprises at all, we know what they bring to the game and their style of play will always cause teams [...]

Villa Park picked for World Cup 2018

No surprise that Villa Park has been picked as a host ground for World Cup 2018 bid. Once Randy gets the North Stand rebuilt to the same standard as the rest of the ground that has been refurnished we will have a top class stadium.

Full time – Sunderland 0 Villa 2 – move to third

Villa unsurprising started the same side that beat Man Utd but a tight first 10 minutes saw Sunderland have the best of the game. But Villa started to play it on the deck and causing Sunderland problems and drawing early yellow cards and from one of the free kicks Downing hit the bar. After the [...]

Transfer speculation round up

Just a reminder that since the blog started I have kept track of all the gossip and rumours that surround Villa. When you read the page, you can just see how many links there have been and just how many are rubbish and unfounded. Of course as January 1st approaches quickly the links will start [...]

Update on letter on safe standing

Following on after the letter I sent to the local MP’s about the issues that surrounds our game against Liverpool I have to say I am very disappointed at the responses. So far I have just received two replies from Claire Short and Richard Burden which we were just standard replies as the example below [...]

Aston Villa News and Views now on Newsnow

It is with great pleasure that I announce that this blog has been accepted for Newsnow, the UK’s number one news aggregator.