The games are coming thick and fast now and West Ham on Sunday (KO 13:30) gives us a great chance to extract revenge on the shirt stealers after they stole the game from us last November. This game comes on the back of two defeats over Xmas of which damaged our league chances but clearly not our morale as witnessed on Thursday.

Even though we have three games in 6 days, the players have had a 2/3 week break and a few will miss the FA Cup game against Brighton so I fully expect a full strength side against West Ham. The only debate is whether Luke Young will return in the place of Cuellar who will replace Collins. There may also be a change up front with Carew possibly replacing Heskey but I would not put much money on that !

As we showed against Blackburn with some very good fluent passing football in the first half we are creating chances and just need to take them and get more convincing wins. West Ham are clearly going to be struggling against relegation all season and with injury problems all over the field (Franco the latest now) then a convincing win is required to set us up for the game against Blackburn.

The vats majority hate early Sunday kick offs nad the crowd could be low (sub 35,000) so lets get behind the lads and roar the Villa onto a much needed victory in the league.