Archive | January 2010

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SHOCK – Hansen tips us for success

After the highlights of the Man Utd/City game on Match of the Day tonight, Alan Hansen tipped us for success at Wembley Aston Villa can have a great chance on the counter attack Steady Alan not too much praise for us !! To confirm that the final will kick off at 3PM on the 28th [...]

Man Utd our bogey team at Wembley, nothing to fear

So we now know who we play at Wembley on Feb 28th (I have my ticket woo hoo !!). It is of course the mighty (sic) Manchester United who tonight beat Man City 3-1 at the theatre of dreams (urgghhh). Let me remind you of the past two occasions we played them at Wembley Saturday [...]

Oi ref you are awful and Wenger you talk rubbish

4 games without a goal in the premier league is a cause for concern. However we played very well today, we battled Arsenal all the way and whilst they hit the wood work twice I believe we had the clearest chances and in reality the lack of a top class forward is costing us as [...]

The panic of the pack (Wembley tickets)

Today as from 9AM as most Villa fans know is when we can go and purchase our tickets online for Wembley. So in theory all 27,000 season ticket holders can go on line and buy their tickets. However on reading the forums there is a sense of panic over this with the online site crashing [...]

Another day, another visit to Villa Park

Yes it is a Wednesday so must mean for the 4th time in 11 days a trip down Villa Park for a game. This time it is the Premier League and a really tough game for us against Championship chasing Arsenal who after the game in December will be confident of a win. At Villa [...]

What others think of Villa – Everton fans

For the second in the series of articles I have gone to the Everton forum Grandoldteam for their views on forum. Despite what sky says this is the oldest and longest played of all top flight games and we go back to the very formation of the league in 1888. I look at Everton as [...]

Gardner joins the wastelands at St Andrews

The Birmingham Mail have just reported that Craig Gardner has joined the Blues for around £3.5m. Good luck to Craig there, he will need it as an ex Villan and passionate Villa fan, any slip up will be over analysed and he will be blamed more than most. I loved Craig’s attitude on the pitch [...]

What others think of Villa – Spurs fans

On Villa forums we often like to disparage other teams as much as possible, guess it is the tribal nature of the game. So in a new serious of blogs I will post the views of other fans on what they think of Villa as often we get blinded to our own team. The four [...]

Wembley ticket details announced

On the Official Site now Got to say very expensive ones as prices range from £38-£86 available to buy online from Wednesday for everyone and if you wish personal sales or telephone sales there are windows for each block All season ticket holders guaranteed a ticket then any remaining on ‘priority sale’. Do not panic [...]

Bright future – young players loan update – Baker, Herd, Bannan & Lowry

I blogged back in November about the number of players we have on loan. So for this piece I conatcted fans at Lincoln, Plymouth and Blackpool for their views on the players I think that have a very bright future in pro football. the forums I contacted were The imps.tk Vital Plymouth Vital Blackpool and [...]