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Tuesday – deadline day for Milner
As it is understood the England squad fly out tomorrow for South Africa for the World Cup and Fabio has dictated that any transfer talk must stop. If the stories were correct last week then any meeting between the club and James Milner has took place. We may not hear about any progression in those […]
The Villa Chronicle for Season 1974-75 : The arrival of SIR Ron, good times to start
Ron Saunders admitted that he was impressed with the contingent of players that he found at Villa Park on his arrival. He also has stated that he was limited on how much he could spend without selling, but in fact he did not sell at the start. He did, instead, make a significant signing for […]
Speculation: Evaldo & Senijad Ibricic
It is reported in the Portugese paper Abola that we are interested in the Sporting Braga left back Evaldo. We do seem to be linked to these Portuguese right backs a awful lot. Paper LINK Evaldo Wiki LINK On Vital Villa some one has noticed a link in the NOTW (not on line) the Croatian […]
Speculation : Keane to hold talks this week, Rodallega, Zamora, Doyle, Heskey to Wolves
The News of the World tonight is claiming that this week MON will hold talks with Robbie Keane LINK * O’Neill made a bid for Keane on the last day of the January transfer window but was knocked back because the striker had already given his word to Celtic * Keane has let it be […]
Tattum is not telling the TRUTH – no wonder Blues fans fell for it
The Evening Mail editor needs to have a serious look at Tattum’s future. As reported on this blog yesterday what he said was such an obvious ploy to curry favour for Zigic with the Blues fans and they fell for it big time because they are desperate to have one up on us. Well the […]
Speculation: Villa in for Carlton Cole and Valon Behrami
The king of speculation the Daily Mirror are claiming we are going to launch a bid for the West Ham pair Link Carlton Cole, well we know about it and West Ham refuse to budge from £15m, for me far too much. Behrami does seem to have something different about him, that bit of skill […]
What a TATTUM – Mail’s standards fall lower
You may be aware of Collin Tattum in the Evening Mail, he is their Blue nose reporter who has such a massive inferiority complex towards Villa every report has to include some dig or other towards Villa. Well he has managed to surpass himself this time and how the sub editor allowed this piece of […]
Jose in for Lampard, does this mean Milner is London bound
Many reports on the media today that after Mourhino’s appointment at Real some players are being very heavily linked with moves to the Bernabeu. Now the linking of Lampard to Jose is of no surprise to anyone and there is an obvious impact to us with the future of Milner. Chelsea do need to keep […]
A possible new Villa shirt design, 30 year classic, updated
I posted here Stewart Kendrick’s interpretation of rumours of our new kits. Well he has come up some example’s of our new kit if as some rumours say we are basing the new kit on the 30th anniversary of the championship. I have to say they are bloody gorgeous and would be fantastic as our […]
28 Years Ago – Never forget Rotterdam
We all know happened then At the time of writing this we were 30 minutes or so into kick off into Villa’s greatest day. I was just 10 years old and remember watching the whole game on TV with Butler and Gavin on in the background for BRMB. Even then I knew what a great […]