Tag Archive | football
Hammer them
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 [...]
One foot in a Wembley final, seal it at Villa Park
Great performance, should have been more but anyone would take 1-0 away win for the 1st leg and you could tell this game meant something to Villa, just magnificent support. Villa came out for the game looking like they meant business and after 15 minutes of possession we created a fair few chances without actually [...]
Text Updates (Villa biased) – Blackburn vs Villa 0-1 FT
COME ON YOU LIOOONNNSSS 21:55 – FULL TIME – Should have been more but will take that, good game and advantage Villa 21:53 – Last minute corner kick to Blackburn, just headed over 21:51 – three mins injury time 21:50 – Fantastic save by Robinson from Gabby 21:49 – More good play from Young wins [...]
Blackburn semi final is ON
Confirmation from Blackburn that today’s Semi final is definitely ON, KO at 20:00, for those of you not going (like me) it is on Sky Sports 1. Blackburn OS
Sunday Transfer Talk – Milner and Heskey
As the latest batch of Sunday papers and their sometimes ludicrous transfer talk start to be published it seems MON at yesterday’s press conference once again indicated few moves for Villa. This quote is the most significant one Players generally these days know before managers and if there is someone adamant about leaving, then I’d [...]
Aston Villa – From a Fans Perspective
Lee Baker has produced the following website after attempts to publish as a book was declined. The site is a collection of fans interviews (including one for myself !!) and I find it very fascinating to read other Villa fans views and you find you often have the same shared experiences. As Villa fans no [...]
Wigan game on, cold opp north
Excellent news from Wigan today and confirmed by Villa that because of strenuous efforts around the ground to clear the ice the game is on, unless there is further worsening of the weather, which is not predicted to happen at the moment. Good luck to the 3000 who are going and make sure you wrap [...]
Players in and out – Sunday Transfer round up
“We are hoping to get a couple of players in because it is a long season ahead of us.” This quote is from MON on Sky Sports today which for me is a contrast to the quotes he gave a few weeks ago. link “I wouldn’t see at this minute us being active in bringing [...]
Progress to our destiny with squad strength
Lets get the negatives out of the way first. Guzan in my view will be a top class keeper but he has to cut out the silly mistakes like today and the other one was that we have to more clinical in front of goal. However today was about the positives in what was a [...]
Transfer Window opens in 24 hours
The fun and games that is the transfer window opens in less that 24 hours. Keep up to date with all the rumours linking Villa here in one handy link. Already a fair few names have been linked, the latest being Scott Parker. In this window I expect a few to leave (Gardner & Shorey [...]
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