Archive for July, 2009

Malaga vs Villa – Preview

Malaga finished 8th in last season’s La Liga, which isn’t a bad achievement considering it was their first season back after a two year spell in the Segunda División. Coincidentally, [...]

Aston Villa Home Shirt 2009/10

The new home shirt for 2009/10 has just been released.

Breaking News – Villa Pair Arrested In Spain

Arrest News is just coming in that two Aston Villa employees have been detained by Spanish Police just outside of Malaga. Details are scant right now, but witnesses report that [...]

Peace Cup 2009 Preview

I’m going to resist the urge to refer to this competition as the “Mooney Cup” as I really like the idea of a tournament of this type featuring these sorts [...]

Peace Cup Squad

The Aston Villa Peace Cup Squad has been announced:- Brad Friedel, Brad Guzan, Elliot Parish, Marc Albrighton, Barry Bannan, John Carew, Ciaran Clark, Carlos Cuellar, Curtis Davies, Marlon Harewood, Chris [...]

Back In Business

After a brief break astonvillacentral.com is back in action. I’ve moved hosts and implemented a new design. There’s still plenty of work to be done, but it’s good enough to [...]

New Home Shirt On Friday

In some kind of marketing wet dream Aston Villa just announced that the new home shirt for 2009/10 will be unveiled on Friday in Spain. Just when I thought they couldn’t drag it out any further… they did!! And I have to say, well played sirs!!

Stewart Downing Joins Aston Villa

Stewart Downing becomes the first player to join Aston Villa during summer 2009, but how will he fit in??

Summer Signings Matrix

MON’s maintained his record of not signing a player at Villa during May or June, but can we expect a player or two in July? If you’re losing sleep over question like this then maybe this matrix will help, but probably not.