Archive for September, 2009

Statshack – Blackburn 2 Aston Villa 1

I’m deliberately late with this post as I didn’t want to make it too easy to spot this game in the formation challenge.  In case you were wondering, it was [...]

Villa Players in Actim Top 100 – Sept 29th 2009

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Not quite what I was expecting this week. Following the loss at Blackburn, the Villa players in the Top 100 positions slipped a little from last week, but the number [...]

Carling Cup Fourth Round Draw

Blackburn Rovers vs Peterborough United Tottenham Hotspur vs Everton Chelsea vs Bolton Wanderers Arsenal vs Liverpool Manchester City vs Scunthorpe United Barnsley vs Manchester United Sunderland vs Aston Villa Portsmouth [...]

4-4-2 vs 4-5-1 – The Formation Challenge

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It was just nanoseconds after the referee blew the final whistle on the disappointing defeat in Blackburn today before the formation criticisms began to be posted online. Of course it’s [...]

Blackburn Rovers 2 Aston Villa 1

Aston Villa threw away a massive opportunity to take an invaluable three points at Ewood Park today and instead came away with nothing after a penalty in the closing minutes [...]

Albrighton’s Bright Future

Yeah, lame headline I know. I wouldn’t normally do a post for this sort of thing, but there was a detail in the OS WEBFLASH caught my attention. The point [...]

A Wild Petrov Appears – Villa Players in Actim Top 100 – Sept 22nd 2009

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It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve just spotted that Stan Petrov has finally made it into the Actim Index Top 100 this week (updated September 22nd 2009) in [...]

Harewood Joins Newcastle On Loan

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Not the greatest surprise in the world, but the news is just breaking that Marlon Harewood will be joining Newcastle on loan and is expected to travel with his new [...]

Carling Cup Fourth Round Draw Preview

Making the Carling Cup fourth round draw really shouldn’t be such a big deal, but when you consider that Villa haven’t progressed any further than the fourth round for 5 [...]