Archive for October, 2009

Villa Players in Actim Top 100 – Oct 20th 2009

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Milner and Petrov (just) eased back into the Actim Index Top 100 this week, making 8 Aston Villa players overall. James Collins’ performances and winning goal propelled him up the [...]

Look What I Made

As it’s coming up to Halloween I decided to carve myself a Jack-o-lantern, but those scary faces have been done a thousand times. I could be the first to carve [...]

The Heskey Text Transcript

One of my favourite blogs, Dirty Tackle, has managed to exclusively obtain a transcript of the bust up between Capello and Heskey:- Capello: Emile! What do you have under the [...]

The Plaudits Keep On Coming

It’s not often that I get to link to Horticulture Week, but I’m delighted to direct your attention to the news that Aston Villa’s Jonathon Calderwood recently picked up the [...]

Shorts – News You Probably Already Know

Definitely news we already knew, Stewart Downing may be fit before Christmas.  Or New Year.  Basically, nothing different from when he came to the club in the summer. Still, it’s [...]

How To Win Friends And Influence People By Emile Heskey

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As a rule I try to avoid the more scurrilous stories, but as I decided to opine on Emile Heskey’s apparent cry for first team action recently I feel strangely [...]

New Site Feature – The Villa Wire

I’m very pleased to announce the addition of a new feature at Aston Villa Central – The Villa Wire. (Screen shot below). It’s basically a news aggregator that brings all [...]

Statshack – Aston Villa 2 Chelsea 1

Average Position Map - Chelsea, Home

In a lot of ways this game reminded me of the 3-1 win at Anfield and looking at the stats it’s easy to see why. Statistically speaking, Villa took a [...]

Aston Villa vs Chelsea – 2nd Half Live Crowd Sourced Commentary

Villa earn a very well battled victory 2-1. Review later. For now, if you think that we simply lose playing 4-4-2, then know we won this game playing exactly that, [...]