Archive for December, 2009

QuickStat: Aston Villa Passing and Shooting

I was just checking out a table on this Sky Sports page which shows the total successful passes for the Premiership and a couple of things stood out for me [...]

Statshack – Man Utd 0 Aston Villa 1

There’s so many positives that we can extract from this game, it’s difficult to know where to start. OK, well it’s the result, obviously. You have to go back to [...]

The Old Trafford Cartoon

OK, it’s not that good, or all that funny, but this is what I’ve been playing around in the last 24 hours or so. (Click for slightly larger, full colour [...]

YES WE CAN – Aston Villa Finally Take 3 Points From Man Utd

Wow!! I’m still recovering from this one folks… and I’m going to watch it again as soon as I’m finished with this, only this time I won’t be chewing my [...]

Defensive Crisis At Man Utd, But Take Nothing For Granted

Quick preview. Actually, more of an excuse to show ABthegiant’s latest Pre-Smack Talk video. We know that Man Utd are suffering a massive shortage of defensive players, but they’ve still [...]

Sometimes We Don’t Know How Fortunate We Are

I sometimes think there’s something of a bubble around the Premiership that fans need to poke their heads out of now and again. In fact, that bubble probably envelopes all [...]

Carew Going Nowhere – This Old Pony Again

Last night I noticed a Tweet pop up from another Aston Villa blog which featured a headline along the lines of “Carew off to Turkey?” and I have to admit [...]

Statshack – Aston Villa 3 Hull City 0

Hopefully by now you’ve seen the three goals from this game and if so, I’m willing to bet that you enjoyed the slightly unusual nature of all of them. Richard [...]

AVC Player of the Month – November

When I did the first of these Player of the Month blog posts I set the rules that players had to play in all the Premiership matches that month in [...]