Archive for February, 2010

Carling Cup Final – Man Utd 2 Aston Villa 1

Well, we lost. Not worth adding much more at the moment, except to say how proud I am of the team and how proud I am to be a Villa fan.  Good effort lads, there will be more trips to Wembley I’m sure.  It just wasn’t to be this time.
I suppose I’d have to admit [...]

Carling Cup Final Live Blog – Man Utd vs Aston Villa

Live blog below the fold.

Preparations Inside Wembley Picture Gallery

Some pictures of last minute preparations at Wembley ahead of our Carling Cup Final against Man Utd tomorrow courtesy of Carling.
First View Of Wembley

Carling Cup Final Open News Thread

I’m going to leave this post open and at the top of the home page all the way up until we get the team news for the Carling Cup Final on Sunday. I’ll drop links to all the latest news and opinion that attracts my attention on the wires and feeds, with the most [...]

Follow Friday Team of the Week – Carling Cup Final Edition

I know Twitter isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but you ought to know by now that I’m a big fan. Some people seemingly just want to use it as an additional method of publishing their blogs, and it is good for that, but I prefer to look at it as two-way communication. For [...]

Early Wembley Team News And A Tale Of Two Brads

As you’re hopefully aware (because I told you on Wednesday if you bothered to pay attention), Aston Villa made the trip down to London yesterday. Since they’ve effectively started the preparation for Sunday’s final, I figured I might as well follow suit.
Stiliyan Petrov deserves a special mention. He was sent home suffering a [...]

Carling Cup Rap (Allegedly)

I have @usofarsenal to thank for bringing this to my attention. Well, maybe ‘thank’ isn’t the right word, but to be honest; I’m really not sure yet. One thing’s for certain, our trip to Wembley is bringing the musical, er, talent out of the woodwork.
I’m actually leaning towards this being so random that [...]

Aston Villa 3 Crystal Palace 1 – Reading Next

Aston Villa made sure of their place in the quarter finals in the FA Cup with a 3-1 victory over Crystal Palace at Villa Park tonight with a steady, professional performance.
Gabby got the first just before half time with a header from a corner that Neil Warnock may well have something to say about again. [...]