Archive for February, 2010

Villa Players in Actim Top 100 – Feb 23rd 2010

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Aston Villa have 8 players in the Actim Top 100 Index this week, second only to Chelsea, with Gabby Agbonlahor leading the way in 3rd place with 475 points. Focusing [...]

I Needed Something To Wrap My Chips In And The People Obliged

That’s ‘The People’ as in the “news” paper, not some grandiose reference to the citizenry of any particular country by the way. Just needed to make that clear straight away. [...]

Statshack – Aston Villa 5 Burnley 2

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One of the things that I enjoy about pulling the Statshacks together is that the statistics often don’t reflect my perception of the game, which really challenges what I think [...]

Aston Villa 5 Burnley 2

Aston Villa opened what MON is describing as the most important week of his Villa tenure with a vital three points, thumping hapless Burnley 5-2 at Villa Park, but it [...]

Liverpool Would Be The Big Winners If Pompey Go Under

I’m just checking Rafa’s Wikipedia page to see whether he has any background in accounting as this might have been what he had in mind when he guaranteed that Liverpool [...]

From The Desk Of Captain Obvious – It’s An Important Week

Martin O’Neil has been describing it as his most important week since joining Aston Villa and while I wouldn’t rush to disagree, with our season apparently continually hinging on our [...]

How Far Are Aston Villa From Being A Champions League Team?

Last season, possibly around this time of year, Aston Villa were looking fairly solid in the top four and, by contrast, Arsenal were really struggling to show their quality. We [...]

Aston Villa Music Video

No, don’t worry. It’s not that video!! Perhaps evidence that every cloud has a silver lining? If it weren’t for that embarrassing piece of rubbish, we might not have fans [...]

The Russian Michael Owen And The English Fabian Delph

Once upon a time being compared to Michael Owen would have been considered a good thing.  These days, not so much.  Nevertheless, Dmitri Sychev, due to his pace, has apparently [...]