Archive for February, 2010

Crystal Palace 2 Aston Villa 2 – Petrov Save Us Plus 6th Round Draw

Aston Villa fought back from being behind twice to earn themselves a replay of this FA Cup Fifth Round tie after finishing 2-2 at Selhurst Park today against a spirited [...]

Arsenio Halfhuid – The Next John Carew?

The academy side recorded a 4-1 victory over Milwall in the 5th Round FA Youth Cup, setting up a quarter final against Fulham. The draw for the semi-finals has already [...]

Statshack – Aston Villa 1 Man Utd 1

The first thing I notice when I create the average position maps is whether our players were deeper or more advanced in comparison to the previous match; in this case [...]

Aston Villa 1 Man Utd 1

This started off so brightly with Martin O’Neill handing Fabian Delph a rare start in place of the injured Emile Heskey and the home side lined up in my favourite [...]

Shout Out To My West Coast Homies

Aston Villa enjoy a fantastic bunch of fans who travel to away games, some of them getting up at ridiculous hours and going to great effort and expense to make [...]

Aston Villa Record Versus Top Ten Teams

Here’s a little table I thought worth sharing ahead of our game with Man Utd later tonight. This shows how the Premiership would look if we only included the record [...]

Aston Villa, The Minimalist’s Dream

The long ball debate doesn’t want to go away.  Apparently Brad Friedel has recently suggested that Tottenham are fairly fond of the odd long ball themselves and I found Harry [...]

Statshack – Tottenham 0 Aston Villa 0

This might seem like an odd question to introduce the statistics from Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Tottenham, but do you remember the 4-4 draw we had at White Hart Lane [...]

Tottenham 0 Aston Villa 0

Aston Villa will be heading back up the M40 feeling very sore and not a little grateful to come away from White Hart Lane with a point following a fairly [...]