Archive for March, 2010

James Collins Apologises To Villa Fans

James Collins just made an apology on Twitter:-
so sorry to every villa fan after that appalling performance,im embarrassed to call myself a footballer after that rubbish…sorry.

Speaks volumes about the man. I don’t really need to add to that, I’ll let it speak for itself, but all I will say is that I hope they [...]

Chelsea 7 Aston Villa 1

Absolutely bludgeoned.
Feels bad, man.
Going to sulk.
I may be some time.

Chelsea vs Aston Villa Live Blog

Team news and live text commentary starting roughly one hour before kick off.
This live blog will be fed almost exclusively from the new Aston Villa Central Live Twitter account so there will be a little lag following here.  If you prefer, you can stay up to speed by following @AVC_live.
Other Fixtures Today

Birmingham (9) v Arsenal [...]

The Run In – Everton Are The Dark Horses

Everton fans must truly wonder what a season could deliver for them if they could hook it up at the start of the season the way they do towards the end. As far as the race for fourth place goes this season, they’re arguably hitting form at just the right time and, looking at [...]

Inside-Out Wingers – The Case For Luke Young

There can’t be too many people close to Martin O’Neill’s innermost thoughts. In fact, there may be a few who wonder whether he is close to his innermost thoughts sometimes, but I couldn’t possibly comment. I’m certainly not among the inner sanctum so it’s idle speculation on my part here, but is it [...]

Statshack – Aston Villa 1 Sunderland 1

My personal feeling about this game is that MON gambled. He rolled the dice on Richard Dunne and James Milner’s fitness and neither looked like they should have started this game. Richard Dunne was caught off guard on a number of occasions and it was clear he was off the pace. James [...]

Aston Villa 1 Sunderland 1

Well, another game, another draw at Villa Park.  1-1 this time and with City getting beaten at home 2-0 by Everton it’s a chance to go 5th that I think we’ll look back on at the end of the season and rue.
I can’t find too many faults in the performance, Craig Gordon had to make [...]

Villa Players in Actim Top 100 – Mar 23rd 2010

It’s that time of the month again, time to see how our players are measuring up according to the Actim Top 100 Index. This time we once again have 8 players in the top 100:-

6th Gabriel Agbonlahor – 489 points
14th Richard Dunne – 425 points
15th Carlos Cuellar – 411 points
16th James Milner – 408 [...]