Archive for '0% Villa'

How Does Man City’s Squad Stand Up Against The New Home Grown Rule?

After revisiting how the new Premier League “Home Grown Rule” impacts Aston Villa and confirming that we’re comfortably able to comply with the rules, I couldn’t shake my curiosity about [...]

Three Lions Head Home To Introspection

Actually, the introspection part is just wishful thinking on my part. Far more likely: hand wringing, gnashing of teeth, finger pointing, talk of reform, grass roots etc., but in 4 [...]

Adidas World Cup Star Wars Ad

I featured the Nike ad here mainly because of the obvious Villa connection, but also because it was brilliant.   I’m doing the same with this Adidas ad simply because [...]

Milner Starts In Centre As England Stumble Past Mexico

I was pleased to see James Milner’s name in the starting XI an hour or so before kick off last night and, since he made up a midfield quartet with [...]

Congratulations To Blackpool

Blackpool have just beaten Cardiff 3-2 in a thrilling play-off final at Wembley to win promotion to next season’s Premier League, joining automatically promoted Newcastle and West Brom. Besides the [...]

Nike “Write The Future” World Cup Ad

You may have seen the teaser ads floating around recently, especially the one with Wayne Rooney, well here’s the full 3 minute version and it’s brilliant. I can’t wait for [...]

Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

It’s probably entirely fair that the majority of the sane football world regard Barcelona as the best team on the planet at the moment and Lionel Messi as the world’s [...]

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

I’d like to thank Damian Dugdale of The Villa Blog for confirming what I’ve known for some time; that he has absolutely no integrity whatsoever. Damian launched a new website [...]

Zoltan Frizz – He Sits In Front Of The Back Four And Makes Nice Plays

This is why I love Twitter:-