Tag Archives: Ashley Young

Goal analysis: More goals from the “wrong” side

Since the analysis of Gabby’s goal at Blackpool was well received, I thought I’d repeat the task for the goals against Blackburn yesterday. This time the solid orange lines represent [...]

Ashley Young and Darren Bent get the goals for England plus other international news

Ashley Young and Darren Bent scored both goals for England in a 2-1 victory over Denmark in Copenhagen tonight. It capped a pretty decent performance from England despite conceding an [...]

Some clarification on Brad Friedel and an Ashley Young prediction

I believe the pre-match press conference ahead of the Boxing Day game against Tottenham is taking place today, so brace yourself for cherry picked Houllier quotes to filter out over [...]

Ash won’t be let go easily, Sidwell possibly heading for West Ham

Villa will not be letting Ashley Young head for the exit door in January and, if he doesn’t re-consider signing a new contract, the club may be willing to let [...]

Fulham 1 Aston Villa 1 – Positives can be drawn from last second draw

Brede Hangeland grabbed a point for Fulham at Craven Cottage with what was literally the last touch of what has been christened the “FxPro Derby”, nodding in a free kick [...]

Ashley Young insists he has no intention of leaving Aston Villa

Ashley Young

I’ve been waiting for this interview to be published all day! Ashley Young sat down with The Sun today as part of promotional activity for VMF and has assured fans [...]

Soap operas, Ian Holloway, Ashley Young, Sunderland and whatever

It’s been a reasonably quiet week on the Villa front so I elected to make a rare foray into the realms of off-the-field antics at another club, mainly to get [...]

A tale of two debuts and a note on hypocrisy

I watched, or attempted to watch, three games of football yesterday and didn’t see any goals. Perhaps it was fortunate that I was unable to see the England Under 21s [...]

Video: Ashley Young’s England press conference, Albrighton returns to Villa

Ash was handed press conference duties in the England camp today and spoke about his desire to cement a place in the national side and his enjoyment playing in his [...]