The unofficial Aston Villa winter break finally comes to an end today against an all too familiar opponent. If there is a single team out there that don’t require a preview post right now, it’s Blackburn, so I won’t waste your time or mine, but let’s just take a quick refresher of who’s in and out and a few of the news stories that haven’t made the blog here recently.
Blackburn will be without Canadian David Hoillet. Carlos Cuellar is out
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Live Blog: Aston Villa Reserves vs Chelsea Reserves at Hinckley.
This is how today’s lone Villa goal came about at Bloomfield Road:
Blackpool were in possession and launching an attack through the centre of the pitch with Ash and Makoun tracking back, Reo-Coker in a holding position in front of the back four.
Makoun makes a sliding tackle, winning possession back and cleverly plays a sort of “roundhouse” style back heeled pass into Reo-Coker’s path while he was still on the ground.
Reo-Coker plays a first time ball up to Darren Bent who
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It finished a point apiece at Bloomfield Road after neither side were able to improve on early goals from Gabby Agbonlahor and Eliot Grandin in a frenetic game that saw Jean II Makoun receive a straight red card for a two footed tackle with 20 minutes left to play.
It was a game that kicked off with a vibrant pace, both sides creating early chances, but it was Gabby Agbonlahor who opened the scoring with a superb run from the left,
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Saturday 12th February 1994 – Aston Villa 5 Swindon 0
Dean Saunders (31, pen 66, pen 84), Steve Froggatt (55), Kevin Richardson (73).
Villa Starting XI: Bosnich, Cox, Barrett, McGrath, Froggatt, Houghton, Richardson, Townsend, Daley, Saunders, Atkinson.
8th placed Villa hosted newly promoted Swindon who were bottom of the league. Villa went on to finish 1993/94 in 10th, Swindon would only win one more game, remained bottom and were relegated.
(This video has just been uploaded, but I was thinking of trawling around
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Blackpool have lost their last five games, Ian Holloway will be desperate to avoid a sixth straight defeat. He’ll have half an eye over the horizon to his next game against Tottenham, perhaps hoping that Wolves might offer an opportunity for points after that. And then Chelsea will come to town.
By the time Holloway takes his men to Ewood Park, inside the final seven games of the season, he knows full well that his team could be in the midst
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You may have already seen that Deloitte has just published the annual Football Money League report and, as I speculated might happen in a post on last year’s report, Villa have just snuck back into the top 20 for the first time in several years.
The report is always an interesting read, but lately I’ve found that it gives us an early glimpse of Aston Villa’s revenue ahead of the official accounts being filed.
Last year, Deloitte said that Villa’s 2008/09 revenue
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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 early Daniel Agger goal.
It was Ash’s first goal for England, winning his 12th cap, and Bent’s 2nd goal in what was amazingly only his 8th appearance for the national side. I think they’ll be in Capello’s plans again next time.
Bent played the full 90 minutes and might have scored more,
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I was planning on running this series every five games, but for one reason or another I didn’t get to it after the 25th game of the season; the 3-1 loss at Old Trafford. I really wish I had because now 26 games into the season, what I have to share isn’t pleasant.
After the 2-2 draw against Fulham at Villa Park we now have 29 points. Unfortunately, that’s our worst points haul from the first 26 games in the history
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