Nathan Delfouneso and Nathan Baker both played 90 minutes for England in a disappointing European Under-19 Championship loss to Holland in France tonight and now face the ominous prospect of needing a result against a very impressive French side to progress.
FC Twente’s Steven Berghuis scored the only goal of the game for the Dutch in the 6th minute with a strong header from some distance to cap a fine cross. They were clearly the stronger side and enjoyed much
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It may well seem like a shameless plug once again, but I really do use The Villa Wire myself and I just spotted this little gem in the Flickr feed:-
What you’re looking at is Kenilworth Road on the 9th April 1983 and I think that’s Colin Gibson in the foreground. The scoreboard reveals the game is all square at 1-1 when this snap was taken, but thanks to a late winner from David Moss – shown in the video
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Just in case you missed the goals on Sky Sports, here’s the video while it lasts:-
Ashley’s goal was a bit special, wasn’t it?
Aston Villa kicked off the pre-season proper with an entertaining 3-2 victory over Peterborough at London Rd tonight, Ashley Young, John Carew and Eric Lichaj getting the goals and all 8 substitutes got some time on the pitch.
Ashley Young opened the scoring inside the opening 10 minutes, but Aaron Davies brought the home side back on terms almost immediately. John Carew restored the briefly held lead just before half time.
Elliot Parish came on in place of Brad Friedel for
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Unsurprisingly, with the pre-season schedule underway, I’ve started to spot one or two Villa fans crouching in corners gibbering about lack of signings, hyperventilating with a paper bag over their mouths. Does that describe you? Read on.
I did this before last year, so I’ve updated it with the data from 2009. All you have to do is look at today’s date in the left hand column and then scan across to the right to see how many players
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All three of Aston Villa’s representatives at the UEFA Under-19 European Championship in France were on display in England’s opening day 3-2 win over Austria. Both the Nathans; Delfouneso and Baker, started for England while Andreas Weimann started up front for Austria.
All three will be reasonably happy with their performances. Nathan Baker was solid, tidy and well disciplined at the back for England. Perhaps caught out positionally a little early on, as Austria fired the opening salvos
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Martin O’Neill saw an Aston Villa side comprised mostly of reserve players, but with a healthy sprinkling of first teamers, kick off the 2010/11 pre-season programme with a loss to Conference side Basingstoke Town at The Camrose this afternoon.
Both of the home side’s goals came in the first half, Chris Herd with an unfortunate own goal in the 34th minute and David Pratt adding a second in the 38th minute. Youngster Graham Burke got one back for Villa 2
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Judging by the early responses to the Season Expectation Survey, I may be preaching to the choir here, but I’m going to state my case for hoping Aston Villa have a good craic at the Europa League this season regardless. (I apologise unreservedly for the atrocious pun. Read on if it’s not obvious.)
Not everyone holds the second tier European competition in such high regard though, I may have seen it referred to as the “Europa LDV Vans Cup”
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Aston Villa’s new home and away shirts for 2010/11 are being launched at an event in Centenary Square today, ably modelled by Stiliyan Petrov, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuellar and Stewart Downing.
The home shirt has leaked ahead of the event, it’s a traditional claret shirt with blue sleeves, but features a check trim down the sides. The away shirt is black and features the same claret and blue check down the sides.
In other news today, Emile Heskey has announced his
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