The last 4 minutes of this game suggested to me that David Moyes didn’t bring his side to Villa Park for a draw, a result which doesn’t help either side very much. However, with his nose in front, make no mistake, Everton parked the bus in the second half of this game.
Nothing wrong with that, it’s a perfectly valid tactic, we’ve done it ourselves many a time. Actually, we tended to do it in the past against opposition
Aston Villa had to come from behind to rescue a point for the third game running at Villa Park to finish 2-2 with Everton tonight. In a game that you wouldn’t exactly call a classic, it’s a point that may prove academic in the race for 4th place since Spurs inexplicably beat Arsenal 2-1 at White Hart Lane. Who saw that coming? Not me anyway.
Both of Everton’s goals came courtesy of Tim Cahill’s head following some extremely
Martin O’Neill has talked about needing to win the next 6 games to have a chance of finishing in the top 4. He’s probably right. That’s clearly the intention within the camp: Carlos Cuellar most recent updates on Twitter and Facebook talked about tonight being the first of our “cup finals” to get to the top four. That’s pretty encouraging, at least for me.
I suppose the only downside with that mentality is that the instant they fail
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 today, he’s called it Aston Villa Central and you can find it at astonvillacentral.co.uk. There you’ll find links to lots of other Aston Villa websites. See what he did there? Aston Villa Central, get it? (He has actually been calling his links page Aston Villa Central for some
Congratulations to our reserve side who have won the Barclays Premier Reserve League South for the third year running following their 2-1 win over Fulham at Bodymoor tonight. They still have a couple of games to play, but are 5 points clear of second place Arsenal with a game in hand.
As winners of the southern league, they’ll have to face the winners from the north in a play-off final in early May. Off the top of my head,
I don’t expect an answer, so I’ll use this post to draw a line under the disappointment of the FA Cup semi final at the weekend, but Howard Webb, The FA, The Referees Association, anyone with any kind of vested interest, should consider this an open letter of sorts and feel free to respond with an explanation.
We all know what happened in the 16th minutes of this game. Just about anyone who is honest and has the use of
Does what it says on the tin, these are quite literally the random thoughts I have running through my head right now. Apologies if this turns into an incoherent ramble, it’s tricky to assemble much order at the moment. I’m not looking to make excuses here, the better quality side won through in the end.
Officiating
I’m generally not one to moan about referees. The reason for this is simple; I want humans refereeing, not robots, and humans make
The scoreline flatters Chelsea, every honest Blues fan will admit it.
The positives: we were fantastic during the first 45 minutes. Defensively immaculate from front to back. Chelsea weren’t exactly at their best and unforced errors littered their play, but take nothing away from the Villa boys who all knew exactly what they had to do and carried it out to the letter.
Of course, you know a major game officiated by Howard Webb would not be without controversy.
I’m doing something a little different with this today. Any of the news links that crops up between now and kick off will appear here on the first page, with the latest at the top. The live blog will be embedded on the second page (there’s also a link at the bottom of the page) so you don’t have to load that up if that’s not what you’re here for.
Once again, the live blog will be mostly fed