The good news? Aston Villa remain unbeaten in the Premiership this year. The bad news? Boy, did they have to work hard to maintain that record today. If they’re honest, Wolves fans might be willing to admit that they put in one of their best performances of the season and wonder why they can’t play like that more often, but I still think that we were our own worst enemy today.
First of all, the game was fantastically entertaining, or at
This post was originally scheduled for Friday, but I had to swap some things around so I apologise if it’s a little out of date. I noticed that quite a few headlines featuring Villa players “hailing” this and that seemed to be flowing through the wires yesterday, so I figured that the press had been given access to some of the players and it might be a good idea to compile a quick list.
Ashley Young is looking forward
One of the great things about tournaments such as the European Championships, World Cup or even the Champions and Europa Leagues is the fact that the fixture list generally doesn’t get messed around with and all the teams play their games sequentially so we can always see at a glance the true standings in the tables. There’s never any “game in hand” nonsense to be concerned with.
With 20 teams competing over 380 Premiership matches during a 10 month span,
Martin O’Neill takes some stick over his rotation policy at Aston Villa, or lack of rotation to be more precise, and I think even his most ardent supporters are likely to agree that he could mix it up at least a little more than he does. Although I struggle to accept that professional athletes in their early 20’s get “tired” from playing a game or two of football a week (plus the travel and training of course), I’d count
I’ve really been looking forward to getting to this one. 28 games played, 10 left to go.
If you’ve been keeping a concerned eye on the fact that we’ve been running a little behind last year’s performance points wise lately then you may well have failed to realise that we were approaching the point where the wheels fell off the wagon last year. To be more precise; around this time last year we lost 4 on the bounce (games
I sometimes struggle to enjoy a game now and again, even ones we win, because the nervous energy doesn’t allow me to relax and be entertained. Maybe you’re the same. Maybe it’s just me. Either way, this wasn’t one of those games, I enjoyed almost every minute, even the final few. OK, maybe not the final few so much and probably not the opening 5 or so minutes, but in between it was really entertaining.
All the games we’re playing right now are the reverse fixtures of games we played earlier in the season. Nothing out of the ordinary about that, but this was one 2nd leg match I was anxious to get to. You can probably already guess why, but if not; if there was any game this season I’d like a do-over on, it’s the opening day clash against Wigan at Villa Park.
I wondered after that game whether I’d done Wigan a
James Collins joins the Aston Villa Central wallpaper collection for the first time and is one of the first to now also be available in 1920×1200 on top of the usual resolutions. This is also the first brand new wallpaper to be added to the new mini-site.
There’s seven teams that have taken part in every Premiership season since it’s inception in 1992: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man Utd and Tottenham. You probably knew that and you may well also know that in all time points Aston Villa lie 5th. Even if you didn’t, you can certainly guess which 4 teams lie ahead of us, right?
Since it’s the only constant in every Premiership season I decided to check out how many points we’ve