I only knock these Statshacks up for Premiership games, can you believe that it’s almost 3 weeks since the last one? No wonder we have all these games to make up this month!
This one shows more domination from Villa than I was expecting with 60% of possession and a CPS of 65%, which pretty much means we outpassed them 2:1. Someone let me know when they start awarding points for that though!
I watched the headlines flowing through Twitter after
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A frustrating game that never really got going ended in a far from unpredictable goalless draw. Not one for fans of sexy, total football this one that’s for sure. A point is a point and we’re unbeaten, but I was expecting a burst of energy and quality that would expose Stoke and in the final analysis it never really arrived.
There’s an important distinction between tiredness, at least in the physical sense, and fatigue. I think we’re seeing a team struggling
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Hopefully you’ve noticed the new decor and if you’re not using Internet Explorer then all should look pretty much as I intended. Internet Explorer users may notice one or two quirks, but they must be used to that using Internet Explorer. I’ve still got plenty of work to do, so I’ll keep the IE glitches in mind and try to find a fix along the way, but if you are using Internet Explorer and there’s something wrong on
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I apologise for the lack of posts the last couple of days, I’ve been furiously coding and I’m reasonably optimistic that I can start shipping components of the new site live today. If all goes to plan (and I use the word ‘plan’ in the absolute loosest sense of the word) I could well be in a position to switch over completely late tonight. If that’s the case then there will be an hour or two of downtime,
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Now that the curse is over I’m expecting Aston Villa to go from one extreme to the other. We may have never won a game in March under Martin O’Neill before Sunday’s FA Cup victory over Reading, but if you’ve looked at the fixture list you may be feeling the same as me.
I don’t blame MON’s little whine about fixture congestion, what sort of manager would he be if he didn’t, but he knows that this only happens to the
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If you use the internet much then chances are high that you use Google at least every now and again. You may have noticed that the search giant often wants to help you with your searches by making suggestions to complete your phrase. This gives you a glimpse into the zeigeit as it’s based on what everyone else is searching for.
I stumbled on a suggestion for one of our players last night which caused me to check out
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In short, no.
Then again, maybe it is… eventually.
Maybe no one really remembers the runner-up, but they’re rightly rewarded with cold hard currency which is needed to help finance next year’s campaigns. I’ve never made a secret of my opposition to the rich benefactor approach or my pride at the Villa way of doing things right now. I’m pretty certain that I’m not in the minority there.
I want to see Aston Villa challenging for titles at home and abroad as much
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February was a busy month, but with all the Carling Cup and FA Cup fixtures, there were only 3 Premiership games to capture the data from. It’s probably quite fitting since he’s consistently among the highest scoring players in every game that Brad Friedel finally win an AVC Player of the Month award himself.
Very well deserved and largely thanks to being the highest scoring player in the Tottenham and Man Utd games. It’s unquestionable that Brad has saved
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It was over a month ago that I first wrote about the bad JuJu surrounding Aston Villa in March under Martin O’Neill’s leadership and since then I have not rested in my quest to find the source of this curse and vanquish the demons once and for all.
I couldn’t reveal my journey to you all before now, for fear of derision and at half time today in Reading I seriously questioned whether by mission had truly been successful, but by
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