Peace Cup Squad

The Aston Villa Peace Cup Squad has been announced:-

Brad Friedel, Brad Guzan, Elliot Parish, Marc Albrighton, Barry Bannan, John Carew, Ciaran Clark, Carlos Cuellar, Curtis Davies, Marlon Harewood, Chris Herd, Emile Heskey, Zat Knight, Eric Lichaj, Shane Lowry, Isaiah Osbourne, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, Moustapha Salifou, Nicky Shorey, Steve Sidwell, Ashley Young, Luke Young, Jonathan Hogg, Wilfred Bouma, Andreas Weimann.

The England Under-21 trio – Agbonlahor, Milner & Gardner – are not included.  I thought I saw MON

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Back In Business

After a brief break astonvillacentral.com is back in action. I’ve moved hosts and implemented a new design. There’s still plenty of work to be done, but it’s good enough to use – at least for phase one, phase two is a bigger project. The main thing is the performance – this place is like lightning compared to the last hosts!! So if you’ve visited in the past, but didn’t stay long because the pages just took

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New Home Shirt On Friday

In some kind of marketing wet dream Aston Villa just announced that the new home shirt for 2009/10 will be unveiled on Friday in Spain. Just when I thought they couldn’t drag it out any further… they did!! And I have to say, well played sirs!!

Summer Signings Matrix

MON’s maintained his record of not signing a player at Villa during May or June, but can we expect a player or two in July? If you’re losing sleep over question like this then maybe this matrix will help, but probably not.

Big’uns and Little’uns

Some new wallpapers for either end of the screen size spectrum – 320×480 for the iPhone and a massive 2560×1024 to stretch across two monitors.

Aston Villa Premiership Transfer Spend

There’s no question that Randy Lerner is a breath of fresh air compared to the old regime under Doug Ellis… but how do the two owners compare financially??