Proud History, Bright Future.
A tag line, PR spin, just a bit of marketing guff perhaps, but it’s a simple little sentence that strikes the right chord with most Villa fans. I’ve always liked it and it sums up Aston Villa at the moment as well as any four words possibly could. I’m really talking about Aston Villa under the management of Martin O’Neill and, more specifically, the ownership of Randy Lerner.
When it comes to team management it’s frequently speculated that
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Actually, I don’t know if there’s really any connection, but just days after Martin O’Neill has said he’s not looking to sell or buy and then later pretty much admitted that if he did want to buy, he’d have to first sell, we have a couple of pieces of speculation floating around today.
This morning all the talk was of Glasgow Rangers’ Kris Boyd “being in talks” with Aston Villa, which the club later distanced themselves from a little, although they’ve
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I recently asked whether Martin O’Neill was a great manager, or greatest and a few people contacted me to suggest that I was ahead of myself a little and he hasn’t really achieved the title “great” yet. Yet.
That’s a fair point. A touch of semantics aside, it was obvious that a large slice of subjectivity would influence any debate, so ultimately greatness, it would seem, is in the eye of the beholder.
With this in mind, I enjoyed Phil McNulty’s
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Finally, we’re going to get so see some Aston Villa today. FINALLY!! This will be a blog post which I’ll just update bits and pieces throughout the day as we head towards kick off tonight at Ewood Park. It seems like forever since we last had a game, which incidentally was Blackburn at Villa Park on January 2nd. Just in case you couldn’t remember.
One little story that’s bouncing around the Twittersphere as I write surrounds Nathan Delfouneso‘s stated
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I couldn’t ignore it any longer and I had to click on an Aston Villa news alert I had which I knew had something to do with Dwight Yorke, but it was in a language I didn’t recognise so I hadn’t rushed in. Turns out it was Icelandic, but the translator in my toolbar let me down so, none the wiser I ended up finding the source at the Birmingham Mail.
I’ve just been looking for the back story behind the
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With the football schedule in the UK recently decimated by the freaky weather it feels like we haven’t seen the Villa play for ages. Whether the fact that the squad have travelled up to Blackburn and Wigan, only to have the games cancelled, will have any adverse effect when they finally get another crack at Ewood Park on Thursday remains to be seen. Obviously we hope not.
We’re assured that Man City will play their game in hand today
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Martin O’Neill has revealed that he’s not looking to bring in any new faces during January and is equally uninterested in selling anyone from his current squad. So, if salivating over potential new signings in your bag, what’s left to speculate about?
And in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… ‘Aston Villa haven’t got any money!! Randy Lerner isn’t “investing” enough money into the club.’
Call me a cynic, call me clairvoyant if you like, but should MON prove true to his latest
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Well, this is ironic. Just recently I had a brief discussion with Ian Robathan on his blog about the John Carew to Fenerbahce rumour and since he seemed determined to give the story more credibility than it warranted I suggested that he was guilty of a little confirmation bias.
Nothing wrong with his opinion about John Carew, everyone is entitled to an opinion and I don’t necessarily disagree with assessment with the player at the moment. However, the story
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So old Sparky has been shown the exit at Eastlands. Hands up if that shocked you. Alright, the powers that be at City handled the matter with as little class as you’d expect based on the vulgar way they throw their money around, but I struggle to feel much sympathy for Hughes. Two Footed Tackle does a fine job representing my own perspective, so I won’t waste space here repeating that view.
In any case, if Hughes really
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