Stephen Warnock has been at Villa since the end of August, making his debut in the 1-0 victory over City on September 13th, and in that time he’s made the left back position his own, winning himself a call up to Fabio Capello’s England squad to face Brazil.
An impressive performance for the player who holds the record for the least number of minutes played for Enlgand – 6 minutes against Trinidad & Tobago in May 2008. Warnock himself credits
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There’s a group of scamps among the Aston Villa fan base who thrive on negativity. That may be the case at all clubs, but it’s always seemed particularly prevalent at Villa.
Among the Villa faithful, there have been persist rumours about John Carew’s relationship with Martin O’Neill that I delight in debunking at every opportunity. That’s as much to do with my enjoyment of proving people wrong as it is with being a Villa fan. That said, I
The Guardian seems to have a strange feature built around user submitted Photoshopped images. Gabby Agbonlahor is the subject of the latest addition and they’re truly bad.
No, I don’t know either. Note to The Guardian – please stop. Just stop.
As it’s coming up to Halloween I decided to carve myself a Jack-o-lantern, but those scary faces have been done a thousand times. I could be the first to carve an Aston Villa Jack-o-lantern though…
As a rule I try to avoid the more scurrilous stories, but as I decided to opine on Emile Heskey’s apparent cry for first team action recently I feel strangely compelled to continue the trend with the most tenuous of links.
Apparently there was a story in one of the Sunday rags about an unnamed England player sending Fabio Capello into fits of rage for using their mobile phone during dinner while away on England duty.
Well, guess who’s not endearing himself
Regular readers will not need reminding that I’m an ardent supporter of the Lerner/O’Neill management of our club. Aston Villa are barely recognizable from the club they were a little over 3 years ago. In fact, they’re almost polar opposite.
However, no one is beyond criticism and I must confess one trait of Martin O’Neill’s that frequently leaves me scratching my head is his apparent willingness to ask players to perform roles outside of their natural positions. Sure,
With Wayne Rooney unavailable for tonight’s final World Cup qualifier against Belarus, Fabio Capello is expected to hand Gabby Agbonlahor his third cap, most likely alongside ex-Villan Peter Crouch.
Gabby last got a run out for the senior men’s team in the 2-0 loss to Spain back in February. If you can’t recall, care to guess who his strike partner was? Yup, our own Emile Heskey. Well, for the first half anyway. Crouch was brought on in
We’ve all seen the type of blog comments I’m aiming this at. They’re usual derisory comments following rumours of a player moving from one club to another. Why would player X leave massive club Y to join little club Z?
In Aston Villa’s case, you might want to point them to the all time Premiership table which currently looks like this:-
But hey, points are all well and good, but it’s silverware we all love. In that case,