As suspected, Craig Gardner has completed his move to Birmingham City for £3.5m joining fellow ex-Villan Liam Ridgewell. Best of luck Craig and cheerio. I’ve updated the Transfers Page.
You’ve probably seen by now that Marlon Harewood has broken a metatarsal and will be out for 3 months which scuppers any loan or permanent deals that may have completed this month. Marlon’s contract is up in the summer, so I guess we’ll take care of him until then and then he’ll
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Aston Villa have been drawn against Wolves or Crystal Palace in the FA Cup 5th Round and will play away over the weekend of 13 and 14 February 2010.
The draw in full:-
Wolves or Crystal Palace
vs
Aston Villa
Manchester City
vs
Stoke City
Derby County
vs
Birmingham City
Bolton Wanderers
vs
Tottenham or Leeds
Chelsea
vs
Cardiff City
Fulham
vs
Notts County or Wigan
Reading
vs
West Bromwich Albion
Southampton
vs
Portsmouth
Update: Crystal Palace beat Wolves 3-1.
Sky Sports are reporting that Aston Villa and Birmingham City have a agreed a fee for Craig Gardner to make the switch across the city and it sounds like it’s just a formality of medical and agreeing terms next week. I know there’s a lot of fans who rate Craig highly and won’t want to see him leave, especially to go to them.
However, like Gary Cahill before him, Craig wants to play first team football and is several places down
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Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
We’re going to WEM-BER-LEY!!!
Que Sera, Sera
Aston Villa 6 Blackburn Rovers 4 (Agg. 7 – 4)
They did it!! Aston Villa have booked their first cup final appearance since the FA Cup back in 2000!!!
Villa being Villa, they didn’t do it the easy way. What drama at Villa Park tonight… who would have predicted TEN goals?? Certainly not this blogger. At least the fans at VP got their money’s worth tonight.
Villa got
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Wigan had gone to a great deal of effort and expense to counter the freak weather conditions around the stadium to ensure today’s fixture with Aston Villa would go ahead. Unfortunately, all that work came to nothing last night as the under soil heating system failed in a major way and could not be fixed. In the end it was left to the elements over night with a pitch inspection in the morning to decide whether the game
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I don’t normally jump on sensational stories like this, but most readers will be aware the affection I hold for Moustapha Salifou and I’m not alone by any means.
I’ll update this post as we learn more, but it’s being reported that the Togolese national team bus has been attacked by Angolan rebel soldiers armed with machine guns and there are some injuries.
I don’t know for sure at this stage, but I’m fairly certain that our very own Salifou would have
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Look at this BBC article, they’ve got quotes and everything!!
Peterborough United manager Mark Cooper is on record on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire saying that he wants to sign Eric Lichaj, presumably having seen him play during his loan spell at Lincoln:-
He’s been on loan at Lincoln and is definitely one we’re after. But he’s in and around the Villa squad and we’re trying to persuade them to let him out.
See? It’s easy really. Of course, it probably helps
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Today’s Carling Cup Semi-Final between Aston Villa and Blackburn at Ewood Park has been called off due to snow. I’m sure that Ewood Park probably has under-soil heating, but Police were advising people not to travel in the region unless they really had to. When that’s the case, unfortunately the game has to be postponed.
The 2nd leg, to be played at Villa Park, is scheduled for Wednesday 20th January. Next week looks clear so this game may well
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The draw for the Carling Cup semi-finals has just been made and Aston Villa have been drawn against the winner from the Blackburn vs Chelsea game. That game was a 2-2 stalemate after full time, but Blackburn are currently 3-2 up in extra time. [Update] Chelsea equalised in the final minute of extra time, but Blackburn won a dramatic penalty shoot out to set up the Semi-Final against Villa.
I believe Villa will play the second leg at Villa Park
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