A story surfaced today that initially seemed completely ludicrous. In fact, so ludicrous that you probably couldn’t make it up, so there was probably a grain of truth in there somewhere. The Sun, ever the bastions of journalistic integrity, reported that Martin O’Neill and Nigel Reo-Coker had a training ground bust up that resulted with the pair wrestling on the ground. Yeah, picture that scene!
It was really heated and at one point they fell to the ground
Aston Villa have just announced a 22-man squad to travel to Austria for Thursday’s Europa League tie against Rapid Vienna. Interesting to note that there’s no place for Marlon Harewood, even though I believe we could have taken up to 25 players.
Goalkeepers
Brad Friedel, Brad Guzan, Andy Marshall
Defenders
Curtis Davies, Carlos Cuellar, Nicky Shorey, Habib Beye, Eric Lichaj, Ciaran Clark, Shane Lowry
Midfielders
Steve Sidwell, Ashley Young, James Milner, Marc Albrighton, Fabian Delph, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, Craig Gardner
Forwards
John Carew, Gabby Agbonlahor, Nathan
Knowing that the Aston Villa Academy lads had won some seven-a-side tournament in Hong Kong the last couple of years, I was curious about whether they were defending their title this year. In all honesty, it was something I forgot to check up on.
Worry not, today the OS brought us the sad news that the young lions were beaten by Rangers in the semi-finals of this year’s competition. My curiosity re-ignited, I went in search of more information.
The new home shirt for 2009/10 has just been released.
Arrest
News is just coming in that two Aston Villa employees have been detained by Spanish Police just outside of Malaga.
Details are scant right now, but witnesses report that the pair were seen loading a large, locked box into the boot of their Seat vehicle in Birmingham, England. It’s believed that they may have been under the impression that they were tasked with taking Aston Villa’s football kit to Spain. The reason for this is not clear at this
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
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!!
WEBFLASH: AVFC issue a WEBFLASH to confirm the news that Gareth Barry is in talks with Man Citeh. Seems a bit strange to me, perhaps a deal is imminent??
The Aston Villa away shirt for the 2009/10 season was launched today and hopefully you’ll like it. I do.