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News Picks and Clicks – Mar 30th
Here’s the news that’s caught my eye in the last couple of days.
Martin O’Neill Rumour
I didn’t plan on touching this as it’s just some silliness from a forum. However, it was repeated by a couple of blogs for reasons best known to the bloggers in question and now the bastion of journalism that is The Daily Mirror are reporting that Martin O’Neill has quit. Martin O’Neill is now a trending topic on Twitter in the UK.
I’ll stick my neck
QuickStat – The Scores On The Board
I know I should let it go, but inspired by the rarity of the recent 7-1 scoreline, I found myself wondering what scorelines we Villa fans have been treated to most frequently. Here’s a couple of highlights among the findings:-
Our five most popular scorelines:-
Premiership to Date
Under MON
1-1
13.93%
1-1
15.04%
0-0
10.89%
0-0
11.28%
1-0
9.72%
2-1
9.77%
2-1
9.00%
2-0
8.27%
0-1
8.71%
1-0
8.27%
Maybe the increase in scoreless and 1-1 draws doesn’t surprise you, but there aren’t any losses among the top 5 under Martin O’Neill. Nice to see the 2-0 and 2-1’s ahead of
Looking Back – March 29th 2008
There’s one period in our recent history that I refer to frequently, so I thought I’d recount it in more detail and then I can put it to bed. Or just link to it!
So if you’re sitting comfortably, I shall begin…
Our tale begins in late March 2008, it had been an extremely poor month for Aston Villa and we still had to go to Old Trafford to play an on form Man Utd side spearheaded by Rooney and Tevez,
The Longest Week
It’s not easy to simply forget about that horrendous result at the weekend and move on, especially as a fresh wave of headlines roll in this Monday, but that’s pretty much what we have to do. Conceding 7 goals for the first time in 46 years during a season in which we were able to boast the meanest defence in the league is clearly a complete aberration, there’s no credible argument to the contrary. That doesn’t make it
A Little Perspective
7-1. Seven – One. Wow, that’s the worst beating I’ve ever seen Aston Villa take. We conceded 5 in the Premiership just 5 times before. If you go back to the pre-Premiership days, there were a couple of games in which we conceded 6 in the last few decades, but the last time we shipped 7? October 1964, Old Trafford.
Yesterday was actually the 9th time that we’ve conceded 7 away from home in the league, we’ve never
Statshack – Chelsea 7 Aston Villa 1
No narrative from me this time, what can you really say to provide any kind of worthwhile analysis? It was a freak result that doesn’t reflect our part in proceedings? Don’t believe me? Compare the numbers below with the statistics from the 2-1 victory over Chelsea at Villa Park back in October.
I guess sometimes it’s a really fine line between a great victory and a humiliating drubbing.
Incidentally, apart from Luke Young in at right back in place of Carlos
James Collins Apologises To Villa Fans
James Collins just made an apology on Twitter:-
so sorry to every villa fan after that appalling performance,im embarrassed to call myself a footballer after that rubbish…sorry.
Speaks volumes about the man. I don’t really need to add to that, I’ll let it speak for itself, but all I will say is that I hope they use this as motivation for the rest of the season. If they do, and they go on to finish the season in style, I
The Run In – Everton Are The Dark Horses
Everton fans must truly wonder what a season could deliver for them if they could hook it up at the start of the season the way they do towards the end. As far as the race for fourth place goes this season, they’re arguably hitting form at just the right time and, looking at their run-in, aside from coming to Villa Park on April 14th, every other team left to play is below them in the table. I