Last season, possibly around this time of year, Aston Villa were looking fairly solid in the top four and, by contrast, Arsenal were really struggling to show their quality. We all know how it turned out, so no need to go over old ground, but one particular piece of banter from a section of the Arsenal support stuck in my mind. On a number of occasions I stumbled on a Gooner opining that Aston Villa would not be
No, don’t worry. It’s not that video!! Perhaps evidence that every cloud has a silver lining? If it weren’t for that embarrassing piece of rubbish, we might not have fans inspired to make something like this…
From the video’s description:-
Too many rubbish football songs. So I thought I would join in. To mark the 2010 Carling Cup Final, an ex X-Factor contestant recorded a theme for the Villa called, ‘Championees’ ???? As a direct response to it’s utter
Once upon a time being compared to Michael Owen would have been considered a good thing. These days, not so much. Nevertheless, Dmitri Sychev, due to his pace, has apparently earned the comparison in his native Russia where he has also been called “the most sensational young Russian forward since Vladimir Beschastnykh” and is now being linked to Aston Villa.
Who knows how much truth is in this story, and it’s not my usual cup of tea to address baseless speculation
Aston Villa fought back from being behind twice to earn themselves a replay of this FA Cup Fifth Round tie after finishing 2-2 at Selhurst Park today against a spirited Crystal Palace side.
Martin O’Neill showed respect for Palace and the competition by sending out a very strong side, with Friedel taking over goal keeping duties, it could perhaps be interpreted as a signal of his thinking for the Carling Cup Final in two weeks time. Then again, this is
The academy side recorded a 4-1 victory over Milwall in the 5th Round FA Youth Cup, setting up a quarter final against Fulham. The draw for the semi-finals has already been made and if they manage to beat Fulham they’ll face either Newcastle or Crystal Palace.
Young Dutchman Arsenio Halfhuid notched up an impressive hat-trick in the win over Milwall, all three provided by strike partner Ryan Simmonds, who bagged the other Villa goal himself. I was interested to
The first thing I notice when I create the average position maps is whether our players were deeper or more advanced in comparison to the previous match; in this case the game against Tottenham. This is most noticeable among the back four and I was encouraged to note that they were considerably more advanced on average during this game, especially Carlos Cuellar.
I sang Fabian Delph’s praises on Twitter during the game, I sang them again in the first review
This started off so brightly with Martin O’Neill handing Fabian Delph a rare start in place of the injured Emile Heskey and the home side lined up in my favourite 4-2-3-1 formation with Delph and Petrov providing the solid platform for the front four to work from.
Villa enjoyed the better of the opening exchanges and Carlos Cueller deservedly put us into the lead just before the 20th minute with a looping header that left van der Sar flapping in the
Aston Villa enjoy a fantastic bunch of fans who travel to away games, some of them getting up at ridiculous hours and going to great effort and expense to make the trip. Spare a thought though for the Villans on the west coast of America who have to get up for every weekend game at crazy o’clock to make a trip to a local sports bar that screens the Premiership, or to huddle around a computer or TV, propping
Here’s a little table I thought worth sharing ahead of our game with Man Utd later tonight. This shows how the Premiership would look if we only included the record against teams in the top half of the table. Since there’s obviously a differing number of games played, it’s sorted on a points per game basis, although that doesn’t affect Villa’s 2nd place position.
Team
Pld
W
D
L
F
A
GD
Pts/Gm
Pts
Chelsea
12
8
2
2
23
8
15
2.16
26
Aston Villa
13
6
5
2
14
9
5
1.76
23
Man Utd
11
6
1
4
17
14
3
1.72
19
Arsenal
13
6
2
5
24
19
5
1.53
20
Liverpool
12
5
2
5
16
16
0
1.41
17
Tottenham
13
4
5
4
14
17
-3
1.30
17
Man City
9
2
4
3
14
17
-3
1.11
10
Burnley
14
3
4
7
11
29
-18
0.92
13
Fulham
12
3
2
7
11
16
-5
0.91
11
Birmingham
12
1
6
5
8
15
-7
0.75
9
Stoke
12
2
3
7
7
18
-11
0.75
9
Everton
11
1
5
5
13
23
-10
0.72
8
Bolton
14
2
4
8
17
33
-16
0.71
10
Wolves
13
2
3
8
7
23
-16
0.69
9
Sunderland
12
2
2
8
12
26
-14
0.66
8
Wigan
12
2
2
8
12
34
-22
0.66
8
Hull
14
2
3
9
11
34
-23
0.64
9
West Ham
12
1
4
7
12
23
-11
0.58
7
Blackburn
12
2
1
9
8
30
-22
0.58
7
Portsmouth
14
1
0
13
7
30
-23
0.21
3
I won’t show you what the table looks like versus the