Last month I took a brief look at how Aston Villa’s passing statistics stacked up against the other teams in the Premiership and although we’re just in the bottom half of the table in terms of the number of passes strung together, I think it was clear that we are simply efficient in our approach. To call us a “long ball team” is a mischaracterization.
Apparently Arsene Wenger has used this term to discuss the way we played against his
For Villa fans this won’t be new or shocking, but I thought I’d share nonetheless. Last Wednesday, after our amazing 6-4 victory over Blackburn in the Carling Cup Semi-Final, I was browsing around the interwebz and I ended up on the The Sun’s website. Don’t judge me.
Sure I’m biased, but I thought that Villa coming back from 2 goals down at home to win the game in a ten goal thriller was quite a story. Surely the fact
I know there’s many of you patiently negotiating your way though the process of booking tickets for the Carling Cup Final next month. Hopefully it will be worth the effort and we now know our opponent will be Man Utd after Wayne Rooney inevitably scored the winner in injury time at Old Trafford.
So there’s a date for your diary: Sunday February 28th at Wembley Stadium. Aston Villa vs Man Utd in the Carling Cup 2010 Final.
In case you
After a very tough 90 minutes at Villa Park tonight, both sides left he pitch as they had entered it at 0-0. Arsenal rattled the frame of Brad Friedel’s goal twice, but otherwise it was Aston Villa who bossed most of the game. In the end though, for all their industry, the home side were still unable to find their first goal in the Premiership since before Christmas.
I’ll do a full review with the Statshack later as it’s
I haven’t done this for a while, but I figured it’s worth looking at again since some little event at Apple is causing Twitter to misbehave. We’ll see how it goes.
Aston Villa vs Arsenal
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
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.
I want to take you back in time once again to August 2006, just prior to Martin O’Neill joining Aston Villa. As you’ll no doubt recall, David O’Leary had finally been given the elbow in July following an embarrassing string of events which could commonly be referred to as “washing our dirty laundry in public”. The club was surrounded with speculation about various parties interested in purchasing the club and of course there was no shortage of speculation about the
Just a quick note to the “journalists” at the News of the World – if you’re going to make something up, please just do some basic, rudimentary research first.
Today they’re claiming that Aston Villa are about to make a “shock move” for Wigan’s back up goalkeeper, Mike Pollitt, as cover for the two Brads. In fact, it’s only a short piece, I’ll quote it in full:-
ASTON VILLA are considering a shock move for veteran Wigan keeper Mike Pollitt.
Villa are