I started keeping tabs on Aston Villa players in the Actim Index Top 100 last year, although I didn’t keep records of every week. In fact, my records aren’t very good at all, but one week I do happen to have from last year is the current week – i.e. after 7 games.
It’s interesting that the record of the first 7 games for this season and last is near identical, yet Villa’s representation in the Actim Top 100 looks
Better late than never.
One thing that struck me early on during this game was the focus on the attack down the left channel. I’m not talking about simply looking for Ash on every pass, but both Gabby and Carew working the left side of the pitch. In fact, if anything, Ash played a lot deeper than usual. I put a screen shot of the average position map up at half time which really shows this effect.
There was
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty and, without wanting to get political, “suspicion of conspiracy to rob” sounds a bit like a thought crime to me, nevertheless, I’ll just leave this here…
I live blogged one game during the Peace Cup and I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to do it again. I decided to dip my toe in the water once more, we’ll see how it goes…
Updated: A thrilling game ended in the sides sharing the points. Richard Dunne scored the opener from a corner in the first half, ironically out-muscling Gareth Barry to the ball.
Bellamy got the visitors back on level terms after Adebayor finally slipped his shadow
I made a bit of a n00b error yesterday with a post referencing classic Greek mythology that unfortunately is synonymous these days with bad ju-ju happening to your computer.
Because of that it’s possible the URL is getting hijacked and re-directed to a site that shows this scary warning sign.
Hopefully it should go without saying that this website is entirely clean of such crap. The website showing you the warning most certainly is not!! I would strongly advise not
Unless there’s any pertinent issues relating to upcoming games, as there certainly are in this one, I’m going to knock these previews on the head for a while. There’s some good resources out there and my view is that unless I add something new, it’s not something I can get my teeth into.
However, this game may well have been one on the fixture list a lot of Villa fans looked for at the beginning of the season. As
Gabby Agbonlahor’s recent run of form has been recognised by Fabio Capello and is included in the England squad to face Ukraine and Belarus.
James Milner and Emile Heskey are also in the squad, but there’s no place for Ashley Young.
Curtis Davies’ agent, Phil Sproson, has recently been running to the papers in order to push on his client’s contract negotiations. As I speculated, Martin O’Neill isn’t overly impressed with this being aired in public. Go on Martin, you tell him:-
I always thought that it was private information with a contract but if the agent of a player chooses to divulge them then that’s entirely up to them.
I don’t really want to bring this into the public domain,
It was another Europa League night without Aston Villa tonight. I know, I know, I should be over it by now.
I’ve just finished watching a fine, battling performance by Rapid Vienna at Celtic Park earning a 1-1 draw. Although Celtic certainly went at the visitors, especially in the second half, in fairness it was a defensive error from Rapid that allowed the hosts to get back on level terms.
This Rapid Vienna side comfortably beat current top of Bundesliga