Let’s be honest here, when the Premiership fixture list was published, this was the first fixture most City fans would have been looking for. Personally, I’m less interested in this opponent, but I’m nonetheless happy to see them back in the top flight – the six points each year are always welcome!
As is the nature of derby games, form and class can go out the window as the playing field is somewhat levelled by the passion. All the
I love that the Villa are media savvy enough to put together some player intro videos for use on the big screen at Villa Park before games. I love it even more that they’ve got the whole squad, including the more junior members, done this season already. It’s even better that they’ve shared them on the AVTV YouTube channel.
That said, you don’t really want to watch 30 odd 4 second individual clips of each player do you?
The team got together for the annual team picture today available in a handful of dimensions at the OS here.
It was only recently that I was comparing the current squad with the squad MON inherited and I was again struck with the same thought as I looked at this year’s squad picture. Now we truly have the squad that MON built. I thought it would interesting to view the transition over the last 4 team pictures…
2006/07
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
If
Well, that was a nice little break, wasn’t it? I decided not to waste your time or mine trying to fill the Villa void with too much guff. The preview for that little derby game coming up on Sunday will be following in the next day or two, but I thought I should briefly touch on one or two things that I didn’t deem worthy of a blog post in the last few days.
As expected, Curtis Davies has
I’ve had this post at the back of my mind for a few days, but now I sit down to write it I find that there’s little to be written, the squad speaks for itself. Check it out:-
Carew
Agbonlahor
Heskey
Delfouneso
Harewood
A Young
Petrov
Reo-Coker
Milner
Downing
Delph
Gardner
Albrighton
Bannan
Sidwell
Salifou
Herd
Warnock
Dunne
Cuellar
L Young
Shorey
Davies
Collins
Beye
Bouma
Clark
Lichaj
Lowry
Friedel
Guzan
Marshall
If you find yourself with some time on your hands, I’d encourage you to check out some of our competitors’ squads from Wikipedia or somewhere and write them down in the same fashion. If you’re honest with yourself, I
There are many problems in the modern game, both perceptual and blatantly obvious to all and sundry. There’s a myriad of opinions about the negative aspects of football and as many suggested solutions. Most would argue that football is too focused on money so we talk about salary caps and limits on buying players, generally all based on percentages of turnover.
Another commonly voiced complaint is the amount of foreign players in domestic leagues, so again we talk about
I haven’t done this for a while, but I hope to make it a semi-regular feature. The Actim stats are not without their flaws, few stats are, but they are very interesting indeed.
Just to recap Villa’s interest in the final standings for last season, there were 7 Villans in the Top 100:- 5th Gabby, 8th Barry, 23rd Ash, 24th Friedel, 25th Milner, 58th Luke Young & 87th Davies. The most glaring omission, and one that might cause some
For no other reason than it was conveniently easy, I created a full house of sizes for this new wallpaper. You can get it in the usual 1280×1024, 1280×800 or 1024×768 for your desktop, plus you fancy Blackberry & iPhone users are looked after too with 320×240 & 320×480 versions.
Click here for the desktop version or here for the mobile version.
These avatars may well look familiar to regular readers as I’ve already knocked out something pretty similar. Like last time, these are basically hand-me-downs from a wallpaper I’m working on. Hopefully I’ll get the wallpapers done and uploaded for the morning.
I’m aware that forums often have restrictions on avatar dimension and that they don’t always do a good job of scaling so I’ve provided three sizes – 100×100, 75×75 & 50×50 pixels. I’d always advise using the