Firstly, I just want to reiterate my policy that this is a blog, not a news site. I’m not looking to create sensationalist headlines to fish traffic from NewsNow and so, for the time being at least, I’ve no intention of submitting this site to be included in their feeds. I generally don’t want to get involved in speculation or gossip.
However, today’s news has a slightly different slant on it that causes me to believe that the signing
It might only be pre-season, it might only be the Peace Cup, but damn it feels good to win something, doesn’t it?! Winning can be a habit and there’s no better time to start this particular habit than in pre-season.
Simply taking part in this tournament would have no great effect on Villa’s season beyond being a good bonding exercise in the sun. But winning it, and winning it in the manner that they did, could well be the
Aston Villa have won the 2009 Peace Cup on penalties. A full review to follow.
It may only be pre-season, but it’s great to see some silverware!!!
This is the first live blog commentary I’ve tried, hopefully it will go well. I’m going to restrict the Twitter updates to major points only.
The first thing I want to correct is the kick off time, apparently the final will be kicking off at 9:00pm GMT not 9:30pm as I had published in the preview. Apologies for that, accurate information has been difficult source throughout the tournament.
I have GolTV on here, they have a pre-game show
Aston Villa will face European giants Juventus in the Peace Cup 2009 Final on Sunday August 2nd in Seville. The game will be held in the 57,619 seat Olympic Stadium which also hosted the opening game between Sevilla and Juventus, attracting 15,000 spectators. If the locals couldn’t be tempted to see their home team play Juventus then I’m not holding my breath about them coming out to see an English team take on the Italians. Real Madrid
First of all, it’s pre-season and Porto didn’t put their strongest eleven out from the start so I don’t want to get carried away here, but Aston Villa just beat the 2004 European Champions to set up a Peace Cup final against Juventus. Who saw that coming after the Malaga game?
In all honesty I didn’t enjoy the Malaga game very much, there were very little positives to be extracted. I didn’t enjoy the first 30 minutes or so
I’ve mentioned somewhere on this site before that I was a relatively late bloomer to football. It was really England’s adventure in Italia ’90, guided by Sir Bobby Robson, that sucked me in.
I have Bobby to thank for my love of the game and it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge that fact on the day of his passing.
Gone, but not forgotten. One of football’s true gentlemen. Thank you Bobby!!
Aston Villa may have ridden their luck over the two games so far in the Peace Cup, but we have the semi-final line up the majority would have predicted before this tournament got going – Juventus vs Real Madrid & Porto vs Aston Villa. In normal circumstances, a pretty tasty proposition. During pre-season, who knows? According to O’Neill, the lads were pretty thrilled with their come back win over Atlante and they certainly had to work hard
No wonder Martin O’Neill’s expressed frustration at not having the Fonz at his disposal during the Peace Cup. While Emile Heskey has been trapping the ball out for throw-ins in Spain, young Nathan has been banging them in for sweets in Ukraine for England Under-19s.
On Monday Nathan scored in each half to contribute to England’s 7-1 drubbing of Slovenia, ensuring that the national side topped their group. He followed that up tonight by gabbing an injury time brace to