I’m going to resist the urge to refer to this competition as the “Mooney Cup” as I really like the idea of a tournament of this type featuring these sorts of teams during the summer. I’m enjoying the massive crowds turning out in America for the World Football Challenge and with other tournaments going on around the world, I hope this is a trend that continues.
So, despite the slightly questionable backing to this tournament, the terrible website and amateur
The Aston Villa Peace Cup Squad has been announced:-
Brad Friedel, Brad Guzan, Elliot Parish, Marc Albrighton, Barry Bannan, John Carew, Ciaran Clark, Carlos Cuellar, Curtis Davies, Marlon Harewood, Chris Herd, Emile Heskey, Zat Knight, Eric Lichaj, Shane Lowry, Isaiah Osbourne, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, Moustapha Salifou, Nicky Shorey, Steve Sidwell, Ashley Young, Luke Young, Jonathan Hogg, Wilfred Bouma, Andreas Weimann.
The England Under-21 trio – Agbonlahor, Milner & Gardner – are not included. I thought I saw MON
After a brief break astonvillacentral.com is back in action. I’ve moved hosts and implemented a new design. There’s still plenty of work to be done, but it’s good enough to use – at least for phase one, phase two is a bigger project. The main thing is the performance – this place is like lightning compared to the last hosts!! So if you’ve visited in the past, but didn’t stay long because the pages just took
In some kind of marketing wet dream Aston Villa just announced that the new home shirt for 2009/10 will be unveiled on Friday in Spain. Just when I thought they couldn’t drag it out any further… they did!! And I have to say, well played sirs!!
Stewart Downing becomes the first player to join Aston Villa during summer 2009, but how will he fit in??
MON’s maintained his record of not signing a player at Villa during May or June, but can we expect a player or two in July? If you’re losing sleep over question like this then maybe this matrix will help, but probably not.
Surgeons are said to be “thrilled” after Aston Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan became the recipient of the world’s first full head transplant.
A look back at the games and signings from pre-season 2008/09 and an overview of pre-season 2009/10.
There’s no question that Randy Lerner is a breath of fresh air compared to the old regime under Doug Ellis… but how do the two owners compare financially??