I was surprised at some of the criticisms I’ve read from Villa fans about the new 2009/10 home shirt. Two common themes seem to be, a) nothing special/innovative and, b) too similar to last year’s shirt.
In my opinion, Claret & Blue are best served simple, it’s very easy to create an absolute nightmare. Last season’s shirt was simple, classic even, so there was little to improve. Hence the similarity. A couple of common complaints last year
The new home shirt for 2009/10 has just been released.
Arrest
News is just coming in that two Aston Villa employees have been detained by Spanish Police just outside of Malaga.
Details are scant right now, but witnesses report that the pair were seen loading a large, locked box into the boot of their Seat vehicle in Birmingham, England. It’s believed that they may have been under the impression that they were tasked with taking Aston Villa’s football kit to Spain. The reason for this is not clear at this
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!!