You may have seen the teaser ads floating around recently, especially the one with Wayne Rooney, well here’s the full 3 minute version and it’s brilliant. I can’t wait for this World Cup!!
I bet the execs at Nike were thrilled when Dunga left Ronaldinho out of Brazil’s squad though!
2009/10 has been good for 20 year old Shane Lowry. We got to see a bit of him during last summer’s Peace Cup tournament and he looked a fine prospect, as many of the youngsters did playing alongside the regular first team players.
He made 3 senior appearances early in the season; coming on as a substitute in both legs of the Europa League tie against Rapid Vienna and also late on in the FA Cup win over Brighton at
Fabio Capello has just named his 30 man provisional squad ahead of the World Cup next month and it’s good news for Stephen Warnock, James Milner and Emile Heskey. Not such good news for Ashley Young, Stewart Downing and Gabby Agbonlahor then.
As you’ll see in an upcoming post on the Actim Index Top 100, Gabby is the highest ranked English striker, above Wayne Rooney, but apparently isn’t good enough for England. Emile Heskey does make the cut, but
Now that the international break is over without incident, and we know the 32 teams who will be competing for the World Cup in South Africa next year, it’s time to get back to Aston Villa. Wait, there was an incident? Oh, I have been out of the loop, haven’t I!
Alright, I’m labelling this 0% Villa, but I do have the less than tenuous link of Richard Dunne’s involvement and I’m going to exploit it to shoehorn
With Wayne Rooney unavailable for tonight’s final World Cup qualifier against Belarus, Fabio Capello is expected to hand Gabby Agbonlahor his third cap, most likely alongside ex-Villan Peter Crouch.
Gabby last got a run out for the senior men’s team in the 2-0 loss to Spain back in February. If you can’t recall, care to guess who his strike partner was? Yup, our own Emile Heskey. Well, for the first half anyway. Crouch was brought on in
Although this is a Villa blog, I will occasionally focus on something unrelated. Tonight it’s the somewhat local and very sad news about USA & Sochaux striker Charlie Davies who was involved in a fatal car accident during the early hours of this morning in Washington DC.
Charlie spent several hours in surgery this afternoon and evening for a fractured tibia and femur, which both had titanium rods inserted, plus an elbow and facial fractures and also a lacerated bladder.
England
10 men England lost 1-0 to Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk after Robert Green won the dubious honour of being the first goal keeper to be sent off for England. Fortunately Fabio Capello’s side have already qualified for South Africa next year and the Italian will be reasonably pleased with the way the team battled with a man down. Rio Ferdinand on the other hand…
Emile Heskey played 72 minutes and James Milner came on for the second half in place
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