Nigel Reo-Coker and John Carew released by Aston Villa

We have a number of players with contracts expiring this summer and uncertain futures, but the one with the biggest question mark over his head was Nigel Reo-Coker. That question mark remains no longer, the club have just announced that he has been released along with nine other players.

I know Reo-Coker wasn’t in everyone’s list of favourite players, but he’s always given 100% and frequently was the only one providing anything close to the grit we needed in the centre

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The Forrester situation: From Hong Kong to Ajax?

There are no shortage of complex Aston Villa related situations worth exploring right now, you barely have to look. From the unknown future of the incumbent manager to the past of his litigation happy predecessor coming back like a bad penny. We touched on the Friedel situation this week, which may be taking a turn toward north London, and also his younger compatriot.

We’ve got Nigel Reo-Coker‘s agent bigging him up in every willing media outlet attracting attention from all over

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Hong Kong Soccer 7s: Day two fixtures and results; No trophy this year

The young lions cruised through the group stage of the Hong Kong Soccer 7’s with the best record of all 16 teams; winning all three games, scoring nine and conceding none in the process. Andreas Weimann and Harry Forrester bagged four each and Jonathan Hogg grabbed the ninth.

You can see the full results from the group stage here.

The top two teams from each group have progressed to the Cup competition quarter finals tomorrow, Aston Villa will face Celtic. The losers

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