There’s seven teams that have taken part in every Premiership season since it’s inception in 1992: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man Utd and Tottenham. You probably knew that and you may well also know that in all time points Aston Villa lie 5th. Even if you didn’t, you can certainly guess which 4 teams lie ahead of us, right?
Since it’s the only constant in every Premiership season I decided to check out how many points we’ve
It was over a month ago that I first wrote about the bad JuJu surrounding Aston Villa in March under Martin O’Neill’s leadership and since then I have not rested in my quest to find the source of this curse and vanquish the demons once and for all.
I couldn’t reveal my journey to you all before now, for fear of derision and at half time today in Reading I seriously questioned whether by mission had truly been successful, but by
That’s ‘The People’ as in the “news” paper, not some grandiose reference to the citizenry of any particular country by the way. Just needed to make that clear straight away.
Look, here’s the thing folks; whenever we start challenging for honours, like when we’re riding high in the top four for several weeks or, oh I don’t know, about to take on Man Utd in a Wembley final, the tabloids always start publishing stupid stories about the club. It’s
I want to take you back in time once again to August 2006, just prior to Martin O’Neill joining Aston Villa. As you’ll no doubt recall, David O’Leary had finally been given the elbow in July following an embarrassing string of events which could commonly be referred to as “washing our dirty laundry in public”. The club was surrounded with speculation about various parties interested in purchasing the club and of course there was no shortage of speculation about the
Proud History, Bright Future.
A tag line, PR spin, just a bit of marketing guff perhaps, but it’s a simple little sentence that strikes the right chord with most Villa fans. I’ve always liked it and it sums up Aston Villa at the moment as well as any four words possibly could. I’m really talking about Aston Villa under the management of Martin O’Neill and, more specifically, the ownership of Randy Lerner.
When it comes to team management it’s frequently speculated that
You might not realise it to look at lengthy tomes like yesterday’s post exploring the statistics of when goals are scored and conceded, but sometimes I have to cut things out. For the sake of brevity (don’t laugh) I stuck with the premise that in order to open the goal scoring flood gates again the team really just need to slow down and employ a little patience. Unsurprisingly, there’s a bit more to it than that.
The question at
Martin O’Neill has set the bar pretty high for himself. Around this time last year I was able to proudly proclaim our best ever Premiership season at that stage with 41 points from 21 games. I also predicted that we wouldn’t trail off during the remainder of the season, so the least said about that the better I think. I’m due to update the comparison of this season versus last season series shortly, so I won’t get into that here,
Martin O’Neill has revealed that he’s not looking to bring in any new faces during January and is equally uninterested in selling anyone from his current squad. So, if salivating over potential new signings in your bag, what’s left to speculate about?
And in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… ‘Aston Villa haven’t got any money!! Randy Lerner isn’t “investing” enough money into the club.’
Call me a cynic, call me clairvoyant if you like, but should MON prove true to his latest
I don’t know about you, but when you’re as easily distracted as I am it’s hard to get anything done. Earlier today I was researching some statistics when I stumbled on this fantastic graph which shows Aston Villa’s Goal Difference from the Premiership years plotted cumulatively.
No single statistic can accurately depict much in football, let alone going on for two decades worth of performance in the top flight. However, it’s inescapably true that the teams with the best