Five Reasons
Win, lose or draw, there’s always five reasons to be cheerful as an Aston Villa fan
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans After “Fantastic” Week
Champions League football earned through a fourth-place finish in the league and a Europa League trophy in the cabinet, Aston Villa's end to the season was perhaps as good as it could get, after a wobbly period at the start of 2026. Wins against Liverpool and Manchester City, sandwiched a great night in Istanbul, as Villa finished the season in the final week in...
Five Reasons To Be Cheerful as Villans, as Villa Bounce Back
"Just when we thought we were out, they pull us back in!" To loosely paraphrase Michael Corleone. Aston Villa's double-digit points safety net for the Champions League places is a thing of the past, and the top-five race based on the contending teams’ current form is likely to stumble on until the end. Have Villa turned a corner though? Here are the latest five...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans on the Way to Wembley
After the semi-final grind over two legs against Middlesbrough comes a potentially different kind of match against Fulham at Wembley in the play-off final.Will...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans, Prior to the Second Leg
In the end, the first leg of the play-off semi-final against Middlesbrough resembled several of Aston Villa's 1-0 winning defensive grinds on their travels...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Play-offs Confirmed
To many Aston Villa supporters, the play-offs have been inevitable since Villa lost back-to-back games against QPR and Bolton, soon after opening up what...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Ipswich Foursome
A routine win against an Ipswich team that went down to 10-men in the first half, made it three on the bounce, as Villa...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans Because That’s the Championship
The main prize may be out of reach, but the name of the game can still be promotion, if Aston Villa find their form...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Bottling Automatic Promotion
Bottle
It's been a poor past few weeks for Aston Villa, which has seen Steve Bruce's men ultimately bottle the automatic promotion challenge. The repeated...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Back-to-Back Shame
If somebody had offered you two or three points for the QPR (h) and Bolton (a) games beforehand, you would have said, 'no, thanks'....
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Hammering Wolves
Jorge Mendes and his merry men of Wolves supporters, wearing masks of the super agent, came to Villa Park half-expecting to teach Villa a...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Owls Fightback
Villa did it the hard way leaving it very late at Hillsborough to win all three vital points to keep themselves alive and kicking...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Beating Blues
Well, this column pretty much writes itself this week.The second-half was the kind of level of performance, that if Villa match it for the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans after Six Straight Wins
Aston Villa's 3-2 win against Burton was perhaps a little to close for comfort, but six wins on the trot is six wins on...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Defining Away Win
It was a game that a big percentage of Villa supporters would have settled with a point from, considering it was against a rival...