Five Reasons

Five Reasons To Be Cheerful As Villa Put Tottenham on the Bottom Three Rack

Five Reasons to be Cheerful After Beating Spurs Ahead of the International BreakAway wins in Europe and the Carabao Cup had hinted that Unai Emery's rebuild was on the right track, even if only a small quota of new signings were actually starting in the team, due to injuries and disrupted preseasons. Against Tottenham though, Emery got to start six of his new chargers.Victory...

Five Reasons to Be Cheerful After a Week of Mixed Emotions for Emery

Five Reasons to be Cheerful After Brugge Win and Forest LossA mixed week has seen Villa finally pick up their first win of the new campaign, after getting their Champions League season off to a winning start with a hard-fought victory in Bruges. The positive momentum proved short-lived, however, as Villa slumped to a late home defeat against Nottingham Forest in a game that...

Five Reasons to be Cheerful: Holte End Steals Show as Aston Villa Takeover Looms

Impressive Holte, Bowery Magic and Takeover Gets Closer?  If only Villa scored a goal in the first minute of games more often, life would have...

Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans, as Aston Villa Takeover Rumours Offer Hope

Aston Villa takeover rumours help turn negatives into positives   I remember actor Michael Caine once say the secret to life was turning negatives into positives....

Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Villa Park Soap Opera Begins

Wind of change, clean sheets and buffers  I skipped the Five Reasons column last week after the Palace defeat as things were just too...

Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Record 10th Home Defeat

Destiny, Targets and Fulham's Potential Relegation   Some how last week I knew I would be writing this after another Villa loss. The fact that such...

Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Another 4-1 Loss

Planes, Performance and set pieces  Two 4-1 beatings in a week, not much sign of improvement there. In fact, it's just like Christmas last year...

Five Reasons to Be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Stoke Shambles

Savings, Unpredictability and Lobster  It was embarrassing. Aston Villa 1 Stoke City 4 - such scorelines should simply not happen at Villa Park. If Lambert...

Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After 15 Minute Canary Blitz

 Bicycle Kicks, Bacuna and Jose's Villa Park records There was an increasing air of disillusionment around Villa Park before the game and Villa fans for...

Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Crash Landing from Planet Toon

Home concentration, returns of hope and changes  Aston Villa's old Achilles heel of losing points in injury time seems to be back to haunt them....

Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans after Misfiring against Cardiff City

The head, the break and the point  I've always wondered if this 'Five Reasons' column would work if Villa won most of their games and...

Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans after Home Form Goes Beyond a Joke After Hammers Visit

Playing for contracts, February respite and Prozac deals  If Chelsea found it impossible to break down West Ham at Stamford Bridge, the chances were Aston...

Five Reasons to Be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans after Everton Foil Smash and Grab

 Hoolahans,  Hipsters and Hallucinogenics  Despite hitting the post early doors, Everton were largely left frustrated in the first hour of Villa's visit to Goodison. After...

Five Reasons to Be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans after the Football Circus Comes to Villa Park

  Aston Villa 4 West Brom 3 - 2014Crazy opening eight minutes. Crazy first half. Crazy amount of goals. Crazy types of goals. But nothing...