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 a Villa Fan…after 1-1 with winless QPR
With David Michael
It was a familiar story to Villa's season, decent first half, not so good second half. With Benteke bossing QPR's defense and...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…after the slog of Reading
With David Michael
This column was started to be run whenever Villa lost or drew. This seemed to happen all the time, so it's a...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…after the Arsenal 0-0
"There's a good belief that they can win games" - Paul Lambert
With David Michael
Normally a 0-0 draw at Villa Park wouldn't be much to...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…after City Horror
"This won't hamper our progress" - Paul Lambert
With David Michael
5-0 and even with Villa nemesis Mario Balotelli nowhere to be seen. But who needs...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…vs Manchester United
"Villa did fantastic today" - Sir Alex Ferguson
Well, lets know dwell too much on throwing another 2-0 lead away against Manchester United...there was probably...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…after Sunderland
A Villa Win Against Sunderland
The initial idea for this column was to run every time Villa don't pick up three points, but seeing that...
Five Reasons to Be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…After Norwich
Every time Villa don't pick up a maximum three points or get called 'embarrassing' by Alan Hansen, in what is the second new regular...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…after Citeh
We all know a Villa fan tends to love a good moan and are pessimists by nature (a pessimist is never disappointed), but here's...