What We Learned

What the footballing week taught Aston Villa fans

What We Learnt From the Villa’s Immediate Post-Season

Aston Villa are Europa League winners, Champions League returnees, and already three weeks into the summer transfer rumour cycle. Here are the three observations that cut through. The Rogers Sell-on Clause Changes the Conversation The transfer fee figure most commonly attached to Morgan Rogers in the press is £80 million. What the press consistently omits is the 20% sell-on clause Middlesbrough reportedly hold on any future...
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What We Learnt from That Night at Villa Park

What Villa's 4-0 Night Against Forest Actually Taught Us We'll get on to Villa's demolition job of Liverpool at Villa Park in the last home game of the season soon enough (we're playing catch up on the website), although it's worth mentioning, the atmosphere certainly carried on some of the energy from the Europa League semi-final second leg at Villa Park. As we've seen from the...
Europa League

What We Learnt as Villa Fans in a Transformative Week

What We Learnt from West Ham and Lille Wins McGinn back, Sancho released, twenty-three shots and a team that finally remembered who it was. 1. Tempo...
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What We Learnt From Villa’s Trip to Old Trafford

What We Learnt from Manchester United 3 Aston Villa 1 The post-mortem on a 3-1 loss that raised questions far bigger than the result. 1. Paralysis...
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What We Learnt as Villa Fans From the Win in Lille

What We Learnt from Lille 0 Villa 1 One shot on target. One goal. One very important win. Here's what it told us. 1. Ollie Watkins...
Europa League

What We Learnt as Villans After the Brentford Defeat

Another season kicks off — and this one already looks like it could get interesting for a whole host of reasons. So, what better...
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Aston Villa’s Set-Piece Issues and Villa Park Meltdown

What we Learned as Villa Fans from the Everton Win By Nick Price-Thompson You know what they say, a win is a win…It was hard for...
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What We Learned as Aston Villa Fans After False Start

It's been five years since My Old Man Said last ran the 'What We Learned' column on site. Maybe that's how long it takes...
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What We Learned As Villa Fans as Villa End 2017 In Seventh Spot

A lot of the promise and momentum Villa built up came undone as 2017 came to an end. The results against Derby, Brentford and...
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What We Learned As Villa Fans As Unbeaten Run Keeps Pressure On

Villa are on a tear and looking like one of the form horses in the division. That's not to say it's always pretty to...
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What We Learned As Villa Fans From Mixed Bag Three Weeks

After a decent September period, October onwards was always going to be tricky and the first of the last five games didn't start well....
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What We Learned As Villa Fans As Battle For Promotion Starts

Cast your minds back to that awful cup defeat to Boro at Villa Park. It was miserable and with only half the month gone...
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What We Learned As Villa Draw, Win (away!) And Flop Out Of Cup

Three games crammed into seven days delivered an unlucky point (and a rightly overturned red card), a comfortable away win - with a debut...
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What We Learned As Villa Fans From A Return To Bruce Ball

The dull international break might have erased the memories of the limp display against Bristol City, but with more of the same following at...
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