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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 as Villa Fans as Bruce is Sent Packing
After three consecutive losses and a tough upcoming fixture list, with trips to Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge immediately ahead, many Aston Villa supporters...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Villa Fans as a Third of the Season is Almost up.
Approaching a third of the season played and Aston Villa have only won three out of their 12 games, in turn, losing the third...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful Despite Late Liverpool Horror Show
It was a bitter pill to take at the weekend, as Aston Villa managed to lose a game they were 1-0 up in, with...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans, After 10th Consecutive League Defeat at the Etihad
When you consider Aston Villa's 3-0 defeat at the Etihad was the 10th consecutive Premier League loss at Manchester City (by an aggregate score...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans, as Grealish Defies VAR for Last Gasp Glory
For Aston Villa in their first season back in the Premier League, capitalising on big opportunities arising in-game that give them an advantage, will...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans Apart From the Five Goals at Norwich
It would perhaps be remiss of MOMS not to fire-up the long-running 'Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans' column, after Aston Villa...
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of Aston Villa’s First Points of the Season
With Aston Villa back in the Premier League, MOMS resurrects ‘The Good, Bad & Ugly’ an old favourite column that started six years ago on the...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of the Return of Premier League Football to Villa Park
By Lou KingWith Aston Villa back in the Premier League, MOMS resurrects ‘The Good, Bad & Ugly’ an old favourite column that started six years ago...
Aston Villa’s Opening Premier League Week – the Good, Bad & Ugly
With Aston Villa back in the Premier League, MOMS resurrects 'The Good, Bad & Ugly' an old favourite column that started six years ago...
Confirmed: John McGinn is off to Manchester United via Magaluf
MOMS was going to crank the Media Muppets column up into action once again as a reaction to all these stories about Aston Villa...
Aston Villa Hit By Infamous Curse Going Into Wembley Play-off Final
*Contains a light Game of Thrones spoiler in the last paragraphCurse Origin StoryDerby County are now the clear favourites for the Championship play-off final...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Face Wembley Death or Glory
West Bromwich Albion over two legs was always going to be the sternest play-off test Aston Villa could face. You'd fancy Villa against anyone...