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Five Reasons To Be Cheerful As Seagulls Drop One on Depleted Villa
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans after Brighton LossIt's hard to remember a more dramatic pre-season at Villa Park, and after today's heavy defeat to Brighton, Unai Emery could be forgiven for wishing he had a few more weeks of it. Unfortunately, the season is already up and running and Villa have made just about the worst start imaginable with the core of...
Are Aston Villa Going Into the New Season Without a Spine?
The Good, Bad and Ugly as The Winds of Change BlowThere we are then. Aston Villa are about to embark upon another season under Unai Emery, all preseason games are done, and everyone is set and ready to go, aren’t they?The GoodThe European Super Cup Final against new nemesis Paris Saint-Germain was a genuinely enjoyable game.Despite Aston Villa entering the game as heavy underdogs,...
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...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Elland Road Crazy Shenanigans
It's certainly been a season for offbeat and at times crazy Aston Villa games. 5-5 draws, injury-time madness and now a bizarre goal in...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Play-offs Are Guaranteed with Club Record
With their 1-0 win against Millwall, Dean Smith's Aston Villa team again proved itself to be more resilient than the version that had struggled...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Epic Double Comeback
Aston Villa made it seven wins on the trot as they entrenched themselves firmer into the Championship play-off picture. After two successful trips to...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After High Five of Wins
In the first half, with passages of slick one and two-touch football, it looked like Aston Villa were going to blow another team away,...
Five Unlikely Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans After Rise to Play-off Positions
The long-running 'Five Reasons' returns, not to be confused by those who have nicked the title. Rather than state the bleeding obvious of recent...