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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 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...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans After Doubling the Blues
Back-to-back wins for a Jack Grealish-inspired Aston Villa has brought a wave of positivity back to B6. Can they extend recent results into a...
Toxic Aston Villa Player Hate Articles Become an Unfortunate Trend
Hate Mongers Perhaps the most annoying thing about going to a football match is that supporter who sits nearby you, who seemingly goes...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Baggies Defeat
First off, we'll save the team and player analysis until the upcoming Aston Villa Player Ratings and Observations for the game.Despite a vibrant start...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Magic Blades Comeback
Ultimately, Aston Villa's limp start to the year 2019 has probably cost them a chance of making the play-offs, but the last eight minutes...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After a Long-awaited Villa Home Win
It wasn't exactly a routine win against Ipswich Town, but having only had one win in their last nine games, Villa's season was fast...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Woeful Start to 2019
What could be worse than getting knocked out of the FA Cup at Villa Park 3-0 by Swansea City?Well, what about being beaten 3-0...
Sky Sports Needs an Aston Villa History Lesson and Villa ‘Guaranteed Play-offs With These Transfers’
I've just realised I've never mentioned the old 'Villa will guarantee promotion if they buy this player' clickbait story tactic in Media Muppets...It's...