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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 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...
Jack Grealish Hints, Tony Xia Message and Abraham Announcement
When it comes to transfer windows, there is one old clickbait trick that always rears its head. The rehashing of stories from the previous...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans About Getting Knocked Out the FA Cup
There I was hoping that 2019 would be the year that Aston Villa finally had a cup run again, the first proper one since...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Recent Statement of Intent
Since the last international break its hard to pin down Villa's true identity at the moment. We know we can score goals, which at...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Lively Blues Win
The 4-2 win against the Blues in the Second City derby was all about the result and some notable goals, but Dean Smith wasn't...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Second Smith Home Win
Dean Smith made it two wins out of two at Villa Park, as Villa chalked up a fairly routine 2-0 win against Bolton. Smith...