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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 Despite Recent Result Woe
17th
When you're sitting 17th in the Championship table in your third season in the league, having blown millions on under-performing players, it's hard to...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Dean Smith Makes Winning Start
It was a decent day's work for Dean Smith's new Villa regime against Swansea City. Three points, a clean sheet, a controlled performance for...
Aston Villa Boss Steve Bruce Successfully Lines Up New Job
New CareerWith pressure growing on his position as Aston Villa manager, after only one win in nine games and two years of minimal progress,...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After One Win in Nine
Yes, Villa have only seen one win in their last nine games, and that was at home against Rotherham.Away against Bristol City they seemed...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Another Injury-time Show
"Every manager who managers Aston Villa is always going to come under pressure. We’ve lost one out of seven in the league, but we’re...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After a Horror Week
Lets recap the season so far...There's been a batch of unconvincing performances to kick off the 2018/19 season, where even Villa's initial two league...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Three Draw Week
Three draws in a week? It takes me back to the days of Alex McLeish...When the Championship fixtures were made for the 2018/19, Aston...
What Does Picture of Ross McCormack Wearing the New Villa Shirt Mean?
Strange Sighting
The other day, while MOMS was looking at the current squad on the Aston Villa official website, an almost surreal image appeared on...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Cup Success
The 100% winning feeling continues, but while Aston Villa haven't been all that convincing, compared with where we thought we might be three weeks...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Best Season Start This Century
It was certainly an eventful summer for Aston Villa off the pitch, that's to put it mildly, but this week Villa's season started in...
Why Steve Bruce Continuing as Villa Boss Offered Up Zero Surprise
Clickbait Dare
At the start of last week MOMS was asked to appear on a couple of national radio shows to discuss the rumours of...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans From Villa’s Preseason
To say that off the pitch Aston Villa's pre-season has been one of turmoil would be something of an understatement. The extent of the...