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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...
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...
Villa’s Alternative Funding Revealed After Share Issue Solution is Dismissed
Winning at FFP
In the recent statement by Villa chairman Tony Xia, the Villa chairman stressed, "no shareholding sale of any size will contribute to...
The Dumbest Proposals of Jack Grealish’s Future Offered Up Yet
Aston Villa have so far disputed that they have received any official bids for Jack Grealish, after fresh media reports of a £15m bid...
Secret Aston Villa Fan Crowdfunder to Destroy Fulham’s Wembley Plans Hits Target
White Walls...
In the past week, there has been a lot of talk by Fulham fans of creating a 'White Wall' at Wembley on the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans on the Way to Wembley
After the semi-final grind over two legs against Middlesbrough comes a potentially different kind of match against Fulham at Wembley in the play-off final.Will...
Gabby Agbonlahor’s Alternative Farewell Speech
Gabby's Farewell
Were you underwhelmed by Gabby Agbonlahor's short Villa Park on-pitch farewell speech (in the opening credits) to Aston Villa supporters after the last...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans, Prior to the Second Leg
In the end, the first leg of the play-off semi-final against Middlesbrough resembled several of Aston Villa's 1-0 winning defensive grinds on their travels...
Villa to Miss Out on Big Cash for Ex-Player and Loyal Servant Return
'Tony Pulis is apparently up there with Jesus. Although, it has to be said, Pulis turning a headless chicken into a '£30m world beater',...