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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 Play-offs Confirmed
To many Aston Villa supporters, the play-offs have been inevitable since Villa lost back-to-back games against QPR and Bolton, soon after opening up what...
Excellent EFL Forward Planning Saves Aston Villa Taking Drastic Action
Play-off Irrelevance
When the English Football League decided to revamp English football over 30 years ago, with the introduction of American style play-offs, it just...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Ipswich Foursome
A routine win against an Ipswich team that went down to 10-men in the first half, made it three on the bounce, as Villa...
Ex-Villa Striker Return on the Cards if Aston Villa Stay in Championship
'Bowery has scored more league goals this season than Jonathan Kodjia, Scott Hogan, Ross McCormack, Keinan Davis and Gabby Agbonlahor, combined'
Forgotten Man
"If Bowery scores,...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans Because That’s the Championship
The main prize may be out of reach, but the name of the game can still be promotion, if Aston Villa find their form...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Bottling Automatic Promotion
Bottle
It's been a poor past few weeks for Aston Villa, which has seen Steve Bruce's men ultimately bottle the automatic promotion challenge. The repeated...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Back-to-Back Shame
If somebody had offered you two or three points for the QPR (h) and Bolton (a) games beforehand, you would have said, 'no, thanks'....
It’s in the Interest of Aston Villa to Ban This Football Cliché
Pretend Cup Finals
If there's one football cliché that irks MOMS the most it's when a manager or owner refers to the remaining games of a...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Hammering Wolves
Jorge Mendes and his merry men of Wolves supporters, wearing masks of the super agent, came to Villa Park half-expecting to teach Villa a...
Wolves Fans to do Villa Supporters a Massive Favour at Villa Park
Dingle Consideration
After Birmingham City's act of idiocy in arming their supporters with clappers at St Andrew's this season, Wolves supporters are set to prove...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Owls Fightback
Villa did it the hard way leaving it very late at Hillsborough to win all three vital points to keep themselves alive and kicking...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Beating Blues
Well, this column pretty much writes itself this week.The second-half was the kind of level of performance, that if Villa match it for the...