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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 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...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans after Six Straight Wins
Aston Villa's 3-2 win against Burton was perhaps a little to close for comfort, but six wins on the trot is six wins on...
It’s Official: Giddy Fake News Infests the Aston Villa Universe
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” -...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Defining Away Win
It was a game that a big percentage of Villa supporters would have settled with a point from, considering it was against a rival...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Fourth Win on the Trot
Aston Villa's remained 100% in the league for 2018, with a 3-1 win against Barnsley, to further the seriousness of their automatic promotion challenge.The...
Chelsea Line up Shock Transfer For Villa Striker Gabby Agbonlahor
CHELSEA are eyeing a surprise January move for Villa striker Gabby Agbonlahor, according to reports.
Unlikely Men
Chelsea are expected to bring in a striker in...