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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 Forest Win Makes Trio
Highlights#NFFC vs #AVFC highlights. A decent evening's work from Villa. ???? pic.twitter.com/HbIxjxvW1S
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Some Very Dubious Wolves Opinion to Go With Past Villa Failings
The below heads-up to Media Muppetary was sent in to MOMS a while ago, but we thought we'd save it for a 'look back...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Five Goal Blitz
If how good your life is, is directly related to how well Aston Villa have been doing, you've had some pretty shi**y years recently...
What We Learned As Villa Fans as Villa End 2017 In Seventh Spot
A lot of the promise and momentum Villa built up came undone as 2017 came to an end. The results against Derby, Brentford and...
Sam Johnstone to WBA in January…Really?
If there's one early trend of transfer rumours involving Aston Villa it's mischievous stories on the future of Aston Villa's loan signings. Firstly, scaremongering...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After End of 2017 Win
It may have not been pretty or too exciting, but boy did Villa (and Steve Bruce) need those three points away to Middlesbrough. A...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans at Christmas
Recap...The month of December with its six fixtures mainly against Championship teams with play-off/promotion ambitions was going to define whether Villa had genuine automatic...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Rocky December Start
Derby away was a shocker, so lets not dwell on it. The worrying concern though is Villa's performances haven't been great in December so...
Joshua Onomah Scaremongering, Sam Johnstone Rehash and False Guarantees
'Pochettino Confirms Highly-rated Young Duo Will Be Recalled From Their Loan Spells In January'...
Joshua Onomah Scaremongering
While Mauricio Pochettino has doing his media duties last...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Mute Point
Lets face it, Villa were lucky to escape with a draw at the weekend, against a Millwall team that hadn't registered a single away...
What We Learned As Villa Fans As Unbeaten Run Keeps Pressure On
Villa are on a tear and looking like one of the form horses in the division. That's not to say it's always pretty to...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Leeds True Grit
After a sluggish start to the game Aston Villa showed the kind of heart and hustle later on against Leeds at Elland Road, that...