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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 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...
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...