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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 Nine Point Week
A satisfactory three wins on the bounce have got Villa back into the automatic play-off conversation. With tough fixtures ahead, if they break into...
The Sun Makes Bizarre Cock Up With Ex-Villan Dalian Atkinson’s Identity
Respect the Dead
Going after The Sun newspaper for media muppetry is like shooting fish in a barrel, so Media Muppets tends to stick to...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Impressive QPR Away Win
In one of the best attacking performances Aston Villa have put in during their time in the Championship, Steve Bruce's men came out winners...
Mile Jedinak to Stay in Australia Until Further Notice?
The New Wizard of Oz
Rumours have been doing the rounds that Mile Jedinak has taken the controversial decision to stay in Australia until further...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans During International Break Reflection
After a decent mid-week win away at Preston, Villa found their unbeaten home record shattered by Sheffield Wednesday, who before the game were in...
What We Learned As Villa Fans From Mixed Bag Three Weeks
After a decent September period, October onwards was always going to be tricky and the first of the last five games didn't start well....
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Blues Clappers
Looking at the latest this Second City derby in isolation, it was a sad example of what football is fast becoming and why the...
Aston Villa Fans Under Threat at St Andrews From Air Strikes
Second City Derby IssuesAfter all the WM Police and club preparation for the recent clashes between Aston Villa and Birmingham, an unidentified problem threatens...
Revealed: The Great Football Media Clickbait Swindle
Are you wise to the clickbait headline routine yet? Most aren't, when you consider the growing amount of football sites peddling no-mark content in...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Vital Fulham Win
Villa's 2-1 win against Fulham finally signalled the club's intentions to be in the promotion places come the end of the season.After the Wolves...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Wolves Lesson
Once in a while there's a live TV performance that issues a statement of intent for the season ahead.In terms of Aston Villa, for...
What We Learned As Villa Fans As Battle For Promotion Starts
Cast your minds back to that awful cup defeat to Boro at Villa Park. It was miserable and with only half the month gone...