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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 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...
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...