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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...
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...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful for Villa Fans Heading into the International Break
There's not much to say about this game beyond it earning three points for Villa after a typical scrappy Bruce home performance.Despite what the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Burton Hit for Four
For a change Aston Villa managed to cruise a game with a comfortable 4-0 victory away at Burton. The game was over well before...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Nervy Forest Win
Villa's 2-1 win at home to Nottingham Forest was ultimately a struggle and some Villa players weren't firing on all cylinders, but with back-to-back...
What We Learned As Villa Draw, Win (away!) And Flop Out Of Cup
Three games crammed into seven days delivered an unlucky point (and a rightly overturned red card), a comfortable away win - with a debut...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Rare Away Win
Rare Away Win
Aston Villa away wins in recent years have become about as frequent as your birthday or Christmas, so the three-nil win at...
The Villa Rant: Road to Nowhere or Time For Calm Heads
Finally, as many of us hoped and predicted, Adama Traore came good for Aston Villa.
Despite the ex-Barcelona protegé handing Villa the game against Middlesbrough...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful After Drawing a Blank Against 10-Men Boro
You know the routine...Villa don't win again, so here's still five reasons to be cheerful as Villa fans.This time after a 0-0 draw with...