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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 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...
What We Learned As Villa Fans From A Return To Bruce Ball
The dull international break might have erased the memories of the limp display against Bristol City, but with more of the same following at...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Brentford 0-0
No Show
Goodness me what a poor and lacklustre performance. Brentford will be kicking themselves for not taking away all three points against a Villa...
The VTID: Steve Bruce’s September Trial of Ambition
'Promotion won't be a footballing journey, it'll be a financial necessity'
By Paul AbdaleAT the start of the season many fans thought Steve Bruce had...
Who’s This ‘Goal Scoring’, ‘Fan Favourite’ Midfielder Leaving Aston Villa?
One of the most humourous things about this summer transfer window is to see the headlines that bottom feeder clickbait websites like 'The Football...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans After Wigan & Bristol Week
Villa's away curse continues, but the 1-1 draw at Bristol City wasn't a total failure when you consider they had lost 10 of their...