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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...
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...
What We Learned As Villa Fans as Villa Win Twice In Four Days
After the doom and gloom of the start of the season, Villa have woken up and the fans just can't get enough of it.With...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After First Win of Season
After a week of Villa supporters and the club's manager trading their displeasure with each other via the press and social media, finally we...
What We Learned As Villa Fans From The Start of The Season
Before a ball was kicked, Villa were favourites to win the league and even without their top scorer the marquee signing of John Terry,...
The Ultimate Aston Villa Player Ratings For the Reading Game
The ultimate player ratings were meant to be a one-off for last weekend after that woeful display at Cardiff, but there's still some gags in...
The Villa Rant: Another “Rude Awakening” for Stuttering Villa
'I want to see consistency but consistent failure is not acceptable.'
Why Can't We Be Happy?
The new season brought with it an opportunity to be...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Warnock Schools Bruce
When 'Five Reasons to be Cheerful' started as a column at the inception of MOMS, six years ago, it was a satirical reaction to...
The Ultimate Aston Villa Player Ratings For the Cardiff Game
The Cardiff City 3 Aston Villa 0 game was so epic that MOMS just had to do some Aston Villa player ratings for the...