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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 After Win-Loss-Win
Another three games in a week gave Villa six points and some more signs that everything is going to be all right. Then one of...
The Villa Rant: Villa Beginning to Find Balance and Results
As Villa had the best of the first half against Newcastle a few weeks ago, the season finally looked like it was coming together....
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Win Triple
Win Triple
While Villa's recent back-to-back triple wins are too little, too late in the context of the promotion, now is an important time in...
What We Learned as Villa Fans From Back-To-Back Wins With Clean Sheets
After a dismal run of form, Villa put together two wins in four days - with no goals conceded - to give fans something...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After First 2017 Win
The Five Reasons column has been on a mini sabbatical due to Villa notching up defeat after defeat, which was hardly inspiring to write...
What We Learned as Villa Fans This Week Post Flub On The Tyne
Years of goading Newcastle fans came back to bite Villa on the arse after self-destructive tendencies led to another loss without scoring and an...
What We Learned As Aston Villa Fans After Winless 2017
The unbeaten home record was the last shred of pride in what's become a miserable season at Villa Park. Defeat to Ipswich and then...
What We Learned as Villa Fans After Clash of European Cup Winners
Villa v Forest - two of the biggest names in the history of British football. Both with their glory days long behind them, although...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Back-to-back Away Failures
At Villa Park earlier in the season Henri Lansbury's 87th-minute equaliser rescued a point for visiting Nottingham Forest. This time, with Lansbury now wearing...
The Villa Rant: Aston Villa, The Club That Never Learns
Fool Me Once...
As the half-time whistle blew against Preston on Saturday the clouds over Villa Park finally seemed to be parting. Led by new...
What We Learned as Villa Fans As Players Make Debuts, But Beaten At Brentford
Brentford away was awful. The new faces, along with a good long look at Andre Green, made it potentially intriguing but the game was...
What We Learned as Villa Fans From New Signings and Same Old Collapses
Aside from the disappointment of the Preston game, it's been a busy week of transfer news which has fans hoping for a second wave...