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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,...
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...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Jekyll and Hyde Performance
Jekyll and Hyde Performance
The Aston Villa circus rolls on. After finally finding some semblance of form in the first half against Preston and taking...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Cementing Mid-table Status
Over the past few months MOMS has expressed concern about how Villa were playing and the level of performances not being good enough to achieve...
What We Learned as Villa Fans After Loss To Lambert and Wolves
'Come on, Steve. Enough is enough. It was a nice idea. A noble idea. But it's got to stop.'
Paul Lambert continued where he left...
The Villa Rant: Villa Players Asleep At The Wheel as Nightmare Week Continues
What will it take to remove the constant lethargy within Villa squads? I'm beginning to wonder if it will ever change. This evening, not...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After FA Cup KO
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Steve Bruce had said before the Spurs FA Cup tie that Villa were going to have a go, but despite a resolute first half...