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Unai Emery’s Villa Squad Rebuild Aims to Silence the Doubters
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Emery’s Villa 2.0The transfer window has come and gone, and so has the majority of Aston Villa’s starting line-up. As the window shuts, Aston Villa have squad depth, but do they have the cohesiveness to carry on evolving this season?'Somehow with the window shut there is a sense of cautious optimism that the jigsaw pieces are there in...
Five Reasons to Be Cheerful After Emery’s New Lions Look Beyond Arsenal Defeat
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans after Arsenal Home DefeatWith the new season following the rather unwelcome pattern of last year's slow start, Aston Villa once again failed to register a shot on target despite producing a competitive performance against champions Arsenal.After the game, Unai Emery also confirmed that Villa's transfer business was finally complete, bringing the curtain down on one of the...
Villa Paper Wrap: New Manager Announced by Midweek
After Keith Wyness, Steve Round and Brian Little worked their way through a series of managerial options, it now looks like it's a matter...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Club Reaches New Low
Having watched Aston Villa Football club through the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's, I can safely say, they are now at their lowest ebb in...
Media Trolls Villa Fans With Steve McClaren BS Reporting
Steve McClaren Rumours
I thought we'd already been through this sorry routine about five years ago. Remember when Randy Lerner was considering Steve McClaren as...
The Villa Rant: No Laughing Matter as Villa Joke Continues
'Every team apart from bottom-placed Rotherham have managed more wins than Villa, so far.'
No Laughing Matter
What an absolute joke. A sick bloody joke. Last...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Toon Trial and Point
What the hell was happening in the first hour or so at Villa Park against Newcastle? Bizarre tactical decisions - Adomah at right wing-back...
The Villa Rant: Opportunities Lost and Gained After Two Different Draws
In isolation a point against Newcastle, especially considering recent form and the performance in the first half, isn't a bad thing at all. Taking...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Ipswich Point
Ipswich Point
After the trip to Portman Road, Aston Villa had secured three points...in a week, across three games, when they had hoped for at...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Double Late Surrender
There's a simple answer to why Villa keep throwing away three points at Villa Park, they haven't got a settled and balanced midfield. Against...
Media Muppets: Colin Leaves Villa, Rehash Clickbait, Sun Silence
Apologies if Media Muppets has been a little AWOL in recent months.No, the standard of football journalism hasn't suddenly risen, it's more a case of...
The Villa Rant: Blunt Villa Learn Nothing From Weekly Mistakes
One win in seven league games is just not good enough.
After yet another set of games that started with so much promise and ended...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After the Summer Transfer Window
Summer Transfer Window
Aston Villa have had squad overhauls in transfer windows before and they're not always guaranteed to move the club in the right...
The Villa Influence: Classic Villa Second Half Collapse
Inevitability
In typical Villa fashion, Bristol City left Ashton Gate the happier with all three points. There was a nagging sense of inevitability when Abraham’s equaliser...