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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: Aston Villa New Number 9 Contenders
Aston Villa New Number 9
With the transfer window coming to a steady end, it’s safe to say Villa have done an decent flurry of deals...
What We Learned After Dalian, Dr X’s tweets, the Terriers and Ram’s Stalemates
A couple of draws (at home to Huddersfield Town and away to Derby) and a series of recent highs and lows - none lower than...
The Villa Rant: Hard Earned Draw for RDM’s ‘Work In Progress’
Another game undefeated for Aston Villa and the free fall of recent months truly seems to be a thing of the past.
A Work In...
The Villa Influence: Lions and Rams Share the Spoils
An Important Point?
The last time Aston Villa faced Derby it ended 6-0, thanks to a Stiliyan Petrov stunner from the half-way line. No one...
The Villa Influence: Late Drama Rains on Villa’s Dalian Atkinson Umbrella Parade
A Fitting Tribute
In what was a bitter-sweet day for Aston Villa, fans paid tribute to a Holte Ender in the sky.I’m too young to remember...
The Villa Rant: Sleeping Giant Begins to Twitch, Keeper Hits Snooze
What a difference two games can make. After a deflating late loss on the opening day and a serious wake up call against League...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful for Villa Fans after Millers Win
Five Reasons...
After the singing of 'Things Can Only Get Better With Tony Xia' hit a flat note after the first two games of the season...
What We Learned as Villa Fans From the Rotherham Victory
The less said about the defeat at Luton Town the better, but fans can take pride in the performance and result in the season's...
The Villa Influence: The Sweet Taste of a Villa Victory
Villa Victory!
After what can only be described as an all-time low as Aston Villa were knocked out of the EFL Cup by Luton Town,...
Five Reason to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Double Loss
Five Reasons to be Cheerful
Oh football gods, really? Do we have to have another season where you serve up sh**e Villa results and I...
The Villa Rant: Hats Off To Luton as Villa Implode Again
When will it end? This time around it was The Hatters of Luton Town who got to pile the misery on Villa's characterless fallen...
The Villa Influence: Old Habits Die Hard Against Sheffield Wednesday
Old Habits
As the cliché goes, old habits die hard. Even in the unfamiliar surroundings of the Championship, Aston Villa fell victim to yet another...