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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...
Chinese Group Pushing for Pulis and Player Wages Revealed
It's been a while since the last Media Muppets column. Why? Well, mainly because it's impossible to keep up with the increasingly suffocating click-bait...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Shameful Season Ends & New Owners Loom
This season actually ended a long time ago, probably as early as December, but Villa were finally put out of their misery as the...
The Villa Influence: Last Game of the Season Brings a Predictable Outcome
Last Game of the Season
On the last away day of the season five years ago, Aston Villa ran away 2-1 winners thanks to a...
Villa Paper Wrap: Takeover and New Manager Twists and Grealish Summer Footy
Club Sale Close
The Evening Standard gave us some takeover talk on Tuesday, this time involving a new face. They believe that another business man...
The Villa Rant: Villa Park Farewell Party and Toon Tears
Let's face it, if you can't beat this season's Aston Villa in two attempts you deserve to join them in the Championship.
Having a Party
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Villa Paper Wrap: Summer Plans and Club Sale Update
An unusually quiet for Villa news in papers in the past week as there were no controversial Gabby tales or Nigel Pearson stories this...
The Villa Influence: Even a Bore Draw Couldn’t Dampen the Holte End Party
Words cannot describe how incredible Villa Park was today. With that atmosphere you would have thought it was the title decider, not the last...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Sob on the Tyne Again
The game was appalling. It never looked like being anything other than a 0-0, after a very conservative Newcastle team devoid of ideas didn't...
The REAL Mystery Villa Park Protest for the Newcastle Game Exposed
There's been a lot of talk in the press about a 'mystery protest' at Villa Park at Aston Villa's final home game of the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Foxes Make Mockery of Lerner
This latest incarnation of the Aston Villa team are marvellously creative in finding ways to lose games, with the defence excelling at gifting opponents with...
The Villa Rant: Deeney Piles on the Misery in another Deja vu Loss
Villa have become so used to losing that even with a 2-1 lead on 90 minutes, the Villans managed to snatch defeat from the...
The Villa Influence: Positives from an Irishman Despite Defeat Against Watford
For a moment there I thought I was actually going to be talking about an Aston Villa win. But you can always rely on...