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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: Wishes, Apologies, Motivational Speeches and Fan Engagement
Most fans certainly believe Agbonlahor was assisted with, especially since the 29-year-old managed to use a semi-colon correctly.
Petrov's Wish
On Tuesday we received some of...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Gabby Steps Down & Ownership Race Hots Up
The prospect of watching Villa is bad enough, never mind trying to find five reasons to be cheerful. Against Bournemouth, I couldn't bring myself...
What We Learned as Aston Villa Fans After Tragicomedy Against Saints
Defensive lapses a-go-go, boos from the get-go and protests go bananas. What did Villa fans learned from the latest defeat at home?
SAINTS ROMP
When Guzan, Bacuna,...
The Villa Rant: Villa’s Sinners Make It Easy For The Saints
Many of us have been trying to convince ourselves that Aston Villa being relegated is not the end of the world, but surely two...
The Villa Influence: Randy Lerner Not Alone Feeling a Nagging Sense of Inevitability
Inevitability is defined as something that is considered unavoidable. Relegation became an inevitability, but it could have been avoided.If inevitability set in against Leicester City,...
Villa Paper Wrap: Randy’s Love Letter, Gabby on Gas and Villa Takeover Talks
Bernstein and King Depart
Monday brought us some more drama and a horrible feeling of being completely bewildered. As I looked through the typical...
What We Learnt as Villa Fans After Aston Villa Internally Combusts
As the 2015-16 Aston Villa team head to the history books as one of the worst in the Premiership era, are there any positives...
The Villa Influence: From Player Attitudes to Relegation Confirmation
They call the home of Manchester United the Theatre of Dreams, yet there was neither theatre nor dreams associated with the weekend’s game.The last...
The Villa Rant: Black Days at Villa After Two More Losses on and off the Pitch
After another two losses for caretaker boss Eric Black, Aston Villa have officially and mathematically qualified for next season's Championship.
Black Days on The Pitch
As...
Villa Paper Wrap: Pinpointing Pearson, Flabby Gabby and Redundancies
Well, apart from relegation being confirmed at Old Trafford, here's the other stories that have swept through Villa Park this week.
Pinpointing Pearson
In the last...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan After Double Dose of Home Doom
Like thousands of other Aston Villa fans who normally would have made the trip the other week against Chelsea, I decided to give Villa...
The Villa Influence: From Black’s Bizarre Selections to Effort Issues Against the Cherries
It is the first time I have gone to a game with absolutely no expectations. I had completely resigned myself to relegation and anything...