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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...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Etihad No Show
Oh gawd, these columns get harder and harder to do. It's a miracle this column has run for around four years considering how useless...
What We Learned As Aston Villa Fans After Yet Another Collapse
Another surrender: no points and no goals scored as the Villa lions looked more like apologetic church mice, frightened to make a fuss. What...
The Villa Rant: Villa Surrender in City Drubbing
Despite holding out until the second half before collapsing in spectacular fashion, this was another game that showcased all that is wrong with the...
What We Learned as Aston Villa Fans After Gutless Defeats
What can Aston Villa fans learn as two more chances to defy the odds are wasted in flat defeats, fans unite their voices against...
The Villa Rant: P45’s Ready as Everton Ease Past Villa
Out the door on 74? Villa were out of the game after less than 7 minutes.
The best laid plans......
Remi Garde decided to go with...
The Villa Rant: Stoke Loss Provides More Questions than Answers
Last weekend brought with it a ‘emotional holiday’, free from the heartbreak and stress of being a modern day Aston Villa fan. Saturday was back...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Team Undeserving of Villa Name Lose Again
Is it even worth going through the motions and discussing that performance? The way the Villa defence conceded that second goal was bordering on...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans in Soul-Destroying Week
You could say Aston Villa have reached core meltdown this week. While, it's not the first time they have been beaten at home by Liverpool,...
What We Learned as Villa Fans After 0-6 Surrender To Liverpool
Apologies in advance, but this week's column was written accidentally while driving with a laptop in my pocket.
FALSE DAWN
Clearly the 2-0 win over Norwich...
The Villa Rant: 00-6 Licence to Rant, Post Liverpool Thrashing
I was tempted to write most of this column before the Liverpool game, that's how predictable Villa games like this have become, although the score...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as Villa Secure Third Win
Aston Villa pulled league win number three for the season out of the bag on Saturday with a fairly comfortable victory over a woeful...
The Villa Rant: Villa Park Smiles again after Norwich Win
Much like many Villa fans lately I was, really questioning why I put myself through the weekly depression of investing hope and emotion in...