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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...
The Villa Rant: Aston Villa Make Hard Work of the Chairboys
Chairboys Overcome
It took long enough but eventually Aston Villa managed to overcome Wycombe Wanderers at the second time of asking (although most of us...
The Good, Bad and Ugly as Villa Battle Back against Leicester
The three points against Crystal Palace last week were a huge boost, but it was crucial that Villa kept the ball rolling against high-flying...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Foxes Point
Talk about a freaky week for Villa fans, three games and no loses, that hasn't happened much in recent seasons. While a point against...
The Villa Rant: Increased Fight and Resilience Earns Foxes Point
Another Heskey derby comes and goes and this time the spoils are shared. All things considered a draw against this seasons form team is...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After First Home Win
First Home Win Relief...
A little bit later than normal in the week, but finally a Five Reasons to be Cheerful after an actual Aston...
The Good, Bad and Ugly as Villa Actually Win a Game of Football
Villa Actually WinIt happened. 157 days after Villa beat Bournemouth on the opening day of the season, a second Premier League victory of 2015-16...
What We Learned as Villa Fans After Long-Awaited Win and Fan Flare-Up
At last - a lovely win at home against Palace but held by Wycombe in the cup, fans and players getting stroppy and nobody...
The Villa Rant: Garde Liborated to Home Comforts
When I realised the Twitter tag for the game would be #AVLCRY I was praying that it wasn't an omen of another game ending...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans as Garde Remains Winless
Lets not beat around the bush, what is happening at the club is a disgrace. Recently humbled by two relegation threatened teams in their...
The Villa Rant: Underdogs Villa snatch Draw at Wycombe as Fan Anger Boils
I was all set to ignore the larger problems at Villa for one day and sing the virtues of a Villa win and enjoying...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Villa’s 21st-Century FA Cup Third Round Exploits
21st Century FA Cup Third Round
With an abject Christmas period leaving the club planning for the Championship, the upcoming televised FA Cup third round...
What We Learnt as Aston Villa Fans in the Annus Horribilis Year of 2015
Villa fans will remember the good things from 2015 - another season of survival and a cup final topping the list. But what did...