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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: The Five Stages of Aston Villa Grief
New year, same struggle. A 3-1 loss to Sunderland has compounded the misery that all Aston Villa fans must feel at the way the...
Five Reasons for Aston Villa Fans to be Cheerful With Relegation Likely (Already)
Most of us attacked the Christmas period with one last dose of optimism. Aston Villa were playing struggling teams, so it was one last...
What We Learned as Villans After One Point from a Possible Christmas Six
A disappointing point against West Ham at home was followed by a gutless 2-0 defeat to Norwich City. Apart from the misery of watching...
The Villa Rant: Anger Builds as Premier League Drop Looms for AVFC
Premier League Drop
Bye-bye Premier League? It's difficult to even decide where to start at this stage as Aston Villa again reached the end of...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Hammers Point
Another missed opportunity for Aston Villa of valuable three points. A three points to spark confidence, claw back the gap to safety and give...
The Good, Bad and Ugly as Villa Miss Huge Boxing Day Opportunity
With little to cheer so far this season, Villa’s two points from the last two games is undoubtedly something of an improvement – for...
The Villa Rant: A Copy and Paste Performance Against the Hammers
Copy and Paste
It's tough writing unique Villa Rant weekly pieces about Villa when things seem the exact same every week. It takes work not...
The Villa Forecast: Christmas Thaw Needed to Save Season
By James FelipeThe shovel and spades were out in force as we dug our way out of trouble and found a point against fellow...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After 16 Winless
I've already grumbled about a lack of last minute urgency in the Newcastle game in the dying minutes to try and win the game,...
What We Learned as Aston Villa Fans from Splashfest In Newcastle
It was wet, miserable for 45 minutes and left Aston Villa fans wanting more - what else could Villa fans take from the not-enough-point...
The Villa Rant: Ayew Sets Example, But Garde Settles for Point
Given that Aston Villa went behind in this game, a point from St. James’ is not a terrible result. Once again the clichés come...
What We Learned as Villa Fans From Surrender Against Arsenal
After being embarrassed - again - at home, what did Aston Villa fans learn from another gutless performance against Arsenal on and off the...