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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...
Tom Fox Announces Relegation Survival Plan and Free Villa Scarves
As most Aston Villa supporters will know, Aston Villa CEO Tom Fox held a meet and greet with eight or so 'Villa supporter representatives'...
The Good, Bad & Ugly as Aston Villa Enter the Last Chance Saloon
Last Chance Saloon...On balance, Villa couldn’t realistically have been expected to pick up a positive result against an Arsenal side who, at least until...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans When Your Team Has No Spine
In days gone by when you saw the team line-up, you'd look to see if a certain player had been passed fit or what...
The Villa Rant: Too Little, Too Late Against the Gooners
Ok Villa fans. Sit down and start writing the politest letter possible to Santa. Remember to put claret and blue points at the very...
The Villa Forecast – Aston Villa’s Survival Hopes Start to Freeze
By James FelipeThe Watford loss two weeks ago killed any optimism and hope for a lot of the Aston Villa faithful as to the...
What We Learned as Villa Fans as The Saints Went Marching In For A Point
A point away at Southampton felt like two points lost, but what can Aston Villa fans take from a week which ends with a...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful for Villa Fans After Saintly Point
After resisting an opening onslaught at St Mary's, Joleon Lescott's first goal for the club he supported as a kid, got some Villa fans dreaming...
Villa Rant: Cheap Mistakes, Best Team & Injuries
VILLA RANT
A point! We got a point! Of course, three would have been a lot better but at least it shows Villa still has...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans Staring Relegation in the Face
I was tempted to rename this article 'Five Reasons to be Cheerless as Aston Villa Fans' after the Watford result. Then I wasn't going...
What We Learned as Aston Villa Fans After Hornet Sting
Another game, another loss. What did Aston Villa fans learn from a week that leaves the team seven points adrift from safety and needing...
Exciting New Villa Park Initiative to be Unveiled Against Watford
Seat Upgrade
In March this year Aston Villa announced that L7 and L8 of the Holte End would become, for want of a better term,...
The Villa Forecast: The Temperature Drops on Garde’s Survival Aspirations
The dream of replicating the 3-2 win over Everton at Goodison Park of the 08/09 season (Villa's last win there) soon turned into a nightmare,...