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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...
First Ex-Villa Player With Real Credentials Enters Villa Manager Race
Villa Manager Circus
If the managerial circus at Villa Park wasn't bad enough, the fact that ex-Villa player chancers like Dwight Yorke and Benito Carbone...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Club Go Bottom & Sherwood Sacked
Yet again a 'must-win' game ends in defeat and Aston Villa now rock-bottom of the league. It's curtains for Tim Sherwood too, as he's...
What We Learnt as Aston Villa Fans After Fifth Straight League Defeat
A fifth straight defeat, 19th place, four points adrift and a high profile Villa fan loses his job for doing his job. What did...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Lose Fifth League Game on the Trot
Five Reasons to be cheerful as Aston Villa fans wasn't exactly an easy column to write this week, although saying that it hasn't been easy...
What We Learned as Aston Villa Fans After Stoke Flop
Another home defeat in a potentially winnable game and more questions being asked (and answered) of Tactic Tim's tactics. What else did Aston Villa...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Potters Loss
Aston Villa are in big trouble with a quarter of a season already done and dusted. They have a manager still tinkering around as...
The Good, Bad and Ugly as Villa are Gone in 60 Seconds at Anfield
After the mixed emotions of Aston Villa’s second double-derby week of 2015, there were more confused feelings on Saturday evening after the 3-2 defeat...
What We Learned as Aston Villa Fans After Anfield Defeat
A mixed performance against Liverpool at Anfield, and Jack makes an international commitment. But What did Aston Villa fans learn from last week?I THOUGHT...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans after the Anfield Rap
I've said elsewhere that this game was over as soon as that starting line-up was picked. Sherwood was running scared from the off with...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Baggies & Blues
Beating the Blues was a no-win situation. As a Premier League team at home against a Championship team you really should take care of...
What We Learnt as Aston Villa Fans after Double Derby Date
Two derbies. One poor result followed by one big one - what can Aston Villa fans learn from the games against Albion and City?I...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Villa’s Dismal Leicester Collapse
Obvious positives, obvious negatives. That is fast becoming the narrative of Villa’s early season as their penchant for turning stable positions into desperately disappointing...