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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 Aston Villa Fans After Foxes Meltdown
It was all going oh so well at Filbert Street, as we went 2-0 up against one of the real form teams of 2015....
The Birmingham Mail’s ‘Great Idea’ to Move Birmingham Cup Derby to the Weekend
Media Muppet articles are normally reserved for dumb transfer rumour stories, but the Birmingham Mail has topped any of those with this sensationalised 'social...
What We Learnt as Villa Fans as Team Takes Break
A goal-fest against lowly Notts County, a cup draw against the Noses, a 2-2 at home to Sunderland and Tonev leaves! What did Aston...
Carry On Tim Sherwood Post-match ‘Dick’s Out’ Banter (Video)
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Tim Sherwood is well-known by Spurs and Villa fans as a professor of banter and also the subject of many a funny Vine...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Black Cat Point
Sunderland will certainly be happier with the 2-2 draw than Villa, as the home side bossed much of the game and should have wrapped...
Newspaper Infers Adama Traore Already Looking to Leave Villa
Aston Villa new signing Adama Traore hasn't even played 90 minutes worth of football for his new club, but after impressing in his two...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Goals Galore and Blues Date
As soon as you saw that both the two team's line-ups were littered with attacking players you just knew it was going to be...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Villa’s Palace Disappointment
The 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace on Saturday, a second consecutive defeat for Villa, was far more frustrating than the 1-0 home reverse against...
What We Learned As Aston Villa Fans After Palace Loss
Whether it was undeserved or not, it was a case of two points lost as a draw turned into a defeat at Selhurst Park...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans as Eagles Win
Sloppy errors and a questionable choice of substitution cost Villa or point or three today against a Palace team they had largely contained for...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Spirited but Toothless Display
Losing against Manchester United is a result Aston Villa fans have got used to over the last 20 years, but there's no comfort in that....
What We Learned As Aston Villa Fans After Red Devil Loss
Villa slumped to a narrow defeat against Manchester United due to a deflection, a ref who didn’t want to book anyone, a strangulation attempt...