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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...
Tim Sherwood plotting move for £20m-rated Defender. Oh Really…
There's some transfer rumour stories that Media Muppets can smell the BS a mile off. Normally, they are written by a) The Metro, b)...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Aston Villa’s Opening Day Delight
Tim Sherwood’s first full season as manager got off to the perfect start thanks to Rudy Gestede’s aerial prowess as Villa safely negotiated a...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Cherries Win
The perfect start for Tim Sherwood's new-look team had Aston Villa fans leaving the South West coast in jubilant mood. It was a dodgy...
What We Learned As Aston Villa Fans After Cherries Victory
Villa were 3/1 outsiders against Bournemouth, with odds like that then the bookies must think we're heading off to the Championship... But, after the...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Tim Sherwood’s First Preseason
The winds of change are blowing. After Tim Sherwood’s arrival as manager in February it was always likely that this summer was going to...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Aston Villa Fan about Preseason
Mixed SummerThe failure of Randy Lerner to sell the club was perhaps the biggest disappointment of the preseason, it fizzled in the background as...
The Lowest Form of Football Reporting & More Silly Villa Nursey Rhymes
The event of the internet transformed journalism as we knew it. While it opened the door to anybody who fancied writing, the increased democracy to...
Failed Medical Derails Fabian Delph’s Move to Manchester City
Aston Villa captain Fabian Delph's attempt to follow in the tradition of Villa's best midfielders in going to warm the bench at Manchester City...
New Lows in Delph Departure Reporting and Benteke in Liverpool Shirt
When the summer transfer window boots up, editors of newspapers and their online versions rub their hands in glee, as it becomes open season...
‘Football Spy’ Mirror’s James Nursey Predicts Delph’s Likely Exit
It's hard to kept up with the media muppertry of football journalists and bloggers during the summer transfer windows. There's just so much of...
Time to Laugh About it? Cartoon Parody Videos of the FA Cup Final
There's a few unfunny comedy websites specialising in football, but we thought the below cartoons from humourous 442oons were certainly worth a place in A Venglos...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After FA Cup Final No Show
It was at the 70-minute mark of the FA Cup final that I felt the insult to supporters had gone on enough and I...