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Five Reasons to Be Cheerful After Villa Stalemate in Hull
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villans after Goalless Hull DrawWith the transfer window finally closed, Unai Emery can get back to doing what he does best: coaching players and building a team on the pitch. The performances against Arsenal and Hull have offered encouragement, even if the rather important business of putting the ball in the net remains unresolved.As Villa move on to...
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...
What We Learnt as Aston Villa Fans After Anfield Triumph
By Chris Kemps The week began with international glory, was headlined by domestic glory, and ended with the best news Villa fans have had in...
Aston Villa’s New Mystery Striker – The Sun Strikes Again!
Copying the Daily StarLets start off with a crystal clear example of how the football media works. The Daily Star writes a random 'scare...
The Good, the Bad and Ugly of an Intriguing Time for Aston Villa
A great deal has happened at Aston Villa since the four points and two clean sheets from the opening week’s fixtures, both on and...
What We Learnt As Villa Fans From Orient to Cleverley
By Chris Kemps A "rollercoaster" of a week implies ups and downs, screams of terror and laughs of delight, and perhaps the pondering if the...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans as Villa Become a Top 4 Team
Hull City at home is the type of game that normally has 'Villa home win' written all over it and the team didn't disappoint. ...
FIve Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Orient Shame
The Leyton Orient 1-0 loss in front of 17,000-odd unfortunate souls was no surprise, but still a shock, if that oxymoron makes sense? It's...
The Short-term Solution to Aston Villa’s Attacking Problems?
Shot and Goal DroughtWhen you support a team that has scored one goal in its five games and has only conjured up three shots...
The Good, the Bad and Ugly of Aston Villa’s First Two Games
Four points and two clean sheets from the first two matches undoubtedly represents a decent start to the 2014-15 season. Some aspects of Villa’s...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Villa Fans After Newcastle Stalemate
There's a couple of stats from Saturday's game that were a cause for concern. Only 30,267 turned up to see Villa's opening game of...
What We Learnt as Villa Fans at Stoke After Decent Win
It had been a pretty gloomy summer in which the fallout from last season and the dragging ownership situation had bred cynicism and indifference...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Stoke Three Points
If this season is Paul Lambert's last stand in terms of proving himself to Aston Villa fans, he certainly seems to have his feet...
Potential New Aston Villa Owner Has Chinese Royalty and Diamond Trade Connections
Another week and another Aston Villa forum is boasting about being ITK about the Villa ownership situation and having news on Villa's new buyer....