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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...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Aston Villa Fan After Single Point at Wigan
It's over.First there was doom and gloom, then came hope and the potential birth of a bright new dawn. If the season before was...
What We Learnt As Aston Villa Fans This Week after Chelsea Loss Meant Watching Arsenal Game
For the third season, the torment of worrying about the permutations at the bottom end of the table is over. Next year promises much,...
Roberto Martinez is Next in Line for the Curse of the Aston Villa Mascot Handshake.
The greeting of a handshake is said to have derived from medieval knights gripping each others’ hands to show that they were not concealing...
Police Warn of Potentially Strange Behavior by Stiliyan Petrov at Last Game of the Season
Being Stiliyan Petrov
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have warned the inhabitants of Wigan and all supporters going to the final match of the season between...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Fans After Final Home Game Chelsea Loss
It was a game that resembled the Villa Park clash with Liverpool a few weeks back in many ways. Villa 1-0 up at half-time...
What We Learnt As Aston Villa Fans After Back-to-Back Wins Week
The six-point boaster injection to Aston Villa sees the team taking the high ground in the relegation battle with just two games to go....
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Aston Villa Fan After Norwich Win Ensures 40 Points
Another back-to-back set of wins sets Villa up nicely as the relegation battle hits crunch time. But is Lambert now looking up the league?...
What We Learnt As Aston Villa Fans After Destroying Sunderland
6-1. And just like that, the relegation scrap was blown wide open. As Villa have found their form at an essential time, Sunderland, Newcastle...
Six Reasons to be Cheerful as a Aston Villa Fan After Champagne Display Against Sunderland
There's six obvious reasons to be cheerful as an Aston Villa fan, so we'll get them out-of-the-way first.Vlaar, Weimann, Benteke x 3 and Gabby...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Aston Villa Fan after Falling to Manchester United’s RVP
Villa were expected to be on a hiding to nothing going to Old Trafford, with Manchester United needing a win to be crowned champions....
What We Learnt As Aston Villa Fans after Predictable Manchester United Defeat
Well, even the most blindly optimistic fan expected Manchester United to win at Old Trafford and pick up the title. The next four games...
What We Learnt As Aston Villa Fans This Week after Stalemate with Fulham
When Aston Villa fans did their remaining game predictions for the season, the home game against Fulham was a game that most would have...