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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 Learned As Villa Fans This Week…After City
Done by Citeh...and the ref
Every game is a learning curve...but what do you take from a 5-0 drubbing apart from the need for a...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…after City Horror
"This won't hamper our progress" - Paul Lambert
With David Michael
5-0 and even with Villa nemesis Mario Balotelli nowhere to be seen. But who needs...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…vs Manchester United
"Villa did fantastic today" - Sir Alex Ferguson
Well, lets know dwell too much on throwing another 2-0 lead away against Manchester United...there was probably...
What We Learned As Villa Fans This Week…After United
The Troublesome Manchester United
With Steven Green
Every game is a learning curve, but Villa seemed to have learned little from previous meetings with Manchester United. ...
Paul Lambert Set to Follow in Sir Alex’s Footsteps?
A Venglos View
Question. What's the three essential ingredients a club needs to then go on to dominate the English Premier League for a couple...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…after Sunderland
A Villa Win Against Sunderland
The initial idea for this column was to run every time Villa don't pick up three points, but seeing that...
What We Learned As Villa Fans This Week (after Swindon & Sunderland)
Every game is a learning curve. This week Villa achieved back-to-back wins across all competitions for the first time since August 2011, when Villa...
Five Reasons to Be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…After Norwich
Every time Villa don't pick up a maximum three points or get called 'embarrassing' by Alan Hansen, in what is the second new regular...
What We Learned As Villa Fans This Week
Every game is a learning curve. Marking the start of this new column 'What We Learned As Villa Fans This Week', here's what we...
Is Emile Heskey One Step Away From His Own Reality TV Show?
A Venglos View
The Australian Media's embracing of Emile Heskey down under is a resurrection that only Jesus has perhaps matched. Heskey was nailed to...
Five Reasons to be Cheerful as a Villa Fan…after Citeh
We all know a Villa fan tends to love a good moan and are pessimists by nature (a pessimist is never disappointed), but here's...
What We Learned as Villa Fans After Etihad Cup Tonic
"We are a young group of players, we have all got fire in our bellies." - Fabian Delph
As the bells of doom rang once...