Villa Rant

The Villa Rant: Road to Nowhere or Time For Calm Heads

Finally, as many of us hoped and predicted, Adama Traore came good for Aston Villa. Despite the ex-Barcelona protegé handing Villa the game against Middlesbrough on a plate, Villa managed to underwhelm as only Villa can.This has been the case for several weeks now since the Norwich result gave us the audacity to hope that the goals, and points would start flowing. Instead Villa have continued...

The Villa Rant: Another “Rude Awakening” for Stuttering Villa

'I want to see consistency but consistent failure is not acceptable.' Why Can't We Be Happy? The new season brought with it an opportunity to be positive and optimistic. Some good link-up play in the opening game against Hull, gave hope that this team may finally be improving. A week later and Villa turn in an embarrassing away display once again.The biggest criticism of Bruce to date has...

The Villa Rant: Aston Villa Make Hard Work of the Chairboys

Chairboys Overcome It took long enough but eventually Aston Villa managed to overcome Wycombe Wanderers at the second time of asking (although most of us...

The Villa Rant: Increased Fight and Resilience Earns Foxes Point

Another Heskey derby comes and goes and this time the spoils are shared. All things considered a draw against this seasons form team is...

The Villa Rant: Garde Liborated to Home Comforts

When I realised the Twitter tag for the game would be #AVLCRY I was praying that it wasn't an omen of another game ending...