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Fabio, are you effing kidding me?!
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No Ashley Young? No effing Ashley Young in your competitive England squad?! Am I watching a different sport to you or what? The guy is awesome. What more does he need to do to get recognition? Oh hang on… I know the answer to that question. It’s the same old story as every England manager, [...]
Nil-nil it was. Boring it wasn’t
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It’s been over a year since Villa have drawn 0-0 and if you’d told anyone 2 years ago that the Masters Of The Draw would become not just exciting but would average more than 3 goals scored per game, they would’ve told you that it was more likely that England would fail to qualify for [...]
Category: MiscVilla vs Liverpool preview & predictons
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The massive talking point in this game isn’t going to be on the pitch, it’ll be the Martin O’Neill (welterweight) vs Rafa Benitez (heavyweight) punch up on the sidelines! Rafa seems to have the weight advantage but my money’s on O’Neill, who is quick, agile and, judging by the occasional crazy look I’ve seen in [...]
Tags: Aston Villa, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuéllar, Chelsea, Fernando Torres, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Gareth Barry, James Milner, John Carew, Liverpool, Luke Young, Martin Laursen, Middlesbrough, Moustapha Salifou, Nicky Shorey, Nigel Reo-Coker, Premiership, Rafa Benitez, Stiliyan Petrov, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, Villa ParkPremiership round-up (Week 3)
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The third week of the Premiership is now under way and the results and league table will now slowly start to actually mean something. The first few weeks don’t really tell you much tablewise but now it will slowly start to take shape. All three promoted teams played today but none of them tasted any [...]
Category: Misc Tags: no tagsQPR in the Carling Cup
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It’s a busy time for hats at the minute, with draws going on left, right and centre. Next up is the Carling Cup and Villa have been drawn at home against Championship side Queens Park Rangers.
Category: MiscVilla draw another Never-’eard-of-’em
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The draw for the UEFA Cup first round has pitted The Villa against the Bulgarian side; PFC Litex Lovech. Here’s a link to their website, but unless you’re Bulgarian it’ll look like Wingdings! Don’t worry, just click on the ‘English’ button to transform it from undecipherable symols.
Litex play in the TBI A Football Group, which [...]
Milner joins Villa
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After much speculation of an imminent move, James Milner has now put pen to paper and officially joined Aston Villa. The deal was nearly done two years ago, after he spent a successful year on loan, but at the last minute the deal fell through and Milner returned to Newcastle.
Category: MiscVilla vs Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar (including goal updates)
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Villa’s game is about to kick off aganst the Icelandic part-timers and we take a nice, comfortable 4-1 lead into the second leg of this UEFA Cup qualifier. I’ll reach for my laptop and post any goal (or major events) updates for those who don’t have Channel 5.
Villa starting line-up:
Tags: no tagsBarry’s staying and Milner’s coming back… haven’t we heard both these before?
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Aston Villa’s Official website has today announced that Gareth Barry will definitely be staying with the club, at least until January. But hang on a minute, haven’t we been told that before? Only to be told a few days later that it wasn’t certain he would stay.
In a similar story of should-we-believe-it-or-not, the James Milner [...]
Category: MiscNormal service will be resumed shortly
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Don’t worry Villa fans, the Stoke embarrassment wasn’t a sign of things to come this season, it was just a temporary glitch, a bump in the road, a minor hiccup. Stoke were fuelled by a newly-promoted, first-Premiership-display-to-the-home-fans excitement. Villa were having a very off day.
Category: Misc Tags: Aston Villa, Celtic, Curtis Davies, England, Fabio Capello, FH, Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar, Gareth Barry, Liverpool, Luke Young, Martin Laursen, Nicky Shorey, Premiership, Stiliyan Petrov, Stoke City
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