Villa Weekly Dose: 29 Sep 08

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Something to read while you look for a pet shop that sells these:

Stiliyan Petrov finally wins over his critics (The Mirror / Tribal Football / Team Talk)
Villa ain’t proved nothing yet, the real test is next weekend (Daily Mail / Tribal Football)
Sunderland game opinions (Independent / iFutbal / The Mirror
How far Villa have come (Vital [...]

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Tags: Aston Villa, Daily Dose, Misc

Premiership round-up (Week 6)

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The sixth week kicks off and there’s plenty of good action this week as the season continues to excite. The first Merseyside derby of the season is the early game, Arsenal take on new-boys Hull in what they hope will be a walkover, Villa entertain Roy Keane’s men, Tottenham go in search of their first [...]

Category: Misc

Tags: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Match Reports, Middlesbrough, Misc, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, Premiership, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wigan Athletic

3rd in the Premiership, 1 point off the leaders – Let the good times roll!

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What a great start to the season we’re having. Four wins and one draw (and one game we won’t mention), leaving Villa sitting very proudly in third place in the Premier League. It’s not even one of those 3rd-till-United-play-tomorrow type 3rds either, we cannot be caught by anyone who has games in hand.

Category: Misc

Tags: Arsenal, Ashley Young, Aston Villa, Brad Friedel, Curtis Davies, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Gareth Barry, John Carew, Liverpool, Manchester City, Misc, Nigel Reo-Coker, Premiership, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion

Huge opportunity wasted or huge waste of time avoided?

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Wednesday night saw Aston Villa crash out of the Carling Cup to lower league opposition for the fourth time in five years, losing to QPR 1-0 at Villa Park. Previous years have seen us fall to Leicester (1-0 at home also), Doncaster (3-0 away on a torrid night for Villa), Burnley (3-1 away) and only [...]

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Tags: Aston Villa, Burnley, Carling Cup, Chelsea, Coca-Cola Cup, Doncaster Rovers, FA Cup, League Cup, Leicester City, Littlewoods Cup, Milk Cup, Misc, Queens Park Rangers, Rumbelows Cup, Stamford Bridge, UEFA Cup, Villa Park, Worthington Cup

Villa 0-1 QPR

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League Cup action tonight as Villa aim for Wembley and silverware for the first time in far too long and it’s Iain Dowie’s QPR who visit Villa Park. Martin O’Neill will be hoping there will be no repeat of last season’s early exit at the hands of his old team Leicester City.
The game must be [...]

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Tags: Ashley Young, Aston Villa, Brad Friedel, Brad Guzan, Carlos Cuéllar, Craig Gardner, Damion Stewart, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Gareth Barry, Iain Dowie, Leicester City, Marlon Harewood, Misc, Moustapha Salifou, Nathan Delfouneso, Nicky Shorey, Nigel Reo-Coker, Queens Park Rangers, Stiliyan Petrov, Stuart Taylor, Wayne Routledge, Zat Knight

Premiership round-up (Week 5)

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The table is still fairly early days, with Hull in fifth and Villa in fourth, when everyone clearly knows that come next summer Hull will be nearer the bottom and Villa will be top! Well… I’m allowed to dream.

Category: Match Reports, Misc

Tags: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Match Reports, Middlesbrough, Misc, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, Premiership, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wigan Athletic

Villa Weekly Dose: 20 Sep 08

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Ok so I’ll admit it, I’ve totally stolen this format from the Offside’s front page feature ‘Daily Dose’ and just given it a Villa theme. Or should I claim to be just paying tribute to such a great journalistic (I probably made that word up) idea? I’ll go with the latter.
I’ll only do it weekly, [...]

Category: Misc

Tags: Aston Villa, Curtis Davies, Gareth Barry, Misc, Nigel Kennedy, Tony Mowbray, Villa Park, West Bromwich Albion

Games, games and more games

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After just three matches of the Premiership, the flow was interrupted by an international break, but now the club games are back on and they are coming thick and fast for Aston Villa.

Category: Misc

Tags: Aston Villa, Bulgaria, Chelsea, Misc, PFC Litex Lovech, Queens Park Rangers, Stamford Bridge, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion

Litex Lovech vs Aston Villa liveblog

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In the first proper round of the UEFA Cup, Aston Villa find themselves up against another relatively unknown team after beating Icelandic side FH to reach this round. Following on from Monday evening’s win against Spurs, which put us fourth in the Premiership, Villa go into the game with confidence sky high.
As usual the pre-match [...]

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Glory glory Aston Villa

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It’s fantastic to read on the web, in the media and the comments left on here about how much us Villans are enjoying the successful start to this season (don’t mention the Stoke game, I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it!). It’s fair to say that we are getting very [...]

Category: Misc

Tags: Ashley Young, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Gareth Barry, Mark Hughes, Misc, Premiership, Tottenham Hotspur