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Match Preview: Aston Villa v Stoke City
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Aston Villa v Stoke City
Premier League
Villa Park
Sunday 1st March 2009, 3.00pm
Pic: Yardflex
Given the moaning of a section of Villa supporters – even booing Martin O’Neill in Moscow – perhaps they’d like to offer the more switched-on Villa fans their tickets for any Champions League games we may get to play next year. Yes, some flew [...]
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Villa out of the UEFA Cup and I don’t care
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An Aston Villa reserve team, featuring Nathan Delfouneso, Marc Albrighton and Wee Barry Bannan flew to Russia four the second leg of our UEFA Cup Round of 32 tie against CSKA Moscow. They did us proud, by all accounts, and certainly didn’t get murdered. 2-0 was the final scoreline, with goals from Yuri Zhirkov on [...]
Weak squad announced for Moscow
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Martin O’Neill has revealed his 19-man squad for our trip to CSKA Moscow, and has signalled his priorities for the remainder of the season by leaving out several key players.
The squad will fly out to Russia without Brad Friedel, Gareth Barry, Ashley Young, James Milner and Gabriel Agbonlahor.
While I feel for the fans who forked [...]
Category: UEFA CupVILLA 0-1 Chelsea: unbeaten run ends, but fight for fourth remains intact
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I’m not going to go into too much detail about yesterday’s game because I seem to have watched it through some kind of wormhole, if Match of the Day’s analysis was anything to go by. From where I was sitting, i.e. in the stadium, we just about shaded the game despite Chelsea’s pretty passing, and [...]
Category: Match ReportsMatch Preview: Aston Villa v Chelsea
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Aston Villa v Chelsea
Premier League
Villa Park
Saturday 21st February 2009, 12.45pm
Pic: Topnews
In Premier League football, matches don’t come any bigger than this. With Manchester United turning the ‘big four’ into a big one, the real battle is between the pretenders: Liverpool, Villa, Chelsea and Arsenal. While Liverpool and Chelsea have second in their sights (even though [...]
Category: Match PreviewsVILLA 1-1 CSKA Moscow: Advantage CSKA, but Villa dominated
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One thing that always seems constant for Aston Villa fans is that the team always seems to pull it out of the bag on big nights at Villa Park. Last night’s draw with CSKA Moscow in the first leg of our UEFA Cup Round of 32 tie was no exception.
CSKA came to impose themselves and [...]
Category: Match ReportsMatch Preview: Aston Villa v CSKA Moscow
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Aston Villa v CSKA Moscow
UEFA Cup Round of 32, First Leg
Villa Park
Wednesday 18th February 2009, 7.00pm
Pic: Russia Offside
The UEFA Cup rolls into Villa Park for the first time in 2009 with the visit of Zico’s CSKA Moscow for the first leg in the round of 32. It’s a seriously tough draw for Villa, particularly when [...]
Category: Match PreviewsEverton 3-1 VILLA: FA Cup drops off Villa wishlist
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Two cups gone, one left. And in truth, the FA Cup has been something of a ballache this season, so I’m not exactly sad to see it go.
Martin O’Neill would never admit it, but Aston Villa weren’t at the races today and the manager, his players and the fans don’t appear to care. I certainly [...]
Category: Match ReportsMatch Preview: Everton v Aston Villa
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Everton v Aston Villa
FA Cup Fifth (FIFTH!) Round
Goodison Park
Sunday 15th February 2009, 2.30pm
Pic: 4thegame
Once again, I find myself in the bizarre position of not only being entirely not bothered about an Aston Villa match, but I have to write a preview of it. It’s the FA Cup again this weekend, and the threat of a [...]
Category: Match PreviewsBlackburn 0-2 VILLA: Villa third, six England call-ups
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Yesterday was a fantastic day for everyone connected with Aston Villa, and Arsenal’s failure to defeat Spurs today, leaving them seven points behind us, merely helps us grin all the way into Monday.
Starting with Saturday’s match, goals from James Milner and Gabriel Agbonlahor were enough to see off Sam Allardyce’s Blackburn Rovers side. I’ve not [...]
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