Aston Villa Blog

Started in 2004, its gone too far to stop so I aim to post once a week. All opinions are mine and mine alone.

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We were unlucky against Manchester United last time out and they were very fortunate. It was almost as if the referees were trying to find a way for o...

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It's been a different few days. We've signed a couple of proper players in Philippe Coutinho and Lucas Digne and we've lost at Old Trafford and most w...

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It's game day baby and we all love the FA Cup and we all love a match we can win just a little bit more. This isn't me saying we're going to win tonig...

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I suppose this deserved a post considering all the speculation and this is one I don't really need to detail, but I have to write it. By all accounts,...

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I missed the Leeds match but this is a good match to start again with. Brentford are not going to be easy but three points today could see us in eight...

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I'm in beach mode so this is going to be a very quick post and I also need to find a bar that will be showing the game later. I'm sure I'll find one b...
With your usual vocal backing and 110 percent effort from each and every one of the players, I am sure we will get the right result.
Ron Saunders
I don't particularly like Birmingham City after the four games we have played against them in the Premiership.
Olof Mellberg
Villa have amazing support. If you hung 11 Villa shirts on a washing line 20,000 fans would turn up to watch them!
Tommy Docherty

Villa's Greatest Heroes

It's March 24, 1996, and Savo Milosevic has just curled the ball into ...

"Put it this way," said Ian Taylor, when asked if he was likely to ren...

"We should want the kids to know when they come here that Gordon Cowan...

Every generation, every crowd and every single Aston Villa fan has the...

Peter Bonetti. Nigel Martyn. Two great goalkeepers who in many eras ot...

One man always takes the glory for a cup win. Anyone who thinks of Eng...

"Memorable," is Dion Dublin's understated description of his first six...

In the week before this article was written, Gareth Barry took to the ...

When the whistle blew, the ball it flew … through the air, through the...

Billy Wright and Duncan Edwards were two of the greatest footballers e...

Eyebrows were raised when Aston Villa forked out £500,000 on a journey...

It seems strange that a whole generation of Liverpool fans have grown ...

With all the pain and grief caused by and surrounding the Second World...

Sims, Lynn, Aldis, Crowther, Dugdale, Saward, Smith, Sewell, Myerscoug...

I'm yet to hear it in a quiz, but I'm sure it will come up at some poi...

It's an odd quirk that, while even the very best of British have faile...

In a week that saw the new national team manager name five Aston Villa...

Paul McGrath will always hold a place in my claret and blue heart for ...