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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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Aston Villa Live
There are no must win games, but we have to win tonight if we're going to take advantage of these games in hand. And it's against Newcastle, a team in...

Aston Villa Live
Frank Lampard is 'worried' after his fifth defeat in eight Premier League games as Chelsea manager. I don't think he needs to be worried, I mean he's ...

Aston Villa Opinion
Everyone knows I like numbers. Numbers for me are everything. Numbers tell us what happened and they'll also tell us what will happen. And I like our ...

Aston Villa Live
It's a big match tonight. Or is it? Regular readers will know that my views are that football is all about silverware, but you will also know that I'v...

Aston Villa Live
We picked up a lot of points in December and now find ourselves in fifth place. If and it's a massive win, we were to win our two games in hand on the...

Aston Villa Live
It would be wrong of me to not write that it was a great team performance against Crystal Palace on Boxing Day before diving straight into Chelsea tod...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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