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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Aston Villa Live
Football today is different in many ways to what it was like 100 years ago. In some ways thought, it hasn't changed. For example, had you offered Bill...

Aston Villa News
It was a good win yesterday and everything looked better that it has done of late but that doesn't mean I'm getting carried away even though I am gett...

Aston Villa Live
Another long week and I'm not apologising for it. It's -18 degrees outside and I've got to go and clear some snow. No time for saying sorry for no pos...

Aston Villa Live
So, I've got a feeling there is going to be quite the atmosphere at Villa Park today and that is always going to be the case with a new manager at a C...

Aston Villa Opinion
It's been a busy week. Not for Aston Villa, but for me and that is why I've not said or written much. That said, when a new manager joins, it's best t...

Aston Villa News
It's confirmed that Steven Gerrard is the new manager of Aston Villa. And I'm not going to use this post to mention again how gutted I am that Dean Sm...
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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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