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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I'm eighteen years into blogging about Aston Villa so it's not a surprise that what I'm going to write today has been written before in one form or an...

Aston Villa Opinion
When I was a lad and it was such a long time ago, this might be a memory I've created, but I don't think they used to publish the League table until s...

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Let me start by saying that when Steven Gerrard was appointed, I was surprised. First, I didn't think we should have gotten rid of a manager that had ...

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Yesterday was a bit of a surprise but we shouldn't be shocked. Yes, the transfers coming in have been good and pretty much everything the manager says...

Aston Villa Opinion
It's exciting right? I mean, maybe it's just me, but no other football matters as much. Pre-season is nice, but I'm just not interested in it. It's li...

Aston Villa Opinion
It's here. No more friendlies or women's football. Proper football is back. That isn't to say friendlies and women's football isn't fun or proper foot...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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