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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 Match Previews
If we are going to stay up this season, we're going to need to be able to look back on this run in and say we deserve to stay up, it isn't going to ha...

Aston Villa Opinion
In 90 minutes today we had one shot on target and allowed the away side more of the ball than us. The BBC used the word 'ponderous' when talking about...

Aston Villa Opinion
Sorry about the lack of post directly after the Newcastle match, I got invited to another bar and I guess you can imagine what happened next. I did ac...

Aston Villa Match Previews
I'm sitting on the sofa in my bedroom, lounging about as I do most of the time these days between calls and tasks, thinking about getting in the car a...

Aston Villa Opinion
We've had two chances to get out of the bottom three and not taken either of them. At the end of the season, if we go down and to me that is looking l...

Aston Villa Opinion
I did write something about needing to win or it feeling too much like before COVID-19, but before COVID-19 we would have probably lost that. And even...
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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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