Aston Villa Blog

With Gareth Barry, that point would’ve been 3

Hey all, hope you've been well. You're looking great! It's been a long time since I've written on here; between having a young child, a pregnant wife, a foam business to run and no internet for a while, it's been difficult to find the time to watch Villa, nevermind write ...

Back to business.

Another gap for the internationals and we're back to league business. At home to Chelsea in the live match this Saturday after Milner, Gabby and Heskey did their bit in making sure that England sewed up the easiest of tasks in getting us over the line for World Cup qualification. Heskey ...

Two sides to every story

I didn't enjoy the result against Blackburn. I didn't enjoy watching Delph and Petrov play together in the middle. I didn't enjoy seeing Villa's name come out of the hat away to Sunderland. I don't like the way NRC is being treated, naughty boy though he is, ...

Winners and Sinners!!

The winners were clearly Aston Villa, over a very ordinary Portsmouth side, and, of course, Martin O'Neill over Nigel Reo Coker after their little spat last week. NRC is now back in training and has apparently said sorry for the kerfuffle. Portsmouth had a few shots on goal without ...

Solid.

There's a very solid look about Aston Villa going from the result and performance against Birmingham City. Brad Friedel had a couple of long range shots to take care of but I can't remember him having to do anything else of note. James Collins and Richard Dunne look ...

Onwards and upwards

The transfer window has finally shut, more with a creak than a slam for many clubs as they will look back on their buying with a sigh. Not so for Villa boss O'Neill though as he says he couldn't be more pleased with his purchases. I tend to ...

Good start?

Three wins on the trot, six points from nine in the league, out of the Europa Cup. Does this represent a good start or an indifferent one? Winning at Liverpool seems to have shut the boo boys up. The win against Rapid was as tough a battle as I ...

Massive week ahead

This is arguably the biggest week in MON's management of Aston Villa to date. Players in, players out, three big matches ahead, all starting tonight against Liverpool. Ordinarily, I'd leave the blog writing until after the game at Anfield but I think that we need to get our skates on as ...

Lots to do.

Firstly, we have to do something we have failed to do so far this season in order to dispose of Rapid Vienna. Score a goal (or two to be precise!). Last nights performance was ok, nothing more, nothing less. Conceding after just 16 seconds smacks of a lack of ...

Wrong, wrong, wrong. (AV 0 WA 2)

I genuinely don't like criticising anything about Aston Villa as I've been a supporter for 35 years and things have generally been pretty good, on the whole, in the last three years or so. Today though, I am miserable because I think I have to criticise Martin O'Neill for this ...