Aston Villa Must Develop Confidence If They Are To Avoid Further Losses
First off a little humour goes a long way in taking the edge of what was a poor weekend. During the war against France, captured British officers were asked why they wore red tunics as they were very...
View ArticleA Solution To The Tight Finances Affecting The Club?
I read last Saturday’s piece regarding finances within the Premier League. And I can’t see Financial Fair Play being much of a help to the teams from 7th to 20th. Something is going to hit the fan and...
View ArticleLambert Is A Leader, But He Needs Followers Too
There are so many ways for a manager to approach his team. Finding that sweet spot can be a long road. So many have crashed and burned they could start their own league. Were they all that useless? The...
View ArticleIt’s Broken. But Is There A Fix?
A week or so ago I was talking about the finances in the Premier League. More specifically, the inequities between the teams. Which, by the way, is very real. Can you imagine—billionaire owners who are...
View ArticleThe Rollercoaster Of Aston Villa – Why We Put Up With It All
Aston Villa have had a slow start to the season but then that was to be expected. We all grumbled about the losses to “lesser” league teams, and the points they lost. Points that surely will put us in...
View ArticleWhat’s Villa’s Missing Ingredient?
Over the last while it has been mentioned several times that some players wouldn’t want to come to Aston Villa. What is it that makes a team from London more attractive? Or any cosmopolitan place in...
View ArticleAston Villa’s Secret Weapon From Outside The Box?
I started thinking about the training Villa does and with this post I just may be way out to lunch. I checked with Matt regarding the facilities at Bodymoor Heath and a look at the you tube he sent me...
View ArticleIs Forty Aston Villa’s Magic Number & Will January Help The Team Achieve It?
We have all been witness to Aston Villa’s fortunes over the last couple of years. Not pretty is it? In fact, having focussed on Villa almost exclusively, we haven’t noticed the awful situations some of...
View ArticleWhy Do We Even Bother With Our Club?
Why do we back Aston Villa when we get beaten back each weekend only to get up and stand behind our team for the next game? As of late it has hurt – hurt plenty. But regardless of our vitriol towards...
View ArticleDream On, Randy
There is little any fan can do regarding Villa’s predicament. Tactics, formation, players, manager, administration, owner, and quite possibly the guy selling programs, have had a three-year run of...
View ArticleA “Big Picture” Glimpse At Aston Villa’s Future
It has been a very myopic couple of years. Over the last couple of seasons, Aston Villa has been in turmoil over one thing or another. So much so, that we don’t see the trees for the forest regarding...
View ArticleIs Villa Merely Randy Lerner’s Expensive Hobby?
There has been a lot of conjecture regarding Lerner’s enthusiasm for everything Aston Villa. Is he going to sell? Is he going to invest? Is he going status quo? Anything we hear, or try to sort out for...
View ArticleThe Relegation Threat: Is There A Better Way?
Here in the land of 24/7 ice hockey, the trade deadline has just passed with teams jockeying for a run for the Stanley Cup. Trading players can be done all season up to the deadline, but it’s the last...
View ArticleChristian Benteke’s Future At Aston Villa
So, who is this Benteke character? Twenty-two years old, and a surprising hot-shot on the pitch with a penchant for off-the-cuff comments, true or false, appearing in the news. A person who supposedly...
View ArticleThe Villa Power Trio: Lambert, Culverhouse, and Petrov
There seems to be a connection between good managers, coaches, and talent scouts. That connection is a playing career that relied on football intelligence more so than pure talent. If the talent that...
View ArticleThe Question of Wages: Are We Doing it Correctly?
Several ideas have been thrown out regarding the cost of running a football team. Wage caps and operating ceilings being some of the ideas. Professional sports teams here in North America work with...
View ArticleVilla Ahead: Why Big Spending Doesn’t Pay Out
It seems to me that a catch-22 problem has shown itself and is in danger of rectifying itself – in a positive way. First, how it happened. Very big money showed up a few years back and that money...
View ArticleAn Aston Villa Divided?
AVL has become a fine place to come to and spend a few minutes or for some, much longer to read and discuss music, humour, poetry, food, cinema, TV, pets, work and places to holiday. And not to forget...
View ArticleAston Villa to Capture North America
Football, or soccer as its called here in Canada and the United States has always had pockets of popularity. Usually found in cities that had a large-ish population of European immigrants. Vancouver...
View ArticleLambert Pushing Villa Forward
What I would like everyone to consider is the beginning of Aston Villa as a club. A founding member of modern football in England. The foresight of the four founding fathers, plus William MacGregor,...
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