Category: News

  • Villa – Newcastle; Let proceeds commence!

    Hooray, the new season starts today. I’ll be watching the Liverpool-Bournemouth game tonight, but more with a passing interest, while I wait for what could be a great game against Newcastle tomorrow. Then again, it might prove to be a total damp squib, as many first games tend to look similar to pre-season friendlies, where…

  • Villareal and a last minute stop off at the Mestalla

    So my daughter ended up being able to book tickets for the game after I’d tried numerous times on my desktop and failed. In retrospect, I think it was my constant refusal to accept cookies which might have been the problem. Whatever, we got to the game eventually. This was a game of convenience all…

  • Another striker, Guessand signed; what will his role be?

    So we’ve signed what sounds like a very promising signing, in Evann Guessand, from Nice, in a deal that I think was £24 million, but may reach 30. I find this a very interesting signing. First, it’s a player I don’t think any of us have heard of. And then he’s supposedly a striker but…

  • Villareal tickets; A total joke.

    So I’m over here in Spain and we’ve been informed by a Villareal person over the phone that there is no home or away setup at Spanish grounds. I was already pretty sure of that anyway and given that I registered as a member on the Villareal site about a month ago, I proceeded to…

  • Are Bloose bigger than Villa. Can they ever be?

    You have to laugh. What’s it about? So the wad that has bought a minority share in that lot (I don’t like to swear in the headline posts), Tom something or other, who was apparently great at that American egg throwing game, has reduced his club to the ultimate low and embarrassed them by posting…