Category: News
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Villa – Olympiacos; Our first European semi since 1982
The Intertoto cup that we won in 2001 obviously doesn’t count then, even though it was administered by the same Uefa that administers all the current European competitions. Just like football didn’t exist before the Premier league, nor did any older competitions that aren’t current, obviously. I wonder how the dark side feels now their…
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Villa 2-2 Chelsea; I’m sorry, but that was tactically wrong, imo.
Quite simply, we controlled the game for the first half, but for some reason that I really don’t understand, we played a low block through the second until they got the equaliser. And so that approach remained even though Chelsea were overwhelming us and we’re proven to be poor defensively this season anyway. The really…
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Villa – Chelsea: Is this the one?
I can’t say I’ve watched Chelsea very many times this season and if I have, it’s mostly through interest in seeing how Chucky has been doing. The fact that he hardly gets a start is satisfying, even though it’s also a bit nasty of me. Hey ho, that’s how footy gets you. I went out…
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Villa -Bournemouth; Surprise, surprise. I don’t know what to think.
I really don’t like Bournemouth. I used too, but they’re such a tricky side to play. They were absolute rubbish early in the season, but they’ve now proven to be a very resiliant, physical side, which is exactly the sort that doesn’t suit us. Quite like Lille, if you like. That said, they’re not quite…
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Arsenal 0 – 2 Villa; This could have been 4-0!
I was contemplating what to say and even if I should say anything at all, because the result today pretty much said it all for me. But then it dawned on me that we were actually very unlucky in that we didn’t win this by four clear goals after Ollie did what he usually does,…