Category: News
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Arsenal – Villa; Minimal expectations.
What’s the saying? Expect the worst and anything else is a bonus. That about sums it up for me, as I can’t muster any confidence whatsoever for this game. I’m very tempted to predict a four or even five goal defeat, but just as I’ve invariably been wrong over the last few months so I…
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Villa – Lille; European quarter final
So we face a Lille side who are actually in a very similar position to us in the French Ligue 1, where they’re challenging for a Champion’s league place, although without wishing to be disrespectful, I’m not convinced that’s the equivalent of how well we’ve done, given the standard of their league. But then, current…
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Villa 3 – 3 Brentford; Disgusted and a massive two points dropped.
Work. The curse of the drinking class. That’s the saying, but it also applies to the footy fan class as well. I didn’t finish work until 3.20, so missed most of the first half. What I did see of it looked pretty good and really it was all quite comfortable, with us doing our usual…
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Villa 2 – 0 Wolves; An excellent, deserved win.
After what was a torrid fifteen or twenty minutes, where Wolves were sharper and frankly better than us, we managed to fight our way into it and went on to dominate for the rest of the game. We had a bit of a scare and it was all quite strange, as Ait-Nouri found himself in…
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Villa – Wolves; Another big game. Aren’t they all now?
So the utter waste of time that is the International friendlies is over and we’re back to the proper stuff. My disdain for these friendlies was only increased when I heard that Matty Cash got injured when he was out with Poland and is out for probably a couple of weeks. It’s not as though…