Category: News
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Are sale/buyback deals a good idea?
So the Jaden Philogene deal has been talked about again and I thought it might make a decent topic for conversation which can help take our minds off the borefest that was the international break. As if anyone didn’t know, we sold him to Hull for £5 million and have first shout to buy him…
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Villa 3 – 1 Fulham; Outstanding
I’m blown away by how good that was to watch. I wouldn’t say we were 100% better than Fulham, as the cottagers did have a couple of spells where they dominated, but we were a good 75-80% better than them. That’s 13 on the trot at home, I think, which equals a record and 6…
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Villa – Fulham; Looks drawish to me
I quite like Fulham as a club. When you consider their resources and the fact that they’re not very fashionable, you have to admire how they keep ticking over in the big boys league and aren’t the perennial strugglers you’d expect them to be. I think they manage to achieve it by playing very pragmatic…
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Forest 2 – 0 Villa; Normal service resumed
You have to laugh, don’t you? Just as things were looking good, so we go and lose to a team that on paper suggests that we shouldn’t have. I think it might have been the God Clough who first said we don’t play on paper and whoever it was, was totally correct, as proved today.…
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Az Alkmaar 1- 4 Villa; Spanked. Who are ya?
What was I worried about? Is it unfair of me to say that AZ played like a bunch of total amateurs? Truthfully, I don’t think it is and my over-riding thought was that they need to learn how to play the offside rule. How can a professional team get that so wrong, so many times?…