Category: Speculation
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Here we go; what is possibly our biggest season for decades.
This really is how it feels to me. I don’t remember the last time I faced a new season with such expectation or trepidation (yes, both go hand in hand for me). There have been times where I’ve had optimism, but that’s not quite the same as it feels this season. I keep harping back…
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Villa enter the modern world; Aaron Ramsey to Burnley
No doubt I’ll be writing something tomorrow ready for the Newcastle game, but I think it’s worth saying something about this subject purely because I think it represents a sea change for Aston Villa; Quite simply, the news is that a fee of £14 million has reportedly been agreed for the sale of Aaron Ramsey…
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Gerrard sacked; So why am I worried?
Well, we all knew it was coming, didn’t we? and it was only a matter of when. Apparently Nas Sawaris was fuming when Luiz got his red card and stormed out of the directors box, with Purslow in hot pursuit. Well, I might have made the last bit up, but I just have this mental…
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Palace 3 – 1; It’s not the defeat, it’s the manner of it.
Okay, so I have to be careful what I say here. It’s just too easy to have an over-emotional reaction to a loss like this, after all. But, I can’t get away from the fact that we were horrendously bad today. So bad that I can’t point the finger at any one player, because as…
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Villa 2-1 Everton; Not pretty, but some positives and a win!
Well, it wasn’t particularly good, was it? Perhaps I should re-phrase that. Apart from about the last twenty minutes it was pretty poor. We’d taken the lead , with a good striker’s finish on the turn from Danny Ings, but it was only after Everton had had one disallowed for offside. If we’d have gone…