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We mostly don’t make things easy for ourselves, do we? The headline score seems pretty convincing, but I really didn’t think it was at the time and I fully expected us to blow it and possibly even go on to…
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Villa – Forest; Trickier than it looks.
For the last couple of months or more, I’ve become more and more confident and predicted quite a few wins. We all know where that got us. It just goes to confirm that as soon as you genuinely start to…
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Fulham 1 – 2 Villa; Superb win. Now where’s that humble pie?
I think the headline pretty much says it all, but I guess I’d better say something. Quite simply, I thought that was a real gritty performance; one that we dragged out despite some shocking refereeing, which was only matched by…
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Fulham – Villa; Oh dear, oh dear
It just goes from bad to worse, doesn’t it? On top of Mings and Buendia being out for the season with serious knee injuries, we now have Kamara, with a similar injury, Konsa with a knee sprain and out for…
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Villa 1 – 2 Man U; Gutted, but so, so predictable.
How gutting was that? I thought we were the better side for a big part of that game, but quite often there’s no getting past a poor or biased referee. It’s very rare for me to complain about a ref,…
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Villa – Man Utd; This is only going one way.
I didn’t really want to talk about the Chelsea game for obvious reasons, but I don’t think I can avoid it because it’s totally relevant to our upcoming game. Yet again, the team looked leggy and also mentally slow. It’s…
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Villa – Chelsea; We should win easily. I’ve been told so.
It’s a bit late this one, as I’m working away from home and couldn’t get in the front door of my digs. Long story short, I spent three quarters of an hour stood outside before I managed to get in.…
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Sheffield Utd 0-5 Villa; Everybody happy? I’m not.
Well, of course I am with the result. How can you not be? But I’m looking a bit deeper than that and I’m not in the slightest bit convinced by that game. Hands up. My source went haywire just before…
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Sheffield Utd – Villa; Very doubtful about this one.
It all seems so illogical. Sheffield currently sit on ten points. No team with less than thirteen points at this stage has survived relegation in Premier league history. They’ve kept one clean sheet all season and have conceded 54 goals.…
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Villa 1 – 3 Newcastle; Awful. Should we be worried?
I’m still trying to reconcile this result and am seriously struggling. I talked yesterday about the fact that Newcastle hadn’t won for 6 games or whatever and that I was trying to put the immediate thought about us being a…
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Villa – Newcastle; Quite looking forward to this massive game
After a restful couple of weeks for the lads, the games are coming thick and fast again. Chelsea on Friday, the Barcodes tonight and Sheffield on Saturday. I love it, as much as we know it’s not great for the…
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Chelsea 0 – 0 Villa; An intriguing, if not quite captivating game.
I was going to just throw a quick comment or two about this game into the Newcastle preview, but I’m actually watching the Barcodes’ FA cup time now and a couple of thoughts have entered my head. See how much…
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Chelsea – Villa; FA cup, am I bovvered?
So I’m back home from my jollies and feeling a bit down, to be honest. Perhaps not for the reasons you’d expect though. I usually have fleeting moments of sadness when returning from a holiday, but that’s all they are.…
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Everton 0 – 0 Villa; Not sure what to think
So it’s a bit late. Sorry, but there probably won’t be much to debate over the next few days anyway. I suggested that this might not be the sort of game where we’d win and sadly, I was proved right.…
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Everton – Villa; Am I expecting too much?
Well, it’s the middle of winter and it looks like we have a good chance of snow early in the week. Fortunately it’s early twenties here in Fuerteventura, so I don’t have to worry about that rubbish for another ten…
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Middlesbrough – Villa; FA cup round 3
If I say to you that Villa haven’t won a third round FA tie in eight years and that no club has been in the top two divisions and lost nine ties on the trot, I’ll bet that I know…
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Villa 3 – Burnley 2. An (alternate) View from the North Stand
“BFR” has got the hump and I totally agree with his reasoning. Heck talks about a puny 200 seats not being sold and this is indicative of why, in my opinion; So I managed to get to the Burnley game…
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Villa 3 -2 Burnley; Lucky or well deserved?
Aston Villa give me kittens and are not at all good for my ticker, even if there’s nothing wrong with it. I honestly don’t know what to think after that, but it’s easily concluded. We were awful in defence, everytime…
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Villa – Burnley; The doubt returns
Football can do funny things to the mind and the least of it’s abilities is to take you through a whirlwind of emotions; from massive lows to the ultimate highs when you win games you really didn’t expect. And we’ve…
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Man Utd – Villa; Fingers crossed.
Well, I hope everyone has had a good Christmas. My partner and I have enjoyed ours; very quiet, just as we wanted. I didn’t do a write-up on the Sheffield game, but I was basically gutted and just didn’t want…