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It’s been pretty much confirmed that Roy Keane will not be going to the World Cup with ITV. And if you read the following quote from an ITV spokesman, it’s also pretty obvious that he isn’t going to be a…
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THE NEW HOME STRIP THOUGHTS?
So here it is then in all it’s glory the NEW home strip for the 14-15 campaign. What are you thoughts? I also hear that the away strip is like a modern homage to the white pinstripe 1982 CL final…
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Jack Colback A Free Target For Villa
News around Villa Park has been very quiet. And that’s not really a surprise, the club is for sale and Lerner probably doesn’t want to invest too much money into the team. Some owners have been linked, but more often…
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Benteke’s staying. For the summer, at least.
Various reports are coming out that Christian Benteke’s agent, Kismet Eris, has said that Benteke will be staying at the Villa for this summer. So why am I tempted to say “no xxxx, Sherlock”? We all detest agents, but I…
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Aston Villa; We’re still a big club really
Brand finance have released their latest top 50 football club brand list and it makes for interesting reading; www.brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/top-50-football-club-brands-2014 We come out at 23rd in the table, an improvement from last year’s 31st position. At first glance I noticed that…
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Karsa and Culverhouse confirmed sacked; Drugs?
The Press Association and the Mail are reporting that Paul Lambert’s assistants have indeed been sacked, just as the speculation has been saying. What the reports are not saying however are the reasons, other than Lerner’s quote that it was…
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Bomb Squad Given Second Chance
This week Paul Lambert has made a u-turn decision in regards to his bomb squad team, following orders from Lerner (and the board) Lambert has been told to give the likes of Hutton, Bent and N’Zogbia a fair chance next…
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Gary Gardner Signs New 2-Year Contract
One player that will definitely be staying at Aston Villa is Gary Gardner! Gardner has been riddled with injuries over the past few years and it seemed as though he’d be released with Albrighton and Delfouneso. But, Aston Villa took…
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Lambert to stay, you surprised ?? Well as for ITK’s ….
So it appears the media have been given the wink to say that Lambert stays ‘until the club is sold”. Well what else did you expect ? Notice the form of the words, ‘until the club is sold’ … that is…
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Rumours galore and dopey footballers.
It seems we’re being hit with the full gamut of rumours today. First off, Paul Lambert has supposedly been sacked, which has come from two different sources, according to the previous thread. And it’s also been sort of confirmed that…
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Villa still hold a European Cup Record
OriginalLondonLion offers something that I certainly never knew; While we are waiting, why not sit back, relax, enjoy the World Cup and before that the European Cup Final, or Champions League Final? Last season’s German away-day to Wembley was odd,…
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Hunt and Anschutz the new owners of AVFC ?
A few weeks ago when Larry Ellison was being talked off I explored some links between him and Lerner. This was in the belief that Randy is going to sell us to some he knows. Well following on from today’s…
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History sadly repeating itself
If you had told me 8 years ago we would be in the same position in 2014 I would have laughed at you but here we are. To remind you that in Jan 2006 Doug Ellis appointed Rothschilds to see…
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Club has been SOLD
Well no real need to tell you the main news of today. Yep we were waiting for the statement and we got it, Randy has said the club is up for sale. To this author this is no surprise and…
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Spurs 3- 0 Villa; Just shocking!
…to the Exit? You’d hope so. I feel ashamed today. This was a game where you would have hoped we would have been able to play with the shackles off, wasn’t it? So what happened? We started out with pretty…
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POLL; facts or fiction, or a bit of both?
Which do you prefer to read on this site? For what it’s worth, Ian has some of the most outlandish thoughts on any Villa site anywhere, in my opinion, for example. Thoughts that can be totally right or totally wrong,…
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Graham Taylor; The sale is a “done deal”
Now I don’t know for a fact that this is true, but a couple of readers are saying that the headline is something Graham Taylor has said on BBC WM. Or at least he says “all his sources” are telling…
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Tomorrow’s game a waste of time? I don’t think so
I’ve been reading around and it seems that many fans see tomorrow’s game as pretty pointless. It’s a viewpoint I pretty much agreed with until I read that a win could be worth an extra £3.6 million to the club;…
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Oracle Group & Klinsmann to Revolutionise Villa?
There have been a few rumours going around this week that the most potential buy is Larry Ellison, the 5th richest man in the world. Ellisons net worth is roughly £28.45 billion. These rumours start after Larry Ellison was seen at Villa…
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Man City 4-0 Villa; resolute, even if just not good enough.
When the game started, I wondered what was going on, as it became immediately apparent that the three centre backs were pretty much holding each other’s hands, while the wingbacks seemed to take their normal positions. Even though we’re normally…