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The Derby Telegraph has linked Aston Villa with Nottingham Forest defender Jamaal Lascelles. In his breakthrough season, Lasacelles has already interested the likes of Tottenham, Sunderland and Aston Villa. In 2011, Arsenal had a £5m bid turned down for Lasacelles when he…
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22 GAMES LEFT.
Terry Jones offers the following for debate. I really wish others would contribute, but there you go; I’ve just been looking at the fixture list for the rest of the season and there is a possible 66 points up for…
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Albrighton Playing for New Contract
Marc Albrighton has recently spoke out about his desire to play more first team football with Aston Villa, and ultimately, sign a new contract extension at his boyhood club, Aston Villa. When Albrighton first burst into the scene for Aston…
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What if Lerner Did Sack Lambert?
Last weekend, two Premier League managers were sacked, Steve Clarke of West Brom and Andre Villas-boas of Tottenham. Many Aston Villa fans are slowly beginning to get fed up with Lambert’s tactics and may have already assessed Aston Villa in…
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Young back to Villa?
I know I really shouldn’t do this, but after watching the rubbish on display today, I thought it was worth a laugh; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2523806/THE-FOOTBALL-GRAPEVINE-Young-lined-Villa-return-Barkley-commit-future-Everton.html This story is rubbish in so many ways, that it’s, just well… total and utter rubbish. For…
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Absentee Owner danger
Ian has offered the following; Yes it has been a while since I wrote an article, what about 14 months ? Well I went away for these reasons 1) Work – and that has changed recently 2) Modern football and…
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Aston Villa 0-3 Man Utd; All too easy and just not good enough.
I was supposed to be working today, which would have meant me missing the game. Sod that, I thought. So I worked a grueller yesterday, with the idea being that I wouldn’t get so much of a rollicking tomorrow, for…
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Kinmartin: Stevens Has Resurfaced, Villan-ously
Matchday 16 facts and figures, for Greswolde Park and beyond…. NEW WATCH Conceivable: Enda Stevens will be the starting left back again before season’s end. Antonio Luna’s health and aptitude seem to waver constantly, Joe Bennett has a hard time…
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Kevin de Bruyne & John Guidetti Linked
Chelsea’s youngster Kevin de Bruyne is a target for Paul Lambert. The young midfield has bag loads of ability, but has managed eight appearances under Jose Mourinho. de Bruyne had also earlier admitted that he would be keen on an…
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Weimann Has Completely Lost It
Andreas Weimann is quickly becoming Aston Villa’s most disappointing player of the season. He is a shadow of the player he was last season. Weimann scored 12 goals in total last season from 38 appearances, he often played out wide…
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Corruption.
Terry Jones has asked the following; Now I know this has got nothing to do with the situation at VP but with what has happened over the last few days with wide corruption within football, is it not a subject…
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Why I’m For Video Technology
This article isn’t so much about Aston Villa but about football in general. I might’ve mentioned once or twice that I’d like to see video technology implemented in football but today I’d like to focus a little more on video…
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Fulham 2-0 Villa; We lost but I’m not too downbeat
All Goals Fulham 2-0 Aston Villa (08-12-2013… by video4all The rumour was that Martin Jol had lost the dressing room when he was at Tottenham and I suspect this was also the case at Fulham too. Sod’s law then, that…
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Kinmartin: Flounders Hover Over Kozak
Matchday 14/15 facts and figures, for Harborne and beyond…. BIG LOSSES An aspect suddenly softening a bit is aerial prowess, which certainly isn’t helping the problem of maintaining possession. Christian Benteke’s rate for winning balls in the air is down…
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Is our national game becoming worse?
So another Saturday with no game for the Villa. I don’t know about you, but I feel a bit desolate when we don’t have a Saturday game. I get bored with having nothing to look forward to in the afternoon.…
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Fulham Vs Aston Villa – Preview
Aston Villa travel to Craven Cottage after a trip to Saint Mary’s where Aston Villa took all 3 points in an unlikely fashion. Villa scored three goals from three shots on target and won the game despite only having 27%…
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Vlaar the Heart of the Improved Defence
Ron Vlaar joined Aston Villa last season and with the task of being Aston Villa’s main defender, that player that organised the back line and was a team leader. Last season he was definitely a team leader, but his performances…
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Southampton 2-3 Villa; belated thoughts
Apologies for not updating last night’s post. The absolute truth is, I fell asleep and didn’t wake again until about one am. I really need a cushier job. Anyway, much has been said, with what I think are some salient…
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S’hampton 2-3 Villa; Get in!
What a result! I’m quite simply buzzing my proverbials off, having watched that. We had 3 chances on target and 23% of the possession, according to the stream I watched. And we still came away with the win. Go figure…
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Southampton Vs Aston Villa – Preview
Aston Villa travel to St Mary’s this Wednesday to face a strong Southampton side. Southampton are currently the surprise of the season with the team sitting in seventh place in the table. It’s been a much improved campaign for the…