Aston Villa News and Views

  • Aston Villa host Manchester City this weekend at Villa Park, a stadium where Aston Villa have struggled to get results. Manchester City are high on confidence after a 4-1 victory over arch rivals Man. United. Aston Villa on the other…

  • Following on from Paul Lambert’s comment in the Mirror today, where I read that he doesn’t think we play the long ball (contrary to the fact that we have the most knock-downs in the prem up to now and Mourinho,…

  • Submitted by: Naughtius Maximus There is often a clamour for the head of our chairman Randolph Learner I can’t say I’m in the pro learner camp but I’m certainly not in the anti-leaner camp and I’ll try and give my reasons…

  • Aston Villa were beaten fair and square by Tottenham yesterday, however I keep wondering if Aston Villa were given a penalty for the Helenius pants down challenge, would the result be different? Perhaps not, but looking back into the season…

  • Paul Lambert has confirmed that Christian Benteke will be out for 4-6 weeks due to hip injury sustained against Norwich. “You are never quite sure until you hear from the professor [doctor], but thankfully it is not too serious,” said…

  • Aston Villa host Tottenham in this round of the League Cup. Both teams are expected to make massive changes due to fitness concerns over numerous amount’s of players. Aston Villa progressed into this round by beating Rotherham 3-0, while Tottenham…

  • Aston Villa’s main striker, Christian Benteke is out with a hip injury, the extent of the injury will be evaluated today. But one thing is for sure, he will miss out on the League Cup game against Tottenham. So who…

  • Paul Lambert will have to shuffle the pack for tomorrow’s League Cup game against Tottenham, because after the Norwich win Aston Villa have lost Benteke to injury and Agbonlahor, Delph and Luna have all suffered knocks. Westwood has suffered a…

  • Terry Jones gives his opinion about the team; Moving on from my last submission, D-DAY has come and gone and we have a foot hold on the beach with three points against Norwich. However, having watched the game twice now…

  • KOZAK, AFTER HE SCORED Well, I thought that was a very decent game, where we looked a lot more disciplined and organised. That said, I’m sure a more clinical attack would have done much better against us, but who cares?…

  • Matchday 5 facts and figures, for Durolas and beyond…. SWITCH ITCH Inert outings like Karim El Ahmadi’s last weekend certainly don’t unfold often. The Villa prowler became the first starting midfielder in the Premier League this season to play at…

  • Aston Villa are traveling to Carrow Road this weekend’s Premier League game. Both teams haven’t had the best of starts to this year’s Premier League season. Norwich are sitting 15th with 4 points, while Aston Villa are 17th with 3…

  • Submitted by: Terry Jones Now lets see if tomorrow’s 12-45 pm kick-off against Norwich will be Villas D-DAY; the one that will define the rest of our season. This is now our fifth game, we’ve won one away and lost…

  • Aston Villa have 7 players out on loan so it’s important to keep up to date on how they’ve been playing. But firstly, Paul Lambert wants to send Marc Albrighton on loan, I’ve already written an article regarding Albrighton’s possibly…

  • There has been a little bit of transfer news regarding Aston Villa this week, many tabloids claim that Aston Villa will return with another bid for Kuban Krasnodar midfielder Popov. Aston Villa were linked with Popov in June and apparently Popov…

  • Hi everyone UTV I have wanted to write this post since the Liverpool game but I thought I would leave it a little longer to see what developed as I was pro 4-3-3 but am now swaying away from that…

  • Vaze makes a good point, one that I totally agree with. This stinks worse than a bag of smelly socks, imo; …a frustrating time for Villa fans in particular at the moment, with a now disappointing start to the season…

  • Following my request for a more postive post, Andy Badger has submitted the following, cheers mate; I’ve been following the articles on here for a long time now. I’ve read most of them and trawled through many comments and I’ve…

  • Jores Okore has ruptured his ACL and is out for 9 months. This was Tweeted out by Matt Kendrick and it’s a major blow for Aston Villa and the young defender. This means he will miss out on this season…

  • As we all know Saturdays game was a big low for all AVFC supporters.The atmosphere in the ground was shocking and AVFC supporters should hang your heads in shame as you did not support your club in the first half.…