Welcome to The Aston Villa Blog

Started in 2004, its gone too far to stop so I aim to post once a week. All opinions are mine and mine alone.

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Aston Villa Opinion
I think it's fair to write that yesterday was poor and with the League Cup final next weekend, we're probably not going into the match with confidence...

Aston Villa Opinion
We were unlucky against Spurs. Earlier in the week I was thinking to myself that maybe we didn't deserve to win, but deserved a point. After watching ...

Aston Villa Match Previews
So, it seems like we just had international break, but it wasn't and no doubt there will be one coming up. Before that though, we have Spurs at Villa ...

Aston Villa Opinion
The transfer window has closed, we find ourselves in the final of a proper tournament and we're one place and one point above the bottom three. It fee...

Aston Villa Live
There is something that needs to be written about this week, about supporters running on the pitch. I should probably also write something about Borja...

Aston Villa Live
It's nights like tonight that can make football special. It's nights like tonight that can create that first memory or even give you the perfect excus...
With your usual vocal backing and 110 percent effort from each and every one of the players, I am sure we will get the right result.
Ron Saunders
I don't particularly like Birmingham City after the four games we have played against them in the Premiership.
Olof Mellberg
Villa have amazing support. If you hung 11 Villa shirts on a washing line 20,000 fans would turn up to watch them!
Tommy Docherty

Villa's Greatest Heroes

Sims, Lynn, Aldis, Crowther, Dugdale, Saward, Smith, Sewell, Myerscoug...

One man always takes the glory for a cup win. Anyone who thinks of Eng...

It seems strange that a whole generation of Liverpool fans have grown ...

In the week before this article was written, Gareth Barry took to the ...

It's an odd quirk that, while even the very best of British have faile...

In a week that saw the new national team manager name five Aston Villa...

"We should want the kids to know when they come here that Gordon Cowan...

When the whistle blew, the ball it flew … through the air, through the...

"Memorable," is Dion Dublin's understated description of his first six...

Peter Bonetti. Nigel Martyn. Two great goalkeepers who in many eras ot...

Billy Wright and Duncan Edwards were two of the greatest footballers e...

"Put it this way," said Ian Taylor, when asked if he was likely to ren...

With all the pain and grief caused by and surrounding the Second World...

I'm yet to hear it in a quiz, but I'm sure it will come up at some poi...

It's March 24, 1996, and Savo Milosevic has just curled the ball into ...

Eyebrows were raised when Aston Villa forked out £500,000 on a journey...

Every generation, every crowd and every single Aston Villa fan has the...

Paul McGrath will always hold a place in my claret and blue heart for ...