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Points or games, Telegram and happy Sunday
Everyone knows I like numbers. Numbers for me are everything. Numbers tell us what happened and they'll also tell us what will happen. And I like our ...
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Aston Villa v Liverpool: FA Cup opportunity or not?
It's a big match tonight. Or is it? Regular readers will know that my views are that football is all about silverware, but you will also know that I'v...
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Big match today, some speculation and match facts from the BBC
We picked up a lot of points in December and now find ourselves in fifth place. If and it's a massive win, we were to win our two games in hand on the...
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A big opportunity at Chelsea today and a chance
It would be wrong of me to not write that it was a great team performance against Crystal Palace on Boxing Day before diving straight into Chelsea tod...
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Back to normal business with Crystal Palace at Villa Park
I hope you all had a nice Christmas and are well fed, but it's now over and normal business returns. I like Boxing Day football because it's how Chris...
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Another big match, nightmares before Christmas and El Ghazi
This isn't me having a dig at El Ghazi, but I hope the nightmares have ended and he's willing to walk onto the pitch later. And I write that because h...
Read MoreVilla's Greatest Heroes

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Jimmy Dugdale
One man always takes the glory for a cup win. Anyone who thinks of Eng...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Andy Gray
It seems strange that a whole generation of Liverpool fans have grown ...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Johnny Dixon
With all the pain and grief caused by and surrounding the Second World...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Gordon Cowans
"We should want the kids to know when they come here that Gordon Cowan...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Peter Withe
Eyebrows were raised when Aston Villa forked out £500,000 on a journey...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Peter McParland
Billy Wright and Duncan Edwards were two of the greatest footballers e...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath will always hold a place in my claret and blue heart for ...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Dennis Mortimer
Every generation, every crowd and every single Aston Villa fan has the...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Gerry Hitchens
It's an odd quirk that, while even the very best of British have faile...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Ian Taylor
"Put it this way," said Ian Taylor, when asked if he was likely to ren...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Dion Dublin
"Memorable," is Dion Dublin's understated description of his first six...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Charlie Aitken
In the week before this article was written, Gareth Barry took to the ...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: David Platt
In a week that saw the new national team manager name five Aston Villa...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Brian Little
It's March 24, 1996, and Savo Milosevic has just curled the ball into ...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Olof Mellberg
I'm yet to hear it in a quiz, but I'm sure it will come up at some poi...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Tom 'Pongo' Waring
When the whistle blew, the ball it flew … through the air, through the...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Peter Aldis
Sims, Lynn, Aldis, Crowther, Dugdale, Saward, Smith, Sewell, Myerscoug...

Villa's Greatest Heroes: Nigel Spink
Peter Bonetti. Nigel Martyn. Two great goalkeepers who in many eras ot...