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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 Match Previews

It's Friday, the day before Saturday. It's the week before lunc...

Aston Villa Opinion

You spend hours, almost days fixing the site, updating code and server stuff and nobody comments. Nobody. Nobody says the homepage looks nice or ha...

Aston Villa Opinion

On the face of things, I'm a fairly open book. I come to a conclusion or opinion and I tend to stick with it and as most of you will know, I don't ...

Aston Villa News

Football is a funny old game. Tomorrow is getting labeled a must-win game by some, the Nottingham Forest manager has left the Club sitting in seven...

Aston Villa Opinion

Losing isn't nice and I know I wrote that it wouldn't bother me, but it did a little. But we pick ourselves up and go again and I don't mean that t...

Aston Villa Live

I should be looking at the FA Cup as our best chance to win silverware this season but I'm not sure I have the energy to create that level of optim...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Billy Wright and Duncan Edwards were two of the greatest footballer...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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