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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 not really in our hands anymore. Watford and West Ham have both won today and this means we're seven points from safety with a significantly wors...

Aston Villa Opinion
Up until the first goal yesterday we did everything I hoped we would do and for the first time in a long time. We crossed early, we pressed and if som...

Aston Villa Live
I often write the phrase 'nothing is impossible' and always in the context of hoping that we might get something. It's starting to feel a little like ...

Aston Villa Opinion
I wrote on Twitter after the match that we couldn't even beat a team of hungover players. Some took that literally, in so much I thought the Liverpool...

Aston Villa Match Previews
If we are going to stay up this season, we're going to need to be able to look back on this run in and say we deserve to stay up, it isn't going to ha...

Aston Villa Opinion
In 90 minutes today we had one shot on target and allowed the away side more of the ball than us. The BBC used the word 'ponderous' when talking about...
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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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