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 Live
Another busy week that meant I forgot to launch the competition yesterday. It means you know the number from yesterday, but you've got a few more game...

Aston Villa News
I understand why some don't see it in Dean Smith, I really do. But for me, it's not about seeing it or not right now, it's about change, opportunity a...

Aston Villa Live
Relegated West Brom are as good as relegated but they do have the slightest of chances and because of that, they will come out fighting. But it's rele...

Aston Villa Opinion
I promise you that I did have a post written and I was planning on publishing it yesterday, but when things starting to crumble, I thought it best not...

Aston Villa Opinion
Yesterday was a great example of us nearly getting what we went for and another great example of what not to do next season. And I'm starting to tire ...

Aston Villa Live
When Liverpool came to Villa Park earlier this season, they fancied they were going to come and get three points. Little did they know they'd leave hu...
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 seems strange that a whole generation of Liverpool fans have grown ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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