Villa 0-0 Fulham – Villa have 14 shots, 11 corners, countless attacks and yet no goals
Martin O Neill will be bald by the end of the season if we continue to play like this
Villa completely trounced Fulham today, in every area apart from goalscoring. To say this game was a bore draw would be very inaccurate, but to label it as frustrating, pull-your-hair-out, want-to-rip-your-arm-off-and-throw-it-in-the-net-just-so-something-would-go-in-the-damn-thing would be slap bang in the centre of accurate! It’s not often I use so many hyphens in a sentence, so you can see how aggravating a game this was. Villa fans will be very disappointed with the final score and with our lack of final product, giving us plenty of reason to want to go round to John Carew’s house to give his back a good healing massage.
According to the Sky Sports Live Score Centre, Villa had just 47% of the possession but the only way I can see this statistic being correct is if: Read more
Brad Friedel – if you wanna be a record breaker, dedications what you need
With today’s game against Fulham, Brad Friedel overtook David James’s record of consecutive appearances in top-flight (that’s the First Division to the oldies and Premiership to the young guns) games. At present the record is 166 games without missing one, which Friedel equalled with the Man Utd game last week at Villa Park. Now with the Fulham appearance he has surpassed James and become the record holder, a testament to his consistent quality over the last four years, obviously helped by being free from injury.
Brad Friedel, this is your life
Villa 0-0 Fulham ***live blog*** FT
Filed under: Aston Villa, Live Blogs, Match Reports
FT – The draw keeps us top four, at least until tomorrow, and Stoke have very kindly equalised so Hull remain 2 points below us. Now we are all Chelsea fans for a day. Come on you filthy Chelski’s!! 
91 – MON is frustrated, he’ll be much more so when that whistle goes… and there it is. Very, very frustrating as Villa waste an abundance of chances and draw 0-0.
90 – Fulham threaten to steal it, 3 minutes added but Fulham have suddenly learnt how to keep hold of the ball.
89 – Villa corner to long. Then a cross straight to Schwarzer, there’s a theme here today.
Poor old Baggies have thrown away a lead, Wigan go 2-1 up.
Aston Villa Birmingham? You can’t help but laugh!
Some people live in a dream world. They say things that make people laugh when they were meant seriously. They think their ideas are feasible, but the rest of the world just rolls round on the floor or shakes their head in disbelief.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby
"Now I may be an idiot, but there is one thing I am not, sir, and that, sir, is an idiot." Mike Whitby (or was it Peter Griffin?)
Injury blows for the Fulham game
Filed under: Aston Villa, Carlos Cuéllar, Injury News, John Carew, Luke Young, Nigel Reo-Coker
Everything was going swimmingly, Carlos Cuellar had returned to training so was a possibility, but if he failed to recover fitness NRC could ably deputise, and we even had a selection headache between the five man midfield or a 4-4-2 which saw Carew return to the fold…
Then problems hit.
Down goes Carew Read more
Villa vs Fulham – Match preview
Both teams go into the game sitting in a league position that is above what would be expected from them, Villa being top four, when no-one expects the usual four to be interfered with, and Fulham being 9th, when many had them pegged as relegation battlers. The season is still early though and a lot can change yet, so this is a game that they’ll both be looking for three points in.
Fulham (even more so than Villa) have really struggled to get any form of consistency going all season, but both teams gained a valuable point against a top four side last week and both have come away victorious against Arsenal, helping to add to Arsene Wenger’s migraine.
Brad Guzan – will his chance come?
At Villa we have three first team goal keepers, a luxury not all teams have, most having two and an understudy. They come in the form of two Americans called Brad (Friedel and Guzan) and former Arsenal man, Stuart Taylor. Ex-Blackburn stopper, Brad Friedel is the first choice keeper and has been since his arrival, in the same transfer window as Guzan arrived, so the MLS keeper of the year has spent most of his time at Villa sat on the bench. But thats not a discredit to him, in fact making the bench shows a great amount of faith in him as he is being preferred to Stuart Taylor, who is an experienced and capable goalie. Read more
Villa Transfer gossip 26 Nov 08
Transfer rumours and/or transfer seculation. You know the type, the tiniest little hint that a player may be of interest to a club and then bam! it’s all over every newspaper, blog and forum before the player or clubs involved get a chance to say “I don’t fricking think so mate!”. So let’s be honest and call it gossip. The stuff that’s usually about celebrities and keeps forty year old ladies entertained in offices all over the world. Well, us footy fans are no better. There’s nothing we love more than a made up story about how Man City are about to bid £2bn + Richard Dunne + a bag of maltesers for Ronaldo, Rooney and Alex Ferguson! Read more
Aston Villa for life… you don’t get that for murder!
Filed under: Aston Villa, John Carew, Player Profiles
OK, that joke works better when you don’t actually like the party involved, so let’s move swiftly on to the ‘wtf am I talking about?’:
“I would like to finish my career here. I’m not thinking of going anywhere else.”
The words of Big John, Super Johnny Carew, the man who’s bigger than me and bigger than you, the guy who’ll score one or two, whatever name you have for him, I’m talking about John Carew, Carew.
This is a great Read more
With a different challenge compared to the last two games, what team will O’Neill go for against Fulham?
The last two games have been against top four sides and O’Neill has chosen the same formation and almost the same team (Cuéllar’s thigh niggle being the cause) for both. It’s a formation that is attacking but at the same time loads the midfield, so at the same time errs on the side of caution. When we are on the back foot, we have Milner and Young to drop back and help to defend the danger and when we attack they are both bombing down the wings to try and break through defences. This is only possible with players such as Milner and Young as a huge amount of pace and stamina is required to play it effectively.
Prior to that Read more
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