Spurs preview, The Villa-Villa connection and are there any bankers out there gunning for ‘Arry?
Filed under: Aston Villa, Injury News, Match Previews, Transfer News
First and foremost today is the weekend’s match. I’m now tending to do them on Friday’s even when the games on a Sunday, so no-one worry they got mixed up; the game is on Sunday at 4. Arsenal play tomorrow at 3 against Blackburn and, with a bit of luck, Big Sam’s boys can continue their winning streak (of 1 whole game!) and we can go into the Spurs match with a little of the pressure off.
Villa, as we all know only too well, are not exactly on fire at the minute, but we have had a little break over in Dubai and hope to come out firing on all cylinders. Our campaign began as a simple push to continue improving but, thanks to a poor season from Arsenal and a great run of games from us, we found ourselves 4th and we will not be giving it up without a fight. We’ve tried 4th on, it fits nicely and we like the way we look in it. So get lost Arsenal, it’s ours now. You can have it back when we go top 3 
Injuries
Villa had a few small niggles but they don’t look to be problems, leaving just the captain out, and Spurs have Defoe and Hutton out. No Defoe is a welcome thing as I feared he could outdo Davies and Knight with his pace, Knight particularly is far from fast.
Villa-Villa
You may think “What on earth has David Villa got to do with us? We can’t afford him” and you’d be right, but the story is that Valencia want John Carew to replace the Spaniard before they will do a deal with Man City. Carew has been reported a number of times to have had spats with the manager and has been dropped from the starting line up more times than I would wish for, so there may well be truth in him leaving in the summer. Personally I don’t want to see him go as I’m a big fan of the big man, but why else would MON have bought a similar player (Heskey, maybe not the same but similar) if he didn’t plan to flog Carew.
Villa (as in Viyya) will go for BIG bucks, maybe not quite Kaka-mess big but big all the same. And what will he give Man City? Well, unless someone up there learns that there’s more to winning football games than buying the best strikers in the world, then nothing. But if they also coerce some superb midfield players with £’s in their eyes during the summer then they could well become a competing side. Man City may well break up the Big Four party, but I still don’t like it. I prefer the way we’ve done it.
No coin throwing antics please
Finally, let’s try not to get a bad reputation by repeating the coin-throwing palava from last year. Villa in the past have been reknowned for having some of the best fans, but with things such as that incident and the recent booing of the side, people are beginning to change their opinion of us lot.
So let’s throw nothing but cheers towards our boys on Sunday.
Up the Villa.
Rumours, facts and speculation
Everton and Liverpool drew last night in the Merseyside derby, which has had interesting effects on the table in our neck of the woods. We are now 3 points off top and 8 points clear of Everton. Top is a pipe dream and looks almost impossible with goal differences the way they are, but to be 8 points clear of Everton is great news. Whilst the optimist in us dreams of remaining in the battle with Chelsea and Liverpool, the pessimist fears Arsenal and Everton hijacking the party.
Wigan are now 13 points back, so top six is looking fairly safe, but we won’t be able to stop worrying about Everton and Arsenal until the fat lady has sung.
Ins and outs
Villa vs Sunderland – Is Kenwyne Jones playing against his team-mates-to-be?
With Kenwyne Jones being one of the main links to Villa during the transfer window (although it seems Spurs are determined to outbid us), how will he feel about facing us on Saturday? The tall striker had been linked with a £5m move and now a vastly improved £12m bid from Villa, a rumour which O’Neill hasn’t denied, but at the same time he hasn’t confirmed it either.
That’s the thing with MON, he’s very cagey about transfers. He doesn’t admit to anything in press conferences, so us Villa fans are left murmuring about the rumours we’ve heard in papers or on websites or down Honest Joe’s Cafe. Maybe he’s pondering a move for teenage whiz-kid Masal Bugduv! Bugduv is believed to be the next big thing, taking the world of Fantasy Football to new realms.
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