We are the Champions
So the first team may have lost the plot at the business end of the season, but our second string hasn’t suffered any such problems and have won the reserve league. It is the second year running the Villa reserves have won the Barclays Premier Reserve League South and they now face Sunderland in the Play-off final.
The team is made up of promising youngsters, wishing to break into the first team. We are well aware of how great this can be for the team, just look at Gabby and the up-coming Nathan Delfouneso.
So congratulations to our boys, they won 11 of 16 games to take the title and in the end won it against local rivals West Brom. Bring on the final on May 20th.
Where will Villa be in the table at the end of the season?
The Premier League table at present makes for some very interesting reading, Liverpool are top for a start, so you can be forgiven for seeing it and thinking it’s from the 80s. The main point of note though is how in-the-thick-of-it Villa are, currently ahead of Arsenal, level on points with Man U (but they have 2 games in hand) and, most amazingly, just 1 point behind Chelsea.
Both Villa and Chelsea have this season found better form on the road than at home, Chelsea going as far as winning twice as many away than at the Bridge. Villa are unbeaten in the Prem for over 2 months, during which time we have picked up 6 wins and not many of those wins have involved convincing performances. Luck has undoubtedly shined on us, but has that distorted the table? Or do you create your own luck?
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How to watch the game 8 hours late… in style
So the weekends approaching and the missus decides she wants to go out for the day on Saturday, but the problem is that the Villa are playing at 12.45 in a local derby. She’s on maternity leave and doesn’t drive, so is cooped up in the house all day while it’s been so cold here. The good husband in me gets the better of me and I agree to it.
‘Head out early and watch wherever you’re going’, I hear you say, well you clearly don’t know my wife! Getting out of bed and getting ready early isn’t really her strong point. There’s no way I’m not watching the game though, so a plan is devised; my dad is recording the match for me (on DVD, VHS and onto his Sky+ box, I’m taking no risks there) and I’ll avoid football all day, then watch the match on Saturday night.
As expected, the wife rises late and we don’t end up leaving the house till after 11 and I make sure I’m not wearing any ‘colours’, so no-one strikes up a football conversation with me. We are going on a mini tour round Shropshire, a lovely countryside county of England, with loads of history and all that good stuff. We visit Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth and generally have a very nice day. With ‘rules’ though…
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Villa vs West Brom – When the weakest can be the strongest
West Brom are bottom of the league, by rights that should mean they are the easiest team to beat. Vill are fourth in the league, so there are just 3 teams able to beat them and they will thrash the bottom team. Right?
Wrong.
This is football and one of the great joys of football is it’s unpredictability. Villa are the home team and unquestionably the better team in this morning’s match, but does that mean we’ll win? No, in fact if the players go into the match with that kind of attitude then we’ll probably lose. Cockiness doesn’t have a place in football (who said ‘Ronaldo’ then?), it can be your undoing. Villa need to take West Brom as a serious threat if we are to stand a chance of diffusing that threat.
It’s bloody complicated stuff, this football lark isn’t it?!
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Villa vs Baggies preview & all the transfer rumours are being laughed at
Tomorrow at 12.45 GMT (3.45 PST), Villa Park welcomes our local rivals, West Brom, to hopefully get shown a trick or two by a top four side. The game promises to be an exciting one, with us chasing a top four finish and West Brom fighting for survival, so both teams will be eager to start the year as they mean to go on.
Former Villan, the legend Paul McGrath, believes we have a side capable of turning them over with a convincing win. We go into the game as heavy favourites, sitting in fourth place whereas Baggies are the ’strongest’ team in the league, holding the rest up.
Curtis Davies and Luke Moore will both hope to start against their old clubs and they’d both love to see their name on the scoresheet too. Scott Carson will also be returning to the ground he called home for a year and will be out to keep a clean sheet.
McGrath thinks we can paste the Baggies and there’s positive vibes on the injury scene
Filed under: Aston Villa, Injury News, Match Previews, Transfer News
It’s not just the Villa fans buzzing with the hope for the claret and blue future, there’s also ex-players bigging us up these days. When I refer to an ‘ex-player’, I don’t just mean some shit player who played once for us under David O’Leary, had a crap game and scored an own goal, no I am talking about the man many Villa fans refer to as God; Paul McGrath.
McGrath, a legend to Villans, reckons we will smash 4 past Scott Carson, our goalie of last season. He feels the challenge of our pace and skill will be too much for the Baggies to cope with on Saturday morning, a sentiment I have to agree with. Our strengths are exactly the kind that West Brom struggle with and if Ashley Young is on form, he will do a lot of penetrating into the ‘Bramich’ box.
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