After a difficult spell in the League, we grabbed a vital away win in the first leg thanks to Ollie Watkins’ looping header. That bad spell returned last Sunday, with Ross Barkley goal not enough in a 3-1 defeat at Manchester United. The battle for Champions League place in the league will go to the wire. However all attention is … Read More
Our European Dream
Since his arrival in November 2022, Villa have been on an upward spiral under the leadership of Unai Emery. Under his stewardship, we went from looking like relegation contenders to qualifying for Europe for the first time in 13 years. Things got even better in 2024, a 4th place finish and a return to the Champions League, for the first … Read More
Lille Vs Aston Villa
After going 2-0 down to RB Salzburg, goals from Morgan Rogers, Tyrone Mings and youngster Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba sealed a 3-2 win and a top two place in the Europa League. Things domestically since then haven’t been good. Just one win to celebrate, three defeats at Villa Park which included an FA Cup exit at the hands of Newcastle United (3-1). … Read More
Back At Last
In 2016, Aston Villa had been relegated to the second tier of English Football, our first time out since the inception of the Premier League. Tony Xia had taken over from Randy Lerner and Roberto Di Matteo had come in as head coach so we looked strong favourites for going straight back up. However, things didn’t quite go to plan. … Read More
Meeting The Lions
Aston Villa is in my blood, I’m the 5th generation in my family to support the team in Claret & Blue and I’ve been actively involved since 1994 – just before we won the League Cup against Manchester United. I was 8 and I thought it would always be that easy… At the beginning of last season I joined the … Read More
Aston Villa Vs RB Salzburg
Before the match last week at Fenerbahce, there were dooms and glooms that the recent injuries were going to dampen our prospects for the season. The 1-0 win in Turkey thanks to Jadon Sancho’s goal followed up by 2-0 win at Newcastle United, the first win there in 21 years and those talks seemed a bit premature. Indeed the last … Read More
Proud History, Bright Future?
In 2006, Randy Lerner had completed his takeover of the club and under the influential Martin O’Neill, things were looking and sounding good. New players, new focus and new ambition under the slogan ‘Proud History, Bright Future’. We pick up the story in September 2008, with us going well in the league and about to enter the last ever Uefa … Read More
Fenerbahce Vs Aston Villa
After 2-1 success at Basel in the last Europa League game of 2025, We continued that impressive form in the League winning 4, drawing 1 and just a 4-1 defeat at Arsenal. We also won at Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in the 3rd round of FA Cup. Then came the injuries… Losing Amadou Onana to injury in the Arsenal game was … Read More
The Intertoto Cup Years
We are dancing into 1999, top of the league with a real chance of winning the title (where have we heard this before?!). A top 3 finish will be enough for a place in the Champions League under the stewardship of John Gregory. A bright vibrant British team, Stan Collymore doing well, with plenty of goals up front and a … Read More
Half Time Report
At the beginning of the season, we failed to win our first five league games, ending with just 3 points on the board, with only one goal scored in that spell. Now, 32 goals and 39 points out of 45 later, we find ourselves 3rd in the league, just 6 points off the leaders Arsenal. We are also joint top … Read More