We have won more cup than league games this season and this one sets up the return of a slithering snake to Villa Park in the Fourth Round of this cup competition which we last won 59 years ago.
We are now three wins from a return to Wembley but after last night another semi-final seems a very much longer way off; particularly if our team against Manchester City gives anything like the same sort of inept performance that our starting eleven did last night.
We did finally struggle
There was little to choose between the team that currently sit on top of the league and the one that is rooted to the bottom of it yesterday. Leicester had the confidence that comes of being high flyers but Villa had the spirit and never say die attitude that produced this well earned point.
Our first half performance was below par and it was Leicester who had the better of the first half. The second half was a different story we became more direct and had the better of it by some distanc
Our first home win and only our second league win of this frankly embarrassing season left us all leaving the ground with smiles on our faces and trying to remember how we used to react to winning a home league game.
If our players are to be heroes just for one day then at least we will have the memory of a minimum of one home league win to look back on as we face the drop at some point between now and mid May.
Yesterday we showed that at Villa Park we can beat them, just for one d
We showed some much needed fight and spirit yesterday against a team who were no better than we were and were perhaps fortunate to leave Villa Park with a point. But when we concede the first goal this season it is very unlikely that we will win the game because try as we might we do not really pose a significant goal threat to our opponents.
West Ham had their best moments at the end of each half. They went ahead in first half stoppage time and seemed the team most likely to score when it
No team has ever avoided relegation from the Premier League with single figure points at this stage of the season. This is being widely quoted as a reason to conclude that our fate is already sealed. That may well prove to be the case but there was football before season 1991-92!
In season 1990-91 Sheffield United had managed only 4 points and 4 draws by mid-December after their first 17 games in Division 1. They ended the season in 13th place on 46 points and well clear of the relegation
They think its all over it seems it is now and it is still only November!
It is hard to see us coming back from this sad, sad situation to retain our top flight status this time. Our absentee landlord has failed in his role as custodian of our football club and that will cost him financially and us in ways he does not or chooses not to appreciate. It looks like we are down before the Christmas decorations have gone up!
This was a must not lose game that we lost. Watford beat us at
An unwelcome snake slithered into Villa Park yesterday and spent most of the game sitting upon the bench which has now become its usual habitat. That greedy snake came onto the playing field on 78 minutes and received the welcome it so merited but was happily denied a victory. Manchester City arrived as table toppers whilst we were embarrassingly propping up the rest of the division. There could only have been one result couldn’t there? Many of us arrived expecting the worse as we have grown
I actually thought we might win this one when we went a goal ahead with 28 minutes of this game left to be played. All we then needed was to do was to keep a clean sheet but we seldom do that do we? Up until then it had been our visitors that had looked the team most likely to break the deadlock and within 6 short minutes they were level. Inevitably our heads then dropped and we fell behind to a cruel late winner that spelt the end for our beleaguered former manager. This was another unusual
This game had offered us an opportunity to climb out of the bottom three. But we do not beat Stoke at home do we? A third successive defeat at Villa Park against yesterday’s visitors has seen us go into the international break with just the two hapless North Eastern clubs keeping us off the bottom. We cannot rely on those two teams losing each week and at one point yesterday it seemed they might not. A worrying four point gap has also now opened between Villa and the three teams who are now
This was a game of two halves in which we were the better team in both. We gave a passable impersonation of how we had played against WBA in the first half although as we were playing a more limited team we still shaded that half. The substitutions made at half time and the decision to play football in the second half left Small Heath with much more than they could handle and perhaps fortunate to escape with just the one goal defeat. As Rowett said prior to the game Small Heath had nothing to l
This performance or should I say lack of it was simply not good enough. We were as bad yesterday as we had been good twice at Villa Park against the same opponents last season. This game meant something to us but it seemed to pass our players by unnoticed. We carried too many passengers yesterday and you really cannot afford to not have everyone up for it in games like these. Albion got their revenge all too easily yesterday. They clearly wanted it much more than we did and bossed the game
Scott Sinclair scored a brace of goals yesterday to make it five goals in two games for him but his goals did not bring us the win we needed. We have conceded five goals in our last two home games and you cannot expect to win games too often when the defence is leaking goals like that. We conceded an early goal but equalized within two minutes and were ahead at the break. Another goal looked likely and it would have settled the game for us. We were not short of opportunities to add a third but o
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This is a call to arms for all Villa fans - young and old, big and small, rich and poor, negative and positive: WE NEED YOU!
Everybody is hurting right now. Nobody wanted to see us slide this far and things undoubtedly look grim. But what are our options?
Run away and die? Accept defeat and relegation with 11 games of football still to be played? Or do we, the fans, the lifeblood of this grand old football club, come together as one? Do we become resilient and u
Seems I've joined the Terrace View club.
Didn't buy my season ticket by 5.00 and by 9.00 there were no tickets anywhere😡😡
After a convoluted buying process I've managed to get a couple of TV tickets. Very expensive mistake.
Still, I suppose I can buy a few prawn sandwiches.
Anyone who boos me I'm going to waive my lower Holte season ticket in their face.
Last time I went to Old Trafford in the rain I got that wet (ooer) from their shitty roof. I'm not sure it was even raining, I think it was local, Ten Hag panic desperation in the atmosphere. Or Bruno crying, because he looks like a chipmunk without a barber or a dentist.
Worst 'bottom 3' in history were in 2018-19 amassing 76 points, 2020-21 with 77 and 2005-06 and 2009-10 amassing 79 points (small heath being one of them).
Through time most of the three relegated clubs gathered between 90-100 points combined. In the last few years it's rarely above 85, usually low 80's.
The current bottom 3 have 64 points, so need to scrape together 13 between them over 12 games to avoid being the worst ever.
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Seems I've joined the Terrace View club. Didn't buy my season ticket by 5.00 and by 9.00 there were no tickets anywhere😡😡 After a convoluted buying process I've managed to get a couple of TV tickets. Very expensive mistake. Still, I suppose I can buy a few prawn sandwiches. Anyone who boos me I'm going to waive my lower Holte season ticket in their face.
Last time I went to Old Trafford in the rain I got that wet (ooer) from their shitty roof. I'm not sure it was even raining, I think it was local, Ten Hag panic desperation in the atmosphere. Or Bruno crying, because he looks like a chipmunk without a barber or a dentist.
Worst 'bottom 3' in history were in 2018-19 amassing 76 points, 2020-21 with 77 and 2005-06 and 2009-10 amassing 79 points (small heath being one of them). Through time most of the three relegated clubs gathered between 90-100 points combined. In the last few years it's rarely above 85, usually low 80's. The current bottom 3 have 64 points, so need to scrape together 13 between them over 12 games to avoid being the worst ever.
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