RETRO VILLA | BOUNCEBACKS FROM OPENING DAY DEBACLES

After a difficult opening day in Bournemouth, it’s been a tricky week for Villa fans – roll on Saturday and, one assumes, a response. To help facilitate some positivity I thought it worthwhile to delve into a few other opening day debacles and look at what happened ‘next’. August 1996 – Sheffield Wednesday 2 Aston […]

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MANAGER FOCUS | STEVEN GERRARD

The need for self-reflection? For the past few days, Aston Villa fans around the world have woken up hoping the abysmal performance at Bournemouth was a bad dream. Sadly, we know it wasn’t and the optimism after pre-season seems a distant memory. Now it’s not only the players in the gun, but Steven Gerrard must […]

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How Much of Gerrard’s Summer Itinerary Has Been Ticked Off?

This time last summer Steven Gerrard was preparing his Rangers side for their Champions League qualifier with Swedish side Malmö and a defence of the Scottish Premiership title. A year on, and the former England skipper arrived back from his summer holidays with a different agenda as he prepared for his first pre-season as Aston […]

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FAN REPORT | Aston Villa 3-3 Leeds United

Aston Villa 3-3 Leeds United

It had been 18 days since the Emi Buendia inspired victory at Goodison Park, and in truth it had felt like double that. But on Wednesday night Aston Villa finally returned to action. There had been successful friendly matches against Brentford and Molde and Steven Gerrard was pleased with a prolonged period of time to […]