MATCH PREVIEW | Aston Villa vs Manchester City
THE BUILD-UP Aston Villa face a tough battle to kick-off the difficult and intense month of December, as they play hosts to Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, who sit second in the league, and only a point behind Chelsea. Steven Gerrard is looking at making it a hat-trick of wins after making an excellent start to […]
MANAGER FOCUS | DEAN SMITH | 2018/19
THE APPOINTMENT The Championship; Season 3, and as the dark winter months drew nearer, the Tuesday nights became more and more tiresome. 2nd October 2018. Preston North End at home. Now, the squad wasn’t in a good place. Uncertainty in the goalkeeping position; Mark Bunn came out cold to start, the defence was disjointed; Alan […]
FAN OPINION | Jack Grealish | Joey Millington
Grealish Gone but the Vision Remains Clear There it is. The news that has often felt like an inevitability for so long. After months and months of intense speculation, it has been confirmed that Jack Grealish will no longer be an Aston Villa player, instead moving up the M6 to sign for Manchester City on […]
EURO 2020 x EURO 1996
Southgate’s England can provide the healing a divided nation needs. Selly Oak, Birmingham, 26th June 1996, a 6-year-old boy lets out a sob as England defender Gareth Southgate’s meek penalty is saved by Andreas Köpke, advantage Germany. Moments later the waterworks would begin in earnest as Moller emphatically finished off England with the decisive spot-kick. […]
EURO 2020 | JG7 x England
Good things come to those who… work extremely hard and never give up! Gareth Southgate named his final 26 players to take on Europe’s elite in the delayed 2020 European Championships. Included in that squad – Jack Grealish! Now, some don’t see Jack as the complete role model. His antics of the past and mistakes […]
PLAYER RATINGS | Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Aston Villa
What a fantastic night for Aston Villa Football Club, coming from behind at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to record a 1-2 win and handing Premier League debuts to academy stars Carney Chukwuemeka and Jadon Philogene-Bidace. Goals from, Reguilon (OG) and Watkins cancelled out Bergwijn opener, in front of 10,000 (upset) Spurs fans! LOVE IT!! Villa […]
PLAYER RATINGS | Crystal Palace 3-2 Aston Villa
Aston Villa failed to address Crystal Palace’s second-half onslaught and fell to a 3-2 defeat at Selhurst Park, despite twice leading through goals from stand-in skipper John McGinn and Anwar El Ghazi. Today we have an all-female cast in support of the campaign #HerGameToo which is raising awareness of sexist abuse in the game! We […]
PLAYER RATINGS | Aston Villa 0-0 Everton
Aston Villa stretched their unbeaten run to 4 games against Everton following their return to the Premier League. This fixture had a real end of season feel about it, but the 0-0 draw will be remembered as the night we welcomed back Captain Jack Grealish from a 12 game injury absence, and Emi Martinez equalling […]
PLAYER RATINGS | Aston Villa 1-3 Manchester United
Same old, same old!! Aston Villa’s win-less home run against Manchester United continues – a run that stretches back to 1995!! UTV Podcast team members Ryan Mckeown and Justin Hawthorne are joined by Adam Holt, Georgia Homer and Gary Plaza. If you’d like to join us for a game on this super chilled platform, please […]
PLAYER RATINGS | Everton 1-2 Aston Villa
Normally, a team who’s only won 1 in the last 9 at home require a visit from the charitable Aston Villa! Well – NOT THIS TIME!! Smith-ball was back! Aston Villa landed at Goodison Park with a high tempo swagger and confidence in their play. We were fully deserving of the 3 points we took […]
PLAYER RATINGS | Aston Villa 2-2 West Bromwich Albion
“Good things come to those who wait” – finally the big man nets in the Premier League, and what a time to do it – deep into injury time, to dent any hope of a great escape for West Bromwich Albion. 2-2. GET IN KEINAN DAVIS! Before Davis’s equaliser, El Ghazi cooly slotted home from […]
PLAYER RATINGS | Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City
Aston Villa fall to a 1-2 home defeat against Super League U-turners Manchester City. John McGinn opened the scoring within the opening minute, but ball-hungry Manchester City fired back with goals from England’s Wonderkid – Phil Foden and Rodri. UTV Podcast team members Ryan Mckeown (RM), Luke Robinson (LR) and Justin Hawthorne (JH) are joined […]
HOME SHIRT COLLECTION | Quick Intro
If you are following me on Twitter, then you will know that I’ve developed a serious eBay problem! It started as collecting a couple of my all-time favourite shirts, but has since spiralled out of control, and I have no intention of putting the breaks on! I am now on a self-indulgent journey to collect […]
FAN REPORT | Aston Villa 1-2 Leicester City | Hannah Gowen
After the news broke that talisman Jack Grealish would be missing for at least a week, Aston Villa looked to produce a statement result to dispel any speculation that they are a one-man team. Instead, the lethargic and unorganised home side gifted Leicester a two goal cushion in the early stages and struggled to get […]
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ICONIC NUMBERS | An Introduction
MORE THAN A NUMBER The number a player wears tells the fans a lot – not only the position they play, but the type of player they are. For example, A 6 is worn mostly by a holding midfielder, and a 10 mostly by the clubs playmaker. Unfortunately in the modern era with the advent […]
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UTV PODCAST | Player Ratings and Man Of The Match | Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa
So we’ve completed the month of December unbeaten and sign off what has been a roller-coaster of a calendar year with a resolute, battling, and gutsy display away at Chelsea to earn a 1-1 draw. The team at UTV podcast – Luke Robinson, Ryan Mckeown, Justin Hawthorne and Sebastian Bacon cover today’s Player Ratings. Aston […]
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Fan Report | Aston Villa 3-0 Crystal Palace
Europe in our sights! Boxing Day 2020 and as we collectively slipped into a booze and food induced stupor, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace arrived like a bolt out of the blue to stir the nation. Emi Martínez was certainly wide-awake when he saved from Zaha within two minutes, the start of yet another rock-solid […]
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FAN REPORT | Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-1 Aston Villa | Hannah Gowen
On a sunny December lunchtime when Mike Dean got in the Christmas spirit, handing out cards to all, Aston Villa got a last gasp winner over their Midlands neighbours to make it four out of five away wins this season. The gritty and hard-fought derby battle was fuelled by a questionable refereeing display, with 11 […]
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PRE SEASON RECAP | PART TWO
Welcome back. Aston Villa will face Carlisle United, Sunderland and Fleetwood Town in Group A of the EFL Trophy this season. We debuted our Under-21 side in this competition last season with defeats to Tranmere Rovers and Salford City. While our final game against Bury had to be cancelled due to Bury’s expulsion from league […]
Twitter Watch | Jack’s England Call-Up
So it happened, finally. And if you’re like me, for a solid two hours after Jack’s England call up was announced, I scrolled endlessly through Twitter looking at people’s reactions. There were some good. Some funny. Some not so funny. And some totally absurd. In case you missed it, here’s a selection of the best […]
