Category: Aston Villa
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Barcelona Begins To Look Like The Real Deal Again
For 90 minutes at the weekend, all of us went back in time a couple of years, to a period when one football team so eclipsed all others that they were being considered not just the best side on the planet at that moment but one of…
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A Sport That Ignores What It Doesn’t Like
I love football, but there’s something about the game that’s pretty hard to deny. Football, above and beyond any other sport, is incredibly good at ignoring problems. Its leaders are incredibly good at wishing they’d go away. I’m writing a lengthy piece for this site on the continuing trials Scottish football is enduring as the…
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EPL Matchday 10: One Bore Draw And Many Harry Returns
Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea took another battering, on and off the pitch, over the last few days as this weekend’s Premier League matches saw them defeated, again, this time to West Ham. They followed that up with a penalty kicks defeat at Stoke, in the League Cup, although like most of the other top clubs that’s…
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EPL Matchday 7 Roundup: Sanchez Hits Hat-Trick In A Big Weekend
Kane and Rooney finally scored. Sanchez hit a hat-trick and Newcastle blew it … again. It was a big weekend for in the EPL, with wins for Manchester United, Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Stoke, Southampton and, of course, Liverpool and Spurs. In the latter match, Harry Kane ended weeks of fevered speculation about whether or not…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Aston Villa 0-1 West Brom
This Midlands derby defeat for Aston Villa, at the hands of West Brom, means that the coming one, against Birmingham in the League Cup, has a significance that it otherwise might not have had. West Brom had come to Villa Park in need of a pick me up and within 60 seconds Rondon had forced…
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Liverpool move for Benteke after missing out on Colombian hitman
View image | gettyimages.com Liverpool are ready to make a serious bid for Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke, Football Express News understands. Reds boss Brendan Rodgers has already begun spending this summer after capturing Danny Ings, Nathaniel Clyne and much talked about Brazilian forward Roberto Firmino. However, the Northern Irish boss is not stopping their…
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Chelsea lead Aston Villa in race for £8m rated keeper
View image | gettyimages.com Chelsea are leading the race to sign Stoke City keeper Asmir Begovic, according to Sky Sports. The Bosnian international keeper is 27-years-old, and has one year left on his current contract at Stoke where he has been first choice goalkeeper since 2010 making 160 appearances and one goal. The player is…
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Man City to make £10m move for England international Delph
View image | gettyimages.com Manchester City are ready to make a summer move for Aston Villa midfielder Fabian Delph, according to reports. The England international has a release clause of just £10 million in the contract he signed earlier this year, and City hope to lure him to the Etihad Stadium. The former Leeds United…
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Roma to decide on Benteke or Lukaku
View image | gettyimages.com Roma will decide on who out of Christian Benteke and Romelu Lukaku who they are to make a summer move for, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.
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Swansea City join race for Spurs winger Townsend
View image | gettyimages.com Swansea City have joined Aston Villa with interest in Tottenham Hotspur winger Andros Townsend. Villa boss Tim Sherwood is keen to reignite himself with the England international at Villa Park and is ready to submit an offer. Townsend has openly admitted this season that his time at White Hart Lane is…
