We seem to spend all our time in blaming the manager, but are we thus saying that we have confidence in the players to do their job properly? I feel we are expecting too much from players who are these days cossetted and made to feel as though they are worth the money they’re paid, […]
Well, is this the season when we will see the Villa Pheonix rise out of what were truly ashes? Will this be the end of nearly 20 years of developing misery for Villa supporters, punctuated only by the false dawn and excitement with the appearance of Randy and his initially welcomed ‘new era’ and the […]
While pre-season matches are nothing much to get excited about (especially the early ones) the fans are eager to take a look at what the current set of players can do. This is especially in the light of the fact that few new signings are expected to arrive this summer: although Johnstone has been announced […]
And, lastly, here’s a transcript of an article by one of Villa’s fine foot-soldiers of the 1920s, Arthur Dorrell, Villa’s left-winger and son of a former Villa player of the 1890s. It appeared in The Tamworth Herald, in October 1924, a few months after Villa’s first appearance at Wembley, and their eighth Cup Final. Although […]
The following is a transcript of an interview of the then Villa chairman Fred Rinder, in the week preceding the 1924 Cup Final, by a senior member of the Athletic News, a foremost journal of that time which existed until 1930. The interview is preceded by the interviewer’s comments on the achievements of Aston Villa […]
