I'm a Villan of more than 60 years standing and an occasional writer on Villa history. For me there is only one football club worth supporting, but I am now wondering whether I will again see anything like the pageant that was paraded under Ron Saunders or even that by Big Ron and Brian Little. My glass, however, is always half-full! Click here for my Villa website.
Well, there’s a to-do. There was I firm in the belief in January that before we went to Newcastle we’d have some good wins in our pocket. Instead we’ve had good (bad) defeats! So it’s eight games without a win for Villa and the Magpies are flying high at the top of the table. It […]
Quite incredible. The number of mourners present went into overflow mode, lining all the walls of the service hall apart from filling all the pews. In fact I arrived half-an-hour early and it was just as well as I doubt otherwise I’d have been able to find a parking spot. I arrived as a snow […]
Well, this has been a 10-day period of transfer action … and some action at that. There must be some doubt as to whether Steve Bruce reads Aston Villa Life to determine what we thought/think of the squad’s weaknesses, but the signings seem to me to indicate that he’s on a similar wavelength to a […]
We are well into the third week of the transfer ‘window’, and still there’s no sign of reinforcements arriving. Added to this situation is the news that Lambert has obtained striker Weimann for the rest of the season! Which makes the situation even more bizarre that we are (this Saturday) being given the chance to […]
The end of the world has come it would seem: gloom, gloom, yet more gloom! Yet any gloom usually turns to light, so I am assuming we are going to see light – and plenty of it – when matters sort themselves out. Promotion? Probably not this season, but, hey, we were getting used to […]