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Well done Citeh, from a Villan. Pleased for you all after the many years of frustration.

Re: Reading it is... Hold on HolteEnder! Villa created the game and gave league football to the world. Villa were the most successful club of the nineteenth century and had more major trophies in the trophy cabinet than any other English club for an unbroken spell of seventy-eight years...

Well, they share their city with the club that gave the world its most popular sport -league football - the self same club being former Champions of Europe with nineteen more trophies in the cabinet than them. I think, by all definitions of the term, it would be fair to say that they are living...

Re: 500+ passes not one clear shot Yes. Strangely, though, Hart seemed to have to make more saves than Friedel. Tactics won the game game tonight and Houllier deserves credit - he was under a lot of pressure. Houllier did a Mancini in many ways. Many posters have hit the nail on the head...

Aye, and the "worse" side has just beaten the "better" side. Strange! (Check the results pages if you don't believe it.)

Liverpool were successful for a spell of forty years. They were backed by a stable, wealthy boardroom when the likes of Villa and City weren't. In fact, when Liverpool and Man Utd started becoming successful (the 1950's and 60's) the likes of Villa (who, at the time, were England's most...

Barry Bannan. Best young Scottish lad by a country mile. Check out his hattrick for the Villa youngsters v Man United on Youtube. (Can't do links, sorry.)

I have to agree with the general point of this thread. Liverpool since the days of Shankly and Everton have both been backed by big money when compared to other clubs. The Moores family backed BOTH clubs at one time or another. Look at Liverpool. Their history before Shanks was one of SIX...

Hmmm. I think there is a touch of ignorance here. The Lions teams in rugby are represented by players from TWO sovereign nations - the UK and the Irish Republic. They do not represent any set nation per se and are simply touring sides championing the best players from the geographic area. An...

George Best was all for it. Martin O'Neill, Derek Dougan and Peter McParland, too. I'm sure the majority of people in the nine counties of Ulster would be for it as well. Indeed, before partition, the Irish played football as one nation so of course it can work. If it worked in the past then...

To be honest I have not met one Villa fan who thinks this is Man City's fault. Not one. To think along those lines smacks of paranoia. Man City does not even come into the fall out between O'Neill and Lerner. I've a lot of time for City and have a few family members from Moss Side and I was...

Re: Ireland On HisWay I'll give you my genuine views as a Villa fan. Will I be happy to see James Milner leave? No. Will I be happy to see Stephen Ireland arrive? Yes. I think they are two slightly different players and, obviously, very different personalities. I'm very sure O'Neill will...

Got to be Villa. The club that created league football in 1888. Seven times champions (ten times runners up). Seven FA Cups (three runners ups). Five League Cups (three runners ups). Former Champions of Europe, too. Very hard to beat for genuine history, tradition and success. England's most...

Being interested in stadia design I'm following the progress at City closely. The Joe Mercer Way signage in mosaic form is a nice touch. The only place where I can think of mosaics forming a significant part of the fabric of a stadium's "look" is Villa Park. Are City aiming to give the COMS a...

Yawn. Where is this "undercurrent of bitter resentment" ? These only thing embarrassing around here are these lazy, ill-thought out knee-jerk posts. Talk about paranoia! Tell us why these pundits have a bitter resentment for England and the U.S. (who were criticized, too?) I'll take Johnny...

Bitter about what? He has a go at America too getting help from the ref. I can't help but feel some of us are getting just a little bit paranoid and chippy about how other nations view us. Talk about a persecution complex.

They're totally redeveloping the 1970's North Stand side of Villa Park (the end where the away supporters used to sit/stand). HKR are designing it and have been given the brief to keep the ground "traditionally English" maintaining four separate stands. It'll be interesting to see what the...

The Aston Villa Football Club Aston Villa Villa All forms of the name are pretty striking.

Villa's Major Honours: Premier League: (Runners-Up: 1992-93). Football League Division 1: Champions: 1893-94, 1895-96, 1896-97, 1898-99, 1899-1900, 1909-10, 1980-81. (Runners-Up: 1888-89, 1902-03, 1907-08, 1910-11, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1930-31, 1932-33, 1989-90). FA Cup Winners: 1887, 1895...

All right fellas! Villa fan in peace and all that. Well it looks as though Barry will end up at your place. A good deal for all parties I feel. Even better that it has been sorted nice and early. What kind of player will you be getting? Looking at some of your threads it seems to me you...