Author: Guest Post
Over Aston Villa’s 145 years they have had plenty of Australians represent them. If you’ve ever wondered who were the best Aussie players to ever play for Aston Villa, using the help of Australian sports experts and their article, we’ve combined the list of 5 outstanding Aussie players that have competed with the legendary English club. Mile Jedinak We’re starting off our list with the most recent player that actually was released from Aston Villa during the summer of 2019. Mile Jedinak has been with Aston Villa since 2016, after joining from Crystal Palace. Jedinak helped the team get to…
Jack Grealish, the young player many Aston Villa fans are relying on to fire us out of the poor form we’ve found ourselves in and hopefully even take us further in the future, is in the papers again – and for the wrong reasons. Mike Keegan of ‘The Daily Mail’ reported that, after the Ipswich Town game last Saturday, Jack Grealish and his friends were partying in a Birmingham hotel until the early hours of the morning, disturbing other guests. According to Mike Keegan, the room was littered with nitrous oxide canisters and balloons, colourfully described in the article as…
Aston Villa Football Club is in real danger of being cut adrift of the heavy hitters in the Championship this season. We’re currently sitting seventeenth in the table. Having spent in the region of £50 million during the transfer window, smashing Championship transfer records for fun, we cannot get a win. Despite criticism of Roberto Di Matteo, I believe the players are the ones who are letting the fans down. A lot of these players need to take long, hard looks in their mirrors and remember who, and what, they’re playing for before letting failure to win become habitual, as…
On a lovely Tuesday morning in Newcastle Upon Tyne, I began my two hundred and forty mile trip, eagerly anticipating my first visit to Villa Park of the season. The journey was long and tiring, although it was worth it once I sat among the Villa faithful. Having a long journey back home gave me time to think about, and analyse, the game I had just watched. A 1-1 draw against Huddersfield Town was the result of a game which the Villans were in complete control of for seventy-five minutes. Let me start with the positives. The defensive shape looks…
One issue we’ve had even before we were relegated is putting in the performances and, thus, getting the results when it matters. It’s great smashing a few teams during pre-season or in the Cups, playing some nice stuff when it doesn’t matter that much, but we need to build on last weekend’s performance and start turning this good feeling into a winning habit. We had the lowest of lows when we couldn’t even muster a performance against Luton Town last Wednesday. The loss visibly hurt the players but that low was quickly washed away by a stellar performance against a…
Tony Xia tweeted yesterday, “Someone go low, we go high! Up The Villa!” Presumably, he was responding to Norwich City’s refusal to meet the asking price of brand new Aston Villa striker Ross McCormack. McCormack’s arrival solves a problem that had existed since Benteke left last summer and it also shows the intentions of the people who are now in charge of the club. If Xia wants something enough then he’ll get it – or so we hope. Ross McCormack is being judged by many as a crazy signing; I understand why people would think that, as £12 million is…
Sky Sports, amongst other media outlets, has reported that Newcastle United has activated Ciaran Clark’s £5 million release clause and that the defender is en route to complete a medical, despite Roberto Di Matteo stating on Friday that he will not be leaving the club this summer. If we let Ciaran Clark slip through the net, we would be making a huge mistake. Clark hasn’t developed quite the way a lot of Villa fans thought he would. At the start, he looked smart on the ball, tough and intelligent when defending and reading the game. With a change of manager…
It’s the middle of the summer and our football club looks to be in a lot better shape than it was when we were relegated from the Premier League in May. We have a new owner who seems to care enough about the club to, albeit cryptically, let fans know that another club is playing “dirty” and we seemingly have a strong new spine to our team. Things are not perfect at Aston Villa Football Club by any means. For a start, we have a lot of dead wood we need to shift, dead wood that Tom Fox and his…
Founded in 1874, Aston Villa is a football club with a fantastic history – it’s the claret and blue of Birmingham. With the Premier League rewarding clubs with ever greater sums of money, it seemed like common sense that Randy Lerner would find a good manager and then spend a healthy sum of money to help take Aston Villa into this new Premier League age. I’m a believer that Lerner purchased Aston Villa thinking he could quickly get the club into the Champions League. It was an investment opportunity for him. Once in the Champions League, it wouldn’t have surprised…
We all remember the photographs that emerged during the summer apparently depicting the drunk Jack Grealish lying unconscious in a road in Tenerife. Of course we remember them: we hurried to make excuses for him in June because he is young and was on holiday. Two months previously, photographs of the twenty-year-old allegedly inhaling “hippy crack” at a party had been printed in a national newspaper. Tim Sherwood spoke to Grealish on both of these occasions and reportedly told him that a third offence would not be tolerated. Well, following Sherwood’s sacking, it appears that Jack the lad decided to…