Hopefully the showing by the lads today (w/o Gabby, Collins and Cuellar) inspires Milner to stay for atleast the season. Man City looked awful this morning and those classless rich wanks deserved that slop. Just because a team looks good on paper doesn't mean it will produce the chem it takes to win in the prem. Hopefully Milner realizes that, and the fact that he will get every minute of every game @ Villa.... Nonetheless, 3-0 to the villans, Newcastle awaits.... so do 3 more points
The first leg of Rapid Vienna v Aston Villa starts in a few Aston Villa Starters: Guzan, Lichaj, Beye, Davies, Warnock; Albrighton, Reo-Coker, Hogg, Downing, Bannan, Heskey Subs: Friedel, Clark, Weimann, Osbourne, Delfouneso, Baker, Lowry
1-1 There was a cross into the box and it missed all of the traffic in front of the net and Guzan misread it.
Thankfully Villa held onto their early lead to get a much needed 3 points. It was really good to see a win after being blown out by Newcastle and the disappointing loss in the Europa League
you guys we're extremely lucky to get the win. Everton completely dominated and probably should've won 12-0 since they played twice as well as Newcastle did against you. Friedel really stood on his head and saved your asses.
Wow...Ashley Young should have made the score 2-0 in the first half and it came back to bite them in the butt.
Villans-Wolves at the Molineux tomorrow! Gotta get up early on the US East Coast...gaffer Houllier is touting Emile Heskey as the difference in the CC win over Blackburn...I'm not sure that's a good thing...
Tottenham Hotspur visit Aston Villa on Boxing Day, Sunday 26th December for the second Premier League meeting between the two clubs in the 2010-11 season. Spurs have previously beaten Aston Villa 2-1 at White Hart Lane on 2nd October with a brace of goals from Rafael van der Vaart. The match at Villa Park will be the 160th time the two teams have met. Tottenham Hotspur first met Aston Villa on 11th April 1896 when Spurs were still in the Southern League. The friendly match played at Tottenham Marshes ended with a 3-1 win for Aston Villa. Three more friendlies were played until the clubs met in anger for the first time in the old Third Round of the FA Cup (today's 5th Round) in March 1903 with Villa winning 3-2. The first Football League meeting came on 20th November 1909 in the First Division after Spurs had been promoted after their first season of League football. Villa once again won 3-2. There have been two Wembley matches played between the two clubs. The first was in the 1971 Football League Cup Final which Spurs won 2-0 with two goals from Martin Chivers - Aston Villa were in the Third Division at the time. The second game at Wembley came in the 1981 Charity Shield with FA Cup Winners Spurs drawing 2-2 with Football League Champions Aston Villa. Mark Falco scored both Spurs goals and Peter Withe did likewise for Villa. There have been no Domestic Cup meetings between the two teams during the last 16 years. The last time they met was in the 5th Round of the League Cup in January 1994 with Villa winning 2-1. Both Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur were founder-members of the Premier League in 1992-93 and the two clubs, along with Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool and Manchester United are among the only seven ever-present clubs during the competitions 19 season history. Sunday's game at Villa Park will be the 160th match played between the two clubs and Spurs have the slight edge with 62 wins to Villa's 59 with 38 matches having been drawn. Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa Matches 1896-2010 http://www.myfootballfacts.com/SpursvAstonVilla.html They Played for Spurs & Villa.... Gundi Bergsson (Villa trialist) Danny Blanchflower Mark Burke (Spurs trialist) Colin Calderwood Jimmy Cantrell Billy Cook Peter Crouch Ronnie Dix David Ginola George Graham (Villa player, Spurs manager) Andy Gray James Gray Steve Hodge Bob Iverson (Spurs junior) Oyvind Leonhardsen Ernie Phypers Vic Potts Wayne Routledge Gordon Smith Cyril Spiers Tom Tebb Jack Treasadern (Spurs manager, Villa scout) Frank Wilson Luke Young
Tottenham was up 1-0 when Jermain Defoe got a straight red card 27 minutes in. Aston Villa could not take advantage as Tottenham scored a second goal while down a man and won 2-1.
Great match today against Chelsea. The match was televised here in the US on Fox Soccer Channel. Villa never threw in the towel and Clarks late goal gave Villa a well deserved draw. Here is the match review: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report/_/id/293100?cc=5901
Big game against Sunderland wednesday. We need the win. At home we need to be winning or we will stay near the relegation zone
nice away victory and I swear Wigan's pitch always looks beyond crap especially in 2nd half of seasons. onward and upward.
nice win today. also glad to hear Michael Bradley is coming on loan. some nice moves during the window this January.