After the retirement of Martin Laursen and a series of costly defensive errors during last season, most Villa fans would have assumed that at least one new central defender would be top of Martin O’Neill’s summer shopping list.
Instead, our sole signing so far is a midfielder injured until December, and the squad has now lost [...]

After losing to Malaga earlier in the competition, Villa were given a lifeline going into their match against Atlante, after the Mexican side beat Malaga 3-1. All that was required to continue into the semi-final was to win by two clear goals.
However, judging by the first 45 minutes of the game, this wasn’t going to be the [...]

Paul Brown and Jack Woodward’s ‘Bullring to Bullring’ expedition ended yesterday, providing the fans with a first glimpse of the home kit for the upcoming 2009/10 season.
The club’s journalists were set the challenge of driving from Birmingham – setting off at 7am on 21st July – all the way to the team’s training camp in Malaga, where they [...]

Two goals in under 10 minutes earned Villa a 2-2 draw with an impressive Colchester United side, who provided a tough test to a claret and blue 11 made up of a number of senior players.
Friedel started in goal, behind a first team defence of Cuellar, Knight, Davies and Shorey. With Albrighton, Reo-Coker, Sidwell, Osbourne and [...]

…there’s finally been some action on the transfer front. Stewart Downing has officially joined from Middlesbrough for a fee £12million, becoming Martin O’Neill’s first signing of the summer and fuelling the hopes of even the most pessimistic Villa fans that there will be an influx of good quality signings to follow.
In Downing we have a potentially excellent [...]