14 May 2012, 2:18 pm
The season from hell is finally over and Alex McLeish’s Aston Villa career has, as expected, been terminated. His tenure has passed on. It’s no more. It has ceased to [...]...

21 December 2011, 1:17 pm
If you’ve been stopping by Aston Villa Central for a while now you would have noticed something amiss this past weekend and may have assumed that I had joined Darren [...]...

10 December 2011, 5:19 pm
Marc Albrighton and Stiliyan Petrov produced the vital goals to deliver Villa’s first away win of the season, but Ivan Klasnic was able to prevent Brad Guzan earning a clean [...]...

10 December 2011, 2:15 pm
With Shay Given out for a month, Brad Guzan gets his first Premier League start, and it’s also emerged this week that the American is in contract discussions with his [...]...

3 December 2011, 7:35 pm
They obviously can’t be bothered, so neither can I. It was a positive line-up, but Utd never needed to get out of 1st gear. McLeish must be giving out his [...]...

20 May 2012, 1:11 pm
Hearing about his talks with Randy Lerner on Friday, many people of a claret and blue persuasion expected that the former Manchester United player might soon become a Villan, not a villain. Unusually, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer experienced turbulence after his flight from Birmingham. Upon returning to his hometown, he discovered that his current club’s main...

17 May 2012, 6:57 pm
At the start of the week, Villans breathed a collective sigh of relief as Alex McLeish, whose initial appointment was deemed an own goal by many, was shown the red card. Now, we find ourselves on the managerial merry-go-round once again. After the rather bizarre scenes at Carrow Road last Sunday, which involved the travelling...

17 May 2012, 6:35 pm
AVillafan.com can break the news that Randy Lerner’s jet is currently sitting in Norway The below image was sent to by a gentlemen in Norway                   The gentlemen who sent it me had this to say: Randy Lerner’s private jet landed in Kristiansund to fly Ole Solskjaer...

16 May 2012, 6:41 pm
This season’s grand total of seven league wins is our lowest since 1890-91, when there were only twelve teams in the top flight. We’ve also equalled the record for the highest number of draws in a thirty-eight game Premier League campaign. We’re all, I’m sure, glad to be able to put an abysmal season to...

14 May 2012, 7:39 pm
Well last night when I originally wrote this post, I thought it would only be a matter of time before McLeish went and today we got the news we all wanted to hear. Personally for me Martinez is the man, but I don’t think he will join us although the fact we have moved so...

25 April 2011, 10:58 am
CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR RE-CONSTRUCTION....

6 March 2011, 9:49 am
The Villa fail to convert a sackful of chances and go down to another goal in the final five minutes......

2 March 2011, 5:42 pm
Rubbish team selection! Rubbish tactics! Rubbish performance! Substitutions when we're three goals down and 20 minutes left ? The fans, particularly the travelling faithful,......

26 February 2011, 12:24 pm
The Villa ease up to 12th in the league after what eventually turned out to be an easy three points......

13 February 2011, 8:01 am
With a two-week break pending, due the the lack of foresight of the FA, the Villa were pegged back by......

Villa face a Bolton side this weekend who have the worst home record in the Premier League having won just 1 and lost 6 of their opening 7 games at the Reebok. Despite this, Bolton’s home advantage makes them slight favourites according to SkyBet and Betfair football, with a draw unsurprisingly the longest odds with [...] ...

Villa face Tottenham having not beaten Spurs in their previous 5 encounters, with Redknapp’s side doing the double last season in strangely similar fashion. Both games ended 2-1 and while Marc Albrighton scored in each game for Villa, Rafael van der Vaart netted all four of Tottenham’s goals past Brad Friedel, now a teammate of [...] ...

Aston Villa will be primed to re-launch their flailing Premier League campaign this season after the international break starting with Tottenham Hotspur, then facing Swansea City and finally coming up against Manchester United in a busy few weeks for the midlands club. With just two wins in their last 10 games (wins against Wigan and [...] ...

Aston Villa have 12 points after 10 games, the exact same tally as last season, and despite sitting 9th, could be in a dangerous position were they to lose, or even perhaps draw with Norwich. With United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal all to come in the next two months, Alex McLeish will no doubt [...] ...

It is fair to say that Villa have not exactly set the world alight under Alex McLeish so far and they will be aiming to prevent a third successive defeat in Darren Bent’s first return to Sunderland. Aston Villa After a 7-game unbeaten run at the start of the season, albeit with 5 draws thrown [...] ...

16 April 2011, 8:59 pm
I don’t think even the most wishful Aston Villa supporter would be surprised to see the back of Ashley Young this summer. We’ve all come to terms that, after 4 and half wonderful seasons, our £9.75m bargain will take his … Continue reading →...

31 January 2011, 3:22 pm
£18m rising to £24m… I never once denied how overpriced this transfer fee for Darren Bent was. At the time, I used Man City’s valuation of £28m for James Milner as justification for our extravagant spending. I pointed to Barcelona’s … Continue reading →...

24 January 2011, 8:52 pm
As soon as the record-breaking signature of Dazza Bent went through last Tuesday, I rejoiced for the acquisition of what we have been missing for so long. I claimed that it had been years since we had a natural goalscorer, … Continue reading →...

18 January 2011, 5:21 pm
The transfer of Darren Bent to Villa is imminent – in fact, it will probably be completed as I write this short piece. But the move is somewhat being soured by petulant Sunderland fans who, for some reason or another, … Continue reading →...

17 January 2011, 5:12 pm
Well, we’ve always wanted our 20-goals-a-season front man… it looks like we just may have got him. I read a comment earlier saying, “Aston Villa are mugs”. But, are they? £18m (possibly £24m) is an absolutely extortionate fee, granted. Aston … Continue reading →...

17 May 2012, 5:17 pm
This post has been written by Sam Tighe, and I’m delighted he’s taken the time to contribute to the site. He’s produced some great work previously, so if you’re on Twitter give him a follow using the link at the bottom of the article. He loves his football and loves his Villa, great combo ‘Aston [...]...

15 May 2012, 9:22 pm
Why must it seem like everyone is trying to wind us up at the moment? First we had links with Karl Henry in the press last week, now the bookies have made everyone panic by dramatically shortening Mick McCarthy’s odds to be the next Villa manager. It’s worrying to see him up there, and it’s [...]...

14 May 2012, 10:16 pm
We wrote a post yesterday when McLeish was still in a job and the market only seemed to be open with a couple of bookmakers. Just had another quick look and a number of the same lot from yesterday are still there, with the top two unchanged: Roberto Martinez 11/10 Paul Lambert 11/8 Gus Poyet [...]...

14 May 2012, 8:12 pm
Wowzers what a day. I read that it looked like Mr McLeish’s spell as Villa manager might be drawing to an end this morning, then naturally had to attend a course for the majority of the day which meant I couldn’t spend it glued to my laptop. Lunchtime came and he was still our manager, [...]...

13 May 2012, 8:29 pm
I love a cheeky bet, so was interested to see what prices had been drawn up for a few markets. The most interesting at the moment is the next manager market and even though we of course still have one at the moment, it’s worth looking at who the bookies think might be the next [...]...

6 April 2012, 8:00 am
It’s a jovial time of year.  Chocolate eggs, smiling children and two glorious bank holidays.  So, trust Villa to have a vital fixture sandwiched amongst this, all primed and ready to put a massive downer on things.  However, whilst Villa go to Anfield in search of vital points towards guaranteeing Premiership status, our hosts are on arguably an even worse run of form.  Indeed, Liverpool’s six recent league defeats are particularly remarkable given the calibre of some who they h...

5 April 2012, 10:37 am
Hot on the heels of our article discussing free transfer possibilities yesterday, the rumour mill has identified Joe Cole as a possible target for Villa this summer.  The suggestion is that Liverpool would be willing to release Cole for nothing at the end of the season following his inspired loan spell at Ligue 1 outfit Lille. The real question has to be why Liverpool would release him for nothing?  Cole is contracted to Villa’s looming weekend opponents until June 2014 and his performa...

4 April 2012, 2:15 pm
What with Carlos Cuellar, Brad Guzan and the mighty Emile Heskey poised to depart on free transfers at the end of the season, perhaps it’s time Villa looked to take advantage of some freebies?  Indeed the club are already looking to set adopt this strategy (see Brett Holman) in order that saved transfer fees can be put towards player salaries. But who is up for grabs this year?  Who could Aston Villa, on the back of a poor overall season reasonably expect to attract?  Here are a few na...

4 March 2012, 6:33 pm
The writing has slowed at Vilr Towers of late. This is because the writer ponders the words that you take the time to read, never rushing for fear of publishing on a whim. Great willpower is used in resisting the urge to vent, searching for the positives or at the very least looking at the bigger picture. The latter being something that we as football fans are as guilty as any of remembering to apply when voicing our opinions. It would be improper, indeed, delusional to suggest that all is we...

16 December 2011, 8:00 am
Regardless of what one might have thought, Villa selling Stewart Downing to Liverpool for £20 Million (2011 summer transfer window) still felt like reasonably good business at the time.  A few months down the line, Downing has produced literally none of the glimpses of talent Villa fans witnessed for his new employers at Anfield.  It now feels like even better business.  But there is a reason for this. 15 games into his Liverpool career Downing has produced nothing.  Not so much as an own ...