Aston Villa F.C.

Full name Aston Villa Football Club Nickname(s)' The Villa', 'The Villans', 'Villa', 'The Lions' Founded 1874[2] Ground Villa Park Aston Birmingham B6 6HE England (Capacity 42,640) Chairman Randy Lerner Manager Martin O'Neill League Premier League 2007-08 Premier League, 6th In 1982 Aston Villa won the European Cup. In fact English clubs won it six years in a row and dominated Europe, Forest and Liverpool winning 5 more, a couple of UEFA Cups thrown in for good measure. England will have the most winners in the competition when Manchester United beat Chelsea in the Moscow final with a totals of 12 ...

“Aston Villa have completed a £6.5m deal for Celtic midfielder Stilian Petrov. The 27-year-old Bulgaria captain has signed a four-year contract and is boss Martin O'Neill's first signing since taking over at Villa Park.” And so I pinched myself following a whirlwind few weeks where the shackles of the relentless Doug Ellis had finally been broken and the club was now owned by one Randy Lerner, the owner of the Cleveland Browns and billionaire from the US. Better still, the redoubtable Irishman, Martin O’Neill was now the manager having taken over from the hapless David O’Leary. It’s hard to put into words what a turnaround we’ve seen recently at Villa Park. I desperately ...

Aston Villa are one of those annoying under achievers that have everything in place for success and riches bar leadership. Chairman Ellis blocks any real serious team building with the checkbook whilst Gregory does every thing he can to contain the players attacking instincts. All due respect to Vassal and Taylor but local boys are not nesscarily the best to be playing for trophies Hadji isn’t getting enough field time for his talent and Merson looks older. Angel is impressive though, but needs more quality ball.They should get what they can for Dublin as he’s lost his bottle since the crunching neck tackle and damage. Sunday’s ...