Everton Expose Villa’s Current Midfield Problem
THIS MATCH IS CRUCIAL wrote Unai Emery in the match programme notes for the Everton game. The players it seems didn't get the memo.Everton came to Villa Park with a clear plan and left having disrupte...
20 Jan 25min
Efficiency Over Chaos: Why Villa Are Built for Games Like Everton
Some games are not about flair. They are about control.As Everton arrive at Villa Park, this main show looks past form lines and reputations to focus on why Aston Villa are structurally well suited to...
18 Jan 29min
A Proper Cup Tie, Properly Won
This one had everything a cup tie should.Noise, needle, moments of quality, moments of chaos, and a sense that one team understood the occasion far better than the other. Aston Villa went to Tottenham...
14 Jan 25min
Palace, the FA Cup, and How Aston Villa Really Play
What does Aston Villa actually play like?It’s a question people keep trying to answer with labels. Possession-based. Pragmatic. Ruthless. Transitional. And it’s a question that keeps missing the point...
10 Jan 29min
Back to Business at Villa Park
A new year, the same authority.After the winning run ended at Arsenal, Aston Villa returned to Villa Park and did exactly what mature sides do. They took control, strangled transitions, and dealt with...
4 Jan 24min
The Run May Have Ended, Villa Are Still in Good Shape
The winning run had to end somewhere. Unfortunately, it ended at the hardest place in the league to do anything at all.Villa went to the Emirates chasing history and left with a 4–1 defeat that looks ...
2 Jan 23min
Dead at Half-Time, Relentless by Full-Time: How Emery Broke Chelsea
Aston Villa were bullied, outplayed, and offered nothing for an hour at Stamford Bridge. Twenty-nine percent possession. No shots. One goal down. Seasoned Villa fans were already bracing themselves.Th...
28 Dec 202522min
Christmas Saved: Resurrection at Villa Park as Rogers Buries United
The Manchester United post-mortem usually involves burying Villa’s latest trauma and promising not to speak of it again until the next time. Not this time.On this episode of My Old Man Said, Villa are...
23 Dec 202526min
