You have to go all the way back to 21st February 2004 to find the last time Chelsea lost at home in the Premier League. Since then 85 teams have attempted to beat the Blues at Stamford Bridge but none have left with more than a point.
One of the teams to go closest to ending […]
Tags: Ashley Young · Aston Villa · Chelsea · Luis Felipe Scolari · Martin O'Neill · Premiership
Aston Villa surprised many neutrals last season, and probably even some of their own supporters, with their 6th-place finish. In 2006-2007, the Villans checked in at a respectable 11th, a nice improvement from 16th the season before. Villa’s emergence, led by manager Martin O’Neill, came with one of the smallest, if not THE smallest, […]
Tags: Aston Villa · Martin O'Neill · Premier League · Preview
Liverpool seem to have decided on a new transfer policy this summer which makes the same impact as Real Madrid’s lovelorn chase for Ronaldo. Liverpool seem to be using their local paper, The Echo, to release transfer target information into the public domain to unsettle players at other clubs. Gareth Barry became the first and now it seems […]
Tags: Aston Villa · Liverpool · Manchester United · Martin O'Neill · Rafa Benitez · Randy Lerner · Robbie Keane · Tottenham Hotspur · anfield · real madrid
So it’s here, the day the gets us all excited and begins the countdown to the new season starting on August 16th, a mere 61 days away.
Everyone eagerly checks the fixtures, scanning to see when they’ve got that away trip to Old Trafford, Anfield, The Emirates and Stamford Bridge, who’ll they’ll be playing near their […]
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Numerous reports today have confirmed what has basically been common knowledge over the past couple of weeks: Liverpool is interested in signing Aston Villa’s captain, Gareth Barry. Villa manager Martin O’Neill came out today criticizing Liverpool for publicizing this interest; a part exchange offer has been made for sure, with Peter Crouch, John Arne Riise, […]
Tags: Aston Villa · Liverpool · Martin O'Neill · Rafa Benitez
Two weeks ago, I announced the five nominees for my Premiership Manager of the Year award. Amongst the five were a Scotsman (David Moyes), an Irishman (Roy Keane), a gentleman from Northern Ireland (Martin O’Neill), a Spaniard (Juande Ramos), and a voyeur…excuse me, a Frenchman (Arsene Wenger).
That list was then narrowed down to three “semifinalists”, […]
Tags: Aston Villa · Martin O'Neill
Watching yesterday’s edition of the Second City Derby, won in style 5-1 by Aston Villa, one had to have been impressed with the victors. They scored from open play and set pieces. They ran Birmingham ragged from start to finish. Ever since manager Martin O’Neill altered his team’s formation to a 4-3-3, they’ve been almost […]
Tags: Aston Villa · Birmingham City · England · F.A. · Martin O'Neill
First off, I want to let everyone know that I’m going to make a bit of a change in this Premiership “Manager of the Year” award procedure.
Instead of naming my personal winner on Friday as previously planned, I’m going to wait and do it on the 21st. Two more rounds of games will have been […]
Tags: Everton · Martin O'Neill · Roy Keane
