Villa sold Lucas Digne to Paris Saint-Germain in the summer and signed Matteo Ruggeri from Atlético Madrid, a tidy enough ...

Brentford committed 24 fouls on their visit to Villa Park. That’s not even by my count, but by the number of free kicks ...

The internationals are back with the squad. The boys are back from Spain and raring to go. After the extended autumn break amounted to altogether too much international football even for me, the sixth ...

It’s been a tricky season so far, but Aston Villa have their first Premier League win thanks to three goals and three points against Tottenham Hotspur. There’s no ‘deserve’ in football. Spurs had ...

After 25 years, Coventry City didn’t quite get the reunion they wanted in the League Cup on Wednesday. Aston Villa won relatively comfortably at the Coventry Building Society Arena as Tammy Abraham ...

After what’s felt like an interminable start to 2026/27, Aston Villa have finally stumbled as far as their last fixture before an extended international break. The season starts here? Well, let’s find ...

Whatever goes wrong for Aston Villa this season, some part of it will be blamed on the loss of this player or that in the summer transfer window. Whether there’s consensus on which player’s sale did ...

There have been lots of mitigations for under-performance in the early part of the season but the idea of going winless in five games with an extended international break at the end of it wasn’t a ...

The bottom two teams in the nascent Premier League table meet in the third round of the League Cup on Wednesday night, blessed by a distraction that will end up feeling for one of them like a curse.

If you’re going to have a slow start in the Premier League, at least eke some value from winning your cup matches while you try to find your legs. Aston Villa had to deal with the willingness of ...