Aston Villa moved into 6th place in the Barclays Premier League with a come-from-behind 2-1 victory over relegated Portsmouth at Frattan Park this afternoon to keep alive slim hopes of UEFA Champions League football, and further bolster their strong chance of a UEFA Europa League place. Despite being bottom of the league by some margin [...]
The introduction of Wayne Rooney led to the winning goal which gave Manchester United the 2010 Carling Cup in this afternoon’s final which took place at a packed Wembley against Premier League Aston Villa. United won 2-1 having trailed 1-0 to a James Milner 6th minute penalty. The pace of Agbonlahor led to Aston Villa’s [...]
The League Cup final takes place this afternoon, at 3pm in Wembley, as Manchester United, current Premier League Champions take on Aston Villa, of Birmingham. The two clubs are both looking to make up ground on their near rivals in the Premier League – United sit one point behind league leaders Chelsea, while Villa, assuming [...]
This evening’s Quarter Final draw for the 2010 FA Cup has thrown up a massive fixture, and opened up the draw for a mid-table Premier League team in the process as the two remaining favourites, Manchester City and Chelsea, have been put together. Man City, assuming they can overcome Stoke in their replay, will play [...]
Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:39:11 | Posted in
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Today saw the final three FA Cup 2010 Fifth Round matches of the weekend take place. Some exciting football has ended with only one positive result from those matches: there was little or no romance from today’s Valentine’s Day fixtures. Most exciting, perhaps, was Aston Villa, who needed an equaliser in the final minutes from [...]
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The draw for the Fifth Round Proper of the English FA Cup 2010 took place this evening. Chelsea are now as low as 2-1 to win this year’s trophy following the early exit of Liverpool and Manchester United, in Round Three and Arsenal, who exited in today’s Fourth Round match away at Stoke. They will [...]
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:51:36 | Posted in
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The FA Cup Fourth Round matches this afternoon have seen few upsets, as Fulham came through their tie away at Accrington Stanley, Aston Villa saw off Brighton and Chelsea defeated Championship Preston. Southampton and Reading, however, both managed to overcome opposition from a league above. Leeds earned a draw at Spurs with a last gasp [...]
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:08:02 | Posted in
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Aston Villa have tonight ensured their passage to the 2010 Carling Cup final by defeating Blackburn by a thrilling 6 goals to 4 at Villa Park. The Birmingham based side won through 7-4 on aggregate after taking a 1-0 scoreline into this match following James Milner’s winner in the first leg at Ewood Park. Blackburn, [...]
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:01:50 | Posted in
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Today’s Barclays Premier League fixtures have been somewhat ravaged by the ongoing snowy weather: four of the scheduled seven matches due to take place this afternoon have been postponed. Matches at Burnley, Fulham, Hull and Sunderland are all cancelled, demonstrating just how widespread the bad weather has been this week, however, the matches at Birmingham, [...]
The first leg of the English League Cup Semi Final between Blackburn and Aston Villa, which was due to take place at Ewood Park this evening, has been postponed due to the freezing conditions in the North West of England. While the playing surface is in good enough condition for the match to take place, [...]
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:37:05 | Posted in
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