7500 To Holte Apr 22, 2014
Homegrown winger eager to stay with Villa, hasn't heard from club
Villa's most consistent player in recent weeks hasn't heard anything from the club about renewing his contract. If Marc Albrighton were to turn into a regular contributor in Aston Villa's starting XI, it would be one of the few things in the world that could make all Villa fans happy. He's been a Villa player since he was eight years old, and really began to make an impression under Gerard Houllier. Then Alex McLeish came along and most of us assumed that Marc was dead in a ditch somewhere. So his recent resurgence under Paul Lambert has been one of the season's more pleasant...
7500 To Holte Apr 1, 2014
Aston Villa 1-4 Fulham: Villa blow another early lead thanks to goals from Bent, Sidwell
If it happens three times in a row, is it still called déjà vu? It wasn't supposed to happen like this. Fulham came to Villa Park dead last in the Premier League table. Sure, they'd beaten Newcastle a couple weeks back, but since then the Cottagers had been destroyed by Manchester City and easily overcome by Everton. Surely Aston Villa could get a win, once and for all killing off this season's talk of relegation. Alas. The hosts took an early lead, thanks to an eighth minute header by Karim El Ahmadi. Marc Albrighton sent in a gorgeous cross, the ball seemingly hanging in the air while...
