At 11.01pm on Monday 1st February it looks highly likely that Charles N’Zogbia will still be an Aston Villa player happy to sit out the remaining six months of his reputed £65,000 a week contract. Surely this a bigger crime than some of the suits he has been seen wearing around the club? Embed from Getty Images … Read More »
As he walked down the room shaking hands with supporters at Thursday’s Villa Trust AGM, I wondered how many people realised they were shaking hands with new chairman Steve Hollis. Appointed only the week before, not a great deal was known about him then and, after listening to him speak, I’m not sure we know that much more… Read More »
Villa need to win ten of their remaining games to have a realistic chance of avoiding relegation. In the whole of 2015 we only won five league games so even I, a renowned optimist, has conceded that we will be playing our football in the Championship next season I still remember standing at the back of the Holte… Read More »
January 3rd 1924 was a very special day in the Ellis household as a son was born (there were no wise men, but he would later preside over the acquisition of various donkeys). Embed from Getty Images The boy was named Herbert Douglas Ellis and after a short (very) career with Tranmere Rovers and service in the… Read More »