Aston Villa

Since parachute payments were increased for the 2014-15 Premier League season only one out of four teams promoted as playoff winners have stayed up – Huddersfield this season. The other three have all been relegated with point totals definitively behind the magic 40 point mark. Given the relatively poor...

The 2016/2017 Championship season proved to be both highly competitive and memorable. Newcastle United and Brighton Hove Albion ran away with automatic promotion, whilst Huddersfield somehow gained promotion to the top flight for the first time in over 40 years – even though they finished the season with a...

Aston Villa are not a typical Championship club. Not many teams in the division average over 30,000 for home attendances and can boast of winning the European Cup, like the Villains did in 1982. Only Nottingham Forest have won that particular trophy (twice), but in contrast to our local...

Transfer deadline day: the football fans’ Christmas and Jim White is our Santa. It is the day those brave men in suits report to us from the dark alleyways behind stadia as they are heckled by mobs of excited fans. The day Harry Redknapp comes to us live from...