Aston Villa Football Club - California Supporters: January 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010

4th Rd FA Cup win; Draw with the Gunners; Carling Cup Final Gear!

Villa defeated Brighton at Villa Park 3-2 in their 4th Round FA Cup matchup. Then on Jan 27th, the boys in claret and blue fought to a draw with Arsenal in their Barclays Premier League game.

Carling Cup Final merchandise is now available via the official AVFC online store - check it out! (click image below)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Villa is Wembley Bound!

Aston Villa vs Blackburn

6 - 4

Date:

20/01/2010

Venue:

Villa Park

Attendance:

40,406

Referee:

Martin Atkinson

Aston Villa

Blackburn

Goals :

Possession :

54%

46%

Shots On Target :

Shots Off Target :

Corners :

Fouls :

Most Fouls :

Heskey (2)

Nelsen (2)

Yellow Cards :

Red Cards :

Samba 39

Scorers :

Warnock 30

Milner 40 (pen)

Nzonzi 53 (og)

Agbonlahor 58

Heskey 62

Young 90 + 3

Friday, January 15, 2010

Villa 1-nil over Blackburn

Blackburn vs Aston Villa

	0 - 1
Date: 14/01/2010		Venue: Ewood Park
Attendance: 18,595		Referee: Mark Clattenburg

Aston Villa

Blackburn

Goals :

Possession :

45%

55%

Shots On Target :

Shots Off Target :

Corners :

Fouls :

Most Fouls :

Kalinic (4)

Agbonlahor (1)

Yellow Cards :

Red Cards :

Scorers :

Milner 23

Team Line Ups :

Paul Robinson
Lars Jacobsen		46
Christopher Samba
Ryan Nelsen
Pascal Chimbonda
Michel Salgado		71
Brett Emerton
Steven Nzonzi
Morten Gamst Pedersen		75
David Dunn
Nikola Kalinic

Substitutes :

Franco Di Santo
Jason Brown
Benedict McCarthy		75
Steven Reid		71
Martin Olsson		46
David Hoilett
Phil Jones



		Bradley Guzan
		Carlos Cuellar
		James Collins
		Richard Dunne
		Stephen Warnock
		Ashley Young
		James Milner
		Stiliyan Petrov
		Stewart Downing
71		Emile Heskey
		Gabriel Agbonlahor



		Nigel Reo-Coker
		Brad Friedel
		Luke Young
71		Steve Sidwell
		Habib Beye
		Fabian Delph
		John Carew

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

FA Cup Victory over Blackburn

Aston Villa vs Blackburn

3 - 1

Date:

02/01/2010

Venue:

Villa Park

Attendance:

25,453

Referee:

Howard Webb

Aston Villa

Blackburn

Goals :

Possession :

59%

41%

Shots On Target :

Shots Off Target :

Corners :

Fouls :

Most Fouls :

Reo-Coker (2)

Salgado (3)

Yellow Cards :

Red Cards :

Diouf 42

Scorers :

Delfouneso 12

Cuellar 37

Carew 90 + 1 (pen)

Friday, January 1, 2010

Villa falls to Liverpool 1-nil

Aston Villa vs Liverpool

	0 - 1
Date: 29/12/2009		Venue: Villa Park
Attendance: 42,788		Referee: Lee Probert

Goals :

Possession :

49%

51%

Shots On Target :

Shots Off Target :

Corners :

Fouls :

Most Fouls :

Carew (3)

Lucas (4)

Yellow Cards :

Red Cards :

Scorers :

Torres 90 + 3

How Did You Become a Villa Supporter?

"I wonder how many fans are actually originally from Birmingham or surrounding area. I am and I'm always interested if someone isn't from near Villa Park, why did they pick Villa as the team to follow." .............................................................................................. "I like Rick's story, he picked Villa as they were 'sponsored' by Acorns Children's Hospice at the time, a cause close to Rick's heart."..................................................................................................................... "I was born in Solihull (12 miles south of Villa Park) and my older bro turned me into a Villa supporter"................................................................................................................ "I am originally from Vauxhall (Birmingham B7) and have followed the Villa since my dad took me to see a game at Villa Park on my 4th birthday. I was a season ticket holder at VP from 1968 until I moved over here twelve years ago."........................................................................................................................"I am from Halesowen which is right next to the black country. Which is tesco carrier bag territory. However my dad is from the city and he always took me and my brother to villa games. I was a season ticket holder in the holte untill 2007 when I moved out here."......................................................................................................................."So why do I support Villa if I've never been to Birmingham? That's a very good question that I've asked myself many times over the years. When I started following the league almost everyone was a Liverpool fan for the same reason almost everyone now is a United, City, or Chelsea fan. Not being someone who follows the crowd I wanted to support a team that was unique and different. When I was a kid, Andy Gray was one of my favorite players and I used to read his columns in Shoot magazine about playing for Villa and thought a lot of the things about the team were unique: the team name, colors, and specially the history."..................................................................................................................."Born just a couple of miles from Villa park, with my father, mother, grandparents and more than half of my extended family with claret and blue blood (you can work out who the rest of that motley crew supported SOTC) it was written in the stars that I was going to be Villa through and through."...................................................................................................................I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Played the game for 30 some odd years and have been a Villa fan all my life. I have seen 2 live games(both losses, but a great atmosphere none the less). My grandfather was a steward at Villa Park for many years. My father and brother are members of the Canadian Villa fan club in Toronto. I'm here in the central valley, and know of couple of villa fans here in Fresno................................................................................................................

Thursday, January 28, 2010

4th Rd FA Cup win; Draw with the Gunners; Carling Cup Final Gear!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Villa is Wembley Bound!

Friday, January 15, 2010

Villa 1-nil over Blackburn

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

FA Cup Victory over Blackburn

Friday, January 1, 2010

Villa falls to Liverpool 1-nil

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