Aston Villa Football Club - California Supporters: Fulham

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

No Result vs Fulham; The Villa TImes

Our last match versus Fulham resulted in a big zero points. Still waiting for this new Villa team to take off. Not sure what's missing. Is Robbie Keane ready for another loan spell?

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Finally...a win at Villa Park!

After last week's struggle vs. Blackburn... I certainly was not confident going into this morning's home match vs Fulham. But after getting substituted in late in the 2nd half, Andreas Weimann knocked in the winning goal in extra time and Villa won 1-nil. These 3 points were needed to keep out of the relegation zone. I thought it was great having Albrighton, Gardner, Bannan, and Weimann in there. They brought so much more energy to the pitch.

Here is the call by Jack Woodward ("The Voice of the Villa")

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Villa winner against Fulham (mp3)

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Corona, CA Neighborhood - Premiership

I stumbled upon an interesting neighborhood in Corona, CA (45-50 miles south east of Los Angeles). It is a little development (looks like an in-fill project). The interesting thing about it is that the street names within this development are "Aston Villa Way", "Bolton St.", "Arsenal Way", and "Fulham St.". The street names surrounding this little cluster of town homes look like regular street names (no football connections). Sure would like to find out the story behind this. Of course, Aston Villa Way is that main street! UTV!

Saturday, February 5, 2011

2-2 Draw vs. Fulham

Clint Dempsey scores the equalizer to keep Villa from collecting 3 points.

Scoring Summary

Aston Villa	Fulham
John Pantsil (og 13')	Andrew Johnson (52')
Kyle Walker (72')	Clint Dempsey (78')

11(3)	Shots (on Goal)	14(5)
15	Fouls	12
3	Corner Kicks	6
2	Offsides	1
56%	Time of Possession	44%
3	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	0
3	Saves	2

Monday, January 10, 2011

So far in the January transfer window

Kyle Walker (D) from Tottenham to Aston Villa (Loan)

Walker has already made an impact - scoring in the FA Cup fixture this past weekend vs. Sheffield United

Steve Sidwell (M) from Aston Villa to Fulham

Sidwell goes to Fulham for an undisclosed transfer fee. Good luck to Steve. This isn't a big loss for Villa, but opens up some room for an impact signing hopefully.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Another Draw: Villa 1-1 versus Fulham

SCORING SUMMARY
Fulham	Aston Villa
Brede Hangeland (90)	Marc Albrighton (41)

MATCH STATS
	Fulham	Aston Villa
Shots (on Goal)	15(5)	15(6)
Fouls	14	6
Corner Kicks	3	3
Offsides	1	2
Time of Possession	57%	43%
Yellow Cards	1	0
Red Cards	0	0
Saves	5	4

MATCH INFORMATION

Stadium: Craven Cottage, England
Attendance: 23,654
Match Time: 11:00 ET
Referee: Peter Walton

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

FA announces date, time for Villa/Chelsea FA Cup seminfinal Sat. 4/10

(from Sky Sports)

"The Football Association has confirmed the kick-off times and dates for next month's FA Cup semifinals at Wembley. The games had already been set for the weekend of 10/11th April, but the FA have now revealed when the ties will be played.

Chelsea's clash with Aston Villa is the first semifinal to take place on Saturday, 10th April at 5pm. The weekend's other tie sees Portsmouth face Tottenham or Fulham - who will replay their quarterfinal on 24th March following their scoreless draw at Craven Cottage - with that game taking place at 4pm on Sunday, 11th April.

The showpiece final will take place on 15th May to give England more time to prepare for this summer's World Cup finals."

Monday, February 1, 2010

Villa Beats Fulham

Fulham vs Aston Villa

	0 - 2
Date: 30/01/2010		Venue: Craven Cottage
Attendance: 25,408		Referee: Lee Mason

Fulham

Aston Villa

Goals :

Possession :

47%

53%

Shots On Target :

Shots Off Target :

Corners :

Fouls :

Most Fouls :

Smalling (2)

Heskey (4)

Yellow Cards :

Red Cards :

Scorers :

Agbonlahor 40

Agbonlahor 44

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................................................................................................................