Aston Villa Football Club - California Supporters

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Villa - 4 in a row!

John Carew comes off the bench and leads Villa to a 1-nil victory over Stoke City today.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Aston Villa Tops Sunderland 2-nil!

Aston Villa Football Club Match Match Reports Match Report 15 December 2009, Sunderland 0 - 2 Aston Villa

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Villa Victorious!

Gabby Agbonlahor scores in the 21' to lift Aston Villa past Man Utd at Old Trafford!

Man Utd vs Aston Villa

0 - 1

Date:

12/12/2009

Venue:

Old Trafford

Attendance:

75,130

Referee:

Martin Atkinson

Man Utd

Aston Villa

Goals :

Possession :

57%

43%

Shots On Target :

Shots Off Target :

Corners :

Fouls :

Most Fouls :

Brown (2)

Petrov (3)

Yellow Cards :

Red Cards :

Scorers :

Agbonlahor 21

Team Line Ups :

Tomasz Kuszczak
Darren Fletcher
Wes Brown
Nemanja Vidic
Patrice Evra
Michael Carrick
Oliveira Anderson		68
Antonio Valencia
Ryan Giggs		46
Ji-Sung Park		63
Wayne Rooney

Substitutes :

Darron Gibson		68
Ben Foster
Michael Owen		46
Dimitar Berbatov		63
Danny Welbeck
Gabriel Obertan
Ritchie De Laet



		Brad Friedel
		Luke Young
		Richard Dunne
		Carlos Cuellar
62		Stephen Warnock
		Ashley Young
		James Milner
		Stiliyan Petrov
81		Stewart Downing
		Gabriel Agbonlahor
74		Emile Heskey



		Habib Beye
		Bradley Guzan
		Steve Sidwell
74		John Carew
62		James Collins
81		Nigel Reo-Coker
		Fabian Delph

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Villa vs. Man Utd on Fox Soccer Channel!

The Villa vs. Manchester United English Premier League match this coming Saturday (12/12/09) will be televised "live" in the U.S. on Fox Soccer Channel 9:30 am Pacific (12:30 pm eastern)

Up the Villa!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Football vs "Gridiron"

What Mr. Cleese says presents here pretty much says it all from my perspective. :)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

It was exciting to be able to listen to the live commentary of today’s match thanks to the generosity of AVFC (normally this service requires that you have a subscription). I could only listen to ¾ of the match because of work commitments, but t he audio commentary by Jack Woodward and Andy Blair was magnificent! JW even referenced m e a couple of times during the broadcast as I contributed to the live chat unfolding on AV Live (live text description of the action and live input from others around the world following the match in real time. I think an AVTV subscription may be in my future!

Villa beat Pompey 4-2 on goals from Emile Heskey (12’), James Milner (27’), Stewart Downing (74’), and Ashley Young (88’). Now it is on to the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. UP THE VILLA!

Portsmouth vs Aston Villa

	2 - 4
Date: 01/12/2009		Venue: Fratton Park
Attendance: 17,034		Referee: Lee Mason

Portsmouth

Aston Villa

Goals :

Possession :

50%

Shots On Target :

Shots Off Target :

Corners :

Fouls :

Most Fouls :

Ben-Haim (3)

Agbonlahor (4)

Yellow Cards :

Red Cards :

Scorers :

Petrov 10 (og)

Kanu 87

Heskey 12

Milner 27

Downing 74

Young 89

Team Line Ups :

Asmir Begovic
Anthony Vanden Borre
Younes Kaboul
Tal Ben-Haim
Hermann Hreidarsson
Hassan Yebda
Michael Brown
Richard Hughes		85
Nadir Belhadj
Danny Webber		65
John Utaka		76

Substitutes :

Angelos Basinas
Jamie Ashdown
Hayden Mullins
Frederic Piquionne		76
Aruna Dindane
Nwankwo Kanu		65
Marc Wilson		85



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



		Craig Gardner
		Brad Friedel
90		Nathan Delfouneso
		Fabian Delph
		Ciaran Clark
		Habib Beye
		Nigel Reo-Coker

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