Friday night football is back as Aston Villa host Leeds United at Villa Park at 20:00, any points on the board for Dean Smith‘s Villa would see them go top of the Premier League with a game in hand as we enter this weekends fixtures.
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Looking Back: Leeds United 1-1 Aston Villa, 28th April 2019
This Friday Aston Villa clash with Leeds United for the first time since the infamous meeting of Marcelo Bielsa and Dean Smith’s squads last year. Given the utter calamity that ensued at Elland Road it is only fitting that we set our minds back and remember the anarchy in preparation for this Friday.
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Leicester City 0-1 Aston Villa: Late Ross Barkley goal seals three points for Villa
Ross Barkley steals the headlines and three points for Villa as his strike from range and earns Villa‘s fourth win in a row this season in the Premier League.
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View Across the Dugout: Leicester City vs. Aston Villa -East vs. West
Monday 8th March 2020. The night of our last visit to Leicester and the King Power Stadium. It was a miserable trip, a humiliating 4-0 defeat against a side we’d fought hard to beat over 2 legs a month earlier in the Carabao Cup Semi-finals. Little did we know, it would also mark the final time we’d be allowed inside stadiums for the foreseeable future. All in all, not a fond memory.
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Pay per view exposes a fallacy at the heart of modern football.
I’m sure that anyone reading this shares my disgust at the introduction of pay per view football this weekend, for the truly sickening price of £14.95 for a single match. Yet, in reality, this is just the latest chapter of ordinary football fans being extorted away from our own game. To add insult to injury, this outrageous price has been introduced during a pandemic, as at least 4.5% of the nation are unemployed as thousands of jobs continue to be axed by companies trying to save cash.
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