A great man once said

Walking on air today, proud to be a Villan ! :D
And I'm sure there's much more to come !

Bring on the Champions - Oct 20th! Great performance from start to finish, if we keep improving, who knows we could be the suprise team to be knocking on the door of the top 4!

amazing effort from the villa lads against chelski- the one thing that is clear after the first few games is that villa have one of the best managers anywhere and even without the right balance of players in the club we are now capable of beating anybody - lets hope we get some consistancy -all the bloggers that have been losing faith in MON eat your words

OMG, MON has installed a backbone where the teams wishbone used to be. Right from the start there was a commitment and resolve that has been missing for the longest time at Villa Park, and by the end I was being hugged by total strangers - fantastic stuff.

Well said but when you think of the average age of the squad how good could they become. Reading between the lines i think we will get hoyte in january and defoe will be up for grabs im sure even though by then im not sure we will need him. would like to see our 4 young forwards start without carew just to see what they can do

at runtingz

have people really been losing faith in the manager? i know a few were a little tetchy (sp) during the transfer window but that i think can be directly linked to the 'top class' signings statement made by the club - but that is now history and we have to kick on, which i'm sure everyone will do ..

what a performance Villa are look Good this season... all it taks is confidance in the palyers and look what they can do...

it about time villa had amanger that knows what he is doing and and chairman that trusts him...

Outstanding performance

Proud to be a Villan, indeed. More heart than I've seen on display at Villa Park for a long time. Villa were excellent value for money. So much to look forward to as this core gels.

Although Villa slumped back after Knight's goal, they withstood Chelsea's pressure admirably, then countered and put the knife in. That will put some confidence in the squad. It sure put smiles on faces all around the rest of the league. Well, except for Roman and Jose.

You know you've seen a great match when Jose is moaning that his side deserved a point from a 2-0 loss.

Absolutly immence!! im loving the ellis and abromovich video! hes a hero in my eyes even if he is a tight fisted oldey!cmon u villains!

yesterday was great. if we carry on playing with this attitude who knows where we could be in may '08.Nice to beat a team consider one of da favouites for the champions league and its been so long since we beat utd hopefully this season we can do it. after yesterday i think the skies the limit.

We are moving forwards......and to those who keep piping on about Defoe.....stop it !!! Great team performance, and it will get better as the season moves on. When was the last time you saw such a strong bench at Villa Park ? and thats without Berger, Davis, Osbourne and Sillifou Zidane !!

Fantastic, haven't felt like this about Villa in a long time. I was bemoaning the lack of big signings over the summer but MON truly knows best, look at Tottenham so far, a solid team is much more important than 11 prima donnas.

OMG, MON has installed a backbone where the teams wishbone used to be- nice comment Monkey. I am over in Sydney and though drunk was fighting to stay awake, failed(mental note-must record just in case) Fantastic result, match highlights start in 30 means, am very excited to see(sober now). We win our game in hand and we can go joint top and we have got 2 of the big guns out the way. Minimum Uefa spot this year me thinks. Its looking great from here.I can almost feel the buzz! Why was yesterday not a sellout?

I think MON made a couple of big decisions which proved to be vital to us winning. First was bringing Zat Knight straight in and putting Melly at right back. Both looked assured in their positions against some seriously stern opposition in SWP and Drogba. Secondly, and more importantly, he brought Luke Moore in, who was excellent when on the ball, put Agbon on the right and got rid of the most wasteful and light weight player on our books, Petrov. I always feel that Petrov starts okay, and fades fast. He was brought on arounf 75-80 minutes and looked sharp, even if still wasteful when he got the ball. This was a smart gameplan from MON, and one which clearly worked yesterday against a team that came at us, and got punished by our pace. Bravo MON.

When people say to me " Jose Mourinho , he's a tactical genius" it could be a fair argument, but why on earth did he take SWP off, when he was clearly their best player? Why does he insist on Didier Drogba being back in his own 6 yard box to defend corners? Why has he never won at Villa Park ? The answer is I don't know! What I do know is that MON out thought and out manouvered and ultimately outclassed JM and i for one loved every second of it! LOL
Did you see what a bad loser Jm is? He sais that it was an unfair result and that Chelsea deserved more out of the game based on their posession! Well, my grumpy portuguese friend, posession ain't 9/10ths of the law in football. As my dad always said "Passes for show, scoring for dough" and I think this also showed how beatable Chelsea are without Frank Lampard! I hope this result has spurred those other teams slightly lower down the league that anyone can beat Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool or Man United on their day and make this one of the most exciting premiership seasons ever! Come on you VILLAINS!!!

A combination of commitement, fitness and desire got us the result.

Those are the basic requirements of a great team.

Together with pace, awareness, skill and belief (which we are starting to see) could suprise one or two critcs...i.e Matt Le Tiss!

However, lets keep our feet on the ground, but enjoy the next couple of weeks!

its about time VILLA fans should get there heads together and come up with our own anthem [blooze ]have got one so come on you villa fans lets get it sorted....must be somebody with ideas out there...ps what a brilliant win cannot wait for man city game bring em on

cant understand why ppl are questioning carew ? The job he does is immense he draws defenders attention to himself and frees up space for the fast attackers to exploit.Take carew out of the team and you will lose that space .Leave him alone, there isnt another forward that can offer what he does in the prem,Tery /Alex couldnt cope with his strength. :(

aston villa reborn, ;D

a great man also said ''you cant win anything with kids'' - just watch villa's young lions go this season.

wow, what a difference 1 game makes

glad to see some of the stupid commenst that were made late friday are forgotten, we looked like a great team on sunday, everyone did their bit and seemed to know what each other was going to do, barry pinged the ball out to young umpteen times and bouma did the same to gabby it was brilliant