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Another Season In Aston
by Dave Woodhall
We're into the third year of the Brave New World of Aston Villa and things are still going to plan. There's ground-breaking benevolence, a record sequence of victories, good football, great goals, the strange sight of the rest of the world waking up to what's going on in Aston and a European tour which shows Martin O¹Neill has more in common with Napoleon and Hitler than he might have wanted.
Watching this through the jaundiced eyes of one who has seen it all before and wonders if it isn't all too good to be true is fanzine editor and author Dave Woodhall, who puts his own personal slant on the events of 2008-09 as they related to the 'Most beautifully named football club in the world' (©Tom Hanks, or was it John Gregory?) Just don't ask him where to park.
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Demolition Derbies - A Season in Aston
by Stephen Whitehouse
Season 2007-08 sees Year Two of the Lerner Revolution and things are going well in the world of Aston Villa. There’s money being spent on new players, entertaining football to enjoy and two local derbies that will be remembered for years to come. Players are becoming international regulars, which proves to be a mixed blessing, and the Holte Hotel has been renovated, even if getting in there on matchdays proves trickier than anticipated.
All of this comes under the perceptive, unashamedly biased, gaze of Stephen Whitehouse, who can't help wondering when things are going to start going wrong. After all, this is the Villa we're talking about.
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Stephen Whitehouse supports the Villa from behind enemy lines in deepest, darkest Coventry and reckons on being able to tell the age of fellow fans by whether they call him 'Ormondroyd' or 'Crouch'. Whichever it is, Stephen would like them to know it's not original any more and was never that funny.
Editor of the Holy Trinity fanzine for 13 years and a veteran of far too many games than he likes to remember, this is his first book.
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After the Villa
by Dave Woodhall
Back in the days before footballers retired as multi-millionaires, they usually had to get a proper job once their playing days were over. Some stayed in the game, most drifted off the scene and into obscurity.
After The Villa is the story of some of these former greats, their lives once they left Villa Park, and what they’re doing now. Included are former internationals, cup-winners, men who have their names carved with pride on the Villa Park roll of honour.
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Star Spangled Villans
by Steve Pennell
Take an under-achieving football club with huge expectations.
Replace their unpopular boss with a highly-regarded star-name manager.
Replace their much-maligned chairman with a billionaire philanthropist.
Add a touch of bounding optimism and some American-style marketing flair.
Success is sure to follow?
Not necessarily, as Aston Villa supporter Steve Pennell shows in this amusing and incisive look at the 2006-07 season as seen through the eyes of an old-school supporter of a new-fangled club.
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