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Met one on my heroes on Saturday. Not only a proper footballer, but a really lovely man too. Had a little chat to him about Sid ☹️
“Tony, Tony, Morley” 💜💙
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Dalian Atkinson scored one of Aston Villa greatest ever goals #OnThisDay in 1992 😍
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Saw this reposted today. Can spot myself on it. The half time of all half time intervals. Hugging family, friends and strangers. What a trip. UTV.
“Load management” 😂
Nonsense.
🚨 Cole Palmer poised to withdraw from England squad due to load management. Marcus Rashford will be assessed for hip issue handled by Man Utd since World Cup but expected to pull out. Kobbie Mainoo also among likely absentees through injury @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7615046…
Saw it last night. Could’ve watched hours and hours of the rehearsal footage alone.
“Best there was, best there is, best there ever will be”
OASIS ✊
"You're feeling the emotion that they're not expressing" – here's 'Peaky Blinders' creator and writer for the new @oasis doc 'Don't Look Back In Anger' Steven Knight telling us what it was like the first time @NoelGallagher and @liamgallagher stepped into rehearsals together for the Live '25 reunion tour
Nonsense 🖕
🚨 Excl: Players making 1st Champions League appearance this season to wear ‘debut patch’ on shirt as part of new 6yr UEFA/Fanatics contract. Patch then goes into signed Topps trading card - same in NBA poised be auctioned next week for ~$5m @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7556005…
The Guinness in the Lower Holte is up there with the best Guinness I’ve ever had. “Like milk” as agreed with @MattWalford24 last night. UTV
We might not click on Monday, we might not click at Hull next weekend. We might not click in the champions league the following midweek, but when we click, fuck me, this side will click.
What a manager we’ve got UTV
Mine was £703 in L7 - stop telling porkies 🙄
Despite cost pressures continuing to affect match-going fans, every English top-flight club has a waiting list in operation for season tickets, indicating that demand remains high.
That is reflected in decisions made over pricing, with 14 of the 20 clubs raising the cost of season tickets — some by more than the rate of inflation. However, five clubs did freeze prices.
So which club has the most expensive season ticket? Who has the cheapest? And how significant is match-day revenue to each?
Welcome to The Athletic’s annual survey.
🔗 nyti.ms/4xgvcyo
andrew coles retweeted
Do you know when you watch a TV series you didn’t expect to enjoy, but it gradually grows on you, and by the end, you’re loving it?
Then comes the second series. A few key characters have changed. Your first reaction is: “Hmm… I’m not sure. I was used to the others.”
But you give it time. Because the storytelling is still in the hands of the same writer.
That’s how I see this new Aston Villa under Unai Emery. There are question marks, of course, and some new characters will take time to grow on you. But after what the previous “series” achieved, perhaps those question marks should be met less with apprehension and more with curiosity.
We know the storyteller. We know what he’s capable of. So give it time. Enjoy the ride, the new memories. And let’s see where this series takes us.
andrew coles retweeted
🚨 Tickets are now on sale to 2026/27 Season Ticket Holders with 1,210+ Away Points and can be purchased by clicking on the below link. ⬇️
🎟️ tickets.avfc.co.uk/en-GB/cat…
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🎟️ Aston Villa can confirm ticket details for the club’s 2026/27 Premier League trip to Tottenham Hotspur.
ℹ️ Further information can be found by clicking on the link below. ⬇️
avfc.co.uk/news/2026/august/…
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Ezri Konsa. The best centre half we’ve had since @Paulmcgrath5
Leaves us after 7 brilliant years. Top class.
Excited to see what Unai does with this team now going forward. UTV.
This 👇
We marvel at how impressive Emery is for getting the maximum out of a set of players that were bang average before his arrival…
And how he’s impressively maintained these levels with a squad that he inherited, rather than players he chose...
We desperately want Aston Villa to progress but we’ve already seen and achieved what the maximum level of these players gets us…
We finally begin to see those players move on for impressive fees and allow Emery to bring in players with attributes that suit his style…
So why is it such a terrible thing?
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Such sad news about Jimmy Rimmer, who has passed away aged 78. Aston Villa legend, champion of England, champion of Europe. His astonishing save in the first leg of the second-round tie with a very dangerous Dynamo Berlin in the 1981/82 season is the stuff of legend. Tony Morley would always tell Rimmer that it was “the save that won us the European Cup”.
It came in the 2-1 win in Berlin. When Artur Ullrich’s penalty hit the post, the rebound clipped Rimmer’s left foot and fell invitingly for the East Germany international. The goal was gaping but Rimmer managed to stretch out his left foot to divert Ullrich’s close-range follow-up over the bar. Rimmer also saved a late Hans-Jurgen Riediger strike. A 1-0 loss at Villa Park saw Villa through on away goals.
Rimmer kept out Dynamo Kiev in the ensuing quarters, and Anderlecht in the semis, especially in a tense second leg in Brussels. Rimmer lasted only 10 minutes of the epic final win over Bayern Munich in Rotterdam, aggravating a shoulder injury. But he’d more than played his part in Villa’s journey to European glory.
What a career Rimmer had. Began at Manchester United, understudied the great Alex Stepney, on the bench in the 68 European Cup final, 46 games. Good loan at Swansea City. Went to Arsenal, succeeded Bob Wilson, Player of the Year 74/75 when he enjoyed a string of good games, including against Manchester City, Everton and Liverpool in the first half of the season and many saves to end relegation fears. Much loved at Arsenal, making saves, wiping his gloves down the front of his shirt, 146 games.
Then Villa in 77, greatness, 287 games. Three years at Swansea, then goalkeeper coach and even a spell as their caretaker manager. “Jimmy was a much-loved figure, with a deep knowledge and love of the game,” Swansea said in their tribute. “He was one of the finest goalkeepers of his generation, but was a humble, quiet man who was deeply respected by all who knew him.” Rimmer also coached in China and Canada.
He was capped by England only once but that was the era of Ray Clemence, Peter Shilton and Joe Corringan. He played against Italy in the USA Bicentennial Cup at Yankee Stadium in 1976, replaced by Corrigan at half-time.
Such sad news about his passing. Holte Ender In The Sky and always a Villa legend. Thoughts with Jimmy’s family, friends and all his former team-mates. RIP.
