My Old Man Said

Aston Villa Roll on as Summer Signings Make Headlines The good, bad and ugly of a period when Unai Emery has turned the good ship Aston Villa around against their biggest tests, so far.

🆕 GBU: Aston Villa Roll on as Summer Signings Make Headlines

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: No Fear Football: How Unai Emery Outsmarted Pep Guardiola Villa Park witnessed another Unai Emery masterclass as Aston Villa produced a performance of tactical brilliance to beat Manchester City for the third consecutive time at Villa Park.In this week’...

🆕 No Fear Football: How Unai Emery Outsmarted Pep Guardiola

🎮 Roots of Control
🔐 Haaland plan
🅱️ Mr Plan B evolves
🏟️ 📉 VP Atmos concern
🦉 Wednesday woe
🎻 Villa Opera

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Villa Half-Arsed in Holland, Fired-Up for City After five straight wins, Aston Villa’s European dream hit turbulence in Deventer - as Go Ahead Eagles clipped the Villans’ wings.In this Something for the Weekend edition of My Old Man Said...

🆕SFTW: Villa Half-Arsed in Holland, Fired-Up for City

🦅Humbled in Holland
🇪🇺 Euro disfunction
🔬 #AVFC v #MCFC
🎶 Villa Week in Song

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Emery’s Harlem Globetrotters: Buendía’s Redemption to Mr Plan B After a fifth straight win, the My Old Man Said crew bask in the glory of Villa’s gritty away triumph at Spurs - or as one listener put it, “Stoke City in a spaceship.”We dissect the new blue...

ICYMI: Emery’s Harlem Globetrotters: Buendía’s Redemption to Mr Plan B

🏀 Life before the GA🦅
🚀 Spurs win
🇦🇷 Emi
🇮🇱 Maccabi Mass Punishment
🇪🇸 La Liga's stand

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€My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Emery’s Reset and Villa’s Best European Away Days From Warsaw to Rotterdam, and every airport bar in between - Aston Villa’s European adventures have reignited something special among the fanbase. Unai Emery is currently enjoying his eighteenth ...

🧉 OUT NOW: Emery’s Reset and Villa’s Best European Away Days

📉 📈 Season so far
📊 Upcoming months
🇪🇺 Best Emery Euro trips?
🧊 Cold Palmer™
🏴‍☠️ 🇮🇹 U-21 Pirates

Guest: Villa on Tour

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Five Reasons To Be Cheerful as Aston Villa Begin Takeoff After a shaky start, Aston Villa have lifted off with four straight wins. From Donyell Malen’s resurgence to Pau Torres’s passing masterclass, here are five reasons for Villa fans to be cheerful.

🖐 Five Reasons to be Cheerful as Aston Villa Begin Takeoff

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Four Villa Games Moved, but Premier League Drags Its Feet on Festive Fixtures The Premier League has announced Aston Villa’s December TV games — but fans are still waiting for the Christmas fixtures, despite the FSA urging the league to prioritise supporter planning.

🆕 Four Villa Games Moved, but Premier League Drags Its Feet on Festive Fixtures

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Monchi Breaks Silence on His Aston Villa Exit, Time in Birmingham and Rogers Surprise Former Aston Villa football chief Monchi reflects on his departure, working with Unai Emery, transfer rumours around Watkins and McGinn, and his return to San Fernando CD in an interview profile.

🆕 Monchi Breaks Silence on His Aston Villa Exit, Time in Birmingham and Rogers Surprise

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Being Unai Emery: Guillem Balagué on Villa’s Spanish Revolution When journalist and author Guillem Balagué arrived in England in 1991, there were only 13 foreign players in the Premier League. Three decades later, Spanish minds are shaping its future — and...

🆕🧠Being Unai Emery: Guillem Balagué on Villa’s Spanish Revolution

A deep dive chat with Guillem Balague

🪰 Fly-on-the-wall access
🇪🇸 Spanish discipline & belief
👨👩👦👦 Emery family insights

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Villa Back on Track: Rotterdam Highs and Burnley Business After a winning week that took Aston Villa from the chaos of Rotterdam to the comfort of Villa Park, My Old Man Said returns to make sense of it all.From the surreal experience of being herded beh...

🆕 Villa Back on Track: Rotterdam Highs and Burnley Business

🇳🇱 Feyenoord tonic
🎛️ Burnley control
🇳🇱 Slick Bogarde
⌛ Real Villa Test
👼 Neymar's crazy luck
🏟️ San Siro Update

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Rotterdam Or Bust: A Supporter's Diary of Aston Villa's Greatest Day An Aston Villa supporter diary of the club's greatest away day, the trip to Rotterdam for the European Cup final on May 26 1982. UTV

🇳🇱 To get you in the mood for Villa's return to Rotterdam.
Villan Geoff Thomas's diary of the 1982 trip

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Aston Villa's Win Overshadowed by Regressing Rogers, Zombie Watkins and Monchi's Mess Shoots of recovery for Aston Villa as they claim their first win of the season, but it's baby steps. The Good, bad and Ugly of the Villa week.

🆕 Aston Villa’s Win Overshadowed by Regressing Rogers, Zombie Watkins and Monchi’s Mess

The latest Good, Bad & Ugly of Villa's week

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Watkins Wastefulness, Europa League Reality & Why Villa Can’t Afford to Slip vs Fulham Podcast Episode · My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast · 28/09/2025 · 27m

🆕 🧉 Watkins Wastefulness, Europa League Reality & Why Villa Can’t Afford to Slip vs Fulham

The latest Something for the Weekend covers:

🔬 #AVFC v Fulham
🇮🇹 Bologna
⚽ Watkins' ceiling?
📉 Rogers frustrations

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Lazy Villa Create Identity Crisis for Emery Two games unbeaten, but it hardly feels like a run worth celebrating. Against ten-man Sunderland, Aston Villa had over an hour to assert themselves and still contrived to look second best. Unai Eme...

🧉 🆕 : Lazy Villa Create Identity Crisis for Emery

❄️ #AVFC form blip snowballing?
🛌 Lazy concerns
🇵🇱 Villa's Plan B
🇸🇰 Retrospective trophy win
🎟️ Slack ticketing operations
😂 And a few laughs along the way.

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Five Reasons To Be Cheerful As Villa Start Unbeaten League Run Painfully Three away games on the trot and while Aston Villa haven't been beaten within 90 minutes, it's been pretty dour. Are there any rays of light?

NEW: Five Reasons To Be Cheerful As Villa Start Unbeaten League Run (Painfully)

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Villa Reality Check: Meltdowns & Black Cats The weekend brings a trip to the Stadium of Light and with it, plenty for Villa fans to chew over.In this Something for the Weekend edition of the My Old Man Said podcast, we tackle the mini-melt...

🫠🐈‍⬛ NEW: SFTW - Villa Reality Check: Meltdowns & Black Cats

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Aston Villa's November Fixtures Get a Reshuffle With Europa League commitments changes in November were inevitable, but every Premier League shifts time for television broadcast.

NEW: Aston Villa’s November Fixtures Get a Reshuffle

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Darkness Gathers Despite Villa Breaking Their Goal Drought The Good, Bad and Ugly of Aston Villa's Week looks at a week, where Villa struggled to get their season going and Unai Emery copped heat.

NEW: GBU - Darkness Gathers Despite Villa Breaking Their Goal Drought

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Five Reasons To Be Cheerful As Misfiring Villans Limp On It's been a slow start to the season - goalless in the Premier League and out of the League Cup already - but here's five reasons to be cheerful

NEW: Five Reasons To Be Cheerful As Misfiring Villans Limp On

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Deadlock at the Dock: Villa Reset or Flatline In this latest post-match show, the My Old Man Said team reflect on the 0-0 draw at Everton and the growing sense that Villa’s early-season struggles are less about bad luck - and more about a ta...

🧉 NEW: Deadlock at the Dock: Villa Reset or Flatline

🔬 #EFC v #AVFC
🕰️ Foundation & Reality?
📈 Martinez & D
🏆 Backup Plan
🧣 Half-and-half ban

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: Sancho, Martinez & a Right-Side Reckoning: Villa’s Litmus Test? As the dust settles on the international break, Villa are back in action - but are they back in business? This episode of Something for the Weekend dives deep into an important clash at Everton�...

NEW: SFTW - Sancho, Martinez & a Right-Side Reckoning: Villa’s Litmus Test?

🏟️ New #EFC stadium
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Grealish v Sancho
🇦🇷 Martinez no-brainer
📋 Midfield reshuffle
📈 Emery's Elliot Job

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: A Look at Approved Villa Park North Stand Plans and Europa League Draw With Birmingham Council recently approving plans for the latest North Stand redevelopment at Villa Park, we take a look at the documentation and discuss the details. Also, we look back at Aston Vil...

NEW: A Look at Approved Villa Park North Stand Plans and Europa League Draw

👷‍♂️ North Stand plans
🏟️ Council's remarks and resident opposition to North Stand plans
🇪🇺 Europa League draw assessment

& 🗣️ @budd_music

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Aston Villa news: Opinion - Why squad is stronger than last season Aston Villa news: Opinion - Why squad is stronger than last season

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Is Villa's squad stronger than this time last season?

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My Old Man Said - An Aston Villa Podcast: The Big Aston Villa Summer Transfer Verdict After a chaotic start to the season and a quiet transfer window (until the very last day), have Villa done enough to keep pace with their ambitions?In this episode, we go deep on:Why the club’s P...

🧉 OUT NOW: The Big Aston Villa Summer Transfer Verdict

💪 Stronger than 1 year ago?
🇦🇷 Martínez drama
🤔 Sancho, Lindelöf, and Elliott?
📋 Succession plan?

💥 And much more

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The Good, Bad and Ugly of Aston Villa’s Transfer Window Let's forget about that Crystal Palace game and focus this week's The Good, Bad and Ugly on Aston Villa’s summer transfer window.

NEW: The Good, Bad and Ugly of Aston Villa’s Transfer Window

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Aston Villa's Europa League Squad and the Missing Player Aston Villa's Europa League squad is released but there's a missing player, as Villa only have 21 players in their List A squad list.

NEW: Aston Villa’s Europa League Squad and the Missing Player

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Five Reasons To Be Cheerful As Villa Fire Blanks and the Transfer Window Closes The summer transfer window finally closes, as Aston Villa make a triple swoop following on from another poor showing against Crystal Palace.

NEW: Five Reasons To Be Cheerful As Villa Fire Blanks and the Transfer Window Closes

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Final Aston Villa September Fixture Amendments Aston Villa have two new fixture dates in their September calendar, as a league game gets a belated switch and the Carabao Cup date is locked in

NEW: Final Aston Villa September Fixture Amendments

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Aston Villa's Europa League Draw Reflections We appraise Aston Villa's Europa League draw and contrast it to recent sorties in Europe and consider what it could mean to Villa's season.

NEW: Aston Villa’s Europa League Draw Reflections

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How the Departed Alex Moreno Impacted Aston Villa's Right-back Situation Alex Moreno’s injury forced Aston Villa into a £37.5m move for Ian Maatsen while the right-back problem lingered. With PSR and UEFA wage-ratio pressure, was it a smart transfer gamble?

NEW: How Alex Moreno’s Injury Shaped Aston Villa’s Left-Back Gamble and Right-Back Neglect

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