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[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Every time the World Cup rolls around, Japan’s supporters clean the stadium on their way out and every time, it rightly gets an incredibly positive response.

Their whole culture has respect and honour so deeply embedded within it, it’s superb.

[Emma @WhatTheForkAVFC]

Worth a watch when you have 10 minutes.

Very insightful.

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

A season full of screamers ☄️

Vote for your 2025/26 Goal of the Season now 🗳️

[UEFA Europa League @EuropaLeague]

Last week in Istanbul... 🏆🎉

#UELfinal

[Fin 🏆🦅 @CPFCFIN]

When Villa came to us a few years back, they had just secured UCL for the first time in 40 years. lost 5-0 and had a party. Some of the best away support I’ve seen.

Arsenal fans yesterday were woeful. Some of worst I’ve ever seen in the circumstances.

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

Top-four finish ✅
Europa League winners 🏆

Unsustainable FC 😤

[Dan Bardell @danbardell]

Usually when a team goes far in the Europa League, League form suffers.

#AVFC win the thing and finish 4th, after the lowest net spend in the league back in the summer.

Unai Emery- pound for pound the best manager in the League and the manager of the season.

[Dan Bardell @danbardell]

Top 5 and a European trophy.

Food chain.

#AVFC

[Claret & Blue @IntrepidVillan]

@ga11agbon 🙏🏻 for being our voice. It’s incredulous that Unai has been ignored. The lack of football knowledge by whoever came up with the list 🥴

Shock Carrick is nominated. He’s done well in 11 games, but with a squad costing half a billion pounds+, it’s hardly manager wizardry is it?

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

My absolute pleasure. To be able to thank a season ticket holder of 63 years for his support for our club is a genuine honour.

Without him, this grand old club of ours is nothing.

💜💙

[Claret & Blue @IntrepidVillan]

@AVFCStatto Why can’t a retrospective ban for blatant cheating be introduced? What example is it to kids? If a red was given post match then he, and others, would think twice when deception is used to get an opponent sent off to give your side the advantage?

Why is this allowed? #AVLLIV

[Aston Villa Statto @AVFCStatto]

Confirmed this is the first season #AVFC have beaten Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool at least once in a single season in the Premier League era.

Closest before this was 1992-93 — Beat Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool & Chelsea, however drew both games with Spurs

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Manager of the Season.

Manage 15 games at a Manchester United that's spent another trillion ,come on in, your name's on the list.

Manage 3 seasons at Villa, 3 semi finals, 1 final, 2 Champions League qualifications using half a dozen players who played in the Championship, you can't come in.

A decision so laughable that when someday Unai is nominated, I hope he tells them to fuck off.

A mockery of what achievement versus caretaking is.

[Damian Vidagany @DV1874]

Injuries, no a f…penalty for us in one year, biggest investment in the history for the bigger budget clubs, playing Thursday / Sunday 2 pm… well CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!!! No excuses culture a great group of committed players and the best manager ( yes EPL the best manager) shame on
Your list) UTV. Next stop Istanbul!!!! See you there lads!!!! One more push, more desire and ambition than ever!!!

[Football Away Days @AwayDaysFB]

This Forest fan giving credit to Aston Villa last night. Great to see 👏🏻

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Villans

Only one Villa team have broken the glass ceiling in our European history, we know their names, immortal in the history of our great club.

Many of us have tried and failed to to bring a magical European trophy back to Villa Park.

I remember that night against Atletico Madrid, glorious failure on the night. I've never heard Villa Park so loud. The Holte lead the way, and young Villans in K3, K4, K5, you have the chance to do something special and louder. You can and you must.

Make this grand old stadium stand for 90 minutes and never relent for one damn second.

But the Holte End is one fourth of the jigsaw.

Trinity. We need you.

North. We need you.

Witton (sorry Doug). We need you.

Bayern Munich. Beaten.
PSG. Beaten.
Atletico Madrid. Beaten.
Anderlecht. Beaten.
Athletic Bilbao. Beaten.
Barcelona. Beaten.
Inter Milan. Beaten.
Ajax. Beaten.
Celtic. Beaten.

A handful of clubs have those scalps.

The special sauce in every win? You, Villans. YOU.

Every one of those wins, the noise rivaled anywhere at any time.

We face admirable foe and a special football club that I know very well. A club who believed in miracles and miracles came true for them.

Our players need our voices, our songs, our heart and soul on Thursday. Every stand. Every Villan, old or young.

Remember when you walked into Villa Park for the first time? The joy, the tears, the pride, holding the hand of your Mom or Dad or excitedly shephereded in by your big brother or sister or best mate?

Let the memory of them be your guide tomorrow night.

Sing for Spinksy, Birchy, Alan McInally, for Gary Shaw, for Brian Little, for Paul McGrath and for John McGinn.

To the players and staff, we know how good you are, and we ALL want you to walk into the pantheon of greats that adorn our halls.

As someone once said..

"The lows just make the highs higher. We are at the heart of English football, we have a majestic name, a decorated past, we serve as a shining light among our peers, we are Aston Villa ".

I believe.
We believe.
Villa believes.

UP THE FUCKING EUROPEAN VILLA!!!!

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Nope. Villa's best football in the Emery era has been moving the ball through the lines quickly with players moving quickly too.

The dead slow "Emi" from the back ball has gone from 10-20% of the posession to now up to two thirds.

It's posession with tempo that will get top 4 and Europa success, and posession with tempo alone.

We'll drop out of top 5 and be done by the semi finals of Europe if slow posession continues.

Why? Urgency is demanded by all clubs in the run in because urgency is needed.

Mark these words. Tempo high, we win. Tempo low, we lose.

Nothing to do with talent, work rate, liking or not liking individuals, it's a simple fact that at this stage of the season you MUST match the urgency of...

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A West Ham team fighting for their fucking lives.

And Forest.

And Sunderland.

And Spurs

And Fulham ( can get Europe)

And Liverpool

And Man City

And Bologna ( never been in a European final)

Every single one of those has to play with tempo and urgency to acheive their aims. Us playing pre season tempo won't stop any of them doing what they need to do.

[Callum Castel @CallumCastel7]

The Premier League is at an all time low.

The football has become boring, there is corruption on and off the pitch, VAR has drained the life out of the game, fans are being priced out, and the schedule is all over the place. It’s becoming increasingly harder to enjoy

[Claret & Blue @IntrepidVillan]

@JUSTIN_AVFC_ But @JUSTIN_AVFC_ , the current owners ARE benefitting financially from the illegal ownership of the previous regime. They would not have bought the club if it wasn’t for the sporting and financial advantage that the Roman era put them in pre-purchase. This is not our football