We all know that Martin O’Neill wears spectacles, and it appears as though the Aston Villa manager was wearing the rose-tinted variety on Monday night, after watching his team lose 2-0 at Newcastle. Obafemi Martins struck twice in the second half to give the Magpies a deserved victory, although the Villans gaffer is lamenting the […]

For Curtis Davies, it’s a no-brainer when having to choose which winger he wants in his team. The Aston Villa defender believes that his team-mate is taking the Premier League by storm right now, and he wouldn’t swap him for anyone, not even a player who managed 40+ goals in all competitions last season.

It would be interesting to read Gareth Barry’s autobiography of 2008. The England midfielder had a strong finish to the season with Aston Villa, handed in a transfer request, got caught up in a massive tug-of-war between the Midlands club and Liverpool, got dropped from the first team, played in the reserves, came back into […]

It’s been a goaltastic start to the campaign for Martin O’Neill’s men, with thirteen goals notched in their first five matches. OK, so four of those have been against FH Hafnarfjordur, although it’s clear that the Irishman has been sending out his team with the express intention of getting stuck into the opposition, even at […]

While the Daily Mail shriek that ‘Barry’s bound for Arsenal’, the England international looks like he will only be heading there when Aston Villa play the Gunners in the league. Indeed, while thousands of column inches have been devoted to a potential transfer of Gareth Barry this summer, it all looks like being fish and […]

The Guardian reports that Liverpool’s Spanish mastermind Rafa B is still yearning to put Gareth Barry in a Liverpool shirt.

Last night Aston Villa were in Iceland, playing FH Hafnarfjarða, the current Landsbankadeild leaders. They lined-up with a strong team, including, surprisingly, influential captain and Liverpool target Gareth Barry. In playing in the game, Barry may have manoeuvred his way out of an £18m move to Anfield.

The Gareth Barry transfer squabble between Aston Villa and Liverpool looks to have finally meandered to a halt; any football fans whose cranium hasn’t imploded with the sheer endlessness of this transfer tale will surely be dancing in the street with unfettered joy.

Aston Villa have revealed that they have agreed a fee for one of Glasgow Rangers’ stand-out players who was part of the chase for four trophies last season.

Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill looks to bounce back from the imminent departure of club captain Gareth Barry to Liverpool, by shoring up his defence in a £8.5 million double full-back swoop.