Benteke continues to prove his worth

Benteke-taka was a phrase I saw coined on Twitter on Tuesday night. It was an appropriate level of praise for the Aston Villa front-man, who arrived at the Midlands club on transfer deadline day from K.R.C. Genk for a fee thought to be around £7m.

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Charles Green exposes the single-mindedness of the elite.

After a universal mini-break in domestic competition for want of World Cup qualifying, this coming weekend sees a return to the spotlight for the Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A et al as the majority of Europe goes back to the day job. The English Premier League also gets back to business and Aston Villa, one of its ever-present clubs since its 1992 inception, will travel to Fulham.

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Reo Coker continues his downward spiral (Video)

Rewind back to February 2006 and Alan Pardew’s newly-promoted West Ham side have just beaten Arsenal, who would eventually reach the Champions League final that season, a team that contained messrs Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Dennis Bergkamp, Robin Van Persie and Freddie Ljungberg, 3-2 at Highbury.

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Embargo set to halt the Town.

Something was bound to go wrong wasn't it? It was all going to well for Paulo and his band of merry men. 

Swindon Town have been hit with a transfer embargo due to overspending on wages and fees. 

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How high can the Baggies go?

So far this season the table is already shaping up in a familiar fashion.  Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Spurs are already all in the top seven.  However, in amongst these titans are Everton in third and the comparative minnows of West Brom in fourth.  While much has been made of Everton’s start, everyone expected West Brom to fade as the season got underway.  So far this is not proving to be the case.

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The Five Worst Signings of the Transfer Window

The transfer window is finally closed but for every Robin Van Persie or Sergio Aguero, there is a Park Chu Young or an Andy Carroll. So which summer signings are perhaps ones which owners and managers should have thought twice about sanctioning?

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As one of the EPL’S greatest Aussie imports leaves for the MLS, a potential hit-man arrives at Aston Villa.

Few Aston Villa fans would want to remember anything that Alex McLeish gave to the football club, with the dire statistic of 17 draws coinciding with a meagre 37 goals scored all of last season providing the definitive evaluation.

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Young guns need to start firing otherwise it will be another long year at Villa Park

Despite a continuous flow of comings and goings at Villa Park, the club has always maintained a youthful core to the squad.

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Everton ARE a bigger club than Aston Villa

I tweeted the other day that Everton are a bigger club than Aston Villa, a statement met with much hostility from a selection of fans from the Midlands outfit.

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A Crazy Managerial Situation

Barcelona's 3-0 victory over Athletico Bilbao in the Copa Del Rey marked the end of the 2011/2012 season for the top European leagues and allowed fans, player and coaches alike to take a well needed deep breath and reminisce over one of the most exciting seasons ever seen.

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Cut Out Diving & Ghost Goals

Recently, two big incidents occurred in the televised games. The first being Ashley Young’s blatant dive versus Aston Villa with the second being Chelsea’s ‘ghost goal’ against Spurs in the FA Cup Semi-final. Both these incidents will no doubt prove to be big-talking points for different reasons.

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Boring Villa, what has gone wrong?

When clubs are struggling, rarely is it a wise or educated attitude to lay all the blame on the manager, but they do deserve their fair share of the criticism.

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Premier League Preview

A preview and score prediction of the weekend's Premier League matches.

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Saturday Night Article & Gossip Round Up - Chelsea move for goalie, Inter star hints at United move plus more

A daily round up of all the Premiership news and gossip stories.

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Give me Super Sunday over Super Bowl any day

I'm no xenophobic, but if I never saw the NFL's Super Bowl on my TV again it wouldn't faze me, in fact, you could say I would rejoice. Avoiding too many crashing stereotypes, I find the brash, heavily commercialised, in your face nature of American Football just too 'American'.

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