Articles tagged with "martin-laursen"
Carew makes the squad, Stieber moves on, Laursen quits
By Chris | January 30th, 2009Hungarian midfielder Zoltan Stieber has left Villa Park for 2. Bundesliga outfit TuS Koblenz. The 20 year old moves to Germany in the season he ...
Laursen out (temporarily) and Heskey in (permanently)
By Chris | January 23rd, 2009It's typical, vintage Villa: bugger all news in 23 days of the transfer window, and then a flurry of activity out of the blue. Laursen ruled ...
VILLA 4-2 Bolton Wanderers
By Chris | December 13th, 2008Aston Villa move into the top four in the Premier League this evening following a convincing win at home to Bolton Wanderers - despite a ...
Luke Webster, 7, to feature on Aston Villa Christmas card
By Chris | December 9th, 2008When Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner signs and seals his official Villa Christmas cards this December, he'll be delivering the face of seven-year-old Luke Webster ...
The pressure of expectation
By Chris | November 26th, 2008Morning fellow Villans - I'm Chris and I'm your new Aston Villa blogger at The Offside. I'll get the plugs out of the way first: ...
Magpies climb out of relegation zone with victory
By j | November 3rd, 2008Obafemi Martins brace in front of nearly 45,000 at St James' Park gave Newcastle a 2-0 victory over Aston Villa. The match certainly look like ...
Back they tumble to the bottom of the league
By Martini Extra Dry | November 2nd, 2008The weekend's games have conspired against Newcastle, sending them bottom of the league after they had finally looked like they were about to turn a ...
Away to Wigan, the kings of inconsisteny... Predictions anyone?
By Martini Extra Dry | October 25th, 2008Sunday 26th October at 3pm sees Villa play Wigan Athletic at the JJB Stadium. Wigan are currently sitting 14th, with just a single point more ...
If it ay bost, doh fix it!
By Martini Extra Dry | October 19th, 2008It was a 0-0 draw for our Villa Lions yesterday against Portsmouth but there is still plenty of stuff to talk about from the game, ...
Other Villans on duty
By Martini Extra Dry | October 12th, 2008Yesterday's international action saw no less than 6 Villa players selected for their nation's sides, 5 starting and one on the bench. None of our ...
Another 8 goal thriller anyone?
By Martini Extra Dry | October 5th, 2008Last time Villa played Chelsea at Stamford Bridge was on Boxing Day of last year and very few will have forgotten the game. Most Villa ...
Villa v Litex Lovech - Pick your team
By Martini Extra Dry | October 1st, 2008The second leg of the UEFA Cup first round against Litex Lovech is nearly upon us and we go into the home leg with a ...
Nil-nil it was. Boring it wasn't
By Martini Extra Dry | August 31st, 2008It's been over a year since Villa have drawn 0-0 and if you'd told anyone 2 years ago that the Masters Of The Draw would ...
Villa vs Liverpool preview & predictons
By Martini Extra Dry | August 30th, 2008The massive talking point in this game isn't going to be on the pitch, it'll be the Martin O'Neill (welterweight) vs Rafa Benitez (heavyweight) punch ...
Photo: Ugly Aerials
By chris | August 27th, 2008Brad Friedel, Martin Laursen and Leon Cort have a competition to see who can stretch their bodies into the most uncomfortable positions. Martin Laursen's face ...
Normal service will be resumed shortly
By Martini Extra Dry | August 26th, 2008Don't worry Villa fans, the Stoke embarrassment wasn't a sign of things to come this season, it was just a temporary glitch, a bump in ...
Stoke 3-2 Villa. Not impressed.
By Martini Extra Dry | August 23rd, 2008After a successful 07-08 season, then the addition of our new reinforcements and last week's four goals against City, I don't think there were many ...
Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar 1 - 4 Astonafélag Villarfjarðar
By Martini Extra Dry | August 14th, 2008Villa opened the game with a flourish, going two goals up within 7 minutes thanks to goals from Gareth Barry and Ashley Young. Villa carried ...
You be Martin O'Neill
By Martini Extra Dry | August 12th, 2008With all the ins and outs, lets see who you would pick as your starting line-up for the all new Villa. Lets hear from all of ...
Cuéllar looking likely
By Martini Extra Dry | August 11th, 2008Carlos Cuéllar's move from Rangers to Villa is now looking very likely, as the teams today agreed a fee for the Spanish defender. Cuéllar yesterday informed ...
Odense BK 2-2 Aston Villa
By Martini Extra Dry | July 19th, 2008Poor is about the only word for tonight's performance from Villa, who deserved to, and very nearly did, lose. Villa took the lead early on, ...
Competitive football beckons
By Martini Extra Dry | July 18th, 2008Tomorrow at 7pm sees Aston Villa's return to competitive football, with the Intertoto Cup first leg against Odense BK of Denmark. In a competition for ...
What do you think of the new kit?
By Martini Extra Dry | July 7th, 2008Villa have today unveiled the new kit we'll be wearing next season, with a display on Brindley Place in Birmingham, involving Nigel Reo-Coker, Martin Laursen, ...
New Captain
By Martini Extra Dry | July 6th, 2008With Barry looking out of the picture, who do you think should be the new Villa captain in his wake? Martin Laursen is probably the strongest ...
The Top 10 2007/8 Premier League Goals of the Season?
By Daryl | May 19th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIyGrv52uAc[/youtube] Here's what someone, somewhere decided were the 10 best goals in the Premier League this season. In descending order: #10 Luke Young for Middlesbrough vs Spurs #9 Sebastian ...
The Offside Fantasy League: No Winter Break for You
By Daryl | December 24th, 2007While other European leagues luxuriate in the winter break, the English Premier League will be putting on its biggest gloves and braving the cold. Those ...
The Offside Fantasy League: Replacing The Fallen
By Daryl | October 18th, 2007Now we know why they call it the international break. I had my fingers crossed for everyone returning unharmed, but several brave fantasy footballers have ...
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