Aston Villa
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Awesome brummie football club currently squandering in the lower reaches of the Premiership.
Much better than Birmingham City.
Have the best manager ever
For Aston Villa, 40 points is not just a target to avoid relegation, it is a seasonal achievement celebrated in a similar way to how better clubs celebrate winning stuff.
This season, Villa managed to reach the scary heights of 50 points, a mark well celebrated, with the team offered an open top bus parade.
Famous Aston Villa People
- Martin O'Neill (Manager)
Redoubtable Irishman. What he lacks in stature, he more than makes up for in red-faced apoplexy. Has spent his first season at Villa signing anyone he liked from his old job managing Celtic, whilst simultaneously complaining about having no money to spend on players.
- Gabriel Agbonlahor (Striker)
Improbably named English youngster who burst onto the scene in 2007 with a few stunning performances. After the hype around him had grown, he settled back into relative obscurity as he was pushed out onto the wing to make up for the lack of players in the squad.
- Ashley Young (Striker)
Signed for £8 million from Watford by O'Neill in the January transfer window, highlighting the paucity of funds available to the poor man, who spent much of the run up to the transfer window begging outside the Millets store in Birmingham with his cap on the ground in front of him. Residual goodwill from members of the public responsible for questionable signing of 47 year old Chris Sutton.
Trophy Cabinet
Quite full, really. Seven pre-Premiership League titles, the same number of FA Cups, five League Cups and even a European Cup win in 1982.
Most recent brush with success came in the far more modest form of the Intertoto Cup in 2001, though Juan Pablo Angel nearly snatched the Premierships 2003 "Best Haircut" award, losing out in the final voting to David Seaman.
