• Football is always changing. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. The 1980s belonged to Liverpool, Nottingham Forest, and Aston Villa ruling Europe, with Everton and Ipswich punching well above their weight. Ask your dad or grandad about that era, and you’ll get misty-eyed tales of brutal tackles, muddy pitches, and English teams conquering the continent.…

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  • If you were scripting a Hollywood underdog story, Aston Villa’s journey since 2018 would be an absolute blockbuster. The club was on its knees, bruised, battered, and staring into the financial abyss after losing the Championship Playoff Final to Fulham. Promotion had been gambled upon, and the bet had spectacularly backfired. Within weeks, HMRC was…

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  • Football is worse off today than it was yesterday. Jhon Durán is gone. Sold. Moved on. One of the last remaining agents of pure footballing chaos has left Aston Villa, and with him, another small piece of what made the Barclays the Barclays. It’s a sad moment, really. Durán was never a player you built…

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  • But why? Why not

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