Aston Villa News 24/7Writer: Mike Field 
Date:Saturday December 29 2007
Time: 7:04PM
UK time is: 22:41:49
Choose your club
Other Sites
Network Navigation
Vital Partners
'If It's Football, It's Vital'
'That Was One Hell Of A Win'
An early Wigan goal looked like it may scupper our last game of 2007, before a pub team player and a bloke with a big name saved our blushes.
The game certainly wasn't without it's moments, even John Carew only lasted 11 minutes!
Anyway, a delighted wee O'Neill said:
'It was a hell of a win. I thought it was as good a win as any this season.
'I don't mean in terms of the whole performance because in the first half I thought we were a bit stodgy and didn't cause them enough problems.
'But we came out in the second period and applied ourselves superbly to the task and thoroughly deserved to win the game.
'It was a fantastic effort - particularly when you consider what we had to go through at Stamford Bridge a few days ago.'
The day was also one to remember for Curtis Davies, making his league debut for us and putting to bed his horror Cup debut of a few months back.
'I am delighted for Curtis. I thought his second half performance was absolutely terrific.
'He gave away a few daft fouls in the first half, ones I felt he had no chance of winning, but as the game wore on he got better and better and I was really pleased for him.
'He certainly didn't look like a pub player. He was 5,000 times better than he was against Leicester.'
Not for the first time, O'Neill was also full of praise for our travelling contingent.
'It was great to get the win in front of 5,000 fans. It was a brilliant effort to come all that way and I think it's almost incredible. I was delighted for them.'
Bring on 2008!
Vital F1 Prediction League - Join now for Monaco
Click here to join in the debate on the club forum.
Join the Vital Fantasy Football League - its Free!
Your Comments
haha i love how potato head blames 'the bounce of the ball' whenever we beat him. he said that earlier in the season, now, of course that ball has been bouncing in some funny directions again - otherwise wigan would have won! mmmm a sore loser if ever there was one. haha in your oversized weird shaped face, bruce!
ric112
This was a very important win for us today, to me more important than the draw against Chelsea.
chris the villan
Agree chris the villan. Three very valuable, much needed points, our first win in six. We've played well throughout December, but our points haul has been disappointing. Good to come back and win after trailing at the break, and another impressive away performance.
glensider
curtis davis has now been transfered from his local boozer ,
the dog and duck to one of the most entertaining football clubs in the premiership and on his debut he scored a fantastic goal to bring the villa level with wigan in a match where the awful weather stopped us from playing,the whole of the team gave there all for the cause so there was no man of the match today and i salute them for giving all aston villa fans a wonderful xmas so bring on the new year....and we should give them a standing ovation when they come out on the pitch against spurs to say a big thank you to all the players and management and lets have a proper new years party.
claretandblue
I'd agree that under the circumstances this must rank as one of our best wins of the season. How often do we grind out a win like that? Just what we needed before meeting Spurz. Bravo lads.
Saurat
It's nice the way the team has reacted to the pompy result. Yes bravo indeed.
chris the villan
Spurs will be a thorough test of another sort. Hopefully we will rise to the challenge again.
glensider
Have Your Say
Recent Articles
Villa's Pre Season Schedule (Tuesday May 21 2013)
Vlaar Pleased With First Good Touch Of The Game (Tuesday May 21 2013)
Villa Season Ticket Help Sessions (Tuesday May 21 2013)
They Think It's All Over - Not Yet - Soccer Sevens (Tuesday May 21 2013)
Vital Villa Man Of The Match v Wigan (Tuesday May 21 2013)
The Aston Villa Summer Transfer Thread Pt 1 (Tuesday May 21 2013)
Brentford Midfielder Linked (Tuesday May 21 2013)
No, No, NO. Weimann & Benteke Cannot Be Sold! (Tuesday May 21 2013)
Fringe Players Exodus Led By Richard Dunne? (Tuesday May 21 2013)
Villa Line Up Malaga Friendly (Monday May 20 2013)
Archived Articles
Vital Members League (view all)
| 1. | Pride of Lions | 923 |
| 2. | The Fear | 724 |
| 3. | BodyButter | 471 |
| 4. | kefkat | 384 |
| 5. | CDX_EIRE | 316 |
| 6. | ClivetheVillan | 258 |
| 7. | Villan57 | 242 |
| 8. | thefacehead | 239 |
| 9. | DeanoVilla | 208 |
| 10. | mike_field | 189 |
League Results (view all)
| Latest Results | ||||
| Wigan | 2 | - | 2 | Aston Villa |
| Aston Villa | 1 | - | 2 | Chelsea |
| Norwich | 1 | - | 2 | Aston Villa |
| Aston Villa | 6 | - | 1 | Sunderland |
| Man Utd | 3 | - | 0 | Aston Villa |
| Aston Villa | 1 | - | 1 | Fulham |
League Table (view table)
| Team | P | W | D | L | GD | Pts |
| 12. Fulham | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | -10 | 43 |
| 13. Stoke | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | -11 | 42 |
| 14. Southampton | 38 | 9 | 14 | 15 | -11 | 41 |
| 15. Aston Villa | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | -22 | 41 |
| 16. Newcastle | 38 | 11 | 8 | 19 | -23 | 41 |
| 17. Sunderland | 38 | 9 | 12 | 17 | -13 | 39 |
| 18. Wigan | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | -26 | 36 |
Breaking League News
| Players react to Pulis departure
» Stoke : 21/05/2013 22:37:00
|
| Stoke confirm Pulis exit
» Stoke : 21/05/2013 22:24:00
|
| Liverpool: Papadopoulos Is The Top Target
» Liverpool : 21/05/2013 18:31:00
|
| Out Through the Exit Door
» Chelsea : 21/05/2013 18:02:00
|
| Sir Alex Cleans Up
» Man Utd : 21/05/2013 18:01:00
|
| Villa's Pre Season Schedule
» Aston Villa : 21/05/2013 18:00:00
|
| Tony Pulis set to leave Stoke City
» Stoke : 21/05/2013 17:43:00
|
Current Site Poll (view all polls)
|
|
1 © - All content copyright Vital Network Ltd, not to be reproduced without explicit permission Copyright Issues
Cookie Policy
At Vital Football, we along with most other modern websites use small files called 'cookies' to create the most secure, effective and functional website possible for our users. Without these files our business model, based on advertising, breaks down and we would be unable to continue to provide the services that you are here to utilise. By continuing to use this website after seeing this message, you consent to our use of cookies on this device unless you have disabled them. For full details please read our Cookie Policy which can be found here. However, if you would like to disable cookies on this device, please view our Cookie Policy which contains an opt-out tool for disabling advertising cookies. Please also visit our information pages on 'How to manage cookies' if you would also like to block all other types of cookies. Please be aware that parts of this site will not function correctly if you disable cookies.