All Villa No Filler - An Aston Villa Podcast

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. This is a special episode where Roisin, George & Frankie review Villa's season, talk about what went right & wrong during the team's second year back in the Premier League. They also give out their end of season awards, celebrating the likes of bes...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. Villa ended their season on a high with back-to-back victories over Spurs and Champions League finalists Chelsea. Roisin, George and Frankie celebrate a positive end to the season as Marvelous Nakamba stars against Chelsea's galaxy of attacking talents. Th...

'Rivalries' is a series where we meet fans from opposition clubs to talk over the latest Aston Villa games. This week, ahead of Chelsea's visit to Villa Park on Sunday, Frankie met sports journalist Will Dalton. They discussed what to expect from both sides, including the threat posed by the likes of Timo Werner & Christian Pulisic. Will also explained Chelsea's surge in form since Thomas Tuch...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. A frustrating feature of Villa's return to the Premier League has been that the team take an early lead but often seem to throw their advantage away. That pattern repeated itself at Selhurst Park, where Crystal Palace twice fought back to beat Villa 3-2. R...

'Rivalries' is a series where we meet fans from opposition clubs to talk over the latest Aston Villa games. This week, ahead of Sunday's trip to Selhurst Park, Frankie met Reuters sports journalist and Crystal Palace fan Iain Axon. They discussed what to expect from both sides, including the threat posed by Wilfried Zaha and Eberechi Eze - though Frankie theorised Ollie Watkins might be the differ...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. 26 years of hurt against Manchester United at Villa Park continued on Sunday as Villa - somewhat predictably - took an early lead before losing 3-1 to their northern nemesis. Roisin, George and Frankie lament Villa's cursed luck against United, air frustra...

'Rivalries' is a series where we meet fans from opposition clubs to talk over the latest Aston Villa games. This week, ahead of Sunday's match against Manchester United, Frankie met lifelong United fan, Ian Barber. Ian was part of the protests that led to his side's game against Liverpool being postponed at the weekend. He explained what drove United fans to demonstrate en masse, his frustrations...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. This week, Villa put in arguably their best performance of the 'Jack Grealish Injury Era' with an excellent 2-1 win over Everton at Goodison Park in 'El Cazooico'. Roisin, George and Frankie all give praise to Ollie Watkins, Ross Barkley and the mighty goa...

In the latest episode from our 'All Villans' series, Roisin and Frankie meet the co-founder and participants from the Midnight Ramadan League in Birmingham. The Midnight Ramadan League was originally set up with help from the Aston Villa Foundation and has recently been promoted in a FIFA 21 advert by video game maker EA Sports. It was created to give Muslims somewhere to play football during the...

'Rivalries' is a series where we meet fans from opposition clubs to talk over the latest Aston Villa games. This week, ahead of Saturday's trip to Goodison Park, Frankie met The Athletic's Everton writer Greg O'Keeffe. They discussed what to expect from both sides, including the threat posed by James Rodriguez. Both clubs are also familiar with Ross Barkley. Frankie and Greg talked up his obvious...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. This week, an impressive Keinan Davis rescued Villa by scoring his first goal in forever against West Brom. Jacob Ramsey also made a big difference in the centre when he came on, leaving us to ask whether he should start in midfield ahead of Douglas Luiz o...

'Rivalries' is a series where we meet fans from opposition clubs to talk over the latest Aston Villa games. This week, ahead of Sunday's big derby game at Villa Park, Frankie met the BBC's Dan Welsh, a lifelong West Brom fan from Erdington. Dan explained how West Brom have improved under Sam Allardyce since Villa won 3-0 at the Hawthorns back in December. Dan knows, though, that Sunday's derby is...

This week saw one of the most shocking 48 hours in football history as the Premier League's so-called 'Big Six' signed-up to a new 'Super League' alongside European heavyweights including Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus. Almost immediately there was heavy opposition to the Super League from fans, European governments, German football clubs, non 'Big Six' Premier League clubs, British Royals, U...

'Rivalries' is a series where we meet fans from opposition clubs to talk over the latest Aston Villa games. This week, less than 24 hours after a host of major European clubs announced the formation of 'The Super League', Frankie met Manchester City fan David Mooney, who hosts the 'Blue Moon' podcast and The Athletic's 'Why Always Us?'. We were due to discuss Villa's upcoming match against City, b...

In the latest episode from our 'All Villans' series, Roisin and Frankie speak to Randeep Roopra from the Punjabi Villans, one of Aston Villa's most beloved fan groups. Randeep explained how the Punjabi Villans bring the fun to match days with their pre-match socials which involves a lot of great food. He told us how the Punjabi Villans work with local communities and charities. Randeep also discus...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. This week, there was frustration on Merseyside as Trent Alexander-Arnold scored a later winner for a Liverpool side who looked like they could have been beaten. The group also asked if Villa's tactics were right this week and whether Keinan Davis deserved...

'Rivalries' is a series where we meet fans from opposition clubs to talk over the latest Aston Villa games. This week, Frankie met Liverpool fan Tom Burrows from The Athletic and they looked ahead to Villa's upcoming match against The Reds at Anfield. They also discussed Villa's 7-2 win in October and considered what kind of impact this may have had on Liverpool's season. They faced our 'spicy que...

In the latest episode from our 'All Villans' series, Roisin and Frankie speak to Hannah Pinnock, a freelance reporter who has covered the Villa Women's team for 7500 to Holte this season. Hannah explained what has happened to the team this season, which is in danger of relegation despite heavy investment at the start of the season and the arrival of star player Mana Iwabuchi. She also explained th...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. This week, the trio discuss Trezeguet, Keinan Davis & Jacob Ramsey inspiring Villa's 3-1 comeback win against Fulham, gaining a much needed victory after a run of indifferent form. In The Perfect Ten feature, George & Frankie assess Matty Cash's ov...

Villans Abroad is a new series where we interview Aston Villa fans living outside the UK. In our sixth episode, Roisin and Frankie spoke to Cole Pettem from Brockville, Canada. He is the editor of the popular Villa fansite 7500 to Holte & hosts the Holtecast podcast. In this episode, Cole explains how he started supporting Villa by playing as them on the FIFA computer game. He talks how he got...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs & lows of supporting the world's best football team. This week, the trio discuss Villa's 2-0 loss to Spurs and whether we are seeing the limitations of Villa's squad. They also introduce a new feature - The Perfect Ten - where they rate the season's performance of one Villa player every week & grade it o...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs and lows of supporting the world's best football team. This week, the trio discuss Villa's 1-1 draw with Newcastle as the St. James' Park curse continues. They ask: can Dean Smith figure out a way for Villa to look less predictable in attack? They also select their manager for the Perfect Eleven feature, facing...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs and lows of supporting the world's best football team. This week, the trio discuss Villa's draw with Wolves, with a focus on John McGinn, an extraordinary save by Emi Martinez and a first start for Morgan Sanson. They also ask: should Villa sign Ross Barkley? In the Perfect Eleven feature, they make their choice...

All Villa No Filler introduces our brand new series 'Rivalries', where we meet fans from opposition clubs to talk over the latest Villa games. This week, George & Frankie met Christian Irwin, a Sheffield United supporter, following Villa's disappointing 1-0 loss at Bramall Lane. The trio reviewed the game & explored what went wrong for Villa. They faced a 'spicy' question - should Jack Gre...

Three lifelong Aston Villa fans from Birmingham take a light-hearted look at the highs and lows of supporting the world's best football team. This week, the trio discuss Villa's sweet, sweet 1-0 win over Leeds United and the team proving once and for all they can win without Super Jack. They praise the returning Marvellous Nakamba and Jacob Ramsey, and discuss the fashion merits of Dean Smith's gi...