𝑺𝑰𝑬𝑴𝑷𝑹𝑬 𝒆𝒏 𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒐 ❤️‍🩹 #XVTrofeoAntonioPuerta

🧵 Unai Emery: The 𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 x 𝐔𝐄𝐋 connection 🤩

Proud to participate in Antonio Puerta’s tribute 💜

Emery y los 𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 💫 𝑼𝒏𝒂 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒓 ❤️🏆 🤝🏽 @AstonVilla

Happy birthday, @Trezeguet 💜

An exceptional tribute to an exceptional man 👏 @SevillaFC

Congratulations to @AstonVilla on winning the #AntonioPuertaTrophy and many thanks for taking part in the tribute to our dear Antonio. 👏 Best of luck for the rest for the season! 🤝

Aston Villa team 1982 #AVFC #AstonVilla #Villa

“I would be really concerned to lose them.” Prime Minister Andy Burnham on the possibility of Manchester City’s owners selling up. What?! These are owners found guilty of serial breaches of the Premier League rule-book by three judges on an independent commission after a lengthy investigation. Owners who outraged other clubs and countless fans by flouting the rules and inflating sponsorship income with the Disguised Funding Scheme. Owners who misled auditors and regulators, who threaten to bring this Premier League season – and, potentially, future seasons - to a standstill by their appeal, deny, delay tactics. Owners who are patently not proper custodians of a famous, historic club. Owners who many hope will sell up and ship out after bringing such shame and sham contracts to the game. So these are astonishing, alarming comments from the PM. “I do actually thank the City Football Group and the wider ownership for the money that they didn't just put into the Etihad and the campus around it but also into the city," Burnham told the BBC’s Chris Mason. Come on, PM. Read the room. Read the commission’s report. Read the belligerent statements from the Abu Dhabi owners and their chief executive like Ferran Soriano. Rather than thank CFG, perhaps thank the diligence of the Premier League in seeking to enforce its rules and protect the national sport. Perhaps thank the three judges for their pain-staking work in sifting through reams of evidence and coming to their considered conclusion. Burnham spoke as a politician seemingly with one eye on diplomatic and trade links. He spoke as a former mayor whose city benefited from investment in east Manchester by Abu Dhabi. “They've been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester and obviously the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is.” And how was that building financed? Burnham spoke as a politician and not the football fan that he truly is. The lifelong Evertonian is usually pretty sound on football matters. He misread the mood of many fans not wanting the possible return of drinking in Premier League stands but that was a rare misstep. This is far worse. This makes him look out of touch with the prevailing mood. He was speaking at Hill Dickinson Stadium. Maybe he should head to Anfield on Sunday week and witness the anger felt towards City. Burnham did add that he wasn’t getting involved in the process and that City had a right to appeal if they felt harshly treated. But how does the PM’s sympathetic words for controversial owners help the independent football regulator charged by Government with leading the fight against those who risk the credibility of their club, who play fast and loose with the rules and who damage the integrity of the national sport? How frustrating if Burnham’s words embolden City's owners and Soriano further. Bit of an own goal by No 10.

Andy Burnham should immediately resign.

#AVFC 5-0 Vitória Guimarães, #OnThisDay in 1983. Uefa Cup first round, 2nd leg, Peter Withe 2' 48' & 90' Brendan Ormsby 58' Colin Gibson 76'

It’s 32 years to the day since Aston Villa beat Inter Milan in one of the most memorable penalty shootouts of the 90s. Always loved Alan Parry’s openly biased commentary here, unable to contain his joy as Phil King scores the winning pen. “YOU BEAUTY!”

An empty Holte End when UEFA ordered Villa to play behind closed doors for their European Cup fixture against Besiktas. 15 September 1982 #AVFC 🟣🔵

Manchester City cheated Aston Villa out of their captain on FOUR separate occasions. Liquidate them.

We are not friends.

Eire sent condolences to Nazi Germany upon the death of Hitler, so no surprise.

Should Aston Villa be considered one of England's 'big six'? 🤔🏆

Your @CountyChamp 2026 champions 🏆 🐻 #YouBears

Captain ©️ 🐻 #YouBears

Warwickshire have reclaimed the Division One crown after five years! 🏆