Watch Portsmouth vs Aston Villa Live Online
Portsmouth vs Aston Villa Live Streaming – Portsmouth vs Aston Villa Barclay’s Premier League match on Sunday, April 18, 2010.
Venue: Fratton Park.
Time: 16:00 GMT
Teams:
Portsmouth: Ashdown, Finnan, Mokoena, Vanden Borre, Rocha, Boateng, Brown, Yebda, Diop, Utaka, Piquionne.
Aston Villa: Friedel, Warnock, Collins, Dunne, Cuellar, Milner, Petrov, Young, Downing, Agbonlahor, Carew
Teams Report:
Portsmouth is ready to fight against Aston Villa in the Barclay’s Premier League match on Sunday at Fratton Park.
Portsmouth is in 20th position in the Premier League table with 15 points. Portsmouth played 34 matches and won 6, drawn 6, lost 22. Aston Villa is in seventh position with 55 points. Aston Villa played 33 matches and won 14, drawn 13, lost 6.
Portsmouth is in relegation zone and have put lot of efforts to come out from relegation zone. Portsmouth’s performance in Premier League is not good. But, they reached FA Cup finals by defeating TottenhamHotspur. They will face Chelsea in the FA Cup finals. Aston Villa knocked out in the semi-finals against Chelsea. Aston Villa must win in today’s match, if they want to reach in to top four in the table.
Portsmouth midfielder, Jamie O’Hara is unavailable due to back injury. David James remain doubtful, while Hayden Mullins (hand), Tal Ben Haim (groin) and Nadir Belhadj (thigh) are all struggling for fitness. Hermann Hreidarsson and Danny Webber are long-term absentees, while Frederic Piquionne may join with team.
Aston Villa full-back Stephen Warnock is available after recovering from his knock. Nigel Reo-Coker and Marlon Harewood remain lon-term absentees.
Similar Football strips- Aston Villa ,West Ham ,Burnley?
Could anybody tell me please if it is just coincidence or is there a reason why these 3 clubs have almost identical strips.
Answer
For Aston Villa – Nobody is quite sure why claret and blue became the club’s adopted colours.
West Ham – The original colours of the team were dark blue, due to Thames Ironworks chairman Arnold Hills being a former student of Oxford University. However the team used a variety of kits including the claret and sky blue house colours of Thames Ironworks, as well as sky blue or white uniforms.[19][20]
The Irons permanently adopted claret and blue for home colours in the summer of 1899. Thames Ironworks right-half Charlie Dove received the Aston Villa kit from his father William Dove, who was a professional sprinter of national repute, as well as being involved with the coaching at Thames Ironworks. Bill Dove had been at a fair in Birmingham, close to Villa Park, the home ground of Aston Villa and was challenged to a race against four Villa players, who wagered money that one of them would win.
Bill Dove defeated them and, when they were unable to pay the bet, one of the Villa players who was responsible for washing the team’s kit offered a complete side’s ‘uniforms’ to Dove in payment. The Aston Villa player subsequently reported to his club that the kit was ‘missing’.
Burnley – Burnley changed their colours from green to their now traditional claret and sky blue for the 1910-11 season, reportedly aiming to enjoy the same success enjoyed by Aston Villa who also wore those colours
It appears as tho’ Aston Villa is the common denominator
another link thro’ strip is Notts County and Juventus.. Juve originally played in red but when the kit was washed it turned pink. A official of Juve had a friend who worked at Notts County and he asked him if they had any spare strips going. Hence Juventus now play in Black and White stripped jerseys
