Barry Hopes For Some Home Cheer

Gareth Barry is hoping the team can provide some much needed home cheer for Villa fans with the two local derbies coming up.

Villa travel next weekend – in what looks like 3 easy points for Villa (!) – to Highbury. Then we face West Bromwich Albion and Small Heath (Birmingham City) on consecutive weekends (April 9th and 16th)

Barry told the official site: ‘There were sections in the second half who were frustrated as we were. We needed the goal so we could relax and start playing. It’s the way it’s going at the moment. We’ve got some nice home games coming up, some big derbies for the fans to enjoy so hopefully we can finish the season well. The derby games are going to see pressure on the teams who have got less points than us.’

If only every player had played like Barry this year, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in. Without him I think we’d be in the bottom three and going down. Still, what does a humble sugar bag know?!