Sentence examples for make villa from inspiring English sources

Wyness told Chinese journalists the club's leadership was set on building a "great football dynasty" under Di Matteo and wanted to make Villa one of the most popular European clubs in China.

The answer O'Neill subsequently received from Lerner and Faulkner appears to have convinced him he would be unable to make Villa a competitive force again next season, following three successive top-six finishes.

All of which leaves Villa in a harrowing position, bearing in mind the size and history of the place and the feeling I still get, 25 years after walking down Witton Lane for the first time, that the imposing red-brick walls, the steps leading to the Holte End, the statues of the lions, the colours and the noise make Villa Park one of football's special monuments.

I made my debut in China which didn't make Villa chairman Doug Ellis happy because he had to pay me extra wages!

Nothing would make Villas-Boas - or Abramovich - more proud than lifting the European Cup.

He called for the club to present a member of the medical department before the press to offer a full explanation, which did not happen, and the effect was to make Villas-Boas look isolated and at odds with the doctors.

Deliciously, the entirely random fixture computer made Villa's first game a trip back to Hillsborough.

This was the decade when Aston Villa won the European Cup, and when Henson made Villa's shirts.

Credit must go to Tim Sherwood for making Villa play with an attacking zest that was sorely lacking under Paul Lambert.

Painstaking restorations have made Villa Malcontenta a tribute to the refined humanist culture flourishing in the maritime republic of Venice, the Serenissima, on the brink of losing its dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Now the American novelist Liza Klaussmann has followed Fitzgerald's example, making Villa America the setting for her second novel, a historical portrait of the Murphys and their friends – the follow-up to her Tigers in Red Weather.