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Watch Aston Villa vs Arsenal LIVE!
The Premier League continues on Wednesday when Arsenal travel to Birmingham to play Aston Villa. The match is being shown LIVE on Supersport 7. Kick off is at 9:45pm SA time, with the build up starting at 9:15pm.
Aston Villa Football Club (also known as The Villa, Villa and The Villans) is an English professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who play in the Premier League. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founder members of The Football League in 1888. They were also founder members of the Premier League in 1992. The club was floated by the previous owner and chairman Doug Ellis, but in 2006 full control of the club was acquired by Randy Lerner.
They are one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in England, having won the First Division Championship seven times and the FA Cup seven times. Villa also won the 1981–82 European Cup, one of only four English clubs to win what is now the UEFA Champions League. Aston Villa has the fourth highest total of major honours won by an English club.
They have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with local rivals Birmingham City. The Birmingham derby between Aston Villa and Birmingham City has been played since 1879. The club's traditional kit colours are claret shirts with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and sky blue socks. Their traditional crest is of a rampant gold lion on a light blue background with the club's motto "Prepared" underneath; a modified version of this was adopted in 2007.
In Johannesburg, The Arsenal SA club will be meeting at ‘Blandford Manor’ to watch the game.
Blandford Manor
106 Hyperion Drive
Northriding
Randburg
Sat-Nav co-ordinates are as follows: 26°02'36.30"S 27°57'51.00"E
  
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On this day in 1968
1968 - Arsenal right back Pat Rice gained the first of his 49 caps for Northern Ireland in the 3-2 victory over Israel in Jaffa.
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