UNAI EMERY marked his second anniversary at Villa Park and roared: "I want to stay in the Champions League." The Spaniard has told his that reaching players the competition just once is not enough, and he is demanding more Premier League success to make it happen.
Emery has overseen a transformation that has been little short of remarkable.
When Steven Gerrard departed, the club was fighting to stay out of the relegation zone, only to begin a remarkable journey that culminated last term in a fourth-placed finish.
Now, with a victory over Bologna tonight, the modelling suggests they will need just one more triumph from their group matches to reach the knockout stage.
And Emery says he has no intention of stopping there.
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THE greatest night of Barry McGuigan's career had an audience not even I'm a Celebrity can get near. In the unusual setting of QPR's Loftus Road in London, the Monaghan man defeated Eusebio Pedroza to become WBA featherweight champion on a June night in 1985. Around 25,000 fans were there in the stadium but 20m viewers tuned in on the BBC to watch McGuigan dethrone one of the great champions of the era. Now starring om 'Celebrity', Chris McKenna looks back to that famous evening
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