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title: "Aston Villa: Fans react to pre-season update"
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author: "Charlie Smith"
section: "Aston Villa"
published: "2021-07-13T11:15:47Z"
modified: "2021-07-13T11:15:47Z"
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# Aston Villa: Fans react to pre-season update

**Aston Villa shared [details](https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2021/july/Watch-pre-season-on-VillaTV/) on how supporters can watch the club’s pre-season fixtures on Monday.**

However, the update didn’t go down with some Villa fans, who vented their frustration on social media.

Villa take on [Walsall, Stoke City, Nottingham Forest, Bristol City and Sevilla](https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2021/july/Watch-pre-season-on-VillaTV/) in the space of two-and-a-half weeks prior to their first game of the new season against [Watford on August 14](https://www.avfc.co.uk/match/mens/2021-22/g2210280/).

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A single match pass for any of those games on Villa TV will cost £4.99 to watch, with fans also having the option to subscribe for 12 months of Villa TV for £34.99 or two months free with the pre-season friendlies for £19.99.

The club made no mention of tickets for the games, [admitting](https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2021/july/Watch-pre-season-on-VillaTV/) that Villa TV is the only place where fans can watch live coverage of all five friendlies.

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### Villa fans react

Villa [posted the news on their official Twitter page](https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1414665143561211915) on Monday evening and here is what these Villa supporters had to say in reply, with one left ‘disappointed’ by the arrangement.

**“Watch live coverage of all five pre-season matches, plus 12 months access to Premium content on VillaTV (normally £19.99) – £34.99… huh?”**

[Credit: @villanmike73](https://twitter.com/villanmike73/status/1414667855547748358)

**“I love Villa and everything they are doing. But £5 a match for pre season games is a bit of a joke, can’t lie. I’d understand if it was Premier League games not on the TV but pre season and the fact they used to stream it for free”**

[Credit: @VillaVisionBen](https://twitter.com/VillaVisionBen/status/1414668862855995395)

**“Slightly disappointed that as a club we need to charge people to watch a pre-season friendly online.”**

[Credit: @JohnHadley1984](https://twitter.com/JohnHadley1984/status/1414684548848312325)

**“no mention of being able to watch Sevilla live, joke.”**

[Credit: @joegodwin\_](https://twitter.com/joegodwin_/status/1414665630465331204)

**“35 smackers to hear Jack Woodward commentating over a dodgy and unrefined feed of Walsall players. Nice”**

[Credit: @DOUGLASLUlZ](https://twitter.com/DOUGLASLUlZ/status/1414666381077921800)

**“Amazing how quickly everything gets a price slapped on it in football! It’s not like we give you our money in ticket sales (£500+), replica kits (£150+) & training wear (£100+) every single year, you now have to charge us for the 1 free thing we used to get from the club”**

[Credit: @KingEightyOne](https://twitter.com/KingEightyOne/status/1414666995526668290)

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