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Article: Football: Fortress talk is a bit early says O'Neill.(Sport)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2007
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MARTIN O'Neill was reluctant to tag Villa Park a 'fortress' despite seeing his side register their fourth straight league win on home soil.
Fulham, Chelsea, Everton and now West Ham have been defeated in the Premier League but O'Neill believes it is too soon to talk-up their home form.
"It's a bit early to say we're making this place our fortress," he said.
"After Monday night, we had to win the game and I would have taken it any way.
"We didn't set out to win 1-0 as people could see from the way we played first half, but we had to dig pretty deep second half, which was pretty ...