McLeish out at Villa?

[bainesontoast]

Remember when it was us and them in the race for Champions League football? Feels like yesterday Young scored that goal in injury time, but it was actually 3 (and the rest) years ago. I think the demise of Villa in recent seasons shows just how quickly it can happen.

 

[ijjysmith]

LOL Huffington

 

[Rugby Toffee]

Remember when it was us and them in the race for Champions League football? Feels like yesterday Young scored that goal in injury time, but it was actually 3 (and the rest) years ago. I think the demise of Villa in recent seasons shows just how quickly it can happen.

T'is right that mate....

 

[Dom1878]

So its official, contract terminated. He should have stayed manager of Scotland

 

[Pride of Birmingham]

So its official, contract terminated. He should have stayed manager of Scotland

I agree with this.

What kind of Scotsman leaves his national job to take charge of Birmingham City?

 

[paulbefc]

GAHH FFS, he was going to take them down next year! I was so sure of it. Damn.

 

[tsubaki]

RAWK is on fine form today - heres this gem from their own "McLeish sacked" thread:

Rafael's standing (in my opinion) is such that he can cherrypick opportunities as they arise. I don't see an enormous amount of ambition within the current structure at Villa and as such I can't envisage for a moment that Rafael would choose to manage such a shambles.

After tasting the dizzying heights of the Champions League and the top of the league table, I'm not sure scrambling around looking for a draw away at Swansea would hold much allure.

It'll be one of those silly situations where Villa will take a manager from those around them in the table, and that club will take on the next manager to be sacked.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

I think he's a poor manager to be honest, wouldn't wish him upon anyone.

 

[NewRadical]

I think he's a poor manager to be honest, wouldn't wish him upon anyone but Liverpool.

Fixed.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

I had loads of fun at work this afternoon winding up all the Norwich fans about Lambert going to Villa.

Some suit from the Norwich board (McNally i think) said they are doing all they can to keep Lambert. And Lambert, when asked yesterday refused to pledge his future to Norwich.

 

[TX Bill]

Remember when it was us and them in the race for Champions League football? Feels like yesterday Young scored that goal in injury time, but it was actually 3 (and the rest) years ago. I think the demise of Villa in recent seasons shows just how quickly it can happen.

Very good post.

 

[NewRadical]

I know historically Villa are a bigger club than Norwich, but if Norwich can stay in the Premier Legaue for another season or two, they have a decent chance of 'kicking on', whereas Villa are millions in debt and that only looks like increasing, plus won't have much to spend to add to what is a very ordinary squad. At the moment Norwich are possibly in a better situation than Villa. Which is quite sad as Aston Villa are the 'big' club of the country's second city.