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I take a break from my summer bitterness detox to try and get my head around the fucking stupidity of Aston Villa.
The selection criteria for the managerial vacancy at Villa must make for an interesting read. If anyone can make sense of their farcical search for their next manager please share it with me. So they begin, apparently, by sounding out Mark Hughes who promptly resigns from Fulham. There was no job offer forthcoming from Randy Lerner who is now chasing everyone from Ancelotti to McClaren to Benitez. The mention of McClaren and Benitez produces a furious reaction from the ever deluded Villa faithful as they even resort to petitions at the horror of appointing managers who have won trophies across Europe.
So their wacky trail led them to the door of the DW Stadium hoping to get candidate number 4 on the shortlist, Roberto Martinez. Clearly being a man of sense Martinez takes one look at the unfolding farce and laughs in the face of Aston Villa. With due respect to Wigan Athletic, it is a wakeup call to the deluded Villa supporters that even the Wigan manager isn’t interested in joining their club. Martinez would have been a sensible choice for Villa, a young progressive manager who established the foundations which other managers have built on to get Swansea City into the Premier League and has maintained Wigan’s Premier League status for two seasons now. So it was a sensible, understandable decision to approach him, despite his rejection. However, what happened next is bemusing. Randy Lerner has selected Alex McLeish as candidate number FIVE, have you lost count yet? This one really confuses me. It is British football at its worst. As one of the famous “LMA Establishment” walk into a job on the back of their good guy image, all conquering Rule Britannia, let’s share a bottle of wine after the game, media will lick their arse regardless of results, managers gets a top job in spite of their dreadful managerial record.
How can you go from Roberto Martinez to Alex McLeish? Their two styles are chalk and cheese, black and white, Torres and scoring goals. They are poles apart. Is Lerner just picking names out of a hat? I cannot comprehend why Aston Villa would want to appoint Alex McLeish as manager. Is it worth the inevitable hassle they will receive from their city rivals? For Alex McLeish? Seriously? Has he not relegated enough clubs in the area from the Premier League already? Of course he is a great choice for the LMA wine club and the British press. After all what are a couple of relegations between one of the precious LMA members? This decision ranks up with Roy Hodgson walking into the Liverpool job last summer. That old fart was found out within 5 months (or in my case, 5 minutes) and McLeish will surely suffer a similar fate.
It’s confuses me how managers like Steve McClaren and Rafa Benitez were laughed off the shortlist for the job whilst fellow managers like Alex McLeish and Mark Hughes are carried into these jobs. I sometimes think I am on a different planet to some people, and let me tell you, it's a better planet! McClaren and Benitez have had more success than most of the LMA wine club put together but they will ever be known as “The Wally With The Brolly” and “The Fat Spanish Waiter” probably because their faces don’t fit down at LMA towers. If only they’d won more SPL titles......
Aston Villa and their supporters are now reaping what they themselves have sewn. You could have had a European Cup winner; instead you’ve got a League Cup winner. Good luck, you’ll probably need it. On the flip side, if I supported Birmingham City I’d be grinning from ear to ear. Maybe next time you get promoted you won’t have a manager in charge that is guaranteed to relegate you.
It’s been suggested to me before that Alex McLeish has a face which looks like it has been boiled. This seems like as good a time as any to conduct an experiment.
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| Alex McLeish |
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| Some boiled ham |
Yes he does
