Excuse the precision, or lack of it, in the chronology, but generally speaking there was an ex-Villa manager who woke up one morning and thought to himself, "You know, that Gary Cahill, he ain't up to much. What I'll do is I'll stick him in the stiffs, hope that some Championship club will come in and take him off our hands on loan, and spend 10 million pounds on West Brom's central defender to replace him.
At that time - and at any number of times subsequent to this mistake - there were significant numbers of H&V contributors who thought that this was a sound piece of business and that Cahill was overrated. I wasn't among them; most sane people weren't.
If you were among the insane, here is your chance to repent...
