One of the original 12 founding members of the football league. McGregor a giant of a man, 7 times we won the cup no one should have caught us up. On the day great support, some great players have managed and played for the Villa.
The club lies within the boundaries like or not Bloose of Birmingham the 2nd biggest city in the country. The ground with the exception of the rebuilt Old Trafford being the best original in the country.
European Cup Winners.
All the above is true so why are we continuing to struggle and what of our immediate future. In my opinion Ellis refusing to let go of the crown jewels and being in the wrong hands at the wrong time - e.g. the birth of the Premiership has had a continuing influence on every aspect of the club. Not helped by more leadership, overspending in the name of Martin O'Neill has not helped. Maybe because it is a Birmingham team puts people off our club.
Clearly things have not been rosy for sometime. Up steps Sherwood papers up some cracks but then for some apparent reason loses his go for it attitude. We then finish 2014/2015 with 3 losses and continue then to lose three of the better players from the season.
Replacements come in and even someone with the most claret and blue eyes would be hard pressed to say they are adequate for what is a tough league.
Sherwood then goes onto have panic attacks and draws into his own shell in terms of going for it. At the same time things are obviously been leaked by the club and I wouldn't be surprised to see TS leave the club this week.
Moyes is tapped up in the media for the job - surely he would not want another failure on his CV. When he took over at Everton he had a stronger squad, a team that had the weekend before reached the 1/4 final of the FA Cup (3 out of the past 4 years). Moyes would struggle with what is possibly our weakest squad since relegation in the 60's.
The only way forward to save our bacon this season would now be to buy experienced heads in the January window.
Sherwood is not the failure some would lead you to believe no more than Moyes will be the messiah.
The only way to keep our position is to tap in the pan number of the Villa credit card, otherwise we might just change places with the unwashed.
Depressing very much so.