Ray Wilkins joins us

[Dante Lavelli]

Never wanted the bloke anywhere near Villa but this is all rather sad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36885984

[Tony Erdington]

Never wanted the bloke anywhere near Villa but this is all rather sad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36885984

Don't start fucking blaming us for his partaking of the cooking sherry.

[b23]

Why hasn't he been jailed ?

[Steve67]

Tim Sherwood didn't know he had alcohol issues? Christ, we were in a real mess.

[Des Little]

He's obviously got a serious problem, however he should be grateful he didn't kill someone. The fact that he didn't shouldn't detract from my belief that he should be locked up for this...his third conviction for the same offence.

[olaftab]

Shame it has come to this for a great player. However it just highlights how Tim ended up getting his mates around him without any professional diligence in selection process.

[brian green]

He owes a big debt of thanks to the person who took his car keys away.

[Hookeysmith]

selfish cnut - addict or not he could have killed someone

[brian green]

The illness of alcoholism has my deep sympathy.  A drunk getting into a car is a very different thing.  He has been caught doing it three times so guess for yourself how many times he has done it and got away with it.

[Diablo]

Never wanted the bloke anywhere near Villa but this is all rather sad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36885984

Very sad indeed. Hope he manages to manage his addiction.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

I know addiction doesn't work like this..... But what the jeff was he doing getting behind the wheel of a car. He's lucky he didn't kill someone.

[dicedlam]

Shame it has come to this for a great player. However it just highlights how Tim ended up getting his mates around him without any professional diligence in selection process.

Great player...really?

I only remember him being the crab of all crabs.

[wittonwarrior]

Still masks the bigger problem of addiction in football.

From such a young age, youngsters are being told they are fabulous, nothing is too much  as far as they are concerned.
  They believe the hype and go through life receiving.  They believe they are infallible and this is what happens.

Football is now strewn with so many such  stories.  Something is definitely wrong.

[JUAN PABLO]

the only memory I have of 'butch' lol really Wilkins was Villa fans singing No hair , Wilkins has got no hair while he took the corners .

[Hookeysmith]

I had always liked him as player and as a pundit and thought he spoke sense. I was impressed when I heard he was joining us but he ended up being an unmitigated disaster and when in the dug out I never saw what he was meant to offer. It not like the modern players even respected him. Mix that with the billy big bollocks of Sherwood and its clear to see we were a disaster waiting to happen.

Now I know it must have been difficult for him with addiction and I hope he gets sorted but I lost a good friend to a selfish drunk driver and its a real pet hate of mine