Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert

[nodge]

There was a definite point in season three at which you could see he had genuinely lost interest and belief. In the space of a few weeks he put on a load of weight, looked scruffier than usual, looked like he'd probably stopped washing, looked permanently ruddy faced.

I used to cringe when he'd be interviewed unshaven, dishevelled, bloated and looking clueless.  His team started to mirror him.  I notice he's smartened himself up these days, shame he didn't make the same effort for Aston Villa Football Club.

[*shellac*]

If I could make a list of Villa's mistakes and regrets, I will put his name on top. And every line after it.

[supertom]

There was a definite point in season three at which you could see he had genuinely lost interest and belief. In the space of a few weeks he put on a load of weight, looked scruffier than usual, looked like he'd probably stopped washing, looked permanently ruddy faced.

I used to cringe when he'd be interviewed unshaven, dishevelled, bloated and looking clueless.  His team started to mirror him.  I notice he's smartened himself up these days, shame he didn't make the same effort for Aston Villa Football Club.

I recall seeing McLeish in his first post Villa interview and he looked 20 years younger.

[joe_c]

If I could make a list of Villa's mistakes and regrets, I will put his name on top. And every line after it.

... And You Will Know Him By the Trail of Defeats

[kippaxvilla2]

Mind you Tim looks as if he has aged 10 years already.

[Mister E]

He is only doing what every mediocre manager does:
- blame the lack of funds
- claim he wasn't supported by the Chairman / Board
- make specious comparisons with previous / subsequent managers

The bottom line is: it is down to him; it always is. And, TS has proved that he could get more than a dead cat bounce from the same squad of players.
TS has, admittedly, got lucky in that Fox appears to have surrounded him with good footballing guys. But he has also taken the bull by the horns with regard to Benteke ... do you think he deliberately released Benteke's buy-out value in order to get the funds to rebuild? - it looks like it to me.

[Gregorys Boy]

Not interested in slinging more mud at Lambert.  It was proven over a long period that he wasn't good enough for the job and he was given more than enough backing from the club.  This just comes off as a bitten simply as.  I think he mostly had a good relationship with the management and this is him just trying to save face.  It is him who has made himself look bad in all this, and by choosing Talkshite rather than a proper broadcaster like Fivelive to air his dirty washing has just made it worse.

[mr underhill]

can you air dirty washing on the radio or has he done it on TV as well?

[Damo70]

That house of his looked a bit more luxurious than death row. I bet his bank balance for presiding over all those shambolic home performances looks a lot healthier than mine does after paying for my son and I to watch them. A relatively inexperienced manager sarcastically named 'Tactics Tim' made a poor Lambert side score goals, get to a cup final and most importantly stay up, none of which we would have done had he stayed. Still, maybe some chairman will buy his version of events and give him a job.

[LeeB]

That house of his looked a bit more luxurious than death row. I bet his bank balance for presiding over all those shambolic home performances looks a lot healthier than mine does after paying for my son and I to watch them. A relatively inexperienced manager sarcastically named 'Tactics Tim' made a poor Lambert side score goals, get to a cup final and most importantly stay up, none of which we would have done had he stayed. Still, maybe some chairman will buy his version of events and give him a job.

I doubt it, I think it's what you call a "false narrative".

[eamonn]

Mark Fletcher used to call Emile Heskey The Green Mile. It's a pity he's gone (Fletcher, not Emule).

[Dave]

can you air dirty washing on the radio or has he done it on TV as well?

Does anybody actually air dirty washing?

Why wouldn't you just put it in the washing machine, and then air it once it's clean?

[Monty]

That house of his looked a bit more luxurious than death row. I bet his bank balance for presiding over all those shambolic home performances looks a lot healthier than mine does after paying for my son and I to watch them. A relatively inexperienced manager sarcastically named 'Tactics Tim' made a poor Lambert side score goals, get to a cup final and most importantly stay up, none of which we would have done had he stayed. Still, maybe some chairman will buy his version of events and give him a job.

This is the point. He's trying to make it sound like he was sacked, and then the next guy was all the money which he was denied - whereas actually Tim took exactly the same players and made them look half-decent, and easily good enough to stay up (even if it was still very close thanks to Lambert's magnificent record earlier in the season). You can't spin the difference between the performances under Lambert and under Sherwood.

[Damo70]

That house of his looked a bit more luxurious than death row. I bet his bank balance for presiding over all those shambolic home performances looks a lot healthier than mine does after paying for my son and I to watch them. A relatively inexperienced manager sarcastically named 'Tactics Tim' made a poor Lambert side score goals, get to a cup final and most importantly stay up, none of which we would have done had he stayed. Still, maybe some chairman will buy his version of events and give him a job.

This is the point. He's trying to make it sound like he was sacked, and then the next guy was all the money which he was denied - whereas actually Tim took exactly the same players and made them look half-decent, and easily good enough to stay up (even if it was still very close thanks to Lambert's magnificent record earlier in the season). You can't spin the difference between the performances under Lambert and under Sherwood.

I don't remember him making any reference or comparison to Death Row when he was signing a new improved contract. After the amount of times I walked away from Villa Park after yet another defeat under him this has really wound me up.

[KevinGage]

Mark Fletcher used to call Emile Heskey The Green Mile. It's a pity he's gone (Fletcher, not Emule).

We should have an amnesty for The Damned.

Bring the Gnasher back too.

Balance the books by giving anyone who quotes themselves or refers to their own witless musings months ago free transfers.