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

[kippaxvilla2]

Managers never take any blame.

He doesn't seem to think he's worthy of it. 12 goals in half a season and he's trying to blame everybody but himself.

This isn't a shock though is it.  I mean we are talking about the bloke who would stand in front of the media every week and say we played excellently with a serious face on when the rest of the developed world knew we were playing worse football than Zaire.

[Toronto Villa]

I don't know about death row, but many of us died a bit every day watching the "football" he served up. And I hate to use the term football to describe it considering how beautiful the game can be.

Villa fans have been on death row for a good few years now, and last season prior to Sherwood's appointment it was clear that all of the appeals were exhausted and we were headed for the chair.

[Axl Rose]

I dislike Lambert more than I dislike DOL. There, I've said it. DOL was a far better manager than Lambert for a start, and did less damage to the club on the field of play. Off it, I don't recall DOL popping up on every programme in world football to give his non-expert opinion on the club. I don't recall DOL allowing a culture of bullying at the club.

Lambert has become a rich man by presiding over some of the worst results in the club's history. Despite all the frustrations of life under Randy Lerner, he signed a new contract when he could have walked away a millionaire. He's a greedy, arrogant chancer who won't accept any responsibility for his own abject stupidity, and I dislike the unintelligible gobbledegook-peddler intensely for that reason.
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This. 100% for me too.
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Me three. It got to the point where I began to despise the sight of him. I wish him no ill, but fucking hell, what a complete moron the man is. I never had those kind of  feelings for O'Leary. I was glad when his tenure ended, however. Fuck the pair of them.

[Sexual Ealing]

No. Lambert was no DO'L.

[Tom_Mc9?]

I think Lambert would do well to keep his mouth shut about managing Villa and if he does feel the need to do so, he should not make out that he was the one who it was tough for. How much did he get for being sacked again?

[PeterWithe]

Where to start?

Any kind of self improvement needs to start with an honest appraisal of your own failings, a manager who can make you pine for the return to the swashbuckling days of Alex McLeish has plenty of failings to consider.

[kippaxvilla2]

He knew the limitations.

His LMA statement read: "My initial remit was to conduct a massive overhaul of the playing squad, lower the overall wage structure of the playing staff and achieve this whilst keeping the club in the Premier League.

"There was also a concerted effort to purchase and develop younger players who would provide a solid footing for the football club to move forward and enhance the value of the playing squad in the future.

"When I came on board the club’s owner, Randy Lerner, warned me that I was embarking on the toughest challenge of my working life and he was not wrong. But I have never stepped away from hard work and I put my heart and soul into the job from my first day until my last."

Villa have also dismissed suggestions that Lambert will receive more than a year’s salary in compensation. He is expected to receive around £2 million.

[Toronto Villa]

He's splashing around right now looking for anyone to listen to his side. I think two things are happening. One he knows the gig is up and other Chairman at least immediately are really wary of what happened at Villa. They're not buying all this my hands were tied bollocks as many times as he says it. Then, he's also fucking himself, because what board are going to want to hire a bloke with that much baggage and one who so readily spills the beans at the first opportunity? How can he be trusted?

He better hope he's not fallen into the Pit of O'Leary where he becomes an outcast in the game. He needs to shut up, go away and come back in a little while when all of this has blown over and start again lower down the leagues.

[Tom_Mc9?]

He'll get the Celtic gig soon enough, I'd imagine.

[kippaxvilla2]

I wouldn't be surprised to see him rock up at Sunderland.

[Eigentor]

Some strange comments from Lambert there. Everyone knows there was a lack of investment in his tenure, but most factored that in when judging his first two seasons at the club. Because that was the only reason there wasn't a clear-cut case for sacking him after two years. It was only in the third season that it was completely obvious that it wasn't going to work out. I guess the main problem was that without his sidekicks he didn't have that much about him.

[Rioch is King]

Just for the record, he doesn't say anywhere in the article that "managing the club was like being on death row" as the sensationalist headline  claims. The article ends (for those who haven't read it) in reference to financial restrictions he claims he was under - "The crowd was never going to put up with that, the Holte End was never going to put up with that and I told Randy if you don't come out and tell these fans exactly what's happening then they are going to go. I'm the one who's got to stand out there and take it."

The interview ended with him comparing walking down the Trinity Road track to the tunnel to the 'Green Mile'.

[brian green]

The reference to The Green Mile is even more abject than a reference to Death Row.  The character who walked to execution in The Green Mile was totally innocent.   A misunderstood miracle worker. Lambert?  Hmmmm.

[Rioch is King]

The reference to The Green Mile is even more abject than a reference to Death Row.  The character who walked to execution in The Green Mile was totally innocent.   A misunderstood miracle worker. Lambert?  Hmmmm.

Didn't realize that... wonder if Lambert did? - Scorpion pit it is then.

[Legion]

Which Circle of Hell would that be?