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

[mr underhill]

didn't he say in that interview that Randy had only been to one game?  I might be wrong, but I thought he said that, though I distinctly remember him coming out with some sort of secret spy shite that suggested Randy used to visit VP regularly, only in disguise?. Regardless of how many games Lerner did attend, that comment firmly placed him in the nut job basket for me. Very Kevin Turvey-esque.

[kippaxvilla2]

The reason I didn't like the "he's thick" line of attack was because it reduced it to what could be perceived as a personal attack on the bloke himself, rather than the job he was doing.

If that happens, I think it devalues the other criticisms.

I agree entirely on the stuff like the bomb squad and his "I just do" nonsense, but I don't see that as evidence if him being some sort of jibbering dimwit, I see it as him not being very good at his job.

The thing he used to say which drove me most nuts was after we'd just failed dismally against some shit side, and usually failed to fashion a shot on target, he'd tell the media he couldn't have asked for any more from the team, and we were "excellent".

One just for you....

A moment of magic from Gylfi Sigurdsson saw Swansea City take all three points from Villa on their home turf yesterday.

The talented Swans midfielder curled home a delicious free kick in the first-half to wrap up the win, with what proved to be the only goal of the game.

Lambert said: "I was very pleased with the way we played. I thought we were fantastic the whole game and deserved to take something, we were excellent.

"Coming here, we did to them what they do to most teams. We looked the better side. They scored the goal, albeit our goalkeeper Brad Guzan will probably blame himself.

"But Brad has kept us in games before with massive saves. He's maybe taken a step to his right. He will be disappointed with himself, but Brad has been brilliant for me since I have been here.

"Their goalkeeper kept them in the game at the end, but I was really happy with how we played. We've changed the way we played over the last three or four weeks.

"There's new things we're working on. The lads have been really good with it, they really have.

"It's something I have asked them to do and they have been excellent at it. They are comfortable with it. The way we are playing is really, really pleasing, at the minute.

"The lads are enjoying the way they play. They are enjoying their football, the way we have asked them to do it.

"Sometimes you come off the pitch really disappointed because you haven't played well. But today I am proud of them because of the way they have played.

"I am disappointed to lose the game but I was proud of the way they played."

[kippaxvilla2]

Some of the records.

Premier League goals - worst in Football League and Europe so far this season

Goal drought 1: 547 minutes

Goal drought 2: 660 minutes

Longest run of defeats without scoring 5 - Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Everton, QPR.

Heaviest defeat in history 8-0 at Chelsea

Most goals Villa have conceded in Premier League season - 69 - 2012-13

101 points from 101 games - worst point ratio of any Villa manager who has reached 100 games

Most defeats in Premier League season - 20 - including most ever home league defeats in a season - 2013-14.

Lowest Premier League attendance at Villa Park for 15 years - 25,311 against Southampton in November, in keeping with dwindling crowds.

[Legion]

Thanks.

[kippaxvilla2]

I like this one the best because it has pictures of him and Royston looking happy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/aston-villa-vs-southampton-paul-lambert-believes-cold-weather-and-live-broadcasting-caused-lowest-villa-attendance-in-15-years-9881706.html

[supertom]

Lambert was utterly clueless. In way over his head. Even with a budget we would have struggled to show any sort of semblance of a plan. The way he back tracked on the young and hungry experiment was embarrassing. We ended up getting worse.
Plus what really wound me up was this genuine acceptence he seemed to have for some of the absolutely shit performances we had. I mean when a Mourinho or a Ferguson is giving the spiel at the end of a bad game, you know they don't really believe what they say sometimes. But with Lambert I felt like he genuinely believed we were playing well when all the world could see we were awful. That Swansea game as a case in point.

Awful, awful manager. Okay he wasn't the massive end of a bell that O Leary was but in managerial terms he's not fit to lace O Leary's boots and lets face it, Dolly was pretty limited himself.

[CT Villan]

No matter how many times I see this I laugh...it is spot on...

[supertom]

No matter how many times I see this I laugh...it is spot on...

It's sort of tragically funny. ha ha. Absolutely spot on though.

[LeeB]

Had he kept council I could have considered him an unlucky, but limited chump.

Now he's just a deluded areshole. I suppose from his point of view, if it lands him another job for a couple of million a year why would he give a shit?

[itbrvilla]

The tosser should be on death row for the torture of 10's, in not 100's of thousands of football supporters.

[seanthevillan]

No matter how many times I see this I laugh...it is spot on...

It's sort of tragically funny. ha ha. Absolutely spot on though.

Haha, hadn't seen that before.

[villabear]

No matter how many times I see this I laugh...it is spot on...

It's sort of tragically funny. ha ha. Absolutely spot on though.

Haha, hadn't seen that before.

Although very very funny it really rings true. I can remember coming away from games where we had been absolutely terrible only to hear him coming out with that "we were excellent" mantra.

The logic of that new contract he got after four games last season still baffles me to this day.

[Toronto Villa]

I like this one the best because it has pictures of him and Royston looking happy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/aston-villa-vs-southampton-paul-lambert-believes-cold-weather-and-live-broadcasting-caused-lowest-villa-attendance-in-15-years-9881706.html

yes cold weather and live on TV Paul and not the utterly bollocks football and the slide towards oblivion that kept the fans away. Tosser.

[villadelph]

How dare anyone making millions of pounds for managing a feckin game compare their occupation to life on death row.

Clown, get lost already.

[brian green]

His observation of his predicament at Villa remind me of Alice In The Looking Glass when she tumbles down a rabbit hole and reality becomes reversed.  Lambert spent his whole time, even the early goodish brief spell under reacting to what was going on.  Every horrible foul up whether it was bomb squad, bullying, old and past it, young and hungry, fantasy assessments of performance, the debacle that was Keane, match tactics, fan relations all had at their source the fact that he was unable to be sensitive to what was going on around him.   Then he falls down the rabbit hole that was his totally deserved sacking and he falls into a world of reversed reality where he was the victim. A super sensitive innocent victim of unjustified criticism.  To put the metaphor of victimization in even higher definition and even worse taste than comparison with an execution block he chooses to compare himself to the victim in The Green Mile who is a totally innocent misunderstood miracle worker.  Compared with what Alex McLeish got Paul Lambert was treated with patience and boundless tolerance by everybody at Villa Park including the fans.