Joleon Lescott - GONE

[footyskillz]

From speaking recently on 5 live-

"Any football fan with an ambition to be a footballer wants to play for their team and my team was Aston Villa and is Aston Villa, so to do that was an amazing feeling."

Lescott experience revealed that the fans' anger extended to his relatives who kept away from Villa Park to avoid it. "It was hard when family were getting the abuse and when they're not coming to games because of the abuse that's frustrating, but I had to take it."

"I never got excited about the good times....so the bad times you just let them go as well."

 "It's hard but for me I still enjoy training and playing football so the negatives were not going to outweigh that feeling I had of playing and training.


Lescott insisted there was never an issue with his desire to represent Villa and claimed most of his issues stemmed from off-the-field disagreements with fans.

"Again no fan, well not many fans, at the time were criticising me for my performance or my commitment, they were criticising me for stuff that was so-called accidental that I didn't mean to do.
"I remember after the last game of the season I was walking back to the car and two Villa fans came up to me and said 'Why did you tweet and stuff like that?'.

"The truth is that I didn't mean to do it but we've just got relegated and your concern is about a tweet?

"We've got bigger issues to worry about than a tweet and what I've said.
We need to really think about what direction we're going in now. When I look back and think there would probably be numerous Villa fans that wish I didn't join.

"That's their opinion but on the whole they can't question my effort and desire to play for that team."

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm sure that article was a weight off his shoulders.

[wittonwarrior]

Apart from Stoke away I can't remember too many 110% give it my all appearances from Lescott and as for his accidental tweets - he must think we are all thick. 

And Joleon no Villa fan is glad you ever pulled on the Claret and Blue jersey.  Just for clarification.

PS if you want to sue me then please go ahead.

[kippaxvilla2]

My view of him is that he is just well a bit thick really.

[footyskillz]

Lescott offerings were short of mark and his career was tailing off. The thing is Sherwood wouldn't of had him going through the motions a while season. And  ultimately his performances like the team were devoid of any passion and aggression and lacked quality
 I would imagine confidence took a massive battering but our joelan would use his pride and  career success to live off and rest on laurels. I think he would have been a better signing before he left West Brom or if we had brought in Jonny Evans who replaced him at buggies. Lescott was not a success at villa and I think he could admit that.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Re Lescott's 5 live transcript...It's self pitying waffle and nothing more!
It wasn't so much that he played sh-te that bothered me. It was the fact that for all his experience and position of leadership within the club, he failed the Villa fans in their time of need. Instead of taking certain individuals to task within the club, he decided to take the      p-ss out of the fans and confront them. For me I saw no effort or commitment to answer his final point and I saw no affection for the club he claims to support.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Lescott is a c***

[brian green]

You always know when anybody in the public eye is in trouble through their own actions.  They bring their family into it.  See Unsworth D.

[Zouch Villa]

What we thought we were getting was an experienced leader on the field, with the added bonus of being motivated to give his all for 'his' club.  What we got was a knackered journeyman, completely detached from reality, ambivalent to the troubles of the club and the suffering of the fans.

For him to come out with that feeble reaction 8 months after we were relagated simply confirms his lack of understanding, and I suspect is only motivated by securing his next seat on a different gravy train.

Could have been so different Jolean, but sadly you let the team, the fans and yourself down.  Accept that and move on.

[aj2k77]

Lescott is a prick, we aren't his team, he's never shown us anything but disrespect. He can fuck off, the charlatan.

[Holte132]

I remember seeing him interviewed ages ago and he was asked about supporting the Villa. He said that he used to watch us, but had since grown out of it!!

[Toronto Villa]

He not only comes across in that interview as massively stupid but immensely naive. He should have just he regrets not being better with us and apologized and it would all have just disappeared. A player over time most of us won't even connect to the club. In fact he will always be a non entity in Villa history.

[TopDeck113]

One suspects that should he succeed in securing a post-playing career in the mee-ja, he will always be referred to as the ex-Everton and Manchester City Joleon Lescott.  However, just like with the ex-Everton and Arsenal Martin Keown, we'll all remember his part in our relegation. 

[CT]

Lescott is a prick, we aren't his team, he's never shown us anything but disrespect. He can fuck off, the charlatan.

When we're talking at the moment about people who have been fantastic for football, and the Villa in particular, the reemergence of this maggot makes me sick.

Villa fan my arse. Nobody believes you. Motivated by money and nothing else.

[SheffieldVillain]

From speaking recently on 5 live-
"That's their opinion but on the whole they can't question my effort and desire to play for that team."

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