Eric Black

[in exile]

Eric Black - I hope you never darken Villa Park again.
Go now, just fuck off and go

[Proposition Joe]

Did Garde choose Black or have him imposed upon him? And did Black's arrival also coincide with the start of this dismal run of consecutive defeats?

May as well have put Gabby and Richards in charge after Garde left.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Bye Eric. You took an absolutely terrible situation with awful players and yet somehow managed to make it all worse.

Negative tactics, almost absent substitutions and zero motivational powers.

That takes talent.

You obviously dislike Aston Villa, enjoy your money. Now go.

[ez]

I wonder how many other freeloaders there are still at villa park keeping there heads down hoping not to get noticed.

[Mister E]

Bye, bye.

[aj2k77]

The worst caretaker you could conjure up, he twins brilliantly with the worst team we've ever had and the worst owner.

[Steve67]

Water under the bridge now but I wonder what he really wanted to say about the 'anarchy' comment a while back.  Any explanation would probably drag the club through even more shit, but I would like the lid to come off once the club is under new management.  Black made some strange decisions after moaning about the booing and yet he caused some of it with his selections.  Just goes to show me that the new Manager needs his own coaching staff alongside him.

[tomd2103]

Bye Eric. You took an absolutely terrible situation with awful players and yet somehow managed to make it all worse.

Negative tactics, almost absent substitutions and zero motivational powers.

That takes talent.

You obviously dislike Aston Villa, enjoy your money. Now go.

Yep.  When you think about it, he came into a situation not too bad for a caretaker - no pressure on him because of where the team were and a chance for him to make a bit of a name for himself.  Instead of being positive and going out to try and win games though, he set up to try and not lose instead, and failed badly.  As it is, I think he leaves as the worst manager we've had over the last five years, which is an achievement in itself.

[VinnieChase84]

A corpse would show more passion and creativity that this guy
Bye Eric

[aj2k77]

Could we not have another miserable, defensive, boring Scotsman as a manager again for the rest of my life please.

[andyh]

They could have put any one at the club, absolutely anyone, from a ball boy or ticket office lady to Sid Cowans or one of the fans from the stands, in charge after Garde went.
Not a single one of them could have been any worse than  this joker with his 37 years of experience.
He can stick his 37 years up his fucking arse.

[SteveN]

Cheerio, close the door behind you and never come back.

[The Man With A Stick]

My criteria for the next Villa manager:

Not Pulis
Never been on the payroll of either Aberdeen or Celtic

Tick both of those boxes and you'll be more than welcome.  Anyone else can piss off quite frankly.

[mr underhill]

and someone who has never had any contact with SAF anywhere, anytime. And definitely no written correspondence.

[kippaxvilla2]

Although we were going down and all that he had a massive opportunity to blood the future and use the existing players we were likely to keep in the championship. That he did neither puts him up there in the Kevin McDonald school for relics and fcuk overing.