The end of the line - Paul Lambert

[dave.woodhall]

Aah, the memories. Blame Dave Collett.

https://heroesandvillains.info/2025/05/22/the-end-of-the-line-paul-lambert/

[PeterWithe]

Lambert was well ahead of his time with his 'fucking about with it from your own goal kicks' tactics. Other UK teams didn't latch on to this particular brand of footballing suicide for many years.

[SoccerHQ]

Could've been our Ange.

Weren't we in the FA Cup QFs when he was finally sacked?

He had good records v West Brom and Liverpool in his time here so not impossible we could've got to the FA Cup final under him and who knows he might've come up with some sort of plan v Arsenal. All while scraping 17th on 20 goals....

It was incredible how long Lambert actually got considering how miserable the Football was under him for so long. At least know when we make managerial mistakes we quickly rectify it and get rid of them after a year.

[ez]

I'm sure he was given a contract extension just months before being sacked.

[LeeB]

I was there that night at Hull, Christ it was grim.

[curiousorange]

Great run-through. I remember going to the pre-season game at Forest and thinking, "we're making hard work of this" but knowing it was far too early to judge. The opening defeat at West Ham was the same - "you can see what he's trying to do". In hindsight, Benteke and Lerner's reluctance to go for a pay-off kept him in a job.

[brontebilly]

I was there that night at Hull, Christ it was grim.

That was shocking, looked certs for relegation. Out of depth manager and most players not trying a leg. Lambert was incredibly badly advised in taking the Villa job when he did with little or no budget. McLeish's team was decimated by injury to key players and Petrov's illness. Given, Dunne, Petrov, Bent, might be missing one or two. They hardly played again at the highest level. With his record at Norwich he could have swerved Villa then and got a juicier gig with budget.

[Pete3206]

The Bradford debacle. Cheers Paul.

[john e]

I was there that night at Hull, Christ it was grim.

The match was rubbish as well

[LeeB]

I was there that night at Hull, Christ it was grim.

The match was rubbish as well

[aj2k77]

I can't remember exactly when it was but we had a really long run without scoring. We may have ended it in a beating at home against Chelsea. I hated nearly every part of his reign of us.

The January from nightmares was probably the low point. Knocked out of the Fa Cup by Milwall. Losing a 2 legged semi to a 4th division side. Getting dicked constantly in the league, wasn't it 3 games for a total of 13-0 or something equally shit. And him turning in to a tramp.

[AV82EC]

I can't remember exactly when it was but we had a really long run without scoring. We may have ended it in a beating at home against Chelsea. I hated nearly every part of his reign of us.

The January from nightmares was probably the low point. Knocked out of the Fa Cup by Milwall. Losing a 2 legged semi to a 4th division side. Getting dicked constantly in the league, wasn't it 3 games for a total of 13-0 or something equally shit. And him turning in to a tramp.

Yep that Xmas and January were just
Embarrassing. We’d come off a good run of results in Nov and early December including a cracking 4-1 win away at Norwich in the League Cup Qtr final then it just got worse and worse. Dicked 3 times in the league by Chelsea, Spurs and Wigan, the Bradford Debacle and then wimping out down at Millwall. And still he hung on like the turd that wouldn’t flush.

[TopDeck113]

For a split second I thought our erstwhile manager had been reduced to covering the Travelling Wilburys. 

[Legion]

We go again.

[Sexual Ealing]

He got more Glaswegian the longer he was here. That's all I'll allow myself to remember.