Losing so abjectly to Fulham made Steven Gerrard’s removal inevitable, but Aston Villa now find themselves at something of a crossroads...
Aston Villa needed rid of Gerrard but things could get worse before they get betterLosing so abjectly to Fulham made Steven Gerrard’s removal inevitable, but Aston Villa now find themselves at something of a crossroads.. It wasn’t just the fact that Aston Villa lost to Fulham, it was the manner in which they did so.
Were that the case, they didn’t have long to wait. A terse 41-word statement from the club issued 90 minutes after the full-time whistle confirmed Steven Gerrard’s fate, with social media fixating on the detail that Gerrard would beIt was, perhaps, a fitting end to an evening during which few employed by the club had covered themselves in a great deal of glory.
Aston Villa, as the biggest club in England’s second city, are former European champions and always have the potential to be A Massive Club again, but they’ve also been something of a managerial graveyard since Martin O’Neill left more than 12 years ago. Gerrard never talked about the job in that way – he’d have been a complete fool to do so – and this sort of talk put Villa supporters in an invidious position. If successful, the Liverpool talk would start. If not… well, it turned out that there was little need to give much consideration to the alternative.
And this sort of change, while it may have seemed necessary as the team shrivelled to a husk on the pitch at Craven Cottage, is always something of a gamble.
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