On Villa and the Premier League
Villa being relegated is sad - a club that has won the European Cup, with some of the best and most politically active fans in the country. They will be a big loss to the league. Stan Collymore has been pretty much bang on in everything he's said - pointing at Lescott's absurd Lambourghini tweet after the 6-0 hammering to Liverpool, Bacuna's hoverboard antics at B'Ham airport after the Saints defeat and Agbonlahor repeatedly being caught on the lash during the relegation battle. It all sums up the state of Villa's squad and the utter apathy to the club's plight displayed by so many members of the first team. There's also the issue of ownership - Lerner is yet another bizarre figure who realised after a couple of years, that owning a Premier League team isn't as financially rewarding as he had hoped - see Hicks, Gillet, Ashley, Shinawatra et al. And the Lerner issue points to a deeper issue with all of this - the Premier League. Complaining about...