Sorry for a moment there I could have sworn you said McLeish for Villa

To write this blog I have had to take my head out of the sand, and have my fingers surgically removed from my ears and forced to stop shouting ‘la la la la I cant hear you’ because I refuse to believe that we are hiring a manager whose been relegated from the Premiership twice.

I couldn’t care that he is ‘blues scum’, in fact if he had been brilliant at Blues I would find it hilarious we nicked him off them. I’m more bothered that Blues played awful football and scored no goals when he was manager.

I am still of the school of thought that the McLeish thing is a smokescreen, that we are in secret discussions with Moyes to bring him to Villa.

But then again I am a head in the sand type of guy. I had an ex-mrs who went c**k-crazy with everyone down the pub and I still didn’t believe it when everyone cornered me in the pub and told me in detail about her very private tattoo.

I was the bloke who said ‘ahhh there is no need to buy an house now, there’s plenty of time for that’ and am now consigned to renting for the rest of my life.

And I was the bloke who said ‘ahh don’t worry this X-Factor crap wont catch on’.

I am an eternal optimist. But I am not deluded when it comes to the Villa. The last few days, well last three weeks have been insane, because everyone knows appointing the manager is the most important decision at a football club.

It is like getting a mrs, if you get an old tramp from the street it says a lot about you, conversely if you manage to pull and keep a millionairess you are the man.

There were actually Villa fans who really believed Carlo Ancelotti would come to the Villa.

That Louis Van Gaal might come too.

That is how deluded Villa fans are.

I bet the same fans who were calling for MON’s head when we were third in the league were the same ones didn’t give Houllier a chance and who screamed and shouted when McLaren was mentioned for the Villa job.

Now we are about to get McLeish, as the old saying goes ‘be careful what you wish for’.

And for those thinking of uttering the words ‘Randy Out’ go and take a long look at our financial position. If he goes we face financial oblivion. So again be careful what you wish for. Why would anyone who is used to managing sides in the Champions League wonderland come to a club in the West Midlands who is miles away from the top four.

History will show Aston Villa Football Club had two chances to cement ourselves in all important top four of English football.

The first was over ten years ago when we had a decent team and Doug Ellis decided to float the club on the stock exchange and give the manager loads of money for players.

Unfortunately, John Gregory was manager, who decided to buy loads of rubbish players from Paul Stretford’s agency instead of the talent needed to break into the top four.

The next chance we had was when Randy bought the club, he gave without taking and sent Doug away.

We got Martin O’Neil in who got us up the table and in the top four for the majority of his best seasons but due to playing only about 14 players we always dropped like a stone when their bodies fell apart.

Then, and now I’m talking big picture, not individual signings and missed opportunites like Stoke equalising in the last minute, some oil rich dictators from the Middle East bought Man City.

At a stroke we were blown out of the water. Our Billionaire lost a load of cash in the Credit Crunch but Man City’s owners decided to spend millions on players, our players, our best players, in hindsight just to sit on the bench and get rich.

We were never going overtake financially savvy Arsenal, Man Utd, who could soon be floated for over a billion pound on the Hong Kong stockmarket, or Chelsea who are owned by a multi-billionaire who needs a world profile so Putin doesn’t imprison him, but we could have beaten Liverpool to that fourth spot. But now they have been taken over by foreign owners and they have overtaken us in the financial league. As have Spurs with several years of canny transfer activity.

So we now are going to be lucky if we can get 7th place. That is our reality. Get used to it Villa fans.

We will probably never win the league in our lifetime so we should be concentrating on the FA Cup for a snapshot of glory.

So with that in mind I just want to see some decent football down the Villa. And I got a glimpse of it under Houllier. That is why I can not see the logic in hiring an anti-football manager like McLeish.

We could successfully scrap for 1-0s and we still wont break the top six so why not try and play some decent football. I’d rather come 10th and see some belters of games than come seventh and see turgid crap every weekend.

Is he really worth the bother? Alienating so many fans and running the risk of season ticket sales plummeting?

The worst thing is I’ve got my season ticket already, and let me tell you something now, I have no intention of taking it back if McLeish is manager. The thought has not crossed my mind.

It would be cutting my nose off to spite my face.

I was in the ground when we got relegated in the 80s and if we go down again I’ll be there then too.

Part of me couldn’t care less who the manager is. I’m going down the Villa. When I think of ‘the Villa’ I don’t think of arrogant millionaires playing in my club’s shirt, or the chance of breaking into that Champions League. I think of my mates. The hundreds of people I only know from supporting the Villa, my hometown club, all my life.

I have so many memories from being a Villa fan, like the 94 Cup Final, being almost killed in Coventry, amazing away days and lots of laughter with people I love to bits.

Those simple two words ‘the Villa’ get me out of all kinds of trouble in my personal life.

‘We’ve got go to Merry Hell and buy some matching bedspreads!’ ‘Soz bab. It’s The Villa’.

‘We’ve got to go to my second cousin’s 40th birthday party in Balsall Heath’.

‘Soz bab away day with the Villa, I’ll be in no state to meet your family’.

‘Can I come the football with you?’ ‘Ha ha ha ha it’s the Villa bab, sourse not’.

Most of my friends are settled down now, but they still go the Villa.

And I see them at the Villa.

Those millionaires running round on the pitch and how well they do, they are only part of supporting the club.

Who would want to be a ManYoo fan? Great you can watch your team in Champions League, on your own, in your living room. Me I’d rather see my team lose in the Coco-Cola Cup and be surrounded with my mates.

I hope McLeish is not our manager. But the moment he is. I’ hope he proves everyone wrong.

Who knows we might get a 1-0 win at ManYoo.

Up the Villa.

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