Only one team in the Premier League era have climbed out of a hole the same size as the one Rémi Garde’s Aston Villa are inRémi Garde takes charge of his first game as Aston Villa manager on Sunday,when the Premier League’s bottom club host the leaders Manchester City, and the Frenchman desperately needs to find a way of reviving their fortunes. Villa have lost their last seven league games, or picked up only one point from a possible 30 and are heading for a long winter of discontent unless there is a spectacular turnaround. The former Arsenal midfielder has already said that he is “not a dreamer or a magic man”,so in the absence of a wild imagination or a wand, we select a peer at what the 49-year-former needs to effect to keep Villa up and emulate Crystal Palace’s mighty escape under Tony Pulis two seasons ago.
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Source: theguardian.com