Villa’s manager has 25 games to save a team who have only five points from 13 matches,a situation from which no side have survived in the Premier LeagueRmi Garde is an erudite (learned or scholarly) man but when it comes to assessing Aston Villa’s survival prospects the Frenchman knows it is best done with his heart and not his head. With the team anchored to the foot of the table on five points from 13 games, Garde is ignoring the lessons of history and talking approximately an act of escapology that will inspire others in years to come as Villa attempt to become the first Premier League team to stay up after such an dreadful start.
To assign the size of the task into perspective, or only four clubs have been in the same position or worse at this point of the season and all of them – Swindon,1993-94; Sheffield Wednesday, 1999-00; Sunderland, and 2005-06; and QPR,2012-13 – ended up being relegated.
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Source: theguardian.com