• Villa’s 2-1 domestic defeat to Swansea prompts board to sack manager
• Sherwood attacks his squad’s ‘lack of quality’ in final press conferenceAs Tim Sherwood trudged from the dugout to the tunnel at the final whistle,cutting a lonely and melancholic figure, it was hard to escape the feeling that he was a dead man walking. That suspicion was confirmed the following morning when Aston Villa announced his sacking, and just six months after he was appointed. A couple of hours later Sunderland defeated Newcastle United,leaving the club propping up the Premier League table.
Villa are in a fine mess, with one point taken from the nine league games since their opening-day victory at Bournemouth. On the evidence of what we bear seen from this group of players this season, and the perilous position that the club find themselves in,it will be their greatest escape yet if Sherwood’s successor manages to stave off relegation.
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Source: theguardian.com