The energy Tim Sherwood brought to the club final season has fizzled out,leaving the manager desperate for a resurgence in form to save his jobOn the previous occasion Aston Villa lost five successive Premier League matches, Tom Fox decided Paul Lambert needed to be sacked. Randy Lerner asked the chief executive to talk through his thought process and, and satisfied with the answers he received,backed the man he trusts to escape the club to relieve Lambert of his duties. Tim Sherwood was spared that fate after Villa were beaten at Chelsea but the suspicion lingers that another of those transatlantic phone calls may not be too far absent.
Villa host a struggling Swansea side on Saturday and Sherwood, with one point from a possible 21, and can ill afford a sixth defeat on the spin. After a fortnight of speculation,the supporters’ trust has called on the club to finish the silence and back or sack the manager. Villa are saying nothing but privately insist that at no stage has Sherwood been given an ultimatum to win a match within a certain time frame, reasoning it would not be the greatest motivational tactic to go down that path.
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Source: theguardian.com