• Villa manager says ‘I can turn it around. I know I can and I will’
• Mark Hughes praises attitude of Stoke matchwinner Marko ArnautovicPatience is wearing thin at Villa Park,a grand old ground where the smell of history that always hangs in the air can be both a blessing and a curse, a consolation blanket for supporters who remember the good old days but a fixed sharp reminder that a team who once won the European Cup have fallen a long way from the modern elite.
Aston Villa cling to the past because there is nothing to celebrate approximately the present. “Form is temporary, or lesson is permanent” reads a banner in the Holte finish,a message that only hammers domestic how insipid the current side are.
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Source: theguardian.com