This latest incarnation of the Aston Villa team are marvellously creative in finding ways to lose games, with the defence excelling at gifting opponents with three points.

Probably the most memorable example being when Villa were 2-0 up with 18 minutes to play at Leicester, yet still managed to lose 3-2, with Guzan allowing a 5 ft 5 winger to out jump him to score the winner in the last-minute.

At Vicarage Road last weekend, Villa even topped that. 2-1 on 90 minutes, they still transpired to lose. This time the blame must go to Black, who wasn’t defensive enough after the team went down to 10 men – Bacuna switching to be in a central defensive three? Come on.

 

Anyway, enough of the latest Villa farce, here’s five reasons to be cheerful as Aston Villa fans.

 

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1. Two Games Left Until Change of Lifestyle

Two games left until Charles ‘#lifestyle’ N’Zogbia is out of Villa Park and his £60,000-a-week wage is lifted off the books. The other good news is Kieran Richardson will also be out of contract.

 

Richardson was a spent force by the time he came to Villa and N’Zogbia shouldn’t have been signed in the first place. I’m not talking with hindsight either. N’Zogbia always had the reputation for being ‘Le Sulk’ and always saw himself playing for a top four team like Arsenal; none of them fancied his attitude though and he ended up at Wigan.

Then Alex McLeish thought N’Zogbia would be the answer to replacing Ashley Young, and the board gave him a ridiculous contract and he became one of the poster boys for Lerner’s mismanagement of the club. You can’t blame N’Zogbia for taking the deal, but obviously you can knock his overall effort.

It’s worth noting though that both N’Zogbia and Richardson started in Villa’s 2-1 FA Cup semi-final victory over Liverpool. So it hasn’t been all bad.

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  1. 16 days have now passed,since our chairman said take over Talks
    have begun.The excuse for not replacing the vacant manger is lame
    All interested parties only have to agree because of the urgency for
    next season. Why has paddy Rielly not been removed after a 50 million
    player recruitment disaster and why does Eric Black need an assistant to
    Pick a 11 match defeated team of flops ,wasters who have contributed to
    500 people being made redundant. Hollis the SILENCE is revealing why Leic etc.

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