Villa right to turn towards you-know Hou

THE current Premier League table is highly misleading in regard to my recent visit to Villa Park: Aston Villa in fourth place?

That’s got to be a mistake. They were absolutely battered by Everton and didn’t even deserve one point, never mind all three.

So the likely announcement today that the former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier will head up the new management team comes not a moment too soon. Whatever the well-meaning Kevin McDonald – he’ll have a substantial coaching role in the structure – Villa’s troops looked in disarray to me.