Ridiculous statement.
Not really, think of all the times we were in a cracking position,
"If Villa win this they will be 4 points clear of 5th" and the like......
Oh dear bottled it again and again, when it was realised the house of straw was not sufficient he left.
If people don't see it then I can't help that, that's not my problem but that's the good thing about history, it's kind of set in stone.
Yeah a bit like when it was us and Arsenal for 4th.. We made our intentions perfectly by signing Heskey and Arsenal went for Arshavin. Now i know he turned out crap but his first season he was pretty good and that move summed up Villa perfectly at the time.
I love the way people assume that we had the funds available to buy an Arseshavin or Bent in that window rather than the cut price Heskey who in fact was still a regular starter in the England side (which DB9 wasn't at the time)?
Sorry can't go with you on that, that signing at that time was a fail of EPIC proportions, we would have even been better off pulling out all the stops to bring in someone good on loan. Or signing a young hot prospect, what the hell was Heskey ever going to do for any sort of challenge of any sort. MON and Randy failed miserably on this, they mega screwed the Champions league bid, completely bottled it! :x