Completely and utterly baseless assumption. We have big time owners only interested in getting this club to the top and their backup plan to Smith one day leaving or being sacked is Shakespeare??? That guy who has only been a manager once in his life.
OR, or his appointment could be more like, I don't know, let's say because he has a long history with Smith (back to their playing days at Walsall) and he's a Villa fan with family in the midlands and is renowned as being a top quality number two and the likelihood that Terry will be off soon?