The plan went like this.
Do a very pleasant interview lauding Kevin MacDonald as the second coming.
First and foremost he’s a top coach. I worked under him as a player in the early days and he’s as good a coach as I have ever worked with or under.
“There are quite some names on that list, and he’s up with the very best of them.
“He’s honest, he doesn’t take any nonsense, he’s a winner. He demands total commitment of a player, he gets them into a way of playing, not just passing for the sake of passing, it’s done to win a game of football.
“People will wonder if he can man-manage, but look at his record. Villa have won the reserve league three years on the trot and that’s actually one of the most difficult jobs in the game.
“You work with a mixture of eager kids and established players who are unhappy at being dropped from the first team, and if you can blend them into a unit that works hard and wins games then it proves you can handle people.”
Then Just Sit and Wait
Oh how it worked..
Staunton is being tipped to return to management as an assistant to Kevin McDonald in a three pronged disaster which also features Gerard Houllier.
Fans of Aston Villa, we are all thinking of you during these hard time.
