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21st October 2022
11:04am BST
“It’s hard to put a foot on it. Fulham started the game very well and we didn’t handle it well. We didn’t bring personality to the pitch or come to the fore. We didn’t do the basics of the game. "At half-time the manager had gone through us and rightly so.“The second half, we need to show a reaction and for the first few minutes, maybe, we did but then we give them the chance to play against 10 men.”
Just 90 minutes after the game was finished did news filter through that the Villains had indeed sacked their manager.
"We would like to thank Steven for his hard work and commitment and wish him well for the future," said a Villa spokesperson as part of a very brief 41-word statement.
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In Gerrard's post-match interview, he told BBC Sport: "Inconsistency has cost us, that's the position we find ourselves in.
"I took over the team in a very similar situation. We've tried to recruit to get us out of that situation. I'm a fighter - it's in my DNA. I'll continue to fight unless I'm told differently."
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