Jamie Carragher’s not too sure what to make of Aston Villa.
He’s indifferent.
The former Liverpool player visited Villa Park in February to watch his old team tear strips off them and he despaired. Villa might’ve lost Delph and Benteke – and if you really want to throw Vlaar in there too – but they’re still, incredulously, lined with experience. Yet they can’t show any signs of pride – or even life.
Joleon Lescott and Micah Richards have won league titles. So has Kieran Richardson, God help us. Alan Hutton has won trophies with Rangers and Spurs and he has 50 international caps.
Gabriel Agbonlahor is 29 years of age but he’s running around smoking sisha pipes instead. That was the man named club captain at the start of the season by Tim Sherwood.
There are enough players on the team and in the dressing room who have been around the block and there’s at least enough talent lying around there that they should’ve won more than three Premier League games all season. For all intents and purposes, they’re not that bad. And that’s what makes them so bad.
Villa’s collapse, their apparent surrender as early as when, November, has been pitiful. They got stuck in a rut and frankly just didn’t bother trying to get one fingertip out of it. The whole season was a waste of time. As soon they looked in a bit trouble, the club that has never been relegated from the Premier League were just looking for the campaign to be over like a child who can’t take his beaten on FIFA 16 and reaches for the restart button.
It has been nothing short of pathetic.
And Jamie Carragher seems to think so too.
“The worst team ever to play in the Premier League: those were the words I could not stop myself saying on February 14,” he wrote in his Daily Mail column.
“Derby set the benchmark for the worst we have seen but, with seven games to go, Aston Villa are in danger of wrestling that tag away from them.
“Everything I’ve seen since that capitulation against Liverpool makes me think I was right to be so critical. My adrenaline isn’t running the way it would in a television studio after a live game but I stand by my statement.”
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