By Arch
August 23 2010
I'd rather get a 6-0 spanking at the beginning of the season than at the end. The hammering at Newcastle is a wake up call to everyone at Villa especially Randy Lerner and the players.
If Carew has scored that pen [or even kept it on the planet] it may well have been different.
But let's face it taking on the Loony Toons in their first home game back in the Premiership was always going to be a big ask.
So. Stephen Ireland will be an asset once he's settled in. Lerner will have to spend big to get a big name manager and the players will have to bounce back from what must have been a personal humilation for them.
That is as optomistic as I can get at the moment.