Even in an astonishing universe, the consciousness occasionally stumbles across a stray fact that defies comprehension. A day or so ago, I learned that there are things in nature, Neutrinos, that can travel faster than light, and this discovery has driven a coach and horses through Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. I’m not impressed.
Try this on for size: the average annual Villa salary is £56,000 per week,
£56,000 per week equals two million, nine hundred and twelve thousand pounds a year. Per player.
£2,912,000. And this is after several highly paid players have left. The magnitude of this insanity is hard to digest. I’m sorry and all, but this is the work of one man, and for those of you that still revere him, it’s time to reconsider his legacy. No wonder he can’t find employment.
Martin O’Neill was our Black Death – a bubonic plague that will ravage our beloved club for years. Villa Park has suffered the predation of a demonic virus that will haunt successive managers for years.
The club still moves unsteadily through the persistent symptoms of the disease: declining attendance, apathy in the transfer market, a dearth of hope, a want of anticipation, a curtailment of ambition. In short, a general malaise.
We are not at the end of the affliction. We are not yet at the end of the beginning. Convalescence is but a distant, hazy prospect, but we must count our blessings. Our manager is not quite the ticket with a lot of you but, whatever his faults, he has grit. There is a perversity in Scotsmen that seeks out hardship because they’re a bloody-minded breed. He will relish the contest.
We must embrace it too. Look neither to the left nor right. Entertain no distraction. March resolutely toward the promise of congenial good health. What else will deliver us from the devil’s vice but a dogged and tenacious belief that, together, we can be healed?
Heads up, lads and lift your eyes to heaven. All’s to play for.
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