3.5 year deal at a traditional big club for a man with a half season caretaker role as his only managerial experience.  The appointment baffles on so many levels.  Keep hearing how much of a good coach he is but I swear watching some of those games when he was in charge of Spurs was shocking.  And that ego of his certainly isn't going to be tempered now that he has landed this job, and just imagine if Villa stay up next year he will walk around like he is king. 

Its entirely possible a decade or two from now many will wonder how on earth Tim Sherwood held jobs at Spurs and Villa.

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"Sherwood is a young, innovative coach who is always entertaining when he speaks in public. What more could anyone ask for? I regard him as a potential England manager of the future"

Kevin Pullein in today's Racing Post

"Always entertaining when he speaks in public"



Yep, sounds like the perfect credentials for a top manager.

"You can't take any positives. It is bitterly disappointing to lose the game in the manner we did, right at the death. Both teams were very poor, but I didn't care as long as we won.
"There is no point in me getting a big stick out and banging the players on the head with it. It is about me getting the best out of them for the remaining games.
"There is a lot of work to be done but we will improve because we need to keep this great club in the Premier League. We are not thinking about going down."

His faced said it all during the match "no way am I going to keep this lot up".

[   This image is no longer available.   ] "I cant believe the villa board put the fate of villas future in the premier league in the hands of timmy"

His favourite saying is that Guardiola didn't manage lower down to gain experience totally oblivious to the fact he managed Barca B to promotion!