This pisses me right off.

Everybody can praise Tim Sherwood if they wish, you will not see me doing it. He rescued Villa this season just like Poyet "rescued" Sunderland two seasons back - as in, a squad that had no business being near the bottom decided they wanted to keep their paychecks. Gosh, too bad the clearly superior and more athletic Guzan was never a Blackburn teammate of the manager... I am sure big Brad will take it better than I have, but sheesh is this really the way to jerk around one of your key squad assets?

#AVFC (v @Arsenal): Given, Hutton, Vlaar, Okore, Richardson, Westwood, Delph (c), Cleverley, Grealish, N'Zogbia, Benteke. #AVFCLIVE

— Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial) May 30, 2015

And by the way, Given owns a rather poor 17% success rate in stopping penalties - as opposed to Guzan's 24% club clip since arriving in England.






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