Alex McLeish’s Honeymoon Period Ends Before It Begins

When Mark Hughes walked out on the Fulham manager's job the popular narrative still holds that he did so the full expectation of being offered the managerial position at Aston Villa it was, as has become abundantly clear since, as massive miscalculation. There were noises at the time that Villa called off talks with Hughes over the way that his departure from Craven Cottage was handled.