Presumably this is a spoof (we really hope not), but if it is someone has gone to a lot of effort to create a pretty decent LinkedIn profile for out-of-work football manager Alex McLeish. The profile on the corporate social networking site is fairly up-to-date, making mention of McLeish's recent brief stint at Nottingham Forest.
February may be the shortest month of the year but there was still more enough time for the Sack Race merry-go-round to gather pace. As the business end of the season draws closer, plenty of chairmen and owners were clearly getting twitchy during February, with a number of managers finding themselves out of work entering [.
Aston Villa and new boss, Paul Lambert endured a difficult start to the Premier League season but there are real signs they are on the up, and fans looking for betting tips should expect a much better second half to the campaign. When the amiable Scot left Norwich - a job he had excelled in - over the summer to take the reins at Villa Park, he was expected to lead the side up the table after a difficult previous 12 months under old boss, Alex McLeish.
Aston Villa faced the league leaders with a positive game plan, a big change on the negative style that Aston Villa fans were forced to suffer through last season under Alex McLeish. They looked to play solid defense, pressing United's midfield and denying space for Robin Van Persie and Wayne Rooney, while striking quickly on [.
Interview: Alex McLeish on Aston Villa, Birmingham, Everton, Rangers and those Scotland rumours... is a post from: Just Football
As part of their association with the League Managers Association (LMA), internet corporation Yahoo! sent over a transcript of an interview with former Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Glasgow Rangers and Scotland manager Alex McLeish.
2012/13 Aston Villa Shirts - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
It was a disappointing 2011/12 season for Aston Villa, they finished 16th on the table and only
accumulated as many points as they had played games just two points clear of the relegation zone.
They could manage four home wins in the entire season.
Arguably the biggest shake up at Villa Park over the summer was the sacking of Alex McLeish and
hiring of new boss and ex Norwich manager Paul Lambert . Lambert's goal: to return the villains to
the heights of European qualification that they reached under Martin O'Neill not so long ago.
Villa's transfer dealings have seen them restructure their entire defense.
For the supporters of Aston Villa Football Club, last season ended forty-eight hours after
everybody else. Nine months of purgatory under the managership of Alex McLeish had resulted in the
team finishing in sixteenth place in the Premier League, two places and two points above the
relegation places, and it wasn't until the clubs senior management and bowed to the inevitable in
getting rid of McLeish that their season could truly begin.
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- They may not have the same draw as the Chicago Fire's marquee international
opponent last year (it's kind of hard to top Manchester United), but Aston Villa is a club that has
a certain charm to it. The club had been remarkably consistent, typically finishing in the top ten
of the English Premier League until a 16th place finish this past season led to some changes.
Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert believes star striker Darren Bent will have a major part to
play in the club's plans this season.
The new Villa chief will be able to unleash the England striker from the start of the new
Premier League campaign after Bent recovered from the ankle injury that kept him out of Euro
2012.
Aston Villa captain Stilian Petrov has tipped new manager and former Celtic teammate Paul
Lambert to revive the club's fortunes next season following a forgettable 2011-12 campaign.
Former boss Alex McLeish was relieved of his duties the day after last season's conclusion and
Lambert, who guided Norwich to an impressive 12th position last season, was subsequently chosen as
the replacement.
Paul Lambert has been unveiled as the new manager of Aston Villa.
The 42-year-old former Colchester boss has enjoyed a remarkable rise after guiding Norwich into
the Premier League and keeping them in a safe, mid-table position this season.
He replaces fellow Scot Alex McLeish, who was unable to rescue a slump for the Villains, after
relative success under now Sunderland chief Martin O'Neill.
Paul Lambert has become Aston Villa's fourth manager in two years after walking out on Norwich
City.
A Villa club statement read simply:
"The Board of Aston Villa are delighted to confirm that Paul Lambert has been appointed Villa
manager."
Norwich prohibited Lambert from talking to Villa earlier this week and refused his resignation
in light of not being allowed to discuss a move to Villa.
What Are The Prospects For Aston Villa? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Aston Villa on Monday sacked Alex McLeish. You can hardly blame them for sacking him. McLeish is
so negative magnets in his presence never attract and only repel. He could fall on some tube tracks
and not be electrocuted.
2012/13 Pre-Season Schedules: Tottenham, Liverpool, Real Madrid and more - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
Despite the 2011-12 season just drawing to a close and Euro 2012 and the Olympics on the
horizon, a raft of leading European teams are planning their warm up games for next term. With an
increase in popularity in the game across in North America, it has been the trend for pre-season
friendlies to be played in the United States and Canada, and this summer it will be no
different.
Despite the 2011-12 season just drawing to a close and Euro 2012 and the Olympics on the horizon, a
raft of leading European teams are planning their warm up games for next term. With an increase in
popularity in the game across in North America, it has been the trend for pre-season friendlies to
be played in the United States and Canada, and this summer it will be no different.
Aston Villa have fired manager Alex McCleish after a disappointing 2011-12 English Premier
League season. Villa, who have recently been a team finishing in the top half and contending for a
Europa League spot struggled and nearly were relegated. The club released their following statement
on the website about the decision.
Not really surprising the news coming from Villa with manager Alex McLeish being sacked
following a very disappointing campaign for the Birmingham based side. McLeish had been locked in
talks with the Villa board since this morning in what was seen as serious talks regarding his
future with the club, and it appears as though these talks didn't amount to the future that McLeish
had hoped for.
Alex McLeish has been sacked as manager of Aston Villa Football Club. "The club has been
disappointed with this season's results, performances and the general message these have sent to
our fans," said a club statement. "The board wishes to ...
"I'm expecting the board to back me. I have no reason to think I won't be (Villa manager next
season). We've got through a really tough season. I've won lots of trophies as a player and manager
and I haven't turned into a bad manager overnight." Alex McLeish, Aston Villa manager, May 13, 2012
"Aston [.
After 11 months of plop, it's now officially 'game over' for Alex McLeish at Aston Villa and if
that news surprises you in any way then may we be the first to congratulate you on getting through
your first week here on Earth unscathed.
There is something rather appropriate about the fact that the first post-season managerial
casualty in the Premier League should have turned out to be Aston Villa's Alex McLeish. It was,
after all, McLeish's arrival at Villa Park last summer that was one of the most perplexing seen
anywhere in recent times, and has been one of the most bitterly opposed by supporters of the club
at which the appointment was made.
At least, Alex McLeish might have pondered as he left The City Ground for the last time this morning, he was there for long enough to get Christmas paid for. It's a small consolation for the now former manager of Nottingham Forest, but small consolations are as much as many Forest supporters can take succour from after the club confirmed this morning that McLeish had left the club after just forty days in charge.
It should come as n surprise to anybody that, after 40 long days in charge, Alex McLeish has been sacked (by mutual consent of course) as manager of Nottingham Forest.
Pallid performances, boardroom-level interference, general friction and a farcically botched deadline day eye test have put paid to Eck's brief tenure and Forest's meddling Kuwaiti owners are now looking for their fifth manager in 20 months.
1. There were some unbelievable Bentekkers on display in the Liverpool vs Aston Villa match. Two goals and a crazy backheel assist for Villa's young Belgian striker. 2. Kolo Toure has finally come clean and told Roberto Mancini that he's a footballer, not a car salesman, and is promptly flavour of the month.
Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has confirmed that Liverpool have been given permission to discuss their
managerial vacancy with Roberto Martinez.
The Reds took the decision to part with Anfield legend Kenny Dalglish on Wednesday.
He helped the club to Carling Cup glory in 2011/12, but paid the price for a disappointing
eighth-place finish in the Premier League.
I asked my friend, sports writer and Aston Villa supporter Peter May,
to give us his take on what we can expect from Aston Villa as an opponent this Tuesday. Thanks
Pete!
Aston Villa conclude their pre-season tour at Portland Timbers on Tuesday with a mood of genuine
optimism prevailing around the squad and back home.
The England national team were outplayed for stretches, and Belgium certainly provided a good
test, but Danny Welbeck's game-winning goal provided the difference in a 1-0 England victory at
Wembley.
Both sides saw goal-bound chance hit the woodwork, but Welbeck's beautiful finish off a pass
from Manchester United teammate Ashley Young provided the difference in England's Euro tuneup
match.
RJ Sepich is an ardent Aston Villa and USMNT Supporter. Sepich is the Sports Editor at
The Pitt News, the daily student newspaper at the University  of Pittsburgh. This is RJ's first
piece for TSG.
Like many Aston Villa fans and players, Villa midfielder Barry Bannan was probably happy to see
the end of a miserable season for the West Midlands side.
Ep.38 Noisy Neighbours by Off The Post on Mixcloud 10 months. 380 games. 1,066 goals. And yet Man
City still waited until 5.52PM on the final day of the season to somehow re-hang the title race
door back on its battered hinges and slam it in the face of a Manchester United team who thought
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Paul Lambert is now the new manager of Aston Villa in a widely anticipated move. The Villans can
now hope to return to the free flowing, attacking football of the Martin O'Neill and Gerard
Houllier days. Under Alex McLeish, Villa was a one note defensive grinding machine playing
anti-football.
Didier Drogba is reportedly moving closer toward making China the next stop on his career
path.
The former Chelsea striker, who confirmed Tuesday that he was leaving the Blues after eight
years and just delivering a UEFA Champions League title, has entered into negotiations with
Shanghai Shenhua, according to the Chinese club that also employs his former Chelsea teammate,
Nicolas Anelka, as a player/coach.
Santos Laguna was on the verge of a momentum-seizing victory in the first leg of the Mexican
clausura final before a familiar foe struck for some late heroics.
Humberto Suazo scored on a stoppage time penalty kick following a foul from Felipe Baloy to
cancel out Oribe Peralta's second-half goal and salvage a 1-1 draw for Monterrey at Estadio
Tecnologico Thursday night.
It looks like Mario Balotelli isn't going anywhere.
In a complete reversal from barely a month ago, Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini
confirmed that the unpredictable Italian striker will return to the Etihad next season. Mancini had
suggested Balotelli would be sold in the summer after being sent off against Arsenal in April, but
rumors over a swap deal with AC Milan for Zlatan Ibrahimovic were quickly squashed and now Mancini
says Balotelli is "101 percent certain to remain with the club.
Alex McLeish has been sacked as Aston Villa manager after just one season in charge of the
Premier League club.
A vocal minority of Villa fans did not want McLeish, who used to manage bitter rivals Birmingham
City, in the first place and they got their wish as today he was terminated "with immediate effect"
because "the club has been disappointed with this season's results, performances and the general
message these have sent to our fans.
The managerial merry-go-round has gone in to overdrive recently with no fewer than 11 managers across all four English divisions leaving their positions in the past five weeks. Nine of those were sacked whilst two resigned to fill vacancies elsewhere, making it a total of 13 clubs who have been searching for a new manager [.
Andi Weimann has admitted he is hoping to be given a chance to prove himself at Aston Villa under
new manager Paul Lambert, who took over from Alex McLeish at the end of last season after
impressing with Norwich.
The young striker emerged as an exciting prospect towards the closing stages of a dismal season for
Villa, scoring two goals that proved instrumental to the club avoiding relegation
He was given a chance in the first team following a number of injuries to rival forwards as the
club struggled their way over the line at the end of a season they'll want to soon forget.
So much to discuss on this pod. Hiring and firing in the league. Natural or should we be shocked?
Two managers who barely fulfil their role get cut from the team. Kenny Daglish and Alex McLeish.
The Scottish population in ...
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