Gerard Houllier has finally been confirmed as new permanent manager at Aston Villa, succeeding
Martin O'Neill. He has resigned from his position of technical director at FFF.
I've put together a mini-biography here and compiled his Premier League statistics while at
Liverpool here for anyone who is interested.
I've been mulling this over and I'm stumped. Obviously if I say, "Gerard Houllier is a proven
Premier League failure," that leaves me open to some enormous broadsides about Bob Bradley. "Betcha
wish you could have had Bradley now, doncha?" Well, no.
This is a very convenient season for me for Gerard to take over, what with my nose all up in La
Liga's business.
