Lambert slates McLeish’s Villa

Paul Lambert has promised to sweep away the McLeish feeling from Villa Park.

The former Celtic skipper takes his new club to West Ham today with supporters fully behind their club again after a twelve month stand off under former boss Alex McLeish.

Lambert’s last game as Norwich boss was a 2-0 win over Villa with McLeish sacked the following day after a season long struggle to avoid the drop.

“We have to lift the feeling at the club,” he stated. “I could see from the outside looking in that things weren’t going according to plan.

‘So, we will try to win every game. I’m not going to sit back. I’ve not been used to that. We’ll try to win. If we can do that with style, then great. If you nick the odd one by doing it another way, we’ll take it.

“But there’s too many people who come to Villa to watch – especially at home when there’s 40,000 here – and I’m pretty sure they are not going to sit there and wait for you to take 40 minutes to get into the game and have your first shot at goal.

“They won’t accept it. We will have to get the crowd going. That’s what we will do.”

Dancing queen Robbie Savage has tipped Villa to be relegated with Lambert dismissing the views of the attention seeker.

‘It’s a strange thing for him to say,” the Villa boss replied. “He admitted never having seen the new signings play. I’ve seen them. I know what they can do.

“Ron Vlaar must be all right if he can get into the Dutch side that was at the European Championship. Karim El Ahmadi is a really good player. I’ve got no problems with them whatsoever.

“He’s entitled to his opinion but if you are going to make a viable comment, you really need to have seen them play first.”

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