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Dean Smith, Daniel Farke and back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back defeats

08-Nov-2021 16:46:56 | The Guardian

Considering his team had lost five consecutive matches by an aggregate score of 13-5, The Fiver is surprised by just how surprised it was upon hearing Dean Smith had got the old tin-tack from Aston Villa. Death, taxes and football managers who are not called Ole Gunnar Solskjær being cut loose at the first sign of a crisis are three of life’s certainties after all. As the fifth richest owners in the Premier League, Villa’s billionaire proprietors have made no secret of their plans for world domination … or at least qualification for Big Vase in the next couple of seasons.