JOHN WRAGG BELIEVES IT’S CRUNCH TIME FOR A MANAGER WHO HAS FAILED TO BUILD ON EARLY PROMISE…

JOHN WRAGG

MANAGER’S MISSION
PAUL Lambert needs this one to work. Once the brightest thing in English football, his future is totally wrapped up in what he achieves with Stoke.
When Lambert arrived at Aston Villa on June 2, 2012, he was bright, cheery, full of optimism for himself, for his new club.
He had finished his main press conference in one of the big rooms in Villa’s Trinity Road Stand and was chatting with a few of us, getting to know each other.
Lambert looked o...