Joleon Lescott

weren't officially open, was it? No.

This season they bought Tevez, Adebayor, Lescott, Gareth Barry, spent a bit of money.

Vieira in the January...

Yeah,

Yeah, of course.

Company and Lescott.

Yeah, Company, very good.

Top, Lescott.

Lescott missed something.

Okay, I understand that.

So

And there was a tweet that went out this week about he constantly lists names of players from his first spell.

So he talks about Lescott having to wait his turn, Baines having to wait his turn, Tim Cahill having to wait his turn.

But someone went and dug out the number of minutes that they all played during their first full season at the club.

And basically the long and the short of it is that it's all absolute cack.

What Moyes is spouting that Lescott played sufficient minutes, Baines played sufficient minutes.

It's

only Baines that there's some sort of argument to be made there because Les Scott was at left back for most of that season.

You've got Bully, Jed Wallace, Don Goodman.

Lescott? Lescott, yep.

Who else have we got? Isn't there one lad who's played for all fours, who's played for the Blues, Villa, West Brom and us? Is it Marlon Harewood? Did he play for us? Marlon Hare would play for us, yeah.

Yeah, he played for us.

the

good thing is that I can just keep making stuff up and you'll just have to believe me.

Right, who have I not mentioned? Who have I not mentioned? I mentioned Bully, Tomo, Les Scott, Keith Andrews, Don Goodman.

Silver Regis, Les Scott, Jed Wallace, Jed Wood, Jed Spence,

I think we had to win to get third.

to secure a Champions League spot and it was Jolyon Lescott I think from a corner wasn't it where it literally just hit him in the face he didn't know anything about it and it went into the back of the net and the reason why I love that is because that is a real life give it to Gordon moment so I did

yeah best bit about that as well is i remember jaska lining in the bolton goal like he just gets done by it so he's like it's not only not only is it one of them where like the player who scored it had no idea it left the keeper standing as well

yeah yeah just great um but if you'd have actually tried to head it you know it wouldn't have it would have just could have gone

He did it in Friday's press conference, didn't he? Yeah.

He name-checked Baines, Lescott, Jagielka about how they said he'd have to bide the time and wait.

I think that was like, what, 20 years ago? One, the game's changed.

Get over it.

We judge on how the team's done on a Saturday as well.

Do we think that somebody's due to come into the team? Do we think there's a change? But my history would suggest Leighton Baines, Phil Jagielka, Joe and Lescott, Tim Cahill, all those ones who've come in might have had to wait a little bit of time before they became first-team regulars.

I'm not saying these boys have to do that, but hopefully they develop as well as those boys did because at that time that was the way it was.

And, yeah, they might need to sit on the bench a little while and look in, but hopefully when they come on then they'll show what they're capable of.

You know, Villa and Everton were the two teams that were just nudging into that or trying to nudge into that Champions League era area.

the City takeover happened and City then going by Gareth Barry a year later they buy Milner and that really did have a major impact upon the trajectory of Villa as a club the owner kind of gave up because I just think he looked at City and thought how do you compete with that and from there it just I mean it's not it's not City's fault it all happened at all but there's definitely like an impact of losing such crucial players and it kind of like City targeted Villa's players and Lescott and Everton and then it moved on to Arsenal.

And in a way, I think there's always been a bit of a thing there with Villa where it's like, oh, that happened.

And then, you know, we come back into the Premier League and then Jack Grealish goes to City as well.

And didn't really go on from there.

And when they threw back to Joey and Lescott, nobody was laughing.

And they just found it hilarious that he basically said, yeah, Tottenham are no good.

Tottenham are no good.