Houllier takes charge at AVFC today...

Gerard Houllier takes over at Aston Villa today during their League Cup clash against Blackburn Rovers. I'm massively interested to see his team selection, and I'm more excited about his evaluation on getting confidence restored at the club and changing the mentality.

"Villa is a club which is liked in Europe. It has an identity," Houllier said. "Aston Villa is known as [being like] Paris Saint‑Germain. This club is known to be a good club. I've not met anyone saying it's a bad club. What the club needs is more ambition, more biting teeth.

"When you are a good club everything is fine, the comfort is there. What we need to do is get out of this comfort zone a bit more and get the results. The passion is there [but] the ambition to win things could do well at this club. The image is that it's a nice club. We want to be a winning club. A nice, winning club."

Brilliant. Win some shit. Come on you villains.