Smith while a seemingly decent man manager is seemingly a small cog in a much larger wheel. Their statistical model is something Villa just do not use, and it is not something you can pick up over night. However, it may be a clever piece of thinking from the Villa owners should they fail to get promoted this season. Once they'd been turned down by every other manager they'd approached, the Smith appointment looked the most likely. Their weird obsession with John Terry I cannot fathom.