There was magic at Villa Park on Saturday afternoon. Regrettably it was confined in its entirety to the Trinity Road concourse, the Villa team itself lacking even the remotest sprinkling of magic dust.
Just as well my son enjoyed the pre-match entertainment. The game proved a disaster for Villa from start to finish, effectively extinguishing the last flickering embers of a possible run-in to the Championship play-offs.
Clearly there's an enormous re-building exercise to be undertaken at the end of the season, possibly extending to the next two or three transfer windows, if we are to have a team capable of challenging for promotion. In the meantime let's draw a veil over the match and enjoy instead some photographs of my son enjoying the skills of a wandering magician.
The final disappearing act ...
