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IF IT’S ALL ABOUT JT, VILLA MAY END UP IN BOTHER…

CALL me a cynic, but how long until Aston Villa becomes the John Terry show? Whether he means it or not, the former Chelsea skipper is box offi ce.
When the pair are offi cially unveiled at Villa Park tomorrow, who will fi eld the bulk of the questions? Not chief executive Christian Purslow. Not even Dean Smith, the man lured from Brentford to revive his boyhood club.
It will be Terry, a man normally so averse to interviews that I once saw him sneak out of Hillsborough through a fi re exit.
Jokes will be cracked, of course. After last weekend’s 1-1 draw at Leeds United, then Brentford...

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