Are Villa showing the way?

There is a great moment in the children's classic movie which reminds me of the situation increasingly faced by Premier League managers.
 
Wicked Baron Bombast, wealthy and powerful, has managed to get his hands on the legendary flying car. Grandpa Potts, mistaken for the inventor Caractacus, has been kidnapped and ordered to
"make it fly". The consequences for his not being able to do so are gruesome.
 
The resignation of Alan Curbishley and the events at Eastlands and on Tyneside this week foreshadow some difficu