LONDON (Reuters) - When Randy Lerner put Aston Villa up for sale last May, the end game of the American billionaire’s reign was predicted to cause only further doom and gloom for the Premier League strugglers.
Instead, even those with a bit of blue blood in their claret could hardly have credited how, rather than worsening the dispiriting climate of uncertainty, Lerner’s announcement has, almost perversely, given his grand old Midlands club a new lease of life.
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