Football: Harewood's Hammer Blows Leave Sorry Villa Humiliated ; West Ham United 4 Aston Villa 0

Birmingham Post › September 13, 2005

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David O'Leary's much-publicised march on Europe came to a halt in east London last night as his well-beaten Aston Villa side were handed another heavy dose of capital punishment.

Villa suffered their heaviest defeat of O'Leary's reign when they lost 5-1 on their last visit to London at Tottenham in May. It was almost as embarrassing for O'Leary's expensively-reshaped side as they fell to a Marlon Harewood hat-trick.

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Football: Harewood's Hammer Blows Leave Sorry Villa Humiliated ; West Ham United 4 Aston Villa 0

Yossi Benayoun's last-minute fourth goal served only to pile on the humiliation of a defeat that, frankly, looked on the cards from the very first whistle.

The ground was bouncing. S...

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