Dare I suggest that we can concentrate on the league now? No? Didn’t think so. Nevertheless, we are out of the Carling Cup thanks to a 2-0 loss at home to Bolton in what, by all accounts, was an utterly dismal performance.

Chris Eagles picked up on a Marc Albrighton mistake to score a screamer from 20 yards. Gael Kakuta picked hit a shot on the turn from the edge of the box and beat Shay Given in the bottom corner.

Alex McLeish apparently went with Gabby as the lone striker until the last 20 minutes or so when Nathan Delfouneso was squeezed up in an effort to chase the game. It didn’t matter.

22,261 turned up and many voiced their disapproval at the final whistle, others well before that. I’m not sure you’d describe it as a honeymoon, but whatever it is, it’s surely over now.

What else to say? Not much. Gabby and Bannan come out with some credit apparently.

So there’s that.

Aston Villa: Given, Hutton, Collins, Dunne, Warnock, Albrighton (N’Zogbia 73′), Petrov, Ireland, Bannan, Delfouneso, Agbonlahor. Unused Subs: Guzan, Beye, Lowry, Delph, Gardner, Burke.

Bolton: Bogdan, Steinsson (Robinson 76′), Cahill, Wheater, Gardner, Eagles, Pratley, Muamba (M Davies 88′), Holden, Kakuta, Ngog (K Davies 73′). Unused Subs: Jaaskelainen, Petrov, Blake, Tuncay.