Vinnie Jones has said that he wouldn’t have let Aston Villa score “in a million years” after the crazy scenes at Elland Road on Sunday.
After Leeds scored a controversial goal, with a Villa player down injured, manager Marcelo Bielsa ordered his side to let Villa walk through them to equalise.
One Leeds player, Pontus Jansson, tried to stop the goal but he was unsuccessful and, talking on the Alan Brazil Show (talkSPORT, Monday, 7am), Jones said he would have done the same.
“If there was more on the game would he have let Villa score?” Jones said.
“I wouldn’t have done that in a million years!”
OPINION
We can’t imagine any manager brave enough to try and tell Vinnie Jones to let a team walk through him to score a goal. And we can’t imagine Jones letting his teammates stand there while the opposition walk through them. What Bielsa did has split the footballing world, with some saying it was a brilliant example of sportsmanship and others saying that Aston Villa should have played to the whistle. We’re in the latter camp but that doesn’t mean we don’t like what Bielsa did. Dean Saunders – a vocal critic of Bielsa over spygate – said that this was his way of making amends. We don’t really buy that. Bielsa has a very strong moral compass and if you were watching the game you could see how strongly he felt about the situation. He probably came out of the incident the best of anyone, with the Villa bench not really doing themselves any favours – especially John Terry. These two teams could well meet in the Championship play-offs and you couldn’t have written the script any better if that’s the case.