Villa end the season with a second successive thrashing as they are ripped apart at White Hart Lane.

Villa lose for the 20th time in 38 League games under Paul Lambert.

Villa have won just 10 League games in 38 under Paul Lambert.

Villa have a 53% loss rate in 2013-14 under Paul Lambert.

Villa have a 26% win rate in 2013-14 under Paul Lambert.

Villa failed to score in 17 of 38 Premier League fixtures in 2013-14 under Paul Lambert.

Villa failed to score in 45% of their League fixtures under Paul Lambert.

Villa have won just 6 home League matches of 19 under Paul Lambert in 2013-14.

Villa have a 31% win rate at home in 2013-14 under Paul Lambert.

Villa have now lost 42 of the 87 games under Paul Lambert - the worst performance of any Villa manager in history

Villa now have a 48% loss rate under Paul Lambert since his arrival in Summer 2012.

Villa scored just 43 goals at a rate of 1.05 per game under Paul Lambert in 2013-14.

Villa won consecutive games just once under Paul Lambert in 2013-14.

Villa finished on their lowest points total for nearly 30 years under Paul Lambert in 2013-14.

Not forgetting that in his first season Paul Lambert had presided over Villa’s biggest ever loss in the club’s 140 year existence. 

Just one of these statistics was enough for Lambert’s removal. Yet for a second successive season Lambert was allowed to survive. 

Unlike in 2012-13, however, the support had turned and saw the reality for what it was. 

Needless to say Lambert’s reaction was to blame the support. 

Already the squad looked like it would take years of investment to rebuild to anything resembling a side that could compete above the relegation places, Villa’s owner was playing with fire, it was just a matter of how big and how damaging the blaze would get. 

That Paul Lambert was retained in post after recording Villa’s worst ever defeat just four months into the job had been astounding.

That he remained in place for the 2013-14 campaign and throughout its unfolding misery was a devastating indictment on the incompetence and ill will that had infected the club.

That he should be relieved of his duties at the season end was unquestionable.

Instead he was rewarded with a new contract.

Meanwhile, even Lambert’s signings were headed for the exit door. 

A squad that Lambert built hadn’t survived even two seasons as Brett Holman, Antonio Luna and Aleksandar Tonev were gone, with Matt Lowton, Joe Bennett and Leandro Bacuna soon to be ostracised and Karim El Ahmadi and Jordan Bowery finished. 

Midfielder Karim El Ahmadi makes his 56th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (43 Starts) aged 29 before returning to Feyenoord for a fee of £630,000 in September 2014. El Ahmadi had joined from Feyenoord for £2,520,000 2 years earlier subsequent to which he recorded W15 D13 L28, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 12 Bookings.

Forward Jordan Bowery makes his final appearance for Villa aged 22 before returning to lower league football with Rotherham United in July 2014 in return for £270,000. Villa had paid Rotherham £567,000 for his services 2 years earlier and had contributed W7 D4 L11, 0 Goals, 1 Assist and 1 Booking.

Left back Ryan Bertrand makes the 16th and final appearance of his underwhelming loan spell before returning to parent club Chelsea to leave with a record of W3 D3 L10, 0 Goals, 0 Assists and 3 Bookings.

Centre forward Callum Robinson makes his 5th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (0 Starts) before moving on to Preston in July 2016 with a record of W0 D1 L4, 0 Goals, 0 Assists.