By the end Paul Lambert had retreated into his dugout but it provided little shelter for a manager who is becoming accustomed to disappointment.
Last night his fragile Aston Villa side suffered further humiliation at the hands of a lower-league team as npower Championship side Millwall bundled them out of the fourth round of the FA Cup, just three days after Bradford City had beaten them in the Capital One Cup.
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