Dean Smith interview: Aston Villa manager on his journey to the job

In this interview with Sky Sports before Monday Night Football, Aston Villa manager Dean Smith talks through the unique experiences which have shaped the aspirations as well as his career that he has for the club since he was a boy he has supported. His is the heart-warming story of a fan from Great Barr whose dad was employed in the Trinity Road Stand as a steward, however there was more than sentiment in mind when Aston Villa switched to Dean Smith. This is a trainer with values and new thoughts. Villa has been restored by him . He plans to keep them there. The things return has not been exactly what Smith would have enjoyed from the first four matches. Two targets scuppered Villa from Bournemouth although everton were beaten and also that there was misfortune at Crystal Palace. Revealingly, the game that annoyed the director most was the defeat in Tottenham. He had been frustrated by the absence of intent at the final 25 minutes. "We were 1-0 up but we were very deep," Smith informs Sky Sports. "Afterward we were 1-1 and we're deep. I understand why but I feel you want an outside ball. A lot of our substitutions when we are top have been assaulting substitutions not ones and that's because I really don't need to invite groups. I would rather us achieve the next goal. "I believe there is such a difference between trying not to shed and attempting to win. If you try not to lose and end up defending for 90 minutes prior to conceding at the minute you walk off the pitch believing you may have had a go. I know this football team and I understand those supporters. The expectation is that we attempt to win every match and we'll attempt to." He has no intention of dismissing his own instincts and why should he? Here is the positive approach that has characterised Smith's managerial profession, the type of mindset that made him an admired figure. The only surprise is that his movement into management might never have occurred at all. There's a sense of fate to it. The boy who cleaned the chairs at Villa Park, the kid who got on the open-top bus which paraded the European Cup about Birmingham, the young man who awakens to do shift work at a powder-paint business in Aston, heading on to lead the club on what he calls among the best times of his life once winning the play-off final. However, Smith didn't even want the Walsall job at first. He was scarred by his experience as assistant supervisor to Martin Ling in Leyton Orient never and as soon as the pair were cancelled after four years being in the base. "I was a bit stung by that," he acknowledges. "I believed I'd done my job fairly nicely." The role of head of childhood in Walsall was appealing. "There was more job security in it," he adds. "I