Source: Team_Talk
Knight: No regrets over Villa exit
Zat Knight is looking to heap more misery on Aston Villa this Saturday - and has no regrets about quitting the Midlands club last summer.[LNB] Knight only lasted two years with his boyhood idols before he headed north for Bolton in a £4million deal.[LNB]It is not an experience he looks back on with any great fondness, even if it did fulfil a lifetime's ambition.[LNB]And when he meets them again at the weekend, the defender's concentration will be solely focussed on heaping even more misery on Martin O'Neill following their seven-goal mauling by Chelsea on Saturday.[LNB]"I don't live in regret," said the 28-year-old, who boasts two England caps from the post-season trip to the United States in 2005.[LNB]"Going to Villa was a dream of mine and I lived it - but now I have moved on.[LNB]"I don't beat myself up about it. You could say it is stepping stones but that's football. It isn't something I look back on and wonder, what if?[LNB]"I did it for my own personal reasons."[LNB]Although Knight was on the wrong end of a beating himself at the weekend as Bolton were dismissed by Manchester United, their performance drew warm praise from manager Owen Coyle.[LNB]Martin O'Neill could not muster anything like the same sentiments about Villa's abysmal display at Chelsea, which all but wrecked their hopes of a top-four finish.[LNB]And for Knight, it brings a dilemma about how his old club will approach the weekend, given they have Chelsea to face again in the FA Cup semi-final on April 10.[LNB]"Knowing Martin O'Neill they will have been in first thing on Monday morning watching the video of every single goal in minute detail," said Knight.[LNB]"It was a big defeat, which could work in two ways for us.[LNB]"They might look at the semi-final now and think it is their best chance of achieving something, and that fourth place is out of their reach.[LNB]"That might mean they rest players.[LNB]"Unfortunately for them the semi is against Chelsea again."
