Aston Villa receive fan backlash after poorly timed kit tweet

Whether it's a run of wins to get away from relegation trouble or a through-ball that helps beat the offside trap, timing is important in football.

Unfortunately for Aston Villa, their tweet promoting their new home kit was timed about as badly as possible. https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/619537307503304704 Featuring captain Fabian Delph front and centre, the announcement about the 2015/16 home shirt would have been perfect - if only reports hadn't emerged minutes earlier about Delph potentially moving to Manchester City. https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ/status/619543627447074816 Unsurprisingly, the response from fans of the midlands club was less than positive... https://twitter.com/JamieCutteridge/status/619538012582641664 https://twitter.com/official_patnee/status/619541072864235521 https://twitter.com/Richard64877722/status/619547888562106368 Update: The deal has been on-off, on-off for weeks now and there was a time where it looked like Villa's blushes might be spared, but the deal has now gone through. https://twitter.com/MCFC/status/622097517723971584 At least the kit itself is decent enough, and compares favourably to some of the others in the top flight.