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Ex-Liverpool star Stephen Warnock said he was mortified when he heard Gerard Houllier had taken over at Aston Villa.

The former full back had only just joined the Villans, having arrived from Blackburn 12 months prior, and worried his move would turn into a nightmare.

Speaking on the Undr The Cosh podcast, the 42-year-old said he bumped into Houllier at a charity match just after Martin O'Neil left Villa Park in 2010, and what he heard next made him feel sick to his stomach.

"He came up to me and he starts asking me about Villa, so I asked him, 'Are you getting the job?', and he was like, 'I've got the job'.

But I played, which I was quite surprised about even though I was already a regular in the team."

Initially, Warnock thought Houllier had turned over a new leaf, but it wasn't long before the two came to blows.

At the time, the defender was still living in the north west and commuting to the midlands for training, but he agreed, upon Houllier's request, to move to Birmingham.

He was given a few months to find a house and a new school for his kids, and claimed Houllier told him that if Villa played an away game in the north west he'd be allowed to go home without seeking permission(

Houllier joined Aston Villa in 2010, a year after Warnock moved there

Warnock ended up staying another season for Villa before being loaned out to Bolton in 2012, and eventually sold to Leeds in 2013, and although Houllier was long gone by then, Warnock still blames the former France manager for torpedoing his career.

"I went from playing for England to training with Villa's reserves in two weeks," he said