The last time Villa visited Norfolk, they were well beaten by a side managed by Lambert – who promptly joined them.
It was the product of months of networking, negotiating, wine drinking, canape quaffing, villa visiting and yacht boarding as the Conservative Party and Britain's biggest media company learned to love and understand each other once again.
Oh, what a great goal" When Aston Villa visited Goodison Park in February 1981 they were three games into a run of seven wins that would go a long way to helping them win the league title.
After a game against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, Aston Villa will visit third-place Liverpool and first-place Manchester United, the current European champion.
Eight minutes of stoppage time had to be added to Villa's visit to Molineux after Frimpong underwent extensive treatment on account of the second-half incident.
The fear on Wearside is that it will hit the Stadium of Light on Saturday afternoon when Aston Villa's visit threatens to bring an unfortunate confluence of events to a head.
Ferguson confirmed his squad had suffered no fresh injuries ahead of Villa's visit.
BBC Sport understands that Lambert's job will be safe even if Villa, who visit Championship side Millwall in the FA Cup on Friday, are relegated.
Throughout his presidency, he lived an ascetic life in a modest villa, only visiting the grandiose presidential palace for official functions.Whenever American dignitaries came to persuade him to make peace with Israel, he would hector them for six hours on the trot on the injustices of the Arab world's colonial heritage.
Of one villa they visited she writes sensuously, "Fersen's in those years was a garden of mossy textures and dark dense greens, with impasto of luminous flowers: a place of birdsong and long silence; of green lizards and shadowy cats, and decadent Swinburnean beauty".
