Joleon Lescott reveals the part Jack Grealish played in his infamous 2016 car tweet - when the defender was slammed for 'accidentally' posting a picture of a £121,000 Mercedes after Aston Villa's 6-0 defeat by Liverpool

Jack Grealish was partially responsible for Joleon Lescott's infamous 2016 car tweet that angered Aston Villa fans, nan erstwhile Aston Villa defender has revealed.

Lescott infuriated already-irate supporters aft tweeting a photograph of a £121,000 Mercedes pursuing a 6-0 thrashing against Liverpool pinch nary caption aliases context.

He past drew insult for insisting his telephone accidentally tweeted nan image from his pocket. Lescott apologised to fans aft Villa's 'lack of commitment' successful nan location drubbing, pinch nan nine bottommost of nan league.

The erstwhile defender has ever maintained his stance but his telling of nan incident now includes Manchester City winger Jack Grealish, who he claims shares immoderate of nan responsibility. 

'We request to get Jack [Grealish] connected to clear this up because Jack says to maine each nan time, "I'm going to do a podcast and show them it was my fault",' Lescott told The Rest is Football podcast. 'I'm for illustration it's not that deep, Jack, to beryllium honest.

'Everyone tweets aft games and acknowledgment nan fans and each that, I ne'er did that anyway, win, suffer aliases draw. The car was a spot chaotic but really it came astir was Jack had sent it to me. Me and [Micah Richards] were driving location and past my telephone was blowing disconnected and I was like, "What's going on?" I'm driving truthful I don't cognize what's happened.

'My mom was like, "You don’t moreover person that car. I know, it’s not mine,”' Lescott continued. '[Grealish] googled a image of nan car he wanted. 

'My mom told maine to station a image of my existent car and I was like, "No, Mum!’ It’ll look for illustration I treated myself to a Rolls Royce - it doesn’t really activity for illustration that, I don’t deliberation it’s going to spell distant truthful I conscionable near it."

'I must person checked Twitter [after nan game] but history would propose I ne'er tweeted aft games truthful to do that is simply a spot wild. After I put my telephone away, it conscionable uploaded it. I was like, "What is going on?"'

Richards gave a akin relationship earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile he discussed nan fallout connected nan podcast. The erstwhile defender revealed that Lescott utilized to person a car leasing institution and would often 'give america cars for bully prices'.

The image of a conveyance that is good wrong a apical Premier League footballer's value scope but acold from that of regular supporters drew fury from fans online.

Lescott was earning adjacent to £50,000 a week astatine Villa aft signing from section rivals West Bromwich Albion. The tweet offered nary caption aliases explanation.

Reactions connected Twitter labelled his station 'inappropriate' and 'disrespectful' while West Brom fans revelled successful their erstwhile player's mistake, calling nan 33-year-old 'Agent Lescott'.

'We get to nan [Palace] game, [Richards] was connected nan bench, I’m starting and I’m captain,' Lescott added. 'When they publication retired my name, everyone booed. I don’t deliberation I’ve ever been that mad, ever. I was fuming. 

'In my head, I was like, "I’m going to beryllium to you coming that I’m not nan only logic we’re successful this situation". I deliberation we’d mislaid for illustration 12 connected nan bounce. We were playing Crystal Palace who had nan champion distant grounds astatine nan time. We triumph 1-0 and I score. I don’t moreover deliberation I celebrated, I was fuming it had gone to that and nan fans took it for illustration I was nan only personification that put america successful nan situation.'

Villa' sorry play ended successful nonaccomplishment arsenic they vanished bottommost of nan convention connected only 17 points. Lescott spent conscionable 1 play pinch nan broadside earlier departing that summertime for AEK Athens.