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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: kippaxvilla2 on August 09, 2017, 02:10:48 AM
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Yes a catchy title. But I was watching some of our season reviews from late 80s early 90s earlier and this struck me as being quite prevalent with us.
David Whites four goals and he used to regularly pee all over us despite being inconsistent.
Heskey always used to play well against us.
Robbie Fowler scored more against us than any other club I think. Although he obviously was good.
Steve Lynex had only scored four goals one season until April when he bagged two against us at Leicester.
Stuart 'Pancho' Pearson. Ludicrously shit nickname.
The whole of Oldhams team used to turn up just to thrash us once a season.
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David fcukin Speedie.
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Shane Long regularly turns into van Basten when playing us.
Man City would spend most of the season being shite and then turn into Brazil '70 as soon as they arrived in B6.
Macheda only scored 4 times in the league for Manure, half of them were late goals against us.
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Robbie Savage and pretty much all of the Bruce side from 2002-2005 used to definitely play well against us...Tha tside included Jeff Kenna, Horsfield, Morrison, Tebily etc. Superbly average players at best.
I hated the bloody lot of them.
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Wimbledon circa 1986-1990.
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Vassell always scored against us after he left.
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Joleon Lescott.
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Joey Barton
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Joleon Lescott.
This twat, and used to dance like a demented seal in front of our fans laughing whenever he scored.
I'm not sure this guy is or ever was a Villa fan, always acted the nob and was a disgrace playing for us.
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Joleon Lescott.
This twat, and used to dance like a demented seal in front of our fans laughing whenever he scored.
I'm not sure this guy is or ever was a Villa fan, always acted the nob and was a disgrace playing for us.
Yes! An ultimate bellpiece.
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N'Zogbia
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John Hartson
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Daniel Sturridge only plays twice a season, but always seems to score against us
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I seem to recall David James always having a stormer against us while being a figure of fun in the media.
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Trevor Sinclair
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Daniel Sturridge only plays twice a season, but always seems to score against us
And then producing that nauseating robotic tongue out celebration routine.
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Gavin Johnson of Ipswich. Scored against us in two consecutive seasons during the BFR era.
Anyone from Leicester 1996-2000 ish.
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Trevor Sinclair
Was about to post the same thing!
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Mark Falco. Tony Cascarino. Crystal Palace, Wimbledon and Oldham teams seemed to turn into Brazil 1970 against us.
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Marlon Harewood
Mark Robins
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Tony Woodcock had a half decent game against us at Villa Park in 1983. I think he also scored against us to help knock us out of the FA Cup quarter final about six months earlier.
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Tony Coton
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Mickey 'The ******' Quinn
And from the same club, David Smith who tore us to pieces when we were going for the title, and then disappeared into obscurity, otherwise known as St Andrews.
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This thread should be amended to include" and who we later signed and proved to be crap"
Mike Ferguson 1968
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balotelli
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balotelli
Except for when Phillip Sendoros did his one and only job on him
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Kevin Nolan.
Decent player but seemed to score half his career goals against us.
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Has anyone said Distin? Always thought he played well against us.
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Yeah good shout, that goal he scored starting from the half way line at VP is ridiculous. We nearly signed him one summer under MON I think.
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David Dunn and Chris Sutton in there Blackburn days always seemed to destroy us.
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Cyrille Regis and Garry Thompson. Rare examples of us buying players who played well against us and then them actually going on to play well for us.
Although they don't meet the 'Not Being That Good' criteria.
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Marlon Harewood
Mark Robins
Mark Falco. Tony Cascarino. Crystal Palace, Wimbledon and Oldham teams seemed to turn into Brazil 1970 against us.
Mark Falco. Tony Cascarino. Crystal Palace, Wimbledon and Oldham teams seemed to turn into Brazil 1970 against us.
Definitely Mark Falco, started off with 2 in the Charity Shield, knocked us out of the FA Cup not long after plus a number of other goals against us for both Spurs and Watford.
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I recall Barry Bridges scoring for the Blose and QPR at his ease back in the late sixties early seventies. I can't remember if he scored against us in his Chelsea days, probably did. We really were quite shit back then.
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Bryan Roy. Talented player but conned the ref into giving Forest penalties in both games in 94-95. We lost the home game but won at theirs.
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Robbie Savage and pretty much all of the Bruce side from 2002-2005 used to definitely play well against us...Tha tside included Jeff Kenna, Horsfield, Morrison, Tebily etc. Superbly average players at best.
I hated the bloody lot of them.
Apparently Tebily was so bad on the ball at Celtic his nickname was Bombscare
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Marlon Harewood
Mark Robins
Mark Falco. Tony Cascarino. Crystal Palace, Wimbledon and Oldham teams seemed to turn into Brazil 1970 against us.
Mark Falco. Tony Cascarino. Crystal Palace, Wimbledon and Oldham teams seemed to turn into Brazil 1970 against us.
Definitely Mark Falco, started off with 2 in the Charity Shield, knocked us out of the FA Cup not long after plus a number of other goals against us for both Spurs and Watford.
His was the first name that popped up in my head. An average player who always did well against us. See Fashanu too.
Savage also springs to mind - i think the first time he lost against us was on Baros' debut.
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paolo rossi
boniek
tardelli
platini
all overated but always seemed to score against us
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Bryan Roy. Talented player but conned the ref into giving Forest penalties in both games in 94-95. We lost the home game but won at theirs.
Didn't Fashanu score the winner at theirs ? I think I was there.
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David Dunn and Chris Sutton in there Blackburn days always seemed to destroy us.
Sutton was a good player. Moody git on and off the pitch though apparently. Dunn was one of those players who could look brilliant half a dozen times a season and useless the rest of the time. I do credit him for his wonderfully famous piece of skill against us though.
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This thread should be amended to include" and who we later signed and proved to be crap"
Mike Ferguson 1968
Can we talk about Mick Ferguson 1984 when he went on loan back to Coventry and scored the goal to keep them up and relegate his parent club?
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Yeah good shout, that goal he scored starting from the half way line at VP is ridiculous. We nearly signed him one summer under MON I think.
The whole of the Manchester City team at that time seemed to be averageness personified until they arrived at Villa Park, when they turned into Milan circa 1990.
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paolo rossi
boniek
tardelli
platini
all overated but always seemed to score against us
Although, to be fair there is a flip side. I don't recall Paul Breitner or Karl Heinz Rummenigge doing much against us. Although Rummenigge claims we are the worst team to ever win the European Cup. That doesn't say much about the team who lost to us then does it?
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paolo rossi
boniek
tardelli
platini
all overated but always seemed to score against us
Although, to be fair there is a flip side. I don't recall Paul Breitner or Karl Heinz Rummenigge doing much against us. Although Rummenigge claims we are the worst team to ever win the European Cup. That doesn't say much about the team who lost to us then does it?
Couldn't even stick it past a kid that had played one first team game in goal.
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paolo rossi
boniek
tardelli
platini
all overated but always seemed to score against us
Although, to be fair there is a flip side. I don't recall Paul Breitner or Karl Heinz Rummenigge doing much against us. Although Rummenigge claims we are the worst team to ever win the European Cup. That doesn't say much about the team who lost to us then does it?
Couldn't even stick it past a kid that had played one first team game in goal.
We swapped keepers to give them a chance. What more could we do?
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Anichebe. Used to throw Ciaran Clark about like a rag doll. Was shite for the other 36 games a season.
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Anichebe. Used to throw Ciaran Clark about like a rag doll. Was shite for the other 36 games a season.
Oh God yes, it was like Rocky verses Thunderlips, without Rocky's body shots.
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John Filan the goalie always seemed to have a blinder against us.
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Yes, he did, apart from when Savo stuck three past him v. Cov!
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any small heath player
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John Filan the goalie always seemed to have a blinder against us.
My main memory of him is playing Blackburn at home 97/98. On the way to the game, 10 year old me told my Dad and his mate that we'd win because John Filan was playing in goal, Flowers must have been injured. We lost 4-0.
Might be my memory playing tricks on me but as a youngster I seem to recall Tony Cottee scoring against us quite a lot.
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Gordon Durie
Neil Sullivan - Carbone's debut....
& until this past weekend Cameron Jerome always looked at least adequate against us
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Sean Wright-Philips. Did fcuk all all year until impersonating Rivelinho when arriving at Villa Park.
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Gordon Durie
Neil Sullivan - Carbone's debut....
& until this past weekend Cameron Jerome always looked at least adequate against us
I'm pretty sure Neil Sullivan played a blinder at Villa Park on what was his league debut as a youngster at Wimbledon. Hans Segars used to enjoy playing at Villa Park too. Mind you, the whole f**king Wimbledon team did for a while.
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Sean Wright-Philips. Did fcuk all all year until impersonating Rivelinho when arriving at Villa Park.
All the man city players were like that in those days. Barton and Distin were two that always seemed untouchable against us.
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Sean Wright-Philips. Did fcuk all all year until impersonating Rivelinho when arriving at Villa Park.
All the man city players were like that in those days. Barton and Distin were two that always seemed untouchable against us.
There really must be a Man City thing, stretching even further back than that. David White turned into the best player in the world against us at Villa Park in the Dr Jo season. The season before Peter Reid, who was closer to forty than thirty at the time played a blinder to derail our title bid. I think he even scored, which in his career he only used to do every couple of years on average.
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Sean Wright-Philips. Did fcuk all all year until impersonating Rivelinho when arriving at Villa Park.
All the man city players were like that in those days. Barton and Distin were two that always seemed untouchable against us.
There really must be a Man City thing, stretching even further back than that. David White turned into the best player in the world against us at Villa Park in the Dr Jo season. The season before Peter Reid, who was closer to forty than thirty at the time played a blinder to derail our title bid. I think he even scored, which in his career he only used to do every couple of years on average.
He did indeed score - a David White run and shot (Maradona style as per) that crashed off the post into the path of Reid in front the jubilant Citeh fans with their 'Imre' Bananas.
The only other ludicrous thing about the game is that West Ham failure Mark Ward scored the other goal for them.
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Heskey - not always but all too often
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Oldham flamin’ Athletic. Including Rick feckin Holden.
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I always seem to recall Darius Vassell ended up at Man Citeh and somehow managed to score against us virtually every time we played them!
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Mick "fat f#!ker" Quinn.
The fat f#!ker.
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Mick "fat f#!ker" Quinn.
The fat f#!ker.
I spoke to him on Talksport a while back about the time he ruined my Boxing Day with a hat-trick against us at Highfield Road. He corrected me by pointing out he only got two and the goalscoring machine that was Robert Rosario got the other.
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Mick "fat f#!ker" Quinn.
The fat f#!ker.
I spoke to him on Talksport a while back about the time he ruined my Boxing Day with a hat-trick against us at Highfield Road. He corrected me by pointing out he only got two and the goalscoring machine that was Robert Rosario got the other.
I was back from Paris that xmas and somebody I knew in Coventry managed to get me 2 tickets, so my brother-in-law and I were in the main stand weeping at our ineptitude. I recall it being a horrendously foggy, cold day with the sun somehow coming out for 2 hours during the game. Wish it had been called off.
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Mick "fat f#!ker" Quinn.
The fat f#!ker.
I spoke to him on Talksport a while back about the time he ruined my Boxing Day with a hat-trick against us at Highfield Road. He corrected me by pointing out he only got two and the goalscoring machine that was Robert Rosario got the other.
I was back from Paris that xmas and somebody I knew in Coventry managed to get me 2 tickets, so my brother-in-law and I were in the main stand weeping at our ineptitude. I recall it being a horrendously foggy, cold day with the sun somehow coming out for 2 hours during the game. Wish it had been called off.
A mate of ours knew somebody who knew Greg Downs and got us some tickets for the game in 1990 around the time our title challenge was ebbing away. I think we lost 2-0 and Mountfield's knee went again, much to the delight of the Coventry fans surrounding us.
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any small heath player
This was one thing that always used to amaze me as well, not sure if it is to same extent now, but certainly going back to the days of the late 1970s onwards for about 10 years, all their players, which against most other teams looked very average seemed to raise their game at least 40% against us.
Strange!
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Man City have definitely turned into our bogey club over the last 30 years which means numerous players feature in this list.