Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Legion on July 11, 2019, 08:12:44 PM
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"Hi hoping you may be able to help me?? I am trying to locate the former Villa player from the late 60's/early 70's Ian "Chico" Hamilton. I am working on behalf of SUEPA Southend United Ex-Players Association. (See us on Facebook & Twitter). We were formed back in January 2018 and our aim is to put former team-mates back in touch with each other, and as of today we have just under 200 former ex-players some of whom played for Southend United in the 1950's and 60's. Chico only played at Roots Hall for just under a season signing in Sept.'68 from Chelsea for about £5,000? playing in a total of 40 league & F.A.Cup matches scoring 12 goals before signing for Villa in 1969 for about £40,000?, we currently have 8 players who were team mates of Chico including Billy Best who was the goalscorer for Southend when Villa were beaten 1-0 in the F.A.Cup match back in Nov. 1971. I have been looking over the last few months at various Villa social media sites and I did see a photo of Chico at Villa Park in the last few years & did try to make contact with someone but so far not had any luck so was wondering if there was anyone on this site could/would be able to point me in the right direction. Any help on this matter would be gratefully received in our quest for former players. Many Thanks, David Brabbing."
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Maybe suggest they contact Rob Bishop or whatever the former Villa players association is?
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Not that it helps any but I went to school with his son Paul Hamilton though lost contact after I left in 1991. Another King Edwards Aston grad.
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He still posts on here sometimes.
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He lives in Lewisham
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Blimey Rob, wasn’t that when you were back from Oz in 2006?
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Last Villa match v Fulham before I moved here mate. Nicola Keye fixed up tickets in the Holte pub for us.
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I would also love to meet him.
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Many years back, I worked with his lad at Kalamazoo in Northfield.
One or two tales of Chico's time in USA playing with George Best. You can guess the rest.
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One of my all time favourite Villa players, alongside Pat McMahon
Had the pleasure of meeting him in the Holte pub a few years back
I was looking at some old black and white framed photos on the wall when a hand stretched across my face - a finger pointing to a particular photo of muddied players taking a communal bath - a voice from behind me said " that's me "
I turned around and was face to face with one of my heroes from the 1970`s - Ian "Chico" Hamilton
I was starstruck and uttered something like " olroight mate, how you doin?"
always picture him in the yellow and blue kit
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He lives near my parents in a town in Spain called pilar de la horadada. I watched the second semi final and then the final with him. Lovely bloke
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I remember my dad telling me about a goal he scored from an impossible angle, I think it was an FA cup match.
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One that sticks in the memory is an approximate hundred yards run-up to take a penalty at Wrexham in the old third division days. I was stood right in front. He was so far back when he started his run you needed a telescope to see him.
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And if my memory serves me right a winner at Anfield where they hadn't lost for 18 months
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One of my most memorable and joyful moments in more than 50 years of watching the Villa was Chico's far post header at the Holte End, that put us 2-1 up against Albion in the 1974/75 promotion season.