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Author Topic: Paul McGrath - don't worry  (Read 123127 times)

Offline DrGonzo

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2013, 11:22:10 PM »
Stop it Legion me eyes are watering.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2013, 02:10:28 AM »
All the above, plus there was a degree of cheek and confidence to his play that you don't normally see from defenders.

I'm sure I seen him backheel the ball off the goaline at WHL once.  Overhead kicks out of his own area and that weird little flick up he used to do that always caught forwards out were commonplace too.

BFR dedcribed it best:  It's as if someone had given him the script of the game beforehand.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2013, 08:21:18 AM »
The game in NYC when they beat Italy 1-0 is the finest CB performance I have ever seen. Colossall.

One R Baggio. Well and truely owned.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2013, 08:23:31 AM »
Those flicks away from danger when it looked as if his body positioning was all wrong.

Best Villa Player ever (in my opinion). As H&V wrote when he left 'Better Than All Rest'

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2013, 09:00:59 AM »
He made the art of defending look effortless and he did it with style.

Offline Rimmy Jimmer

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2013, 09:27:56 AM »
The best player I have seen at Villa park since 1972.
Read his books .....they are pretty good too.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #21 on: September 21, 2013, 10:04:59 AM »
There was nobody in the world better than him whilst he was with us. Nobody.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #22 on: September 21, 2013, 10:16:50 AM »
The only other player I have seen live with the same presence on the pitch was Ruud Gullit. He looked like a Dad having a kick around with six year olds.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #23 on: September 21, 2013, 10:28:39 AM »
The only other player I have seen live with the same presence on the pitch was Ruud Gullit. He looked like a Dad having a kick around with six year olds.

Spot on with that, Gullit was the only one who's come close.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2013, 10:59:57 AM »
We have had some class defenders  down VP.  But he was in a class of his own. 

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2013, 11:10:26 AM »
The game in NYC when they beat Italy 1-0 is the finest CB performance I have ever seen. Colossall.

I think I am right in saying he picked up some sort of virus or infection in his shoulder just before we beat United in the final and it severely restricted him in that game. It hadn't actually cleared up by the time the World Cup came around so, just like at Wembley, he played against Italy in great discomfort and basically with just one arm.

Offline richardhubbard

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2013, 03:05:27 PM »
We were spoilt in the mid 90s with likes of Yorke, Atkinson but this guy the best player I ever seen in a villa shirt by miles.

I cannot remember the game but it was he was in 1 on 1 with a striker and he had given the guys 5 yards and the other the player in his pocket within seconds.

The way he read the game was immense and was a very very special talent

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2013, 07:46:57 PM »
He is the best player for Aston Villa I have seen in my 32 years as a villa fan. I seen a idiot writing an article on Bleacher Report on top 50 defenders and he is not in it. WTF. To me he is top 5 of all times for defender.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2013, 09:06:04 PM »
There was a poll in an issue of World Soccer this summer which had canvassed the opinion of journalists worldwide on the best team ever. They rated Paul McGrath as the joint fifth best centre-back of all time behind Beckenbauer, Moore, Baresi and Passarella and level with John Charles and Fabio Cannavaro.

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Re: Paul McGrath
« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2013, 09:18:07 PM »
There was a poll in an issue of World Soccer this summer which had canvassed the opinion of journalists worldwide on the best team ever. They rated Paul McGrath as the joint fifth best centre-back of all time behind Beckenbauer, Moore, Baresi and Passarella and level with John Charles and Fabio Cannavaro.

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That's the kind of company he belongs in.

 


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