03.10.1992

[Legion]

[Legion]

[LeeB]

There have been countless wasted talents down the years, but my god that boy had it all. During that spell from September to Christmas he was as good as I've ever seen.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Coincidentally, I have an mp3 recording of the Danny Baker 606 phone-in on this day.  It starts off with James Alexander Gordon reading the scores.

Blackburn beat Norwich 7-1; and QPR beat Spurs 4-1 on the same day.

West Brom are in the the third tier; Blues in the first tier drawing 0-0 with Oxford.

[PeterWithesShin]

Dalian had everything. Pace, power, skill, could shoot with either foot, could score with his head. Except it appears the attitude to be one of the best players in the world. Yes kids, he was potentially that good.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Agree PWS, could have been as good as Ronaldo, he was potentially that good.

[Dante Lavelli]

Dalian had everything. Pace, power, skill, could shoot with either foot, could score with his head. Except it appears the attitude to be one of the best players in the world. Yes kids, he was potentially that good.

That was when I was at my most Villa bonkers (I cannot believe it was that long ago).  I remember his car was basically a night club with an engine.  I seem to recall that it was a Vauxhall of some description.  There were no back seats, just speakers.  Imagine what he'd have been like if he was born a generation later, when he had REAL money to waste.

[jcsutv]

He drove a Golf. Great player.

[Deano's Mullet]

   Dalian goals 1992-93

  Dalian goals 1993-94  Still cant get over his first v QPR, defenders had at least ten yards on him and he still beat them to the ball

[Nev]

The only game I missed, home or away, league and cup all season! Ratscocks!
Minor consolation came in the form of sharing a trip to the San Siro with the bloke with the brolly. I think he was from the Lye.

[dave.woodhall]

Somewhere in an AD 2000 parallel universe, the millennium was heralded by a strikeforce of Dalian, Stan Collymore and Dwight Yorke, with Lee Hendrie behind them.

[Tom_Mc9?]

A hell of a good finisher. I was too young at the time to realise he was wasting his talent away and just enjoyed his goals. Simpler times.

[TheTimVilla]

I was there! Not many were that day.

[Deano's Mullet]

He always scored against Man United, he always seemed to raise his game against them. I think he scored in three straight home matches against them as well as at Wembley as well obviously. Another classic performance was against Inter at home. He didn't score but their defence looked scared shitless everytime he ran at them. He had a good little spell of goals when Brian Little was appointed boss but i think he got injured and by the time he returned we had Yorke/Saunders/Johnson and occasionally Fash up front. He did well in Turkey.

[PeterWithesShin]

Quite possibly the biggest wasted talent in my time when you consider he was as good as finished by the time he was 27/28.