Happy Birthday Gary Shaw

[jwarry]

28 August 1979 Layer Road Colchester Utd League Cup = Gary Shaw show imprinted for ever on my memory!

[The Laughing Policeman]

Happy Birthday to a great player and now a good friend.
The man is a walking history of Aston Villa we often quiz each other and I can only remember catching him out once.
His Villa all time hero? Lord Brian of Little the man he replaced.
Sad to say that his knees still give him trouble and pain to this day.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

No better Villa hero for me.
Local boy, brilliant player in a brilliant team.
Happy memories.
Happy birthday Gary Shaw

[silhillvilla]

Gary Shaw
Gary Shaw

[Astral Weeks]

Happy birthday Gary.

One of my all time favourite Villa players, simply a joy to watch. He was a natural goal scorer, but he also had terrific touch and vision and the ability to create chances for other players.

[garyshawsknee]

28 August 1979 Layer Road Colchester Utd League Cup = Gary Shaw show imprinted for ever on my memory!

I was only 2 !! What happened ? 

[nodge]

Met him a couple of years ago and had a few beers with him. Great stories about that era and especially the European Cup Final and how he ended up in Amsterdam not wanting the night to end. As he put it "you're 21 years of age and you've just won the European Cup, I wanted the night to last forever."

[Steve kirk]

Wonderful player, great touch, elegant, great balance, what a partnership he had with Withey, met him a couple of times and seemed a nice guy, Happy Birthday Gary.

[exigo]

Happy birthday to the man who will always begin the most famous Villa commentary in history.

[ez]

Happy birthday Gary. I met him last year at a charity game and did one of those selfie pics of the 2 of us together. I was chuffed to bits that he put his arm around my shoulders for it. I saw him again and he signed the pic for me.

[b23]

[PeterWithesShin]

^^ Just in case you missed it on page one *winky*

[Woofles The Wonder Dog]

I turned up at Bodymoor one day, 87? (under McNeil anyway), and saw him in practice game. He was twisting and turning with that effortlessly supple grace of his and I thought he might come back again, but sadly not.

Would love to have met him but whenever I saw Dave W at VP I'd always just missed him...

[rob_bridge]

Fine player.

Wondeful Villa Man.

[eamonn]

Happy Birthday to a great player and now a good friend.
The man is a walking history of Aston Villa we often quiz each other and I can only remember catching him out once.
His Villa all time hero? Lord Brian of Little the man he replaced.
Sad to say that his knees still give him trouble and pain to this day.

Does he read on here? Tell him to take a look...maybe just at this thread, the others will have him pining for the good old days.