Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Damo70 on December 02, 2010, 01:31:09 PM
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Alan Curbishley
Mervyn Day
Steve Foster
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Simon Stainrod. I was only about 8 though!
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Simon Grayson
Dion Dublin c 2001
Gareth Barry c 2005
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Gary Charles
Alan Wright
The people I know didn't like them.
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David Geddis
Gordon Smith
Peter Crouch
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Alan Wright
Fernando Nelson
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Dwight Yorke when we were about to sell him to Man City. Was proved right on that occasion.
Always thought Bryan Small, David Hughes, Mark Blake and Paul Brown would be big stars. Any season now...
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I always had a soft spot for Bernard Gallagher.
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You've gone too far.
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Alan Wright
Mark Draper
Emile Heskey
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Alan Wright
Fernando Nelson
Gary Parker
Ian Olney
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Dublin? Parker? Barry? Can't ever remember them being slated much by Villa fans (Barry's last season accepted).
I stuck with Lee Hendrie and Luke Moore like a battered wife.
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Luke Moore is another one of mine (Thankfully posts as old as those of mine saying 'Luke Moore will be our 20 goal a season man, Luke Moore will play for England... have long since disappeared).
Shaun Maloney
Patrick Berger
Wayne Routledge (I kept saying he should get more of a chance.)
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Dublin? Parker? Barry? Can't ever remember them being slated much by Villa fans (Barry's last season accepted).
Barry I agree with, but then I didn't list him.
The others were all slated, it all depends who you hung out with then. Of course now in the internet days everyone gets to see everyone's opinion.
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Lionel Martin
Tommy Mitchinson
John Phillips
Fred Turnbull
Trevor Hockey
Tommy Craig
Dave Geddis
Ian Olney
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Terry Donovan, John Gregory, Terry Bullivant, Rob Edwards
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Paul Mortimer was a work in progress for me.
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Luke Moore is another one of mine (Thankfully posts as old as those of mine saying 'Luke Moore will be our 20 goal a season man, Luke Moore will play for England... have long since disappeared).
Err like this one
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:55 pm
Against Boro in 2006 he got a hat-trick. He did the same against Toronto FC in the pre-season. He will start to score for fun before long
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Alan Wright, I couldn't believe it when I first set eyes on him, wish we could have him back now instead of Warnock.
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Lionel Martin
Brian Greenhalgh
Bobby Park
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Frank Carrodus
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Another vote for Simon Stainrod here.
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Robert Hopkins and Noel Blake. They had such a lovely way about them.
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Alan Wright, I couldn't believe it when I first set eyes on him, wish we could have him back now instead of Warnock.
He use to wind me up when he'd get to the bye line to cross,and always check back,but what would we give to have a left back like him now?
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Ivo Stas, I kept waiting and waiting for him to get fit and show everyone that he was a quality buy, still he did manage a goal for us but for Banik Ostrava.
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I was a HUGE Collymore fan.
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Alan Wright, Tommy Johnson, Shaun Moloney, Steve Sidwell... ;D
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Super Savo - a lot of fans did love him but he came in for a lot of stick from a hell of a lot of other people.
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Super Savo - a lot of fans did love him but he came in for a lot of stick from a hell of a lot of other people.
My favourite ever player, simply for the song! When i got him on the back of my shirt my parents got savo because itd cost a fortune to get Milosivic!!
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Barry Stobart.
John Woodward.
Lionel Martin.
Dave Rudge.
Dave Pountney.
Lew Chatterly.
And off the pitch......Doug.
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Steve Sims
Kevin Gage
Warren Aspinall
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Mark Lillis
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Mark Lillis
Made his debut at Leicester, along with Malcolm Allen, and scored in a 2-0 win that kick started the promotion season - if I remember correctly?
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Fernando Nelson
Sasa Curcic
George Boateng (My Dad Hated Him)
Stan Collymore
Savo Milosevic
Steve Stone
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David Ginola!!!!!
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Emile Heskey
And then you changed your mind... Tsk.
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Emile Heskey
Alan Wright, Mr reliable
Super Tommy Johnson
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Stan Collymore.
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Savo
Gary Charles
Baros
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Alpay (Alan)
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de la Cruz.
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I don't care what he's said or done since, but David Platt remains a football hero for me.
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Neil Cooper.
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Paul Mortimer
Simon Stainrod
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I hate to see our own booed, Andy Lockhead and Geoff Vowden got terrible stick, really vitriolic but both kept going and finally won most fans over. They didn't receive 40 or 50,000 a week to compensate so full of admiration for them.
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Peter Crouch
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Ian Olney
This is unforgiveable USAV! The guy was complete and utter garbage, it still annoys me now that he got picked and it's been probably 20 yrs. I must let it lie some day. He did score in a draw at Anfield though I think so I can give him 1/10 for trying...and boy was he very trying. Even his hair annoyed me and he had a massive beak but that wasn't his fault I suppose. He'd lope around looking gormless then lay a pass off or something and look so pleased with himself he was about to burst. I used to yearn to start a song 'If Olney plays for Villa so can I' but never had the guts. The players got complimentary Austin Rovers around this time, it suited him to a tee. I'm sure he's a lovely guy but dear me, as a footballer he made Ian Ormondroyd look world class. I'd envisage him working in Currys in the white goods department these days or maybe a librarian, anyone know?
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Last I heard, Olney was working for the PFA's Finance Dept with Des Bremner.
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Peter Crouch and Emile Heskey.
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S. Ireland...................... :o ;)
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Crouchy is another one I wish we had kept, the game at leicester when we won 5-0 stands out but then DOL thought he was garbage, kinda sums him up as our manager!
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Ray Houghton came in for a lot of stick at times, not so much 92-93 but the following season and a half - but i always thought he put in a decent shift.
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Ulises De La Cruz. Not so much for his footballing abilities, but I thought him noble for the work he did for his village. I had a shirt with his name on it and at an away game at Bolton, a Villa fan shouted at me "Why do you have HIM on your shirt"?
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ken mcnaught,leighton phillips,burridge.
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Savo
Joachim (nearly got into a fight in the Upper Holte one year with some big fat cock who was constantly slagging him off from the warm up onwards, think it was against Blackburn the year after they won the league, we won 2-0 and JJ scored)*
Wright
Heskey (at times it felt as though I was the only one on here defending him)
*It's not big and it's not clever, but nothing fucks me off more than slating a player, especially before they are even on the pitch. Unless that player is called scumbag piece of shit co££ymore. At full time though, they are fair game if they've been shit!
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Allan Evans when he first moved down, I remember him scoring at Anfield in a 3-3 draw in the 80's I think.
UTV
The Doc
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I always liked Gavin McCann. At the time, I thought he was great. At the time.
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When did Vaclav Drobny play for us, I seem to remember him being a lanky streak of piss and not too bad!
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Ken McNaught. Wasn't too popular amongst some fans when he first arrived due to replacing the legend that was Chris Nicholl.
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Ian Ormondroyd (AKA Peter Crouch mark 1).
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Mark Lillis = thought he was superb = 100%er
Players like him got this club back to where we are now
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Stewart Downing springs to mind.
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Gary Shelton and Terry Donovan
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Warren Aspinall.. I know I know!
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Steve Sims and Mark Lillis..
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Bullivant.
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Gary Penrice. I only saw him play twice, but I honestly thought he was a talented player.
Seeing as no one seems to have a good word for him I can only assume that he was pretty pathetic in the remaining 18 games he played for us.
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Milan Baros.
People seem to forget that we probably would've gone down in the 2005/06 season if it weren't for his goals. A potentially good player for Villa; shame he was in a bad squad really.
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De La Cruz. Underrated.
Alpay as well.
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I always liked Gavin McCann. At the time, I thought he was great. At the time.
Super Tommy Johnson
These as well.
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Milan Baros.
People seem to forget that we probably would've gone down in the 2005/06 season if it weren't for his goals. A potentially good player for Villa; shame he was in a bad squad really.
I always liked Baros purely on the basis that he was our most talented player by some distance at that time and, like you say, we'd have been in real trouble if it wasn't for him. Shame he had such an appalling attitude.
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De la Cruz is a good shout, Alpay was a tool IMO.
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I think the thing with Alpay was that pretty much everyone did like him before he came back from the World cup with an over-inflated ego. It was great pre-match when he'd let the chants of his name reach a crescendo before he acknowledged them by saluting the Holte rather than just half-turning in applause. But surely no-one liked him when he later insulted our club and generally acted like a spoilt, arrogant wanker.
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Collymore.
I was desperate to sign him and when we did I was over the moon.
Even when he went off his rocker, I still backed him, hoping he would decide to come good and turn into the player he should have been.
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Ian Ormondroyd
Stanley Victor Collymore
Savo Milosevic - even after the spitting!
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Paul Rideout
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Frank Pimblett had a wonderful debut, ran the show from midfield, then disappeared without a trace.
Tommy Craig
Keith Leonard
Ian Olney
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Tommy Craig? I think you're on your own there, Oscar.
Keith Leonard was brilliant. I'm sure everybody loved him.
Ian Olney? He was our super sub, never going to own the Villa number 9 shirt but he was what you expected from a sub.
Frank Pimblett? You're making him up, aren't you?
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Heskey
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and i got some good banter off a older gentleman at the stoke game as i was on crutches he asked me if the crutches (after a knee operation) came with the shirt when i bought it.. har har har
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Ken McNaught. Wasn't too popular amongst some fans when he first arrived due to replacing the legend that was Chris Nicholl.
I thought it was more to do with the fact that he had a really, really poor first season. A different Ken McNaught turned up the following season.
These days we'd just be saying things like "He'll be alright when he's had a full pre-season."
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Going back to my childhood we signed a full back called Leslie Jones from Luton Town. He had an impressive debut at Villa Park and I remember thinking that we'd signed an excellent player.
He played 5 times for the first team before being transferred to Worcester City the following year.
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Steve Sims
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Frank Pimblett had a wonderful debut, ran the show from midfield, then disappeared without a trace.
Tommy Craig
Keith Leonard
Ian Olney
I remember Frank Pimblett's debut and it was indeed impressive.
The main thing I recall about young Frank though, was a piece in the satirical magazine "Private Eye", in which Frank pitched up at a training session and was heard to say "I'm pleasantly pissed" to which Ron Saunders replied "Well you can piis off then". And that was the end of that.
Bobby McDonald was also mentioned in that piece. Super Mac, as he was known by The Holte End, received a very good reception when he came back as a Coventry player.
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Dariusz Kubicki had a decent debut v Crystal Palace at home in 1991. Came to us with a good reputation having played Man U in the ECWC Semi final and keeping Sharpe quiet.
We lost, but he got good reviews in the Mail the next day. He was OK for the next few games, but his form nosedived around November and never came back.
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Dariusz Kubicki had a decent debut v Crystal Palace at home in 1991. Came to us with a good reputation having played Man U in the ECWC Semi final and keeping Sharpe quiet.
We lost, but he got good reviews in the Mail the next day. He was OK for the next few games, but his form nosedived around November and never came back.
Didn't he have something like his father or stepfather who he was close to die suddenly, and his form went?
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I think that was it, yeah.
Another one of those 'what could have been' scenarios.
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Frank Pimblett had a wonderful debut, ran the show from midfield, then disappeared without a trace.
I'd never even heard of Pimblett, but a quick google suggests he disappeared to Brisbane:
Frank Pimblett, Aston Villa Soccer Stars 75-76
The Liverpool suburb of Huyton has produced several well known footballers, including Steven Gerrard, David Nugent and, er, Joey Barton. As 14-year-olds, Frank Pimblett and Peter Reid had been the outstanding players in the Huyton Boys team that won the English Schools Trophy in 1970-71. The team's coach was an English and PE teacher called Alan Bleasdale, who later gained national recognition as a playwright. Peter Reid joined Bolton and Frank Pimblett made his debut for Villa as a 17-year-old in 1975. But he went on to play only another eight matches in their first team plus a further seven on loan at Newport before being released. He then emigrated to Australia where he spent a decade with Brisbane City, retiring as a player in the same year as Peter Reid.
http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/983/33/
Also, a video of him on YouTube. Sounds like he was one of those lost talents.
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That's a great spot, Tokyo...superb!
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Vowden,Lochhead,Turnbull, Woodward and two reserve regulars when i started watching Villa Jonny Gavan and Wilson Briggs
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Frank Pimblett had a wonderful debut, ran the show from midfield, then disappeared without a trace.
I remember that game. I thought he was going to be a star, like I did when I saw Steven Cooke and Joey Gudjohnssen for the first time at Villa Park..
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I remember saying to my mate that Stephen Warnock was, "the best left back I've seen for playing the Villa since Stan Staunton". Since then, he doesn't appear to be a footballers anymore.
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I remember saying to my mate that Stephen Warnock was, "the best left back I've seen for playing the Villa since Stan Staunton". Since then, he doesn't appear to be a footballers anymore.
Around the time of the Wayne Bridge business when he dropped out of the England squad I was telling anyone who'd listen that Warnock "wouldn't let England down". Now I'm not suggesting I have the power of the hex over people but his form went down the toliet fairly rapidly from then on. And then this season he's disappeared off the face of the earth having shagged Houllier's missus/ran over his dog/looked at him funny, whatever it is he did.
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Brian Tiler was the first Villa scapegoat that I can remember, around 1969, and more recently, Gavin McCann.
While possessing limited ability, both players always gave their all for the team.
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I remember saying to my mate that Stephen Warnock was, "the best left back I've seen for playing the Villa since Stan Staunton". Since then, he doesn't appear to be a footballers anymore.
Around the time of the Wayne Bridge business when he dropped out of the England squad I was telling anyone who'd listen that Warnock "wouldn't let England down". Now I'm not suggesting I have the power of the hex over people but his form went down the toliet fairly rapidly from then on. And then this season he's disappeared off the face of the earth having shagged Houllier's missus/ran over his dog/looked at him funny, whatever it is he did.
I actually nearly forgot that the sorry sod was preparing to take part in the world cup this time last year.