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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Legion on December 21, 2011, 11:52:23 PM
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He bags the 20,000th PL goal and is donating the money to acorns. Magnificent gesture. Kudos. Moments like this reinforce my pride to be a Villa fan.
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In fairness, the prize was specified to be donated to charity.
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Was it? I did not realise.
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Well that makes my facebook post about it look a bit crap!
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Was it? I did not realise.
I don't think that any massive bank is going to be able to donate thousands of pounds to millionaire footballers in the current economic climate without any charitable intention involved and expect to stay in business.
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Was it? I did not realise.
It was and Marc chose Acorns, which may seem obvious but was,well, special. It gives more advertising to the cause.
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Was it? I did not realise.
I don't think that any massive bank is going to be able to donate thousands of pounds to millionaire footballers in the current economic climate without any charitable intention involved and expect to stay in business.
I really am quite ignorant, then.
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He was excellant tonight, that'll do me!
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Marc Albrighton and Aston Villa go down in Premier League history.
Love it.
(http://cdn.caughtoffside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/INFOG.jpg)
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good to see him back in form. 2 goals in 3 games.
He tucks in nicely for a winger when the ball is on the other side of the pitch. Got a good few goals doing it last season and again recently.
Just shows the effect of self belief and a dose of confidence. The likes of Ireland, Delph, Nzogbia are all good players too with plenty of ability but just need a break like Albrighton got to get them back in form.
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Yeah really impressed by Marc last night.
Some of his balls in were excellent. A shame there was no Bent or a Gabby on form to make the most of them.
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20,000 goals ? What is really impressive is that not a single one of those 20,000 were scored by Peter Withe, Billy Walker, Jimmy Greaves, George Best, Dixie Dean etc. etc.
Yes, proper football started in 1992.
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Watching Sky Sports News at the moment and have been for the last 45 minutes. They haven't mentioned the goal, or even our match, at all. Can you imagine how many times the goal would have been shown if it had been scored by one of the Manc teams, or any of their other darlings?
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Delighted for him, I still think there's a cracking player there waiting to show his potential.
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Unsworth - Villa legend.
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Delighted for him, I still think there's a cracking player there waiting to show his potential.
This.
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Just shows the effect of self belief and a dose of confidence. The likes of Ireland, Delph, Nzogbia are all good players too with plenty of ability but just need a break like Albrighton got to get them back in form.
Confidence is what is needed.
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He is a real confidence player. I fear for him if he has a couple of shit games
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He is a real confidence player. I fear for him if he has a couple of shit games
I guess that's where, dare I say it, a good manager comes in.
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It amused me how the Sky Sports presenter was smiling through gritted teeth that Marc and not one of the 'stars' scored the 20,000th goal.
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It amused me how the Sky Sports presenter was smiling through gritted teeth that Marc and not one of the 'stars' scored the 20,000th goal.
One for the "Reasons to be cheerful" thread!
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I also thought Marc had a good game let's just hope he continues to carry on scoring he seems to be back well done Super Marc on scoring the 20,000th prem goal.
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He bags the 20,000th PL goal and is donating the money to acorns. Magnificent gesture. Kudos. Moments like this reinforce my pride to be a Villa fan.
Indeed Lee. Although the money was designated for charity anyway, it's a great cause close to Villa's heart and he spoke well about it in interviews afterwards. A local lad and Villa fan as well, a torch-bearer along with Gabby for all of us who dreamed of doing what they do, and carrying on the fine tradition of Ian Taylor, Tony Daley, Gary Shaw and Harry Parkes, all great servants. Of course, the day before we had the MacGregor service at St. Mary's and, although things haven't been great lately, it does no harm at all to remind ourselves occasionally that we are the greatest football club that ever existed.
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Well said, Percy.
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Thing Marc is he looked great whe he first got into the team, but then went a bit poor. We see it a lot and these type of players usually end up a division or two down. However, the old phrase about form and class comes into play and he's shown he wasn't just a flash in the pan, but infact the real deal.
Villa star for years to come I feel!
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Watching Sky Sports News at the moment and have been for the last 45 minutes. They haven't mentioned the goal, or even our match, at all. Can you imagine how many times the goal would have been shown if it had been scored by one of the Manc teams, or any of their other darlings?
It was the same on R5 last night. They had this count down thing to the 20,000th goal and talked of little else until Marc scored it, then they spent a few minutes talking about how badly Mertesacker had defended for it and completely ignored the 20,000th goal thereafter!
Nice to hear Pat Murphy being at least a little bit complimentary about us for a change though!
Ah,well. UTV!
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Watching Sky Sports News at the moment and have been for the last 45 minutes. They haven't mentioned the goal, or even our match, at all. Can you imagine how many times the goal would have been shown if it had been scored by one of the Manc teams, or any of their other darlings?
It was the same on R5 last night. They had this count down thing to the 20,000th goal and talked of little else until Marc scored it, then they spent a few minutes talking about how badly Mertesacker had defended for it and completely ignored the 20,000th goal thereafter!
Nice to hear Pat Murphy being at least a little bit complimentary about us for a change though!
Ah,well. UTV!
What did he say?
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Watching Sky Sports News at the moment and have been for the last 45 minutes. They haven't mentioned the goal, or even our match, at all. Can you imagine how many times the goal would have been shown if it had been scored by one of the Manc teams, or any of their other darlings?
It was the same on R5 last night. They had this count down thing to the 20,000th goal and talked of little else until Marc scored it, then they spent a few minutes talking about how badly Mertesacker had defended for it and completely ignored the 20,000th goal thereafter!
Nice to hear Pat Murphy being at least a little bit complimentary about us for a change though!
Ah,well. UTV!
What did he say?
That at least we had a go!
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Marc Albrighton and Aston Villa go down in Premier League history.
Love it.
(http://cdn.caughtoffside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/INFOG.jpg)
Villa; league; and history all kind of dwell together in the same sentence repeatedly don't you find?
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It amused me how the Sky Sports presenter was smiling through gritted teeth that Marc and not one of the 'stars' scored the 20,000th goal.
And the way Linekar commented on it at the end of MOTD.
Tosser!
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Marc has come good because he has been given time to regain his form. While I am delighted for Marc it throws into sharp contrast the shabby way we have treated J II Makoun.
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Great to see Marc playing with real enthusiasm and skill, and didnt he take his goal well.
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I'm well chuffed that the goal was scored by a Villa player, local lad, donating to local charity etc, but would have been equally chuffed if it had been a Wigan/Swansea/QPR player etc. I think the Sky juggernaut's unstoppable, but it's enjoyable when not everything goes the way they want it to. Which also kind of pains me as it's a reflection of Villa's standing in the grand scheme of things nowadays.
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In reference to that bookmark 20,000 goals thingy (I won't quote it cos it'll take up half the page), how shitty is it that we've scored less goals in the Prem than Newcastle despite the fact that they've been in it for two seasons less than us?!
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Read today we also scored the 5 000 goal, Townsend at the Dell in 1996 I think.
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In reference to that bookmark 20,000 goals thingy (I won't quote it cos it'll take up half the page), how shitty is it that we've scored less goals in the Prem than Newcastle despite the fact that they've been in it for two seasons less than us?!
I suppose having Shearer, Cole, Ferdinand helped a lot, but yeah, pretty shit I agree.
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In reference to that bookmark 20,000 goals thingy (I won't quote it cos it'll take up half the page), how shitty is it that we've scored less goals in the Prem than Newcastle despite the fact that they've been in it for two seasons less than us?!
We always seemed to be a low scoring team until the MON era. Even his first season I don't think we scored a lot. I haven't looked up the stats (It's Christmas morning) but, speaking in really broad brush strokes, we did always seem to be a low scoring side that tended to have a strong defence.
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Talking of goals and football not existing before 1992, last week I heard Andy Gray and that moron Keys discussing the best goals since 1992.
At one point, Keys asked - and he was serious - whether "we should really only be including goals by the big clubs".
I almost crashed the car, I was so angry.
I hope his cold heart sinks and his spirit is crushed further every time he has to read out the latest deal on fence panels at Wickes, the ******.
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At one point, Keys asked - and he was serious - whether "we should really only be including goals by the big clubs".
I almost crashed the car, I was so angry.
Seriously though, on what grounds would you not consider anything from le Tissier's canon in preference to a penalty Chelsea allowed Shevchenko to take out of pity?
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I'm trying to think of a great goal his beloved Coventry scored, must admit that I'm struggling.
Oh well, at least he can look forward to playing the mighty Crawley next year, the werewolf prick.
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I'm trying to think of a great goal his beloved Coventry scored, must admit that I'm struggling.
There has only ever been one. Willie Carr and Ernie Hunt v Everton 1970.
The goal was allowed but was in fact illegal and has never been tried again. Cheat ! Cheat ! Cheat !
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Talking of goals and football not existing before 1992, last week I heard Andy Gray and that moron Keys discussing the best goals since 1992.
At one point, Keys asked - and he was serious - whether "we should really only be including goals by the big clubs".
I almost crashed the car, I was so angry.
I hope his cold heart sinks and his spirit is crushed further every time he has to read out the latest deal on fence panels at Wickes, the c***.
While I agree with everything you say, Paulie, you really should know better than to listen to that station in the first place.
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I'm trying to think of a great goal his beloved Coventry scored, must admit that I'm struggling.
There has only ever been one. Willie Carr and Ernie Hunt v Everton 1970.
The goal was allowed but was in fact illegal and has never been tried again. Cheat ! Cheat ! Cheat !
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That's just the best goal ever scored !
Mind you, we wouldn't want his hairiness talking about it.
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Why is that illegal?
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Why is that illegal?
The guy flicking it up is in effect touching the ball twice.
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Why is that illegal?
Picking the ball up with both feet. You have to kick it from a free 'kick'. :)
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Either or both of the above reasons.
The ball must be kicked and travel one full rotation before another player touches it. A second player must touch it before the kicker can touch it again.
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Either or both of the above reasons.
The ball must be kicked and travel one full rotation before another player touches it. A second player must touch it before the kicker can touch it again.
Is that still the rule now? I thought they had changed it a few years ago.
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Didn't Draper score a similar one for us in one of the cups? Where someone scooped it up for him and he volleyed it in?
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Didn't Draper score a similar one for us in one of the cups? Where someone scooped it up for him and he volleyed it in?
Yeah, it was during a thrashing of Peterborough, if I remember correctly. There was a ridiculously small amount of controversy after Townsend was adjudged to have touched the ball twice in the process of flicking it up.
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I spoke to draper the other day, we mentioned it and he was quite proud of that goal, top top fellah as well
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I spoke to draper the other day, we mentioned it and he was quite proud of that goal, top top fellah as well
He should be proud of it, it was a cracking goal and it was nice to see us be inventive in our set-piece taking.
How long ago was it again ???
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How long ago was it again ???
September 1995
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Either or both of the above reasons.
The ball must be kicked and travel one full rotation before another player touches it. A second player must touch it before the kicker can touch it again.
Is that still the rule now? I thought they had changed it a few years ago.
Right you are! Feel old now.
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How did Draper have the intelligence to do that free kick
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Didn't Draper score a similar one for us in one of the cups? Where someone scooped it up for him and he volleyed it in?
On a similar note, I'm sure I recall seeing Simon Stainrod score an absoltue cracker of a flying volley/overhead kick from a similar scooped freekick taken by Steve Hunt. Does anyone else recall this because I haven't really heard mention of it ever since? Maybe I dreamt it.
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Cheque given to Acorns. Acorns £20,000 (http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2575180,00.html)
Nine-year-old Villa fan, Bradley Addison from Sheldon, made a special visit to Bodymoor Heath training ground to accept a cheque for £20,000 from Marc Albrighton on behalf of Acorns Children's Hospice.
The wing wonder scored the 20,000th Premier League goal in the game against Arsenal, earning him a £20,000 charitable donation from Barclays.
He generously elected to hand the money over to the club's charity partner.
Bradley, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and uses the services of Acorns in Selly Oak in Birmingham, joined Acorns chief executive David Strudley to accept the cheque.
He was then given a behind-the-scenes tour where he got to meet Alex McLeish and watch the first team in a training session which included new short-term loan, Robbie Keane.
Commenting on the donation, Albrighton, said: "There are some great people at Acorns doing some special things.
"They deserve every plaudit they get and they definitely deserve the money."
Bradley's mom, Sarah Thompson, added: "Bradley has been visiting Acorns since he was three and it means a lot to us.
"He has short breaks over a weekend when he gets to participate in arts and crafts activities and use the multisensory room and hydrotherapy pool, which is his favourite.
"It's really good for Bradley as he gets one-on-one attention and is able to enjoy himself while we get a rest."
There is no charge to families for using Acorns services but it does cost £750 per day for each child's care.
The charity relies on donations for the majority of the £8m plus income needed to run its services every year.