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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: supertom on November 16, 2015, 09:42:22 PM
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http://7500toholte.sbnation.com/2015/11/16/9739608/aston-villa-emile-heskey (http://7500toholte.sbnation.com/2015/11/16/9739608/aston-villa-emile-heskey)
Seems one of us is a big Heskey fan.
I also have to sheepishly admit that I've always had a softspot for Big Emile, for a few of the same reasons as the gent who wrote this article. I freely admit he was a waste of money and a bit pants, but I always found the tumbling bear quite a likeable player. I always wanted and willed him to have a good game, even after often groaning about his inclusion in a starting lineup.
What say you all of Mr Heskey?
It was also quite a shock in those once in a blue moon moments that he'd suddenly do something genuinely good. His debut goal. His header against Wolves. Although he seemed to be here too long, and play too much (though to be contradictory his continual injury record was just as frustrating as his actual playing), as things stand I do actually feel more affinity for the big man than Gabby who I feel has let things slide a lot. Heskey was always limited and had age against him when he joined. Gabby's slip from average (but great on a given day) to simply mediocre has been less forgivable IMO.
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He was shite. And we paid him a fortune. If we'd signed a proper forward we'd have finished top four. Heskey is a living embodiment of that cretin O'Neill's refusal to look past overpaid Brits in the transfer market.
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Utterly fucking shit, and I rue the day the hopeless oaf ever pulled on a Villa shirt. Shite.
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He was shite. And we paid him a fortune. If we'd signed a proper forward we'd have finished top four. Heskey is a living embodiment of that cretin O'Neill's refusal to look past overpaid Brits in the transfer market.
and that as well.
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A big bag of shit.
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He was shite. And we paid him a fortune. If we'd signed a proper forward we'd have finished top four. Heskey is a living embodiment of that cretin O'Neill's refusal to look past overpaid Brits in the transfer market.
This
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I date the start of Villa's
decline plummet in ambition and fortunes to the day of his arrival.
Utterly shite in almost every aspect of his game, apart from his near legendary hold-up play, which mostly involved him turning his arse to goal and falling over.
The man himself always impressed me with his professionalism and seems a genuinely decent bloke, however.
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I date the start of Villa's decline plummet in ambition and fortunes to the day of his arrival.
Utterly shite in almost every aspect of his game, apart from his near legendary hold-up play, which mostly involved him turning his arse to goal and falling over.
The man himself always impressed me with his professionalism and seems a genuinely decent bloke, however.
It does not augur well when your hold-up player is dis-affectionately known as "Bambi".
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I say 7500 are Yank twats who are paid to follow Villa and have never set foot in the UK.
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Kevin Phillips is a cult hero to me. Emile Heskey was crap.
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Risso and cdweebullyfan have nailed it.
We'd have been better off signing this Ivanhoe (http://www.gypsymvp.com/horses/ivanhoe/ivanhoe.htm)
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cult hero my arse
the tumbling bear was fucking hopeless
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Garbage player. Horrific waste of money, sums up a lot of shit O'Neill signed.
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Strike rate of one in ten. For a centre forward that's shocking.
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Defensive forward. Bobbins.
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Was good for Leicester about 300 years ago.
Embarrassed when he signed for us.
Seeing him play confirmed why.
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Utter shit. The turning point for me was the Vidic decision, not the signing of Heskey.
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Crapity crap with crap on the top
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He really wasn't very good.
Cult hero? No.
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Emile will always be a hero to me.
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Playing 4-3-3 playing well gabby Milner and Ashley playing out there skin. So what do you do ? Go out a buy a big lummox of a centre forward and play 4-4-2. anyone else would of bought a mobile goal scorer and kept it 4-3-3.
But not if your mon one signing that totally fucked us up
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A bad signing at the wrong time. Only Cascarino's signing was more ill-judged.
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Strike rate of one in ten. For a centre forward that's shocking.
1 in 10? For who?
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Strike rate of one in ten. For a centre forward that's shocking.
1 in 10? For who?
It’s not far off.
For us: 110 appearances (71 starts, 39 as sub) 14 goals. That's league & cup.
The most astonishing stat is that he completed 90 minutes on 30 occasions.
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A cult hero for me would be a player whose effort and endeavour resulted in performances that were greater than the sum of their parts, someone like Eamonn Deacy or Ian Ormondroyd or Ian Taylor. Heskey was basically the opposite of this.
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We could start a whole "lovely bloke but shit at his job" thread - McLeish and Ivanhoe for starters - the fact he was widely called "the tumbling bear" still makes me laugh and then weep to this day...
Best moment was the semi-final against Blackburn when they took the piss out of him when he cam on; he scored and then we took the piss (I know some will disagree but it says it all really)
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Remember this old chestnut
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2184170-radamel-falcao-was-offered-to-aston-villa-for-5m-but-boss-signed-emile-heskey
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I'd have Marlon Harewood over Emule, any day of the week.
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So just what was it that all those England Managers saw in him?
(If that question in any way supports MON I apologise unreservedly)
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So just what was it that all those England Managers saw in him?
(If that question in any way supports MON I apologise unreservedly)
He made every fellow striker he played with look fantastic in comparison.
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There was a thread on here a few years back with Christmas carols. Every so often this pops into my head and makes me laugh out loud:
"Massive Heskey, massive Heskey
On the Chester Road.
Got to keep on plodding onward
Like a giant toad".
I'm grinning like an idiot, just typing it out!