Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Malandro on February 04, 2019, 03:24:09 PM
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Great guy and interesting interview.
He reveals what happened with Savage too.
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Just watched it and was going to post but you beat me to it Mal. His comments on Balaban towards the end were quite revealing. Nice bloke our Dion and has deep affection for the Villa.
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Just watched it and was going to post but you beat me to it Mal. His comments on Balaban towards the end were quite revealing. Nice bloke our Dion and has deep affection for the Villa.
I was waiting for him to laugh at the Bosco bit, he wasn’t amused!
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Smashing. Loved the Balaban and Crouch bits.
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Fabulous
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Cheers. Enjoyed that a lot.
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Superb watch. I saw it was on for 20 minutes and thought I would lose interest fairly quickly but I was transfixed by it and wish it was on longer.
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Top Bloke and yes it was amazing we never won anything with that team
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Do you think he shows much love for us as a pundit?
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Love big Dion, absolutely smashing bloke. Great interview.
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Lovely man.
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Brings back some memories, doesn't it? Good old Dion.
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Top man, brilliant interview.
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Love Dion, a Leicester lad like myself, absolutely loves us, a good family friend who gave my dad and I free tickets for his debut. One of my favourite Villa games and one of my favourite Villa players.
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What a superb interview. That whole period was weird for me because I'd just moved to the US at the time and the internet was very much in its infancy. Getting results was hard let alone match reports etc. It was such an exciting team as well and should have achieved so much more than it did. I knew he loved the club, I guess I didn't know how much. That was great.
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Top man. Didn’t realise he was here for as long as 5 seasons or forgot he played at centre half at the end. Great interview
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Well what a breath of fresh air that interview was. Really down to earth, shows he loves the villa and great to hear all that reminiscing .
Really enjoyed, has there been others in that series of ex player interviews ?
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Nice one Dion.
It's easy to forget how good some of our players were in that era. We really should have won something.
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I loved his take on Benito Carbone too.
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I think he needed to come off the fence about Balaban...
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What a great bloke.
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He was a good player and he also comes across as a very decent person. I reckon you could have a very enjoyable evening chewing the fat with him and there wouldn't be any airs and graces from him at all.
I loved his honesty re Balaban, but was intrigued that he didn't really want to be here. I thought at the time the Premier league was the holy grail for foreign players. Probably the biggest waste of money in our history.
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Love Dion, a Leicester lad like myself, absolutely loves us, a good family friend who gave my dad and I free tickets for his debut. One of my favourite Villa games and one of my favourite Villa players.
I had a couple of drinks with him once in my local bar when I lived in Tenerife. The Coventry team were out there on a mid season break as they had been knocked out of the FA Cup. A mate of mine called Stevo was crashing at my apartment for a while until he found a place of his own and he was a Leicester lad. Stevo knew Dion's Dad who apparently was a taxi driver in Leicester so he was chatting to Dublin about all the times his Dad had driven him home from a certain nightclub. 'Crystals' rings a bell, but it was a long time ago so I might be wrong.
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I loved Dion as a player and as a person .Not at all surprised to see him doing well on TV and in the media.
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Dion is a man of many talents.
http://www.thedube.com/
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i love Dion Dublin.
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Love Dion, a Leicester lad like myself, absolutely loves us, a good family friend who gave my dad and I free tickets for his debut. One of my favourite Villa games and one of my favourite Villa players.
I had a couple of drinks with him once in my local bar when I lived in Tenerife. The Coventry team were out there on a mid season break as they had been knocked out of the FA Cup. A mate of mine called Stevo was crashing at my apartment for a while until he found a place of his own and he was a Leicester lad. Stevo knew Dion's Dad who apparently was a taxi driver in Leicester so he was chatting to Dublin about all the times his Dad had driven him home from a certain nightclub. 'Crystals' rings a bell, but it was a long time ago so I might be wrong.
Haha. Krystals. I remember it well, though I think I only went once when I was about 13 and got an almighty bollocking from my mum. 'You're underage/have you been smoking?/it's Tuesday night' etc etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if Stevo and my dad in fact knew each other. It isn't the biggest of places, Leicester.
I hope you and the family are well, mate.
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Remember when he first came and seemed to score 2 or 3 goals in his first 4-5 games for us, surprised he didn't actually get to 20 league goals in 98/99. "Dion Dublin in the air" being sung every game by the Holte.
Lost his effectiveness after the bad neck injury although ironically he did have a good season in 2002/03, before the Savage headbutt at least.
Certainly one of those ex Villa players I struggle to say a bad word about.
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Nice one Dion.
It's easy to forget how good some of our players were in that era. We really should have won something.
All comes down to the cup final in 2000. That was our moment, we simply froze and after all the good players wanted to leave and we slipped from an established top 6 club to treading water for many years after.
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Dion was great, not Brian Little or Andy Gray but someone you knew would put a shift in and score his fair share. Not sure about the TV stuff though....
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Nice one Dion.
It's easy to forget how good some of our players were in that era. We really should have won something.
All comes down to the cup final in 2000. That was our moment, we simply froze and after all the good players wanted to leave and we slipped from an established top 6 club to treading water for many years after.
Yep, the last Final at the old Stadium and we did not turn up.
Depressing.
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When discussing the Santa crash Arsenal game that we can from 2-0 down at half time to win 3-2 he says him and David James nearly came to blows, James wasnt even at the club then we had Bosnich still.
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Nice one Dion.
It's easy to forget how good some of our players were in that era. We really should have won something.
All comes down to the cup final in 2000. That was our moment, we simply froze and after all the good players wanted to leave and we slipped from an established top 6 club to treading water for many years after.
Hadn't Southgate been tapped up by Chelsea before the final?
Was it that year he said he wanted to leave when on England duty, Ultimately Chelsea let him down and he ended up at Boro?
I couldn't have hated Doug more than during that period when players were leaving and citing lack of ambition.
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Dion is a man of many talents.
http://www.thedube.com/
I vaguely remember Dion inventing a new percussion instrument but it slipped from my memory - what a great video and cool instrument. Great to see Dion with his brothers (who all sport the same hair do) all doing their thing.
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I always thought Bosko was a bad egg
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Always thought that ‘lack of ambition’ was player code for ‘other teams are paying more than you’. It was true.
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Nice one Dion.
It's easy to forget how good some of our players were in that era. We really should have won something.
All comes down to the cup final in 2000. That was our moment, we simply froze and after all the good players wanted to leave and we slipped from an established top 6 club to treading water for many years after.
Hadn't Southgate been tapped up by Chelsea before the final?
Was it that year he said he wanted to leave when on England duty, Ultimately Chelsea let him down and he ended up at Boro?
I couldn't have hated Doug more than during that period when players were leaving and citing lack of ambition.
From memory Merson, James and Southgate all put in transfer requests after that game. Not sure about Ugo as that season his relationship with JG had broken down already (the comments about him not playing at Coventry due to injury) so think he'd have left regardless.
Reality was our spine of good England players all left within 18 months of that game.
We also didn't sign Carbone full time. He may have been a greedy little bugger but that also sent out the wrong signals.
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When discussing the Santa crash Arsenal game that we can from 2-0 down at half time to win 3-2 he says him and David James nearly came to blows, James wasnt even at the club then we had Bosnich still.
Yes, I copped that straight away too - funny how memory plays tricks on you, Dion tells the tale as if it was definitely James. Without looking-up the team I think Michael Oakes was in goal, as a member of Gregory's fabled All-British XI.
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I loved that interview. Man, what we should have achieved with that squad. Big Dion, great bloke.
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A brilliant interview always liked Dion Dublin top bloke.
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Do you think he shows much love for us as a pundit?
Yes, I remember him on the Wembley pitch with Keown after the Liverpool FA cup semi victory and he was totally one of us !
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Do you think he shows much love for us as a pundit?
Yes, I remember him on the Wembley pitch with Keown after the Liverpool FA cup semi victory and he was totally one of us !
I've watched him on final score a few times and he's been wearing a claret jumper Jason Mohammed as remarked about it and he's said I'm wearing it for the Villa lads.