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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Oscar Arce on September 02, 2019, 11:20:27 AM

Title: Mike Ferguson
Post by: Oscar Arce on September 02, 2019, 11:20:27 AM

Sadly Mike passed away last week aged 76.
I remember him as a clever midfielder, a great dribbler, signed from Blackburn by Tommy Cummings after a great display against us at Villa Park, used sparingly by Docherty, who sold him to QPR where he did well.
RIP Fergie.

Title: Re: Mike Ferguson
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on September 02, 2019, 02:36:57 PM

Remember him well.
In his early playing days he was at Accrington Stanley when they had to pack up.
I think the Doc grouped him together with the likes of Dick Edwards, Barrie Hole as dressing room troublemakers when the wheels came off at the start of season 1969/70.
RIP 

Title: Re: Mike Ferguson
Post by: Pat McMahon on September 02, 2019, 09:59:33 PM

I think he played in the first Villa win I ever saw, 1-0 v Middlesbrough in 1968-69. That was enough to make me like him.

Title: Re: Mike Ferguson
Post by: dcdavecollett on September 02, 2019, 10:16:14 PM

He was a very skilful player, though a bit overweight to my eyes. Wasn't he involved with Godfrey, Hole and Edwards in drinking before a game?

Title: Re: Mike Ferguson
Post by: Oscar Arce on September 19, 2019, 03:08:50 PM

Mike's funeral was the other day, with representations and messages from all of his former clubs, apart from Villa apparently.