Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: Legion on July 05, 2021, 10:36:49 PM
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Hodge or Alpay for me.
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Probably Yorke. I've moved on to the stage where I can think of his goals for Villa with fondness again now. But at the time, he broke my heart. The fucking Fredo.
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Same as one half of the first hero question for me - Andy Gray when he joined Wolves. I did have an irrational dislike of Tommy Craig though. I didn't see the point of him despite him being a record signing and me only being 7 when he joined.
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Hodge. Never forget.
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Most recently Yorke, Delph and Young.
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Hodge was later for me.
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Hodge
Scumbag
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Unsworth. Especially when the fecker scored at VP and ran the length of the pitch celebrating.
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Not a problem for me. The Holte had given him a shitload of abuse, he scored than enjoyed the celebrations. Why shouldn't he?
Anyway, we beat the f*ckers 2-1, so who cares?
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Pretty much the whole squad in 2015-16, especially bad Santa.
A rubbish man
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I remember Nigel Callaghan being widely derided but I was too young to really understand the levels of vitriol he attracted. For me it was Collymore.
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Andy Gray for joining Wolves.
Mark Walters playing for Liverpool and blowing kisses in front of the Holte End when he scored for Liverpool.
Didn’t care for Frank McAvennie when he played for us on loan.
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Really don't like Platt now, although too young to really remember his time at Villa
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As above, a number of the 2016 squad. The Brummie trio, guzan, smiley bacuna, bennett. Add DOL and TSM2 to that list as well.
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Had forgotten about Bennett, who seems to dispise us now. Maybe he will get his dream move to Blose one day.
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I can't even remember his first name, the useless gobshite. Pretty sure it isn't Alan or Gordon.
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Hodge.
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Really don't like Platt now, although too young to really remember his time at Villa
He was a superb player who gave us excellent service whilst he was with us and left on decent terms for a decent fee.
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Doesn't stop him being a bit of a dick.
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First player I remember being really gutted about leaving Villa was Walters, but no way would I class him as a villain. Dwight Yorke probably ticked that box for me, but I understand why he left. Still pretty classless though- from watching the Claret and Blue podcast. At the time I recall being more annoyed by Utd’s machinations to sign him. More recently the I’m going, no I’m staying, no I’m going pantomime of Delph left a bit of a bad taste, but wasn’t it spun as he signed a new contract to get us a bigger fee or something? Anyway, still think he’s a cock. Richards for running his contract down and not going elsewhere to get him off the wages. Again, understandable from the player’s perspective.
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I forgot Stephen Ireland and fat Ross McCormack.
Jeez there’s been a few hasn’t there?
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Doug Ellis
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Yorke
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Hopefully the extra selection criterion of being of good character as well as a decent player when we sign them, should minimise this risk in the future. That and being able to offer what they all profess to want: European football.
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Doug Ellis
O’Neill if we’re getting into non-player territory?
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Yeah it can only be Doug overall. Shite Dork among players, however.
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Andy Gray leaving Villa for Wolves.
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Chairman - Ellis though Lerner and Xia ran him close.
Manager - O’Neill, just raises my hackles.
Player - Agbonlahor, pissed his career up the wall. Great first 5 years the less said about the 2011 to 2018 period the better.
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The problem with moving threads like this to sub forums is I imagine very few people will now see or interact with it.
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Callaghan & Hodge // MoN & DoL
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Pretty much the whole squad in 2015-16, especially bad Santa.
A rubbish man
I'll go with that
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If we're talking managers, O'Leary is that one that really rankled me.
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Probably Yorke. I've moved on to the stage where I can think of his goals for Villa with fondness again now. But at the time, he broke my heart. The fucking Fredo.
This. Although i'm not sure what a Fredo is.
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Ellis
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The bastard who stole our FA cup.
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The bastard who stole our FA cup.
Graham Poll?
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Hodge
Staunton
and Spoon Face for deleting Aston Villa from his cv.
Why the former Darling of the Holte holds us all with such contempt is beyond me.
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Pissed off when Rioch left but Gray went from Hero to Zero when he left
I saw Dwight commenting on the Euros, he was going on about Grealish.
The main presenter said something about it must be the Villa connection and added, Southgate too.
Dwight said, once Villa always Villa, shit that's not how I remember it
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Not the first, but after the way he treated Jack last night Gareth Shitgate is up at the top of the list.
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O'Leary is a despicable individual.
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Andy Gray, when he left for Wolves.
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Yorke, it's the one that cut deepest.
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Andy Gray for me. I loved him from the moment he arrived in 1975 to the day he left in 1979. For those who never saw him play, he was a swashbuckling talisman of a player, similar to Jack in that respect. He didn't have Jack's skills but Gray was a fearless and lethal goalscorer. When he scored for Wolves against us at Molineux and he celebrated like he did I was thrown out of the ground by the police for running from the top of the stand to the bottom in uncontrolled anger. They must have thought I was going to invade the pitch (I wasn't, honest). I was absolutely gutted when he left (along with another hero John Gidman) but learned in time that it's true that no player is bigger than the club and can be replaced. And didn't we just - we won the League the season after and the European Cup the season after that. Up yours Andy.