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Author Topic: Best header of a ball you have seen while a Villa player  (Read 15533 times)

Offline littlevillain

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Re: Best header of a ball you have seen while a Villa player
« Reply #45 on: February 16, 2012, 09:14:13 PM »
gray and allan evans who could play up front aswell and did on a few occasions

Offline the-farmer

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Re: Best header of a ball you have seen while a Villa player
« Reply #46 on: March 11, 2012, 08:05:05 PM »
I'm too young to have seen Hateley & Lochead but old enough to have seen Gray & Withe
what level (division) were the first 2 playing in, as we finished 4th in the league with Gray & won it with Withe

Gray was the best & bravest i've seen, diving headers were a speciality

I reckon Psyco Evans defending headers were poor, he often got underneath the ball, heading it upwards instead of forwards

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Re: Best header of a ball you have seen while a Villa player
« Reply #47 on: March 11, 2012, 08:11:38 PM »
Hateley was when we were on our way down to division two, Lochhead when we were on our way back up to it.

Offline ClarrieBlue

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Re: Best header of a ball you have seen while a Villa player
« Reply #48 on: March 11, 2012, 08:32:06 PM »
Have to agree with most that Andy Gray was the bravest header of a ball. Most players wouldn't put their foot where he would put his head. Tony Hateley was our regular centre forward when I started supporting Villa and I've just checked that he scored 68 goals - mostly headers - in 127 appearances. That works out to near enough 23 goals a season when we were constantly in or around the relegation places. I wouldn't mind a bit of that today.

 


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