Thomas Hitzlsperger on The Fantasy Football Club

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

Tomorrow at 6.30pm and 10pm on Sky Sports 1.

[tomd2103]

Be interesting to see if any Villa players make his fantasy XI.  Can't really think of too many contenders from that era. 

[not3bad]

Laursen?  Bouma?

[tomd2103]

Laursen?  Bouma?

Hadn't he gone by then?

[not3bad]

Possibly by the time Bouma came in but his time at Villa overlapped with Laursen. Then again Laursen was in and out of the side in his first year.

[dave shelley]

I'm watching this as I type.  He's included Mellberg in his team and, he's revealed something I never knew and that is, Mellberg sometimes missed training until Fridays because he had trouble with his Achilles and calves.  Hitz said he didn't think he'd last long because of it and was amazed that he has only just retired.

He's just added Gareth Barry to his team, so two Villa players then.

[supertom]

I'm watching this as I type.  He's included Mellberg in his team and, he's revealed something I never knew and that is, Mellberg sometimes missed training until Fridays because he had trouble with his Achilles and calves.  Hitz said he didn't think he'd last long because of it and was amazed that he has only just retired.

He's just added Gareth Barry to his team, so two Villa players then.

Olof was made of stern stuff.
When I watched Joe Cole sat on the ground looking hopefully at the bench on 7 mins, only to get up and then run off the pitch as soon as his number came up I just had to shake my head. I always felt Heskey went off too easily. Then he'd miss 2-3 games to recover. I don't often agree with Steve Claridge but I remember him commentating once and he said something along the lines of "Everything seems to hurt with Emile. He always seems to look in pain. For such a big guy he seems to spend a lot of time on the ground, hurt. He needs to be a bit tougher."

Olof didn't miss too many games in fairness to him, which if he was carrying knocks is impressive. He was a double hard bastard though. Sometimes I wonder with Polystyrene Ron if he couldn't just fucking suck it up sometimes.