I'd say the difference with McGrath, and the reason he's more often than not chosen as the greatest, is he was arguably the very best in the world in his position during large parts of his time with us. Although I wouldn't have swapped them for anyone, you can't really say the same about Little, Sid and Yorke. One thing Sid shares with McGrath is they both improved the players around them just through their brilliant awareness.
Sid is the one player who gets better the longer he's been retired. He's gone from good, to great, to our best-ever over the past twenty years. History has definitely been kinder to him than some of his contemporaries.
So...was Sid that good then, or not?
Graham Taylor took a lot of stick for bringing Cowans into the England team, was it for Gazza or Platt at one time in the early 90s? Perhaps Cowans reputation outside of Villa suffered for things like that.
Was there any Serie A interest in God when he was here? I assume even at his age there must've been some bids we rejected. According to his wiki he was going to sign for Napoli but they pulled out before his medical and then we signed him and the rest is history. I'd imagine interest would've been rekindled after he kept Baggio in his pocket in 1994.Interesting to me if we never had any bids for arguably our greatest post war player, guess us signing him when he was already 30 played a part if there wasn't.
The thing that i never get about the 89-90 team is that didn’t really have a tough midfielder of any kind. In lots of ways it was 5-2-3 with the 2 being platt and cowans. How did it work?