The best performance by an opposition player

• #30 Reply
  Posted by OldUser on 25 Mar, 2009 23:04
• And Woodencock got 4 didn't he, the bastard?
• #31 Reply
  Posted by davevillan on 25 Mar, 2009 23:21
• I thought it was 5 Ian.
  Anyone who thought Sunday was bad should have seen that game, now that was bad.
  Putting a positive slant on things, after that Arsenal game, our next league game was away to Man Utd, which we won 2-1. Maybe an omen for April 5th?
• #32 Reply
  Posted by Pete3206 on 26 Mar, 2009 00:12
• Boniek for Juventus in 1983.
  Francis hat trick for QPR
  Ian Rush whenever we played Liverpool
• #33 Reply
  Posted by Tom Stewart on 26 Mar, 2009 00:42
• Quote from: "lovejoy"

  Quote from: "Tom Stewart"

  Oh, and I lost count of the number of times that Robbie Savage completely bossed our supposedly superior midfields over the years.

  
  
  It was once.

  
  
  Nope!
  
  I'm afraid it was at least 2-and-a-half times for Small Heath, and every time he played for Leicester at VP.
  
  Christ, he'd never even been on the losing side at Villa Park until we beat Blackburn in September 2005!
• #34 Reply
  Posted by The Man With A Stick on 26 Mar, 2009 07:13
• Robbie bastard Fowler.  A pain in the arse for so many years.
• #35 Reply
  Posted by LeeB on 26 Mar, 2009 08:03
• Ian Wright on Easter Monday '95, hat-trick in a 4-0 defeat at home.
  
  I seem to remember him running through the whole team for his last one.
  
  And that bastard Francis.
• #36 Reply
  Posted by PaulTheVillan on 26 Mar, 2009 08:25
• Quote from: "Deano's Mullet"

  Mark Draper pissed all over us in the 4-4 with Leicester City.

  
  
  I remember that, he never quite played like that for us.
  
  Steve McManaman always used to play well against us at Anfield.
  
  I remember that Ian Wright Hat-Trick aswell. I remember him running upto the half way line after he scored one and just collapsed.
• #37 Reply
  Posted by ATV on 26 Mar, 2009 08:26
• Quote from: "Deano's Mullet"

  Mark Draper pissed all over us in the 4-4 with Leicester City.

  One of the only good games he had at VP :-
• #38 Reply
  Posted by The Man With A Stick on 26 Mar, 2009 11:43
• Draper wasn't that bad for us.  He started off well enough but after a year or two he started modelling his game on Ray Wilkins and it all went downhill from there.
  
  Can't even remember him leaving us, his career just sort of petered out.
• #39 Reply
  Posted by Deano's Mullet on 26 Mar, 2009 11:49
• Quote from: "The Man With A Stick"

  Draper wasn't that bad for us.  He started off well enough but after a year or two he started modelling his game on Ray Wilkins and it all went downhill from there.
  
  Can't even remember him leaving us, his career just sort of petered out.

  
  
  His first season was terrific and the talk of the town. only thing it lacked was a few more goals - i think he got 5 the first season then went a whole year without one. Once Gregory came in that was pretty much the end of Draper as a regular starter. Bit part player for the rest of that season.
• #40 Reply
  Posted by sali,salifou on 26 Mar, 2009 11:54
• He always looked in a midfield 3 with Townsend and Taylor.
• #41 Reply
  Posted by sali,salifou on 26 Mar, 2009 11:55
• Quote from: "sali,salifou"

  He always looked in a midfield 3 with Townsend and Taylor.

  
  
  looked good that should be
• #42 Reply
  Posted by Deano's Mullet on 26 Mar, 2009 11:57
• Quote from: "sali,salifou"

  He always looked in a midfield 3 with Townsend and Taylor.

  
  
  or in a 2 with Townsend, Super Tom playing just ahead of them.
• #43 Reply
  Posted by Nechells Villan on 26 Mar, 2009 12:38
• Agreed the David White 4 goal display for Man City was devastating but there again Villa were poor that night - April 1991 wasn't it?
  
  Another performance not mentioned yet was Regi Blinker for Sheffield Wednesday in the mid 90s - I think the score was 2 - 2 and he scored both for them and looked like a world beater!!
• #44 Reply
  Posted by 5ft811st2 Durham on 26 Mar, 2009 12:44
• Ted Drake without a doubt.