Did he really play for us?

[curiousorange]

Franz Carr and Carl Tiler.

Franz Carr scored for Forest in one of my early Villa home games. It finished 1-1.

The first ever Villa game I went too.  Not so long back, I found a little notepad in which I'd written a match report of that game.  The eight year old me had actually used the pun "Carr drove his way through the Villa defence to equalise".[/quote]

Probably not the thing to admit but I thought the kit Forest wore that day rocked, with Shipstones Fine Beers as the sponsor. Probably 'cos it was red, and I don't think I'd ever seen a coloured sponsor before. Obviously I was blind to the Villa away kits of the period!

Nice pun btw. If I was eight and I'd written that I'd be chuffed. Actually, I'd be chuffed to write it now.

[TaxDodger]

Drobny

Adam Rachel (Got to be the ugliest Villa player too)

David Hughes - fantastic debut (v Liverpool?) and then what happened?

I remember him managing Barry Town to relegation from the Welsh Premier League season during the 2003/4 season.

Not quite true (and I acknowledge my anorakness for knowing this!).
Hughes was manager for a short spell in 2003/4 during the season when it all went tits up for Barry, the club went into administration and all the players were ousted, Barry completed the season with a team mainly made up from players from a local works team. It was Colin Addison who was in charge when they were relegated though.
Hughes did then take charge the following season when they were again relegated.

See, I would have looked this up before posting to check I was right, but I didn't expect anyone on here to have any knowledge of mid 00s Welsh football so I thought I'd be safe! I have clearly underestimated the Heroes and Villains population.

[VillaZogmariner]

No, just Dave Cooper!

[Holte L2]

Fabio Ferrerasi
Neil Cutler
Paul Chrichton
Vacalav Drobny

[Axl Rose]

Gilles de Bilde

didnt he have a goal disallowed against man utd on boxing day 2000? and those lot scored in the last minute?


also other names that deserve a mention

Ghariab? cant remember the correct spelling. An israeli defender
lamptey
kiraly
leonhardsen
allback....though he scored a few crucial goals to keep us up
simon grayson

[MadJohnnyC]

Matthieu Berson
Eric Djemba Djemba
David Unsworth
Joey Gudjohnssen
Richard Walker

[peter w]

Dean Spink
Scott Murray

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

John Rowan.

We played away to Watford early in the 1969/70 season and lost 3-0. The team performance was quite possibly even more abject than O`Learys attempt to have a team play a game of football at Doncaster Rovers.

It was John Rowans debut for Villa, it was the only 1st team game he played. The following season he re-surfaced at......Watford. Dont think he played many games for them either.

[peter w]

The way he swans around you could add Platt into this, I suppose.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Harry Gregory. I think I saw him play.

Harry Gregory was a real jovial cockney type that we bought from Charlton about 69/70.
Me and my mate were about 12 at the time,  saw him in the  Trinity stand at a reserve game and he was really larking about, you could hear his laughter echoing through the old stand with just a few hundred people in it.
My mate said he was laughing his head off so much it would come off and roll down the steps. After that we couldnt take him seriously, we still used to laugh about our daft teenage joke years later.

[asgpaul]

David Unsworth....................tit!!!!     Didn't he feature in one pre-season game before being transferred to Everton after only joining us a few days/week earlier from West Ham?  I loved the way John Gregory took the piss and said Unsworth didn't realise were Villa Park was and joined by mistake or something along those lines.

[*shellac*]

I think John Gregory also claimed that David "henpecked" Unsworth had to be home from training in time for his tea & that he thought Birmingham was "somewhere near Bolton".

[jay71]

David Hunt
Steve Sims
Neal Cooper
Nigel Callaghan

[RogerS]

Steve Hodge.

Yes, I know he did, I just still can't believe it (bangs head against wall).

[Damo70]

Mark Burke and Martin Carruthers spring to mind. My claim to fame is seeing Ivo Stas score for Villa in a pre-season friendly at Witney in 1991.