Allan Evans - Best and Worst

[The Left Side]

There were some lovely tackles flying in there, usually on liverpool players.

[TheTimVilla]

I was match mascot when he was captain and he was a top fella. In the warmup, somebody kicked the ball to him and he headed it about 40 yards to Nigel Spink!

[damon loves JT]

His wife runs a women's refuge. For some reason that makes me very proud.

[Ian.]

Always a favourite of mine, I even wore the wrist bands all the way through my Dawlish General's Youth team days as skipper for my local team.

[The Left Side]

Always a favourite of mine, I even wore the wrist bands all the way through my Dawlish General's Youth team days as skipper for my local team.

Good man

[hawkeye]

Love reading the comments on here about a true Villa Great, uncompromising, hard, good in the air could tackle and a menace in the other penalty box. Top Man

[darren woolley]

I have met Allan Evans at a Charity Cricket Match in Perry Barr top man and a legend.

[Brend'Watkins]

A true Gent is Evans.  When I think of him my first image is of seeing him driving along the Aston Hall Road in his company car - an Austin MG Maestro... with Ellis in the passenger seat.

[Chico Hamilton III]

company car - an Austin MG Maestro

Didn't Ken McNaught hand his company car back because he couldnlt fit his dogs in the boot?

[CT]

He came down to a couple of "socials" in Cheltenham, had time for everyone and was just an ordinary down-to-earth bloke.

Great memories of him.

[Richie]

I vividly remember the night we won the Super Cup against the dirtiest team I have ever seen. That Barcelona side were lucky to end up with 9 men on the pitch.

We ended up with 10 men as Big Al eventually took the laws into his own hands as the Ref had completely lost the plot.

He was then unfortunately suspended and badly missed when Juventus beat us.

A true Villa Man through the ultimate highs and ultimate lows who always gave 100%. There was no chance he was going to desert the sinking ship in 86/87 - shame on you Steve Hodge. 

[Mac]

company car - an Austin MG Maestro

Didn't Ken McNaught hand his company car back because he couldnlt fit his dogs in the boot?

Now they'd give it to their mates to run around in, uninsured.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I vividly remember the night we won the Super Cup against the dirtiest team I have ever seen. That Barcelona side were lucky to end up with 9 men on the pitch.

We ended up with 10 men as Big Al eventually took the laws into his own hands as the Ref had completely lost the plot.

He was then unfortunately suspended and badly missed when Juventus beat us.

A true Villa Man through the ultimate highs and ultimate lows who always gave 100%. There was no chance he was going to desert the sinking ship in 86/87..

We loved him and he loved us. When Ron Saunders spoke about 110% effort, he could so easily have been talking about Allan Evans. The man would run through walls for the Villa. I struggle to think of a player that wore the shirt with more pride. He wasn't without a fair bit of talent too. I'm sure he'd be embarrassed at being referred to as 'a legend' but you won't find a Villa fan that saw him play and has a bad word to say about him.

Damon mentioned how proud it made him feel about Evan's wife running a refuge. I'll second that and just add how well his kids have done too. He must be a very proud man and rightly so for what he achieved both on and off the pitch.

[freakypete]

Ajjan Evans...... a true legend.    great bloke too......

[adrenachrome]

He formed the spine of that great team along with Denis Mortimer and Peter Withe.

By the way, can you imagine what they would have made of the likes of Ashley Young's petulant shenanigans?