I thought that SGT was convinced Angel was leaving in the summer of 2002 which is why he signed Marcus Allbäck.
It wasn't just his son who was ill, it was his wife. And if Taylor did say that, it was utterly pathetic of him. What was his excuse for failing to get much out of every other player in the squad as well then?
www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/04/steve-sidwell-interview-retirement-premier-league-brightonInteresting article on Steve Sidwell.
I don't think we bought Crouch too early, the whole idea is to buy a player before they are the finished article. Mr Fickle just didn't have a clue how to use him. Pretty sure we were the only club not to make a profit on him, although you could technically add Stoke as they won't make a profit on him. After selling him for a loss he scored 12 in 27 in the league for Saints, while our 4 strikers combined managed 13 for us, and between them those 4 made over 100 league appearances for us that season. Genius from the Pug nosed twat.
Is he still tee total? Be interesting to see how far that stretches his good years. Fair play to him, a testament to who he is that I still wish him well even though he plays for them.
Why failing at Aston Villa is Peter Crouch's biggest regretPeter Crouch playing for Aston Villa in May 2004.Peter Crouch has revealed one of the biggest regrets of his career... not making it at Aston Villa.The veteran Stoke striker joined Villa from Portsmouth for £5m in March 2002, signed by Graham Taylor.And in the second episode of his new BBC podcast, Crouch explains why he still has regrets over failing at Villa Park.He said: "I wasn’t ready for the Premier League when I went to Villa, so I ended up moving to Southampton. I think they just wanted shot of me, basically. David O’Leary didn’t fancy me as a player."That’s my one regret, I think. Had I stayed around at Villa a bit longer I think they would have seen the best of me, but I don’t think they ever did."Graham Taylor believed in me so much. I remember I was playing for Liverpool and I came back to Villa Park. I was also playing for England then, and Graham was there working for the radio."He ran down after the game and gave me a massive hug, and was like, ‘I knew you’d do it. I believed in you, I knew you’d be the player you are now’."And it was just a shame I didn’t do it for him at Villa because he bought me and he saw that when not many other people did. It was nice to be able to get there, to prove him right, but I wish I’d done it for him. "