...we might have won the championship under SGT had he stayed.
I've said before that McInally gets more praise than is due to him, especially when a genuine hero like David Platt seems to have become a "hate" figure because he doesn't wank over us on telly.But having said that McInally would have been a much better option than Olney - he could do everything that Olney could and run a bit as well. We might very well have won the league had we not flogged McInally.
Quote from: Tokyo Sexwhale on November 19, 2011, 11:23:25 AMI've said before that McInally gets more praise than is due to him, especially when a genuine hero like David Platt seems to have become a "hate" figure because he doesn't wank over us on telly.But having said that McInally would have been a much better option than Olney - he could do everything that Olney could and run a bit as well. We might very well have won the league had we not flogged McInally. We might also not have had the money to buy McGrath.
Pumpkinhead Platt is one of the three genuinely world class players I've seen play for the Villa and you can hardly blame him for leaving in 1991, anyone worth their salt (bar McGrath) was playing in Serie A at the time. Besides, BFR rebuilt the squad using the Platt money and that led to us having a reasonably successful decade by recent standards.It's just a shame that he seems to have airbrushed us from his history.
re: Platt. Can anyone shed some light on why he is not liked and the fact he does not like Villa? re: McInally...who else was at the (League Cup) Millwall game 1988/89, when AM did his own Maradona impression, running the length of the pitch (and scoring the goal of the season as voted on either ITV or BBC 1), knocking at least three of their guys over if i recall and then slotting home in the bottom corner?Taylor said in the press the next day with words to this effect "if a South American had scored that goal we would be talking about it for a very long time".I guess 2011 is a long time! and what a great Villa game that was. Platt was on target as well just for the record.
re: Platt. Can anyone shed some light on why he is not liked and the fact he does not like Villa?
I remember that- and I was disappointed that he was booed, If I'm honest (though he did get a round of applause from many too).His wanky behaviour predates ours though.Wasn't there that famous response when a Villa fan asked him if he missed the Villa?Platt (in Italy at the time) "No. I live in one."