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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #495 on: April 12, 2021, 04:12:27 PM »
I agree, for once, with LeeB.

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #496 on: April 12, 2021, 04:15:48 PM »
Good interview with Him here:


If anyone fancies the interviewer, I saw her first.

Lucy Kennedy.  Not sure but I think she's an ex partner of Shane Long, some footballer anyway.

God IS A VILLA FAN, my love for this guy...........................................

What a lovely, lovely man
So proud to have seen him in his pomp wearing our shirt

I disagree with him on one point though; I think he would have coped easily with today’s players. He had such a football brain he would have worked them all out

Great interview and thanks for posting it

Absolutely, modesty is a virtue, but God doing himself an injustice there. On ability alone he would of coped easily, whether there are managers like SGT and big Jack around now with the constant TV coverage and media frenzy around the game, to look after him, cover for him at times, is another question.
I was 15 when he signed for us and 22 by the time he left, and he is without doubt my ultimate footballing hero, I just wish I could remember all those times I saw him down Villa Park more clearly.

One of my favourite footballing quotes is after Ireland beat Italy 1-0 in World Cup 94 and the great Paulo Maldini, said something along the lines of ‘we just couldn’t get past that man mountain McGrath’.

Maldini was right, an absolute Mountain and was virtually every time he pulled on the claret and blue.

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #497 on: April 12, 2021, 06:48:07 PM »
I've said before Paul McGrath was the right player for Villa at exactly the right time and Villa was the right club for him. He needed us every bit as much as we needed him and we had managers and a physio who knew how to handle his issues and injuries.

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #498 on: April 14, 2021, 02:25:00 PM »
I've said before Paul McGrath was the right player for Villa at exactly the right time and Villa was the right club for him. He needed us every bit as much as we needed him and we had managers and a physio who knew how to handle his issues and injuries.

If that physio is Jim Walker he is an absolute fantastic bloke

I was over in Bilbao with my young lad he came and sat at an outside table with us at some bar and chatted for a good while
Really nice genuine fella
Don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say a bad word about him

(Still the best away ever btw)


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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #499 on: April 14, 2021, 02:48:04 PM »
Just seen the McGrath interview on YouTube. Talking Charlton, Ferguson and being a Villa fan. Still unreal how he is so shy and embarrassed by the adoration he receives.

I've just seen it too. He looks and sounds really well, which is obviously great to see. The interviewer was abysmal though.

They'd have to try really hard to get one worse. 

Great to see him looking so well.

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #500 on: August 18, 2021, 08:07:02 PM »
Have you seen what God posted on Twitter this week? It's stunning...


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https://twitter.com/Paulmcgrath5/status/1427619575026364426

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #501 on: August 18, 2021, 08:26:33 PM »
Have you seen what God posted on Twitter this week? It's stunning...
https://twitter.com/Paulmcgrath5/status/1427619575026364426

Saw it earlier and I've seen it before, not sure if God posted it previously on IG. Agree that it's stunning. Anyone know where it's from or if it's possible get it as a print?

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #502 on: August 18, 2021, 08:35:12 PM »
A print would be amazing - have a big space on our office wall this would fit perfectly. 

To think - I once thought Grealish could be mentioned in the same breath

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #503 on: August 18, 2021, 08:46:41 PM »
Looks like it's by this guy and presumably doctored. https://twitter.com/binzoboy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Still like it though.

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #504 on: August 18, 2021, 08:50:20 PM »
Awesome picture! Was lucky enough to see him play at VP in the flesh and, as the son of an Irish immigrant, it was twice as evocative for me to see him run out both in claret'n'blue and emarald green in the 90s!

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #505 on: August 18, 2021, 08:57:46 PM »
Awesome picture! Was lucky enough to see him play at VP in the flesh and, as the son of an Irish immigrant, it was twice as evocative for me to see him run out both in claret'n'blue and emarald green in the 90s!
I can remember my dad taking me to see villa when I was a kid - him and Shane real were something else. His book is the best sports auto biography I have read

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« Reply #506 on: August 19, 2021, 03:11:41 AM »
Looks like it's by this guy and presumably doctored. https://twitter.com/binzoboy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Still like it though.

Yeah. Love it, doctored or not.

It reminds me of a Roman mural of my favorite player ever (and the only one I'd have above McGrath):



I figure I'll use one for the laptop and the other for the phone.

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #507 on: September 02, 2021, 11:11:51 PM »
Apologies if interview already posted.

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #508 on: September 02, 2021, 11:17:43 PM »
Apologies if interview already posted.

Cheers, didn't see it on TV and (currently) a very apt post number for it.

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Re: Paul McGrath - don't worry
« Reply #509 on: September 02, 2021, 11:37:02 PM »
That's what a legend looks like. God then, God now, God in 100 years.

 


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