Paul McGrath - don't worry

[Mortimer's Bear]

Dennis Mortimer doesn't believe the 'myth' of Paul McGrath and didn't pick him in his all time Villa eleven. Created a bit of debate on some of the Irish forums. Didn't see the 80s team unfortunately but still would have thought McGrath would make it into most peoples best ever Villa teams.

Has he actually referred to Paul McGrath as a myth?

[dave.woodhall]

He's Dennis. He was as great a player as he would have been bad as a diplomat. He picked a team from players he played with and that's fair enough; they're his mates and he rates them highly. 

[wince]

Chef sauce is the best tomato and brown

No wonder you had to leave Brum.

*There's no such things as best tomato ketchup.

In the 80s it was daddies in a squeeze bottle on some chips from the chippy near to the Prince Hal in Chelmsley Wood.

[LeeB]

Chef sauce is the best tomato and brown

No wonder you had to leave Brum.

*There's no such things as best tomato ketchup.

In the 80s it was daddies in a squeeze bottle on some chips from the chippy near to the Prince Hal in Chelmsley Wood.

There was a sit down chippy in the precinct, what was that called?

[dave.woodhall]

It says nothing we don't know already but it says it well.

https://m.sundayworld.com/sport/columnists/aston-villa-steered-me-away-from-a-darkness-that-threatened-to-consume-me/1973504749.html?fbclid=IwAR15L6atIBeeYZTgO-GP5jf1twro-09vaW8IBzjdsuqmxjkbnNVou2fRL78

[RamboandBruno]

It says nothing we don't know already but it says it well.

https://m.sundayworld.com/sport/columnists/aston-villa-steered-me-away-from-a-darkness-that-threatened-to-consume-me/1973504749.html?fbclid=IwAR15L6atIBeeYZTgO-GP5jf1twro-09vaW8IBzjdsuqmxjkbnNVou2fRL78

As you say nothing new but lovely all the same.

[eamonn]

Beautiful closing words. Is he still off social media? I'm sure he enjoyed watching the game yesterday. Again, bloody hard to believe he was in the team the last time we did them on that pitch...

[Rory]

My uncle has a well-worn story about when he met God in the Gravediggers in Dublin, when he was still at Man Utd. They had (probably more than) a few pints and my unc' maintains that he was one of the nicest blokes you could ever wish to meet and nobody had to put their hand in their pocket all evening.

Incidentally, the same uncle also met Dermot Morgan (aka Father Ted) around ten years later. Says he was the funniest man he's ever met, but was heavily into the coke.

[Percy McCarthy]

Chef sauce is the best tomato and brown

No wonder you had to leave Brum.

*There's no such things as best tomato ketchup.

In the 80s it was daddies in a squeeze bottle on some chips from the chippy near to the Prince Hal in Chelmsley Wood.

There was a sit down chippy in the precinct, what was that called?

The Coppice. The Queen went in there in about 70/71 when she opened the precinct.

The one by the Prince Hal hasn’t re-opened after Covid. The Prince Hal closed before that.

[Bad English]

It was 7th April 1971. I know these things. I was just over the road by the Shell petrol station.

[Exeter 77]

Beautiful closing words. Is he still off social media? I'm sure he enjoyed watching the game yesterday. Again, bloody hard to believe he was in the team the last time we did them on that pitch...

His Twitter account is active again. Nothing new in that article but the story of how Sir Graham looked after always bears retelling. Paul was 29 when he joined us though not 31.

[Jon Crofts]

My uncle has a well-worn story about when he met God in the Gravediggers in Dublin, when he was still at Man Utd. They had (probably more than) a few pints and my unc' maintains that he was one of the nicest blokes you could ever wish to meet and nobody had to put their hand in their pocket all evening.

Incidentally, the same uncle also met Dermot Morgan (aka Father Ted) around ten years later. Says he was the funniest man he's ever met, but was heavily into the coke.

I had dinner and drinks with him and his wife to be just after Ireland were knocked out of the World Cup USA 94. Possibly the mildest mannered, quietest spoken person I've ever met, even with a skinful of ale his voice never raised above a whisper, never cursed and was an absolute delight to be with.

[Percy McCarthy]

It was 7th April 1971. I know these things. I was just over the road by the Shell petrol station.

Me too!

[Bad English]

The Coppice. I was somewhere behind below those two posts in the background.

[LeeB]

The Coppice. I was somewhere behind below those two posts in the background.

That's magic. A trip there, and a nose around Zodiac Toys whilst twisting my mom's arm to get me a Transformer, bloody heaven.