Villa players you actually forgot played for us.

[anton hillman]

Jimmy Brown. Made his first team debut aged 15 around 1970.

[dave shelley]

At Bolton.  We lost 2-1, Bruce Rioch scored a belter for us.  I met Tommy Doc after the match, he'd dropped Charlie Aitken who, was sat near me in the main stand.

I was talking to a young lad prior to going into the ground, when I started to make my way in he told me and a couple of others who I didn't know, to hang on.  He came back a couple of minutes later with complimentary tickets for us.  It turned out he was a youth team player named Greg Fellows, went on to Manure after us, never made it.  A really nice lad, happy to talk to us.

[Ron Manager]

Jimmy Brown. Made his first team debut aged 15 around 1970.

Still lives in the area so I believe. I for one will never understand why Jimmy Brown never made it.

[dave.woodhall]

Jimmy Brown. Made his first team debut aged 15 around 1970.

Still lives in the area so I believe. I for one will never understand why Jimmy Brown never made it.

He played too much as a kid.

[Deano's Mullet]

Didn't Steve froggatt say the same thing affected his career?

[Ron Manager]

Paul Kerr

[Damo70]

Paul Kerr

My mate always insisted on pronouncing his name in something like a scouse accent. Paul Kiiirrr. He claimed he had some family with that surname and that was the way to say it.

[Ron Manager]

Jimmy Brown. Made his first team debut aged 15 around 1970.

Still lives in the area so I believe. I for one will never understand why Jimmy Brown never made it.

He played too much as a kid.

He was a kid in a mans body. Could tackle hard and pass well. A great pity he tailed off. Made over 80 first team appearances. Not a bad total.

[dave.woodhall]

Jimmy Brown. Made his first team debut aged 15 around 1970.

Still lives in the area so I believe. I for one will never understand why Jimmy Brown never made it.

He played too much as a kid.

He was a kid in a mans body. Could tackle hard and pass well. A great pity he tailed off. Made over 80 first team appearances. Not a bad total.

It's incredible to think he could still have been playing in 1982.

[eric woolban woolban]

Was there a centre back in the mid to late 90s called David Hughes??? who I think scored a header against Arsenal. He was a youngster who only played a couple of games. I might be getting the goal mixed up with that of Richard Walker though.

[Damo70]

There was a centre half called David Hughes. I think he went to Shrewsbury. Richard Walker was a striker wasn't he?

[eric woolban woolban]

That's the guy.

Richard Walker was the striker. He had big side burns.

[Rudy65]

Robert Pires

My lad and me still laugh when we think how slow he was. He literally couldn't move

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Jimmy Brown. Made his first team debut aged 15 around 1970.

Still lives in the area so I believe. I for one will never understand why Jimmy Brown never made it.

He played too much as a kid.

He was a kid in a mans body. Could tackle hard and pass well. A great pity he tailed off. Made over 80 first team appearances. Not a bad total.

It's incredible to think he could still have been playing in 1982.

Doc made him captain - at age 16 IIRC.
No pressure there then!


But he was a strong lad and about my age so I thought he was fu**in' brilliant!

[Damo70]

Robert Pires

My lad and me still laugh when we think how slow he was. He literally couldn't move

My wife and her workmates had tickets through work for a home game against Blackburn and I tagged along. Her workmates were highly amused by my displays of frustration and exasperation towards Pires.