Funny, was only talking about him the other day as a mate of mine used to play with him for a pub team in Tamworth, he said he used to be a real handful and a big boozer before disappearing overnight when his pro club heard of his antics.
Quote from: PeterWithe on April 16, 2015, 06:56:30 AMFunny, was only talking about him the other day as a mate of mine used to play with him for a pub team in Tamworth, he said he used to be a real handful and a big boozer before disappearing overnight when his pro club heard of his antics.Who cares if he used to wind us up, though, it was decades ago and he was a 20 something twat.Wasn't he the keeper in that Blues side which was one of the dirtiest, nastiest sides football has seen for decades?Mark Dennis, Pat Van Den Hauwe, Hopkins, Blake, all those horrible scumbags?
Iv'e remembered something else about Coton while we were out shopping. I think he had some heart trouble a few years ago. I hope he is fully fit now to coach properly. Never played for England, but quite a few (me included) thought he should have.
There was a magazine I used to read back in the 90's called Total Sport, one issue of which had an article about Robert Hopkins and the dirty Nose side of the 1980s. One of the pictures was of Tony Coton attending a court appearance dressed in his training gear.
Ciaran Cosgrave appointed as Sports Psychologist.With all of these appointments in key areas we are starting to look and feel like a proper PL football club that wants to operate at the right end of the table. It starts with players, but the manager having a proper team is critical. Sherwood appears to be putting together a very good staff to help him.
Quote from: Toronto Villa on April 22, 2015, 03:05:59 PMCiaran Cosgrave appointed as Sports Psychologist.With all of these appointments in key areas we are starting to look and feel like a proper PL football club that wants to operate at the right end of the table. It starts with players, but the manager having a proper team is critical. Sherwood appears to be putting together a very good staff to help him.Thank f**k for that, I've been wanting the club to have a full time sports psychologist for years, the mental aspect of the game is, in my opinion, what has stopped our good kids going on to become good villa players, we've just lost them in that 18-21 period and whilst a large number have gone on to make it as footballers not many have achieved what they should've (I'm looking firmly in the direction of Blackpool here).