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Offline Godfrey Brian

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #105 on: July 30, 2015, 11:37:07 AM »
John Inglis was, as the more mature posters will confirm the worst player who ever pulled the claret and light blue shirt on. Absolutely dreadful on all levels. Oscar Arce ,as you well know, never played a first team game.
Can you tell me more about John Inglis? Seems he only played for us twice, what position did he masquerade in and what was so awful about him?

The very fact that he only played twice for us tells you all you need to know.  It  also speaks volumes that he was that bad, that I thought he'd made more appearances than that, he's indelibly etched in my memory.

Do you remember that bloke that got on for Southampton when Souness was manager.  Claimed he was a cousin of George Weah?  He was worse than that.  Ball control, zilch, positional awareness, zilch, taking goal scoring opportunities, zilch.  Absolutely dire.  I believe he was a relative of a member of the coaching staff of the time.  He should never have been within an exclusion zone of ten miles of Villa Park, let alone play for the club.  I was a fairly regular watcher of the reserves at the time and he was equally as shit for them.  An awful player.

So true Dave. Compounded by the fact that, in those pre Internet,  poor global communication days,  Arce had been marketed to us as some sort of exotic South American George Best! Which leads us on to the Kapengwe (?) brothers! ;)
« Last Edit: August 01, 2015, 08:53:55 PM by Godfrey Brian »

Offline Fred

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #106 on: July 30, 2015, 01:41:42 PM »
De La Cruz, Kinsella, Fashuna. All rotten

Offline Julian Broddle

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #107 on: July 30, 2015, 03:03:21 PM »
Anyone mentioned Gary Penrice yet?

Some female friends met him once and he was attempting to chat them up but they had no idea who he was until he proclaimed in a broad west country accent "I'm a million pound footballer I am"

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #108 on: August 07, 2015, 12:12:40 PM »
Simon Dawkins.
Utterly awful, and even ran like a ******.

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #109 on: August 07, 2015, 02:46:07 PM »
Warren Aspinal hasn't been mentioned yet has he?

Offline Ron Manager

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #110 on: August 07, 2015, 02:54:50 PM »
John Inglis was, as the more mature posters will confirm the worst player who ever pulled the claret and light blue shirt on. Absolutely dreadful on all levels. Oscar Arce ,as you well know, never played a first team game.
Can you tell me more about John Inglis? Seems he only played for us twice, what position did he masquerade in and what was so awful about him?
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The very fact that he only played twice for us tells you all you need to know.  It  also speaks volumes that he was that bad, that I thought he'd made more appearances than that, he's indelibly etched in my memory.

Do you remember that bloke that got on for Southampton when Souness was manager.  Claimed he was a cousin of George Weah?  He was worse than that.  Ball control, zilch, positional awareness, zilch, taking goal scoring opportunities, zilch.  Absolutely dire.  I believe he was a relative of a member of the coaching staff of the time.  He should never have been within an exclusion zone of ten miles of Villa Park, let alone play for the club.  I was a fairly regular watcher of the reserves at the time and he was equally as shit for them.  An awful player.

So true Dave. Compounded by the fact that, in those pre Internet,  poor global communication days,  Arce had been marketed to us as some sort of exotic South American George Best! Which leads us on to the Kapengwe (?) brothers! ;)

I liked Emment Kapengwe who was an attacking right winger. I remember a midweek game under the floodlights ( it persisted down)
when he had a particularly good performance. The other lad Freddie Mwilla didn't have much however and The Doc got rid of both

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #111 on: August 09, 2015, 05:58:36 PM »
Mine;
- Peter Schmeichel - truly dreadful for me at Villa, best contribution was either his goal or watching him left a trophy that was smaller than his gloves.  Never forget the goal he conceded in front of the Holte vs Ipswich I think, took about half hour to dive on a tame shot
- GINOLA!!! - biggest let down in a Villa shit, loved watching hiom play before he joined, didn't lift a finger for us
- Stephen 'feckin' Ireland - see Ginola - pound note leech!
- Gustavo Bartelt - saw him play a couple of reserve / friendly games - dreadful
- Marlon Harewood - remember at the start of that summer saying the only players I didn't want Quitty O'Bollock to sign were Harewood & Zat - bad summer!!
- Bash the Fash - think Big Ron would have been better bringing the clap back from his summer holidays than Fash
- Leandro Bacuna - have a thing about professional footballers being unable to get their head up when they have the ball the their feet, for me we wont have made genuine progress until he is nowhere near the squad, its not NFL and we don't have 'special teams' for set pieces.
- Blancmange Ron - centre backs and captains should be tough and a presence, the only times I've seen those from Ron were the World Cup

The podium would be;
1. Ginola
2. Schmeichel
3. Ireland


Offline Des Little

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #112 on: August 09, 2015, 10:06:03 PM »
Tonev. No contest.

Offline rougegorge

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #113 on: August 09, 2015, 10:12:28 PM »
Tommy Craig was my first worst

Offline the-farmer

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #114 on: August 09, 2015, 11:52:34 PM »
I think Sylla has been mentioned but has Makoun ?

Like Sanchez on a bad day

Offline Damo70

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #115 on: August 10, 2015, 12:08:23 PM »
Warren Aspinal hasn't been mentioned yet has he?

It was a mistake to buy a kid to try to score the goals to keep us up but I thought he did well in our promotion season. I remember him scoring a couple at West Brom, a couple at Leeds and a crucial (late I think) winner against Shrewsbury at Villa Park when it was what old whisky face would have called squeaky bum time.

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #116 on: August 11, 2015, 09:25:00 AM »
John Inglis. You're not fit to wear the badge.



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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #117 on: August 11, 2015, 09:32:10 AM »
I was going to post that EIA but, it brought back too many horrible memories.


*shudders*

Offline russon

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #118 on: August 11, 2015, 10:24:59 AM »
John Inglis. You're not fit to wear the badge.



He's got that sneer that says 'yeah i know i'm crap but I'm playing for the Villa and you're not, what you gonna do about it?'

Be comforted that we didn't pay him enough to get a decent haircut.

Offline Ron Manager

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Re: Your worst ever Villa player
« Reply #119 on: August 11, 2015, 10:30:58 AM »
Tommy Craig was my first worst

Tommy Craig was a talented midfielder........unfortunately not for us!

 


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