Graham Taylor

[Villa in Denmark]

If he is co-commentator he is there in a professional capacity and as stated found it easy to slag off who ever was the manager at the time, but forget his own failings the season he was in the same position, sure it was Oldham at home and Tony Casc had not long signed if memory serves.
PW great manager and has the good of the club central most of the time, but as for Gary Neville those studios are alot easier than the dug out.

That makes absolutely no sense.

Taylor signed Cascarino in March of the 89/90 title bid.  By the time of the next run at it under Atkinson, which did fall apart at home to Oldham, Cascarino was long gone.

As EDITPeter W saunders_heroes. says above, he was , quite rightly, critical of some of the defending in the away leg against Inter. I also remember him saying he was disappointed that we were playing in our away strip because Claret & Blue was what were all about.

I have no idea if he was co-commentator against Oldham under Atkinson and to be honest, I was too pissed off (and up) to care by the time I got home.

[ZhongYi]

game that didfer us that season IMO was losing 2-1 to Man City at home. But other contenders would be losing to Wimbledon at home (obviously) and Cov away - first time we ever lost to the pricks as well and to rub it in it was live on ITV on a Sunday. Another one was QPR away also but obviously a late highlight to the season was Arsenal away when Cascarino played a Zidane style through ball. But the way that season started with Trev getting a hat trick and being 1-0 to Palace with 10 minutes to go, its pretty overlooked at what a rollercoaster the season was. After the loss to QPR at home it looked like it was gonna be a season of struggle until the Palace comeback kick started the season. By the waym, seeing this is a Graham Taylor thread, and not sure if this topic has been mentioned on here before - there was a club open day in September 1987 where the club and grounds were totally accessible and players were chatting with supporters. That was Taylor's idea to make Villa more of a family club and it really did a great job in uniting all for the cause that season. I was in awe of meeting the likes of Spink, McInally, Taylor himself and even Doug Ellis in the trophy room as well!

[oldham_villa]

It was Inter Milan, under Venglos.

He was right as well

[pbavfckuwait]

VID it was the 89/90 title bid that I was on about, just got the Oldham fixture mixed up.

[Confusious says]

The Milan Game was not the best display, if I remember correctly a Russian linesman did not flag when the ball went out over the goal line
and the subsequent cross ended up in our net. with Cascarino missing a good chance it was never going to be easy, But the journey back
to the airport was subdued and when we got our return tickets from the travel club we got into the transfer bus only to find sir Graham standing there and had lots of encouraging words for my 12 year old son. when we were on the plane just after take off sir graham got up
to go to the loo at the back, he was talking to all the fans and had to run back to his seat to land at Bham, he truly gave his time and kind words to all. I will never forget that

[old man villa fan]

The Milan Game was not the best display, if I remember correctly a Russian linesman did not flag when the ball went out over the goal line
and the subsequent cross ended up in our net. with Cascarino missing a good chance it was never going to be easy, But the journey back
to the airport was subdued and when we got our return tickets from the travel club we got into the transfer bus only to find sir Graham standing there and had lots of encouraging words for my 12 year old son. when we were on the plane just after take off sir graham got up
to go to the loo at the back, he was talking to all the fans and had to run back to his seat to land at Bham, he truly gave his time and kind words to all. I will never forget that

You were lucky.  I came back on a coach on my own.  It was a long trip after that defeat.

[LeeB]

The Milan Game was not the best display, if I remember correctly a Russian linesman did not flag when the ball went out over the goal line
and the subsequent cross ended up in our net. with Cascarino missing a good chance it was never going to be easy, But the journey back
to the airport was subdued and when we got our return tickets from the travel club we got into the transfer bus only to find sir Graham standing there and had lots of encouraging words for my 12 year old son. when we were on the plane just after take off sir graham got up
to go to the loo at the back, he was talking to all the fans and had to run back to his seat to land at Bham, he truly gave his time and kind words to all. I will never forget that

You were lucky.  I came back on a coach on my own.  It was a long trip after that defeat.

So did we, £88 if I recall correctly.

[Nev]

The Milan Game was not the best display, if I remember correctly a Russian linesman did not flag when the ball went out over the goal line
and the subsequent cross ended up in our net. with Cascarino missing a good chance it was never going to be easy, But the journey back
to the airport was subdued and when we got our return tickets from the travel club we got into the transfer bus only to find sir Graham standing there and had lots of encouraging words for my 12 year old son. when we were on the plane just after take off sir graham got up
to go to the loo at the back, he was talking to all the fans and had to run back to his seat to land at Bham, he truly gave his time and kind words to all. I will never forget that

You were lucky.  I came back on a coach on my own.  It was a long trip after that defeat.

So did we, £88 if I recall correctly.

We went with Premier, great sing song and piss up on the ferry over, one night stay on the French/Italian border with another great piss up in a french bar.

Just a few brief stops on the way back due to the rather flat mood. Sleep was very difficult, I remember a few of us taking it turns to lie on the floor and try and nod off. The only issue is that we lay directly above the gear box and the driver had resorted to the "if you can't find 'em, grind 'em" method of changing gear.

[castlefields_villan]

The Milan Game was not the best display, if I remember correctly a Russian linesman did not flag when the ball went out over the goal line
and the subsequent cross ended up in our net. with Cascarino missing a good chance it was never going to be easy, But the journey back
to the airport was subdued and when we got our return tickets from the travel club we got into the transfer bus only to find sir Graham standing there and had lots of encouraging words for my 12 year old son. when we were on the plane just after take off sir graham got up
to go to the loo at the back, he was talking to all the fans and had to run back to his seat to land at Bham, he truly gave his time and kind words to all. I will never forget that

I remember that 3-0 defeat in Milan well - yes we played awful - Cascarino missed an easy chance (which would've given us the crucial away goal) - Stuart Gray was fouled but for some reason a free kick was given to them from which they made it 2-0 on the night and as mentioned above Paul McGrath appeared to let their player take the ball over the line before he crossed it for what was the overall winner - I remember a Liverpool supporting friend I worked with at the time saying to me the next morning "your team were robbed last night".

As for SGT - a superb manager - who knows but for that Ronald Coleman foul on David Platt with the score still at 0-0 (in a game England only had to draw to qualify as I remember) and although I've never met him in person a truly sincere person and ever since he came to us in 1987 - a big Villa man - but that's the affect the club has on you - once a Villa man - ALWAYS a Villa man.

[Bad English]

The Oldham game was the FA cup, away on the plastic pitch, was it not? I went to that one. Fucking freezing. And we lost. 3-0.

[luke95]

Graham Taylor & His Wife turned up at England Dave's funeral yesterday not in any official capacity as I'm aware but purely as a good honest football man paying his respects.

Top top respect to the man !!

[AV82EC]

Graham Taylor & His Wife turned up at England Dave's funeral yesterday not in any official capacity as I'm aware but purely as a good honest football man paying his respects.

Top top respect to the man !!

Yep I heard this, total respect to the man.

[dave.woodhall]

Graham Taylor & His Wife turned up at England Dave's funeral yesterday not in any official capacity as I'm aware but purely as a good honest football man paying his respects.

Top top respect to the man !!

Yep I heard this, total respect to the man.

Just when you think your respect for someone can't be any greater.

[Locko]

Appointing sir graham as a non exec director may have a galvanizing effect. He knows what's required to pick the club up off it's arse. Come back Sir Graham your club needs you... As an act of faith to affirm the covenant between the club and the fans, I could think of nothing finer.

[auntiesledd]

Graham Taylor & His Wife turned up at England Dave's funeral yesterday not in any official capacity as I'm aware but purely as a good honest football man paying his respects.

Top top respect to the man !!

What a lovely thing for them to do. My cockles are very much warmed by hearing that.