Gabby

[rob_bridge]

No he has done nothing to deserve such a thing.

[SheffieldVillain]

As the Millwall game has nothing riding on it, would you give Gabby one last game? Assuming his fat ass is fit enough to actually try and earn his wages for once that is.

Absolutely not.  We've got play offs to prepare for.  If we're going to rest people, get some of the youngsters in like RHM and O'Hare.

This absolutely. I'd give RHM a runout anyway. See if he can make himself an option for the playoffs coming off the bench in form and with his pace.

[cdbearsfan]

RHM is the future. Gabby is part of (and one of the causes of) our failed past. He should be nowhere near our team ever again.

[kippaxvilla2]

There should be a huge shisha pipe sporting  a backwards facing cap erected in his honour.

[PeterWithesShin]

Apparently in the same way Ollie did a shirt for everyone who went to West Ham, Gabby is doing something. To remind us of him everyone gets 10 pies.

[mike]

Olof Mellberg. Bloody hell, how did we go from there to here.

[Ads]

Let go of the 7 years of nothing and embrace the very good]

[Alinushavfc]

Ads spot on here, really takes too much effort to be bitter about not liking him when Gabby as brought such monumental memories against the unwashed.

[Ads]

It doesn't excuse him of his lazyness or can't be arsedness. But he's gone now and as the above says, it takes effort to hold on to that, but takes none to raise a smile at those goals.

[olaftab]

Apparently in the same way Ollie did a shirt for everyone who went to West Ham, Gabby is doing something. To remind us of him everyone gets 10 pies.

And handing a “balloon” to everyone.

[Nelly]

I get why people dislike him. He was supposed to be one of our own and had any of us been in the privileged position of playing for Villa, we would have given everything, or at least try and seen to be doing everything - to keep Villa up. However, he did what he did and here we are.

He will never be a legend for us but he scored some great goals in some great games, in a good time for us as a club.

[Alinushavfc]

His goals against the stripey filth will always be remembered too, loved him celebrating!

[Alinushavfc]

I think given his tenure at the club, the goals he has scored  in derbies bit more significantly the goals he scored during those years under MON make him a legend whether you like it or not.

[Nelly]

Maybe you have a point, but for me a Villa legend is someone like Paul McGrath or Brian Little or Cowans. A different calibre of player and person. People who encapsulated the club, shaped it's identity. For me Villa are more than just about beating Blues. Gabby did wonderfully in those games and as I mentioned earlier, loads of other games too, but not quite worth of a mention in the same sentence as those guys. In my opinion of course. Who knows, time may prove you to be right.

[Ads]

He's not a legend in the hero sense. But I can see him more of a legend in a mythological sense. The knack of turning over the Noses that he had and the Stripeys, as well as being an anti-flat track bully makes him legendary in a fabled sort of way.

He's not a McGrath or a Little.