Quote from: Fred on January 12, 2017, 01:21:07 PMPlatt, Yorke and McGrath were brilliant signings. Chose us and took us up and then left for the job he really wanted. Great football man.Arguably our best 3 players over the last 30 years
Platt, Yorke and McGrath were brilliant signings. Chose us and took us up and then left for the job he really wanted. Great football man.
I've told this before but....We had a bad start to the last relegation season (87?) and hadn't had a win as we travelled to Leicester, we got off the train at around midday and, in those dark days, the Old Bill didn't fancy a load of Villa fans in Leicester City centre and promptly frog marched us to the ground about two and half hours early. We sat down bored and a few Villa players eventually appeared and started to warm up, after a bit SGT popped his head out and was about to go back inside when the 50 or so of us sang 'One Graham Taylor' to him, he looked round and promptly jogged over, hurdled over the hoardings and sat down amongst us for a chat. He was an absolute gent and had a laugh and a joke for 10 mins before concluding with 'right lads, you all behave yourselves today and get behind us, anyone got any final questions?''Yeah Graham, when are we going to fucking win?' came an enquiry.'Today lads, today'And we did, and kept on winning.God bless him.