Gordon Cowans

[john2710]

Without doubt, one of our finest ever players & a personal favourite over the past 50 years. Makes you realise this illness is indiscriminate & without conscience. Hopefully with medication & medical advances we can stop this horrible illness.
All the best Sid.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

My father has the same illness - I hope that "Sid" is able to continue with his normal daily life for many years to come.

Without doubt my favorite Villa Player - World Class in my opinion.

Ditto. Plus he is my Dad's (and my) all time favourite Villa player.

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

As you can see from my log in!!
My all time favourite. Keep up the fight, we're all behind you.

[manic-road]

Sad to see this news, Sid is a Villa legend and always will be. Hope he can continue to live a normal life for as long as possible and all the best to his family as well.

[Flamingo Lane]

What a player.  Watching the Villa from pre-world war II years through to the 1990s Gordon Cowans was my dad's favourite ever Villa player.

Genuinely one of the proudest moments of my life was at university, in the pub after playing a game of football, when a team mate told me 'you looked like Gordon Cowans today.'

Best wishes Gordon.

[Damo70]

Five or six years back I was at a Halloween party in the Aston Social Club with my wife. We bought a strip of raffle tickets and one of the tickets was number ten and Sid was at the party so I got him to sign it. He along with Tony Morley was also good enough to make an appearance at the funeral wake of my cousin a couple of years back.

[Villafirst]

Very sad news indeed. I had the privilege to watch Sid in all his glory years. Hope treatment and a positive attitude gives Sid many good years yet.

[CT]

On my first visit to Villa Park in 1980, i fell in love.

One reason was a speedy winger who was running rings around opposition defenders.

Another was this graceful player who ooozed class and could slow down, or dictate a game with his beautiful range of passing.

Best wishes Sid.

[PaulWinch again]

Horrible news. Best of luck Sid.

[villabear]

Sending Sid and his family lots of love.

A truly great player. Those pinpoint cross field balls were a thing of beauty.

I saw him play a few years back at Alvechurch in a Villa old stars game. He played carrying an inhaler in his hand and they might as well as given him his own ball. No one could get near him.

Stay strong Sid 👊

[tony scott]

Sad news ,I’m sure Sid will cope with it ,like the many who’ve received this type of news recently, one of the few living legends of the Villa.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Incredible player and lovely man.

Knew his dad Walter well (dog trainer at Hall Green).

Hope it gives him an easier ride than most. Sad sad news.

[Allan C]

Sad news but as some have commented he seems to be taking a positive attitude to this awful illness. Sid is in my top 5 favourite Villa players, absolutely fabulous to watch and worth the entrance money alone to watch  just brilliant

[Virgil Caine]

One of the very few that truly deserves the title ‘professional footballer’. I never saw him tackle high, argue with a ref, feign injury, attempt to get an opponent booked or sent off, cheat or give anything less than 100%. An absolute class player who should have earned 100 caps for his country, yes he was that good.

[tomd2103]

Sad news and thoughts go out to him and his family.  An iconic Villa player and comfortably the best passer of a football I have seen  during my time watching the club.