Cult Heroes of Villa Park – Alan Wright

[eamonn]

I really liked Alan, but he did indicate a weakness at the far post due to his height.

Yeah but how many goals did we concede cos he couldn't jump high enough? Not many, as far as I remember.

[ChicagoLion]

Quite often teams used to hit the diagonal high ball over the LB position believing that they could get a height advantage, it didn’t pay off because he had decent timing and leap.

[sid1964]

Very reliable player always a 6 or 7 out of 10

[aldridgeboy]

A great read. He was such a sold player. I wonder as a youngster , he must have been so good being the size he was. I’m sure bacj then it was a case of “small players can’t be defenders “

A friend of mine a BMW m3 off him while he was at villa.

Not sure why I shared that

[dcdavecollett]

Sorry about the error re the forty years of waiting for an F A Cup semi-final. Of course, Alan was in the team that did it in 1996 as well.

The lack of a cup win since 2016 obviously addled my brain.