The men we couldn't do without - David Platt

[Toronto Villa]

I loved David Platt. I hated the way it all ended, but fuck me what a superb footballer. Some seriously outstanding moments and goals for club and of course country. I don’t know why his bullet header vs Bradford always come to mind when I could pick from loads of other goals. Maybe because of the importance of it against them that season. He was Lampard and Gerrard before Lampard and Gerrard. 

[Des Little]

I'm not wasting an hour of my life to hear what that chunt has to say.  He can do one.

[Clampy]

I do get some of the animosity towards him but he did play for 6 clubs other than us. He may well feel a lot of affection for Crewe still.

[Somniloquism]

I do get some of the animosity towards him but he did play for 6 clubs other than us. He may well feel a lot of affection for Crewe still.

Although he only seemed to talk fondly of one specific London based club in all his interviews previously and seemed to ignore the ones who got him there at the time.

[Clampy]

I do get some of the animosity towards him but he did play for 6 clubs other than us. He may well feel a lot of affection for Crewe still.

Although he only seemed to talk fondly of one specific London based club in all his interviews previously and seemed to ignore the ones who got him there at the time.

I was going to ask if he'd shown any special love for any of his other teams. He was quite popular in Italy I think. Like I said yesterday, it'd a shame its taken him so long.

[Sexual Ealing]

Another front has reopened in the bitter ex crusade! You all sound totally reasonable and it's definitely Platt who has the problem.

[john e]

I listened and don’t mind admitting it’s changed my view of him a bit
Comes over a lot better than expected especially about Villa

[Gareth]

I listened and don’t mind admitting it’s changed my view of him a bit
Comes over a lot better than expected especially about Villa

agree fully John
Though I don’t do the jilted ex bit particularly for players or managers unless they do something calculated to cause trouble like O’Neill did

[LeeB]

I never really got the animosity towards him, he came, he was absolutely brilliant from day one and then he left for so much much money we built an entire title chasing team out of it.

[eamonn]

Yeah, come on lads and lassies, we're better than this. And it cuts both ways. For all we know, Matthias Breitkeutz has probably been telling anyone who'll listen how much he loves the Villa for decades now and do any of us give him the time of day? Do we fuck.

[LeeB]

Yeah, come on lads and lassies, we're better than this. And it cuts both ways. For all we know, Matthias Breitkeutz has probably been telling anyone who'll listen how much he loves the Villa for decades now and do any of us give him the time of day? Do we fuck.

I can't remember where but I'm sure I read that Mark Kinsella absolutely treasures the fact he played for Villa to kind of underline your point.

[eamonn]

His young fella was in our academy too, wasn't he ?

[Stu82]

I listened and don’t mind admitting it’s changed my view of him a bit
Comes over a lot better than expected especially about Villa

I agree John, he comes over very well. He said the two clubs special to him are Villa and Sampdoria.

[Smirker]

I honestly think we have only had 3 genuine World Class players playing at Villa in my supporting life.

As in could readily win a place in Liverpool late 70s+, Juve mid 80s Milan late 80s/early 90s , ManU & RM late 90s/early 00s and more recently and Barca mid 00s to mid 10s and Germany 1990, Brazil 94 etc...

He was one albeit for the final 2 years at Villa. Platt was patchy at Juve (competed with Andy Moller) though was brilliant for Sampdoria and continued to score goals for England for fun.
Yorke is the other 95-98. No surprise they went for at the time astronomical fees and latter made a great team into a legendary one.

The other one surpassed them both by a distance and was born in Ealing

I'd say Martínez before Yorke.

[Gareth]

His young fella was in our academy too, wasn't he ?

Kinsella? I don’t think Lewis Kinsella was his lad, think he had a son at Walsall at some point though & his daughter was/is an international gymnast