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Author Topic: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?  (Read 1312 times)

Offline dave shelley

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #30 on: Today at 12:59:08 PM »
I've disliked Brazil ever since they went into a World Cup (can't remember which one) when they were beating all before them and I drew them in the sweep at work.  They never made the knockout stages...bastards.

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #31 on: Today at 01:07:59 PM »
I loved watching Ronaldinho play so I can't jump on that slander. Not good looking enough for us though so I'm glad we never tried to sign him, phew*.

*Doug may have tried a cheeky fiver bid to make it look like he was trying.

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #32 on: Today at 01:17:12 PM »
Jimmy Rimmer.

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #33 on: Today at 01:19:36 PM »
By the way why isn't Gábor Király in the poll?

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #34 on: Today at 01:33:40 PM »
Martinez for me followed by Rinmer. Special mention for John Dunn who played for us around 1970, he was average at best but he used to smoke during the game and leave his ciggie in the net when he was called into action. I remember standing behind his goal one game when he mishit a goal kick straight to the opposition who somehow missed. He turned to the fans and said “ain’t I a c**t”…. We all agreed!

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #35 on: Today at 01:39:28 PM »
Ronaldinho was ridiculously talented, and despite all he did achieve it should have been more but he had an aversion to training and being professional. Great to watch.

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #36 on: Today at 01:40:24 PM »
Ronaldinho was ridiculously talented, and despite all he did achieve it should have been more but he had an aversion to training and being professional. Great to watch.

I will never understand why this isn't universally seen as a reason to love him even more.

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #37 on: Today at 01:46:20 PM »
Ronaldinho was ridiculously talented, and despite all he did achieve it should have been more but he had an aversion to training and being professional. Great to watch.

I will never understand why this isn't universally seen as a reason to love him even more.

Absolutely.

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #38 on: Today at 01:46:23 PM »
I went with Rimmer. His positional sense was second to none, as someone else mentioned, he rarely looked like conceding.

Martinez then Spink.
I should have gone for Nigel Sims as I was named after him.

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #39 on: Today at 01:46:51 PM »
Ronaldinho was ridiculously talented, and despite all he did achieve it should have been more but he had an aversion to training and being professional. Great to watch.

I will never understand why this isn't universally seen as a reason to love him even more.

Exactly this. No doubt Lukas Podolski was a 'top professional' and, well, no thanks.

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #40 on: Today at 03:32:47 PM »
Emi Martinez

Brazil in Spain 82..,i was 8 and they were magic, i think I might of got home from school when Italy beat them and I may have cried.
Socrates, Zico, Alamo, Junior…flawed football Gods

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Re: Who is Aston Villa's greatest ever goalkeeper?
« Reply #41 on: Today at 05:24:57 PM »
Voted Sam Hardy ... it's either him (for the reasons Percy has said) or Martinez.

As someone else mentioned though, it's very very difficult to compare 2 goalkeepers from such different eras.  But Martinez is the best in my lifetime, definitely.

 


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