Tuesday 22 January 2013

Fantasy Villa Team No. 5: Eng-ger-lund

Fairly simple criteria for this one, our basic premise was to pick a team largely based on how many England caps our heroes managed to pick up while actually being on Aston Villa's books.

Pizza flogging, penalty missing Gareth Southgate easily comes top of the pile cap wise so despite him eventually buggering off to Middlesbrough "to win things" we're making him captain.

Special Mentions should go to Emile Heskey (12 caps while with Villa), who may well have made our team had we not already decided to shove Ashley Young (15 caps while with Villa) in the forward line rather than wide, while Steve Hodge qualified as of right ahead of Gordan Cowans, but we love Sid and "We Hate Hodge" is still one of our favourite ever chants.

We had heard of Villa legends Billy Walker and Charlie Athersmith but we'll admit we had to Google Sam Hardy and Jimmy Crabtree. If you want to know more, we suggest you do the same. Oddly we could find no footage of the quartet on You Tube...Charlie was a right winger, not a right back but there seems to be a distinct lack of right backs at the top end of the list and hey, him and Milner can always interchange and we can't put John Gidman in every team.




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