Showing posts with label David Platt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Platt. Show all posts
Monday, 10 June 2013
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.
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.
Saturday, 19 January 2013
Fantasy Villa Team No.1: The PFA Team of the Year criteria
In the first of an occasional series, we pick fantasy Villa teams using players from times gone by.
This first one virtually picks itself as our criteria was that players had to have featured in a PFA Team of the Year. We were genuinely struggling to get a full team here, hence the five at the back, but as both John Gidman and Alan Wright were quite happy bombing forward it might sort of work.
Hard done by here is right back Kenny Swain who doesn't make our team despite that the fact he appeared in PFA Teams twice. He was trumped by John Gidman who appeared an impressive three times.
The team also boasts two Andy Grays.
This first one virtually picks itself as our criteria was that players had to have featured in a PFA Team of the Year. We were genuinely struggling to get a full team here, hence the five at the back, but as both John Gidman and Alan Wright were quite happy bombing forward it might sort of work.
Hard done by here is right back Kenny Swain who doesn't make our team despite that the fact he appeared in PFA Teams twice. He was trumped by John Gidman who appeared an impressive three times.
The team also boasts two Andy Grays.
Monday, 7 January 2013
Villa v Bradford: Blast From The Past
As Villa take on Bradford in the Capital One cup, footage from the vital League Division Two clash with the Bantams on 2nd May 1988, as David Platt strikes to keep our promotion hopes alive in front of a lively 36,423 Villa Park crowd...
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