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OwlsFan
05/09/2008, 10:35 AM
In today's (London) Times there is list of the top 50 Aston Villa moments, Paul McGrath makes it at number 2, only behind the new owner.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/aston_villa/article4652386.ece?token=null&offset=108&page=10


Oooh-ah Paul McGrath

If Billy Walker is a shoo-in the Villa’s greatest ever player, then equally there’s not much doubt about the best of the postwar years. Signing Paul McGrath in the summer of 1989 was a huge gamble by Graham Taylor but over the next seven years Macca touched heights of genius that most thought impossible in a mere defender. The problems with knees and alcohol were well documented – painfully so in his autobiography – but Villa fans forgave him everything for those trademark, fuss-free interceptions (“it’s like they’ve given him the script before they go out,” as one commentator exclaimed) and tackles timed with the precision of a Swiss watch maker. Truly, there will never be another like him.

lofty9
05/09/2008, 12:57 PM
My Favourite Irish player ever.

More adulation here:

http://www.oleole.com/blogs/avfcblog/posts/villas-greatest-heroes-paul-mcgrath