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/spo...et=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.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
My Favourite Irish player ever.
More adulation here:
http://www.oleole.com/blogs/avfcblog...s-paul-mcgrath
As Irishmen we dilute our sense of nation by depending on the English to bring us our balls
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