bigmick wrote:Like all Championship winning teams the Villa one was a good side. Workmanlike with little bits of flair thrownin. They had couple of older guys and a couple of really promising younger fells who never really kicked on and fulfilled their potential.
Top of my head (and one or two of these may not have been in THAT team but were definately of that era) has Derek Mountfield at centre-half who was very John Terry like in his goalscoring prowess. They had Dennis Mortimer and Gordon Cowans in midfield who were both good players (particularly Cowans), a bloke called Tony Morley who was a bit of a pigeon catcher on the wing, and the aforementioned Withe and Gary Shaw upfront.
Morley and Shaw never really kicked on as itlooked like they might, though in the case of the prodigeously talented Shaw, I'm almost certain that serious injury did as much as anything to stop him in his tracks.
They were a good side though, don't let anyone tell you different.
I remember Peter Withe (Villa) and Paul Mariner (Ipswich) as the top 2 English style strikers who strike fear into the opposition at the time Villa and Ipswich were dominant. Ipswich were great too with Mick Mills stading out (didn't John Wark used to play in that team too?). Their domination lasted for a couple of season while we took a break from the exhausion of winning the league year-in year-out.
btw. I used to admire Gary Shaw in those days
