Wrighty is on SkySports now talking about his career and just mentioned Trevor Aylott. Said he learned a lot from him and that other than Teddy Sheringham he was the best target man centre forward he'd seen and played with when they were at Crystal Palace.
For me, Ian Wright was a great centre forward and scored a vast amount of goals in his career, 287 goals in 581 games. Great stat that
Ian Wright was one of my childhood heros. In fact all those strikers, attacking players of that era. Merson, Fowler, Cottee, Sheringham, Ferdinand, Barmby, Shearer, Beardsley, Cole, Le Tissier. We were really spoiled back then with forward talent. It's a shame we had Graham Taylor as England manager.
To be fair, you could say that about the current England manager. He has a vast amount of talent available at his disposal.
I would second that Aylott was built like a bricksh-thouse but could score goals. His header against Man City who had Joe Corrigan in the nets was one of my favourites. 34000 attendance that night.
Aye Trev weren't bad, with our midfield of the time (as mentioned in a previous thread) and Derrick Parker alongside him, no wonder we have such fond memories of that team.
His chip against Brighton in the previous round from nearly the half way line wasn't too shabby either
We’ve been through this several times before on this forum. He was somewhere near The Dove on Donny Road when he chipped the keeper.
We had some great strikers. Unfortunately, we had no midfield and the defence wasn't great. And Graham Taylor was a good manager - 7 promotions (3 league champions) including taking Watford from Division 4 to runner-up in Division 1 in 6 seasons and Villa from Division 2 to runner-up in Division 1 and once in the play-offs, only manager to twice get 70+ points under 2 for a win, highest points (and most wins) in a season under 2 for a win, and winning 43.55% of the 1311 games he managed. I'd be happy with a manager half as successful walking into Oakwell.
My main memory was seeing the Ponty go absolutely MENTAL(from the Paddock) when that header went in, what do they call it today Limbs?
I remember the paper next day saying "Corrigan was beaten by a header, the power of which he'll never witness again in his playing career"
What do I know? I'd forgotten about David Platt and John Barnes. Then there was Gascoigne. Did Taylor ever pick Waddle?
Trevor was on loan from palace couldn't hit a barn door for us went back to them and blasted 1 in,long time ago mi dad used to take me when Galvin played first spell but can't remember much a wa born 1971 but I started going wi mi mate about 1984 not sure to be fair without thrashing mi head,trevor missed a sitter in front of ponty week or 2 after played for palace and blasted 1 in in front of palace fans 4.2 we got beat,pretty sure,but could be wrong.
At Euro 92, the midfield was Carlton Palmer, Andy Sinton, David Batty, Tony Daley and Neil Webb playing with David Platt. Barnes missed most of that season with injury and only played 12 times and Gascoigne ruptured his cruciate ligaments playing for Spurs in the 1991 cup final and missed the entire season. Waddle was already 32 and had been playing in France. Not sure if he had fallen out with Taylor or was just not picked because the French league was seen as rubbish - despite Marseille losing the 1991 European Cup final on penalties - but his last England appearance was in 1991... By that time, the knives were already out in the press and the qualifying group for the World Cup was always going to be difficult... As I said, the midfield was comparatively bobbins.
