Thoughts and issues regarding the past and present of a great football club by "The Chronicler".

Thursday 30 April 2020

Best Uncapped Players

None of my preceding 'best' team posts talked much about Villa's outstanding players of 9 or more years service who were never capped while with the Villa. This is the list of what is now a dying breed:

Those highlighted were particularly great servants to Villa.
Teddy Lee (1874-1884)
Archie Hunter (1878-1890)
Albert Brown (1884-1894)
Albert Evans (1896-1907)
Freddie Miles (1902-1913)
Tommy Lyons (1907-1919)
Clem Stephenson (1910-1921)
Joe Harrop (1912-1921)
Tommy Weston (1912-1922)
Len Capewell (1921-1930)
Teddy Bowen (1924-1934)
Alec Talbot (1924-1936)
Billy Kingdon (1926-1936)
Fred Biddlestone (gk, 1930-1939)
Ernie Callaghan (1932-1947)
Bob Iverson (1936-1948)
Jackie Martin (1936-1949)
George Edwards (1938-1951)
Joe Rutherford (gk, 1939-1951)
Frank Moss jnr (1939-1955)
Harry Parkes (1939-1955)
Billy Goffin (1945-1954)
Dickie Dorsett (1946-1955)
Johnny Dixon (1946-1961)
Peter Aldis (1950-1959)
Stan Lynn (1951-1961)
Alan Deakin (1960-1969)
Charlie Aitken (1961-1976)
Michael Wright (1962-1972)
Gary Shaw (1979-1988)
Ian Taylor (1994-2003)

UTV!

1 comment:

David Rose said...

Totally agree that the players you've highlighted deserve to be so. I amazes me that Archie Hunter is not in the Villa Hall of fame.