| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:30 - Dec 7 with 1294 views | backwaywhen |
RIP ... tried hard to bring Nodge up to our level , before going to Villa . |  | |  |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:40 - Dec 7 with 1259 views | patrickswell |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:30 - Dec 7 by backwaywhen |
RIP ... tried hard to bring Nodge up to our level , before going to Villa . |
It's interesting to see that he achieved something Bobby Robson never did in winning a league championship, but by late-1987 he was out of the game altogether. |  | | |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:46 - Dec 7 with 1231 views | BloomBlue |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:40 - Dec 7 by patrickswell |
It's interesting to see that he achieved something Bobby Robson never did in winning a league championship, but by late-1987 he was out of the game altogether. |
Precisely people forget he took an underachieving club to actually winning the league, certainly one of the great managers |  | | |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:56 - Dec 7 with 1211 views | Trequartista |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:40 - Dec 7 by patrickswell |
It's interesting to see that he achieved something Bobby Robson never did in winning a league championship, but by late-1987 he was out of the game altogether. |
Think there was some sort of bustup at Villa not long after the title win and he went to Birmingham fairly bitter about his fomer club. |  |
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| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 20:38 - Dec 7 with 1100 views | patrickswell |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:56 - Dec 7 by Trequartista |
Think there was some sort of bustup at Villa not long after the title win and he went to Birmingham fairly bitter about his fomer club. |
Indeed, that was around the time Doug Ellis was trying to regain control of Villa, I think. | | | |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 21:06 - Dec 7 with 1059 views | manchego |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 19:40 - Dec 7 by patrickswell |
It's interesting to see that he achieved something Bobby Robson never did in winning a league championship, but by late-1987 he was out of the game altogether. |
that was so obviously, ridiculously our title I hate thinking about it.
we beat them 3 times out of 3 - helpfully knocking them out of the cup early - which we got to the semis of - which knackered us - while we were winning the UEFA Cup - and ending up just behind them - who used 14 players all season.
god I should move on. |  | | |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 21:18 - Dec 7 with 1035 views | Ftnfwest |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 21:06 - Dec 7 by manchego |
that was so obviously, ridiculously our title I hate thinking about it.
we beat them 3 times out of 3 - helpfully knocking them out of the cup early - which we got to the semis of - which knackered us - while we were winning the UEFA Cup - and ending up just behind them - who used 14 players all season.
god I should move on. |
Over the years I’ve come to accept that the best team doesn’t always win |  | | |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 21:26 - Dec 7 with 1029 views | allezlesbleus |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 21:06 - Dec 7 by manchego |
that was so obviously, ridiculously our title I hate thinking about it.
we beat them 3 times out of 3 - helpfully knocking them out of the cup early - which we got to the semis of - which knackered us - while we were winning the UEFA Cup - and ending up just behind them - who used 14 players all season.
god I should move on. |
I feel exactly the same, so gutted we didn't win the league that year.
Having said that, Ron Saunders done incredibly well to win the league. I didn't remember that he left Villa in Feb '82, before they went on to win the European Cup.
RIP Ron. |  | | |
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| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 22:59 - Dec 7 with 925 views | Churchman |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 21:06 - Dec 7 by manchego |
that was so obviously, ridiculously our title I hate thinking about it.
we beat them 3 times out of 3 - helpfully knocking them out of the cup early - which we got to the semis of - which knackered us - while we were winning the UEFA Cup - and ending up just behind them - who used 14 players all season.
god I should move on. |
Me too. Talk about scratching a sore place. We were a better side than Villa by a margin. We were too good and ran out of steam. Everything fell into place for Villa, sadly. But hey, what an outstanding team we had in that period. It was a total privilege to see us play and they were the best of the basically 3 decent sides Robson put together. |  | | |
| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 04:06 - Dec 8 with 828 views | KilburnBlue |
He was one of only two Englishman still alive who had won the top flight in English football.
Only Howard Wilkinson remains now |  |
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| Ron Saunders RIP (n/t) on 09:17 - Dec 8 with 729 views | ElephantintheRoom |
His 'Jimmy for Scotland, Paddon for England...' team made local derbies genuinely exciting events.... and if memory serves he took Naaaarwich to a wembley final. As said already, he did something Robson never managed to achieve, win the league, with a fairly limited team that was nowhere good as Town's team at the time... and it was effectively his team that won the European Cup. Astonishing achievements. | |
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