John Gregory

I think we could s- like, I could see the way that he played the game.

He sort of, he was like the manager on the pitch under John Gregory and the other man- other managers that we had at Villa at the time.

Spoke in a certain way.

He spoke to certain players in a certain way, then he spoke to Gabby in a certain way, me in a certain way.

This is no joke.

And, and I know that other players have had this story.

Went into Doug's, uh, office with John Gregory.

Um, chatting away, chatting away and, and he's chatting.

And of course, the coach was...

John Gregory was incredible with me and then Bradford City came to pick me up and offered me four years contract and with the big problems with Bradford City at that time the first season it was We spent a lot of money to take really good players like Colm or big, big players to try to play and to save the season, but it was a really unlucky season.

And after I I'm going again to enjoy the derby with Ravanelli because Ravanelli want me over there and then I'm going for six months and then the second six months of the season I go to Middlesbrough and finish my career in the Premier League in Middlesbrough because after that experience I went back to play in Parma in Italy.

So it was a beautiful time.

Super Colin Dobson, what a legend, rest in peace.

Myself, John Gregory, Alan Evans.

Alan

Evans, yeah.

Yeah.

I th- I think, uh, John Gregory, the former England player-

He did.

Yeah.

But it's similar to, like, Villa now, you know, people, people your age now are able to enjoy the success that Villa are having because they've lived through the tough times.

And people who were a bit older than you when the Martin O'Neill era was going on, they felt like they'd really earned that success because they'd been through kind of the, the latter days of Doug Ellis and David O'Leary and the end of John Gregory and all of the, you know, Graham Taylor's second reign.

It, it was a really kind of quite a grim time to be a Villa fan.

There was a lot of unrest.

Yeah, yeah.

And it's like, no matter how obscure the name, John Gregory's like, "There was a man called Ivor Beeks at Wycombe."

He's a good guy.

He's like, "Oh, Beeks.

He's a big name for sure.

No, no. Brian Little, Martin O'Neill, John Gregory, Brian Kidd, just to name a few.

Who had the biggest influence on you? God, it is hard because...

Well, that's a no-tone anyway.

Famously, he buggered off and had a nose job when he should have been recuperating from training.

That's just a John Gregory story, that is.

That looks Prino's job from here.

I

So make sure you're checking out what they do.

They've got one coming up with Ian Taylor, Lee Hendry and John Gregory.

John Gregory's got a book launch night as well.

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Martin, you don't do this.