PaulC Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Really sad to read the news that Trevor Francis has died. Wonderful footballer, greatest player Blues ever had. RIP 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted July 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted July 24, 2023 Remember him from his forest days, scored the winner in the European Cup. Class act RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zab6359 Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Class player and far to young RIP Trevor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceemo Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Always thought of him as a really nice guy. Thoughts with his family. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrchnry Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Hated him with a passion as a kid after he scored that hat trick against us for QPR. Grew up to admire him though, especially for his time at Forest. He'll always be written in history as the first million pound player. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted July 24, 2023 My mom has met him on a number of occasions. His mother (or mother in law I can't remember) was a resident in a care home my mom worked at. She couldn't say enough good things about him. Apparently an absolutely top guy. RIP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Never saw him as player but seemed a top football man, although I thought he was older than he was. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moustache of Teale Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Shocking and sad news. Always looked in good shape for his age. By all accounts a decent bloke. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Classy statement from our club 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 This is really sad R.I.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Disliked him for the winner in the European Cup. Was against my Swedish team. Was a bit biased against us when he did our games I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 A great player, whichever team he played for. A sad loss, so young too. Always thought he went down to easily most times though. RIP TF. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villanbee Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 (edited) I'll always remember Trevor Francis because he played for Sheffield Wednesday in my first ever game at Villa Park in Feb 1990. He'd joined them earlier that month from QPR for whom he'd scored the aforementioned hat trick at Villa Park earlier in the season. He came on as a sub. The Blues relationship and the hat-trick meant he got all kinds of abuse all game from the Holte. 13 year old me thought it was all great fun! What a great player he was. RIP Trevor Francis. Edited July 24, 2023 by Villanbee Grammar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Sad news, remember him when he played for that lot down the road. Gone far to early. Thoughts with his family 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 RIP. Great player and a very decent manager as well. Surprised me that he last managed 20 years ago. His wife died of breast cancer 6 years ago so I don't think he ever recovered from that. Sad times 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 One of the greats of Midlands football (even if he was from Plymouth). Growing up he gave me plenty of amusement just falling short as their manager in the play offs for about 2-3 seasons running but they were very unlucky not to win the league cup in 2001 which would've been a huge shock at the time. Greatest professional tribute I can pay is I listened to him many times doing co-commentary on Villa games in the late 2000s and you'd never have guessed he'd have any association whatsoever with Birmingham City. R.I.P. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Absolutely shellshocked at the news. We had Little they had Francis, two wonderful footballers, just a shame Little's was ended so prematurely by injury. As much as us Villa fans ribbed Francis, you couldn't deny he was special. I'm trying to think who is similar in today's game but I'm struggling. He was a Thouraghbred who regularly scored great goals. I can still vision his brilliant header against us in the last minutes at St Andrews which was the winner in a pulsating derby under the lights.. He was successful for every club he played for, very rarely did he have a bad game. Cloughie paid a million for him and he won him a European cup with another classic Francis header. Blue nose till the end, but a really decent delightful footballer to have had the pleasure of watching. Rest peacefully, Sir. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 5 hours ago, Villanbee said: I'll always remember Trevor Francis because he played for Sheffield Wednesday in my first ever game at Villa Park in Feb 1990. He'd joined them earlier that month from QPR for whom he'd scored the aforementioned hat trick at Villa Park earlier in the season. He came on as a sub. The Blues relationship and the hat-trick meant he got all kinds of abuse all game from the Holte. 13 year old me thought it was all great fun! What a great player he was. RIP Trevor Francis. He succeeded Ron Atkinson to become player manager. That was the season we played them in our first game at Hillsbourgh, one of them games you never forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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