Savo Milošević

[Tom13]

I was shocked there's not already a thread for him.

Anyway, my Euro 2024 content viewing is about to begin right now on ITV 4, with him apparently starring.

Taken from the programmes description:

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Road to UEFA EURO 2004

Euro 2024 is almost here - in this episode of a programme looking ahead to the tournament, Euro 2000 legend Savo Milosevic reflects on finishing as its top scorer.

Edited May 18 by Tom13

[fightoffyour]

Met him in a multi storey car park of a shopping centre in somewhere like Sutton Coldfield. Got his autograph, legend.

[VillaChris]

He parted on bad terms after the spitting incident but I think if he ever came back and was presented to VP he'd get a good reception.

He really wasn't a bad signing at all. 3.5m (which was a big fee in those days) but scored the famous goal v Leeds, hit double figures in two of his prem seasons, set up more for Yorke and then in his final year scored a couple in our Uefa cup run.

I forget who he's managing these days so could end up managing in England one day perhaps.

[Follyfoot]

4 hours ago, fightoffyour said:

Met him in a multi storey car park of a shopping centre in somewhere like Sutton Coldfield. Got his autograph, legend.

Dogging? 

[fightoffyour]

2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Dogging? 

I would've been too young to know about that but he didn’t have any trousers on 

[Demitri_C]

I have no ill feelings towards him. That goal vs leeds unreal.

Alpay on thw other hand i dont think he would get a good reception

[Tom13]

2 hours ago, VillaChris said:

He parted on bad terms after the spitting incident but I think if he ever came back and was presented to VP he'd get a good reception.

Yeah, can't hold that against him. Even he regrets it:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/03/23/savomilosevic-interview-gareth-southgates-japes-spitting-aston/

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"The Blackburn game is still the most stupid thing I have done in my life. It was so stupid, I don’t know why I did it. It’s one of those things that happens and you can’t explain it. I still wish I didn’t do it. I was young and I learned from that, but it was a sad way for things to end for me at Villa because I love the club and the fans."

[sidcow]

3 hours ago, VillaChris said:

He parted on bad terms after the spitting incident but I think if he ever came back and was presented to VP he'd get a good reception.

He really wasn't a bad signing at all. 3.5m (which was a big fee in those days) but scored the famous goal v Leeds, hit double figures in two of his prem seasons, set up more for Yorke and then in his final year scored a couple in our Uefa cup run.

I forget who he's managing these days so could end up managing in England one day perhaps.

I remember walking out of old Wembley with hoards of Villa fans belting out "Savo Scored at Wembley, la, la, la, la".

[Genie]

Boom, boom, booom, lemme hear you say Savo!

[Mark Albrighton]

According to wiki he scored 12 goals in 37 appearances during his first season. The season before, £5m PL transfer record Chris Sutton scored 15 in 40 (again, according to wiki).

It’s not exactly terrible in hindsight when looking at it in those terms. I think it was, in part, let’s have a dig at the foreign fella with the funny name.

[mjmooney]

1 hour ago, Tom13 said:

Yeah, can't hold that against him. Even he regrets it:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/03/23/savomilosevic-interview-gareth-southgates-japes-spitting-aston/

I was at that game, and every Villa player, bar none, was having a stinker. The travelling Villa fans were mightily pissed off, and giving it "You're not fit to wear the shirt" with both barrels. But there were a few pissed-up meatheads down the front who were targeting Savo with particular venom - and he reacted. Wrong, but understandable. 

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[MrBlack]

Just now, Mark Albrighton said:

According to wiki he scored 12 goals in 37 appearances during his first season. The season before, £5m PL transfer record Chris Sutton scored 15 in 40 (again, according to wiki).

It’s not exactly terrible in hindsight when looking at it in those terms. I think it was, in part, let’s have a dig at the foreign fella with the funny name.

Probably a bit of that but he was also very slow and missed a few sitters as well as miss hitting quite a few too. Crazy that even despite that he scored 12. We must have been creating loads. If only xG was around back then.

[Mark Albrighton]

1 minute ago, MrBlack said:

Probably a bit of that but he was also very slow and missed a few sitters as well as miss hitting quite a few too. Crazy that even despite that he scored 12. We must have been creating loads. If only xG was around back then.

Yeah I accept some of the criticism would be valid. But I think things like the language barrier, adapting to a new country, a new team, a new league, doing this while he was 22…these factors would be considered a little bit more when assessing him these days. I’d like to think anyway.

[Tommo_b]

Loved Savo miss a lot of it and Sasa Curcic

[It's Your Round]

1 hour ago, Genie said:

Boom, boom, booom, lemme hear you say Savo!

I loved singing this at Villa Park. The sad little runt that I was made up further verses of the Out-here Brothers tune. 

[GlobalVillan]

6 hours ago, mjmooney said:

I was at that game, and every Villa player, bar none, was having a stinker. The travelling Villa fans were mightily pissed off, and giving it "You're not fit to wear the shirt" with both barrels. But there were a few pissed-up meatheads down the front who were targeting Savo with particular venom - and he reacted. Wrong, but understandable. 

I was, bizarrely, at Highfield Rd that day, watching a cracking 2-2 draw between Coventry and Arsenal. (Think there were a couple of red cards and penalties.)

When the news came through that we had lost 5-0, you can imagine the roar from the Cov fans. The most one sided rivalry in all of football. Representatives for North East Somerset

 

[CosmicVillan]

17 hours ago, Follyfoot said:

Dogging? 

Have I stumbled into the SVC thread