Midlands Masters (4 Viewers)

[CovScott88]

Did anyone watch the Midlands Masters on Saturday? The City squad for the night ended up losing both their games and heading home early. They surrendered a 2-0 lead in the first game against Aston Villa, then were beaten 5-2 by Birmingham in the 2nd game. Aston Villa went on to win the final, beating Wolves on penalties after coming from 2 goals down to draw 2-2 in the match.

Our stand out players were Paul Telfer (Still in as good condition as ever and finished top scorer with 2 goals) and Marcus Hall, however, we missed the spark of creativity in the side.
A few Ex-City players were playing for other teams on the night - Mustapha Hadji (Aston Villa), Colin Cameron (Wolves), Martin Grainger (Birmingham) and Kyle Lightbourne (Walsall).

One final thing, how big is Paul Williams now?! The guy is huge!!

 

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[fanta80]

You forgot the amazing Kyle Lightbourne playing for Walsall

 

[CovScott88]

You forgot the amazing Kyle Lightbourne playing for Walsall

I was just testing everyone, you passed, congratulations!
Plus, I had tried to block the memory of him from my brain.

 

[Bertola]

One final thing, how big is Paul Williams now?! The guy is huge!!

Steve Morgan weren't far behind him either!

 

[CovScott88]

Steve Morgan weren't far behind him either!

Yeah, we just looked like we had asked two big, black bouncers to step in at the last minute! :facepalm:

 

[SkyBluePryce]

to be fair why isnt marcus hall still playing? Could quite easily play for a league 2 team or atleast a conference side?

 

[Kuklinski]

Was it the defender Paul Williams or the winger? Didn't we also have a White Paul Williams at roughly the same time too?

 

[rob9872]

Yeah we did - came from West Brom. Awful from what I remember too

 

[CovScott88]

to be fair why isnt marcus hall still playing? Could quite easily play for a league 2 team or atleast a conference side?

I don't believe he has retired yet. He got released by Northampton recently, but he could easily still do a job at that level.

 

[CovScott88]

Was it the defender Paul Williams or the winger? Didn't we also have a White Paul Williams at roughly the same time too?

This Paul Williams was the central defender.

 

[Kuklinski]

This Paul Williams was the central defender.

Thanks. He wasn't the best was he? We should have kept him in midfield where he was capable of breaking play up, but never a centreback.

 

[CovScott88]

Not the most gifted of players, but was decent I thought. Used to love how he marshalled the back 4. Strangely enough, the first time I saw him was in a friendly @ Hitchin Town, he played really well and was constantly talking the the defence and midfield. Being that I was a kid then, I really liked him and actually based my game on his, as I was also a central defender.

 

[Nonleagueherewecome]

He was a top defender for a couple of seasons, although I did think he'd have been better as a ball-winning midfielder. Great goal against Newcastle from miles out. I'll never forget that game v Arsenal (league cup?) where Bergkamp kicked his own leg to make it look like a foul and Willo got a red. Cheating b*****d, I always just thought of that whenever the MOTD types are waxing lyrical about his "genius".

He was certainly the best of the 3 Paul Williams's. What's scary with him is he was actually close to that huge size within a year of retiring!

 

[sw88]

He was massive!!! Saying that, so was Jeff Winter!! I was really suprised by Winters size, considering he's still on the referreeing side of things, albeit, bein a spokesperson and regularly interviewed on referee debates etc, which i dont imagine requires much exercising (probably a good thing!!!).

felt sorry for John Williams, getting injured so early on. i think thats what went wrong for us