Crops: The Alex Cropley Story

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Jawad, Hyder (17 December 2006). "Villa's 45-minute blitz of the champions". Birmingham Post. Trinity Mirror Midlands . Retrieved 8 February 2013. That came as Goldsworthy marked his first County Championship appearance of the season with 122, his second first-class century. He was so humble. I asked him, ‘did you actually realise how good you were?’. He replied, ‘not really, all I wanted to do was play football’.”

Born in Aldershot Alex Cropley made history when he became one of the first players born outside the country to represent Scotland.Brian, brought up in Newtown but now living in Northampton, has partner Jo Elijah to thank for finding Cropley

Capped several times at both under-23 and inter-league level he made his full Scotland debut in a friendly against the reigning World Champions Brazil including the great Pele, in a friendly at Hampden in 1966 and did his reputation no harm. One of my indelible sporting memories is not a sight but a sound. I'm watching Aston Villa play West Bromwich Albion one grey day in 1977. The derby is always intense, but today there seems a kind of malevolence to the match, and to the crowd; you would n ot want to be out there. In the Villa midfield is a slight fi gure called Alex Cropley, a Scot who is in the form of his life. The previous season he had inspired Villa to a 5-1 win over Liverpool, the champions , and this afternoon he is making the Albion side - the team of John Wile and Len Cantello, one of the most uncompromising ever to take to a football field - look like park players. But Tom Kohler-Cadmore's dismissal to the final ball of the day swung the mentality metre strongly in Essex's favour. His goal in the League Cup semi-final against Rangers at Hampden secured a place in the final then on a memorable December afternoon in 1972 the unforgettable Turnbull’s Tornadoes overcame a great Celtic side to win the League Cup for the first time in the club’s history. Gordon Lee’s first League game in charge of Everton had been a 2-0 defeat away to Aston Villa on the 5th February 1977, which meant that they had won both the League encounters. On the day of the final Aston Villa were in fourth place in the table but with games in hand on the clubs above. Everton were in fifteenth position. Although Aston Villa were clearly the bookmaker’s favourites, being quoted at 11/10 by most, Everton under Lee had started to improve, winning five games on the bounce and progressing to the last eight of the F.A. Cup.Somerset began the day on 268-4, knowing that the second new ball was just an over away. However, any hopes Nottinghamshire had of using it to re-establish their first-day advantage soon disappeared. Brian added: “During our conversation, the love he had for Villa and the supporters was very evident. Former Aston Villa legend Alex Cropley discovered driving a taxi in Edinburgh". Birmingham Mail.co.uk.

Tommy Preston started the 1955 season deputising for the ill Lawrie Reilly and would rarely, barring injuries be out of the side during the next ten years. Alexander James Cropley (born 16 January 1951) is a retired footballer who played as a midfielder for Hibernian, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Newcastle United and Portsmouth. Born in England, he was capped for the Scotland national team. [3] Career [ edit ]

Somerset had batted stoically in the hope of batting out 151 overs, or reaching 466 to win, but they were eventually bowled out for 269 with two sessions to spare. One of the most dramatic features of the past sporting year has been the new look on the faces of three of England's most mercurial sporting heroes: Michael Owen , Jonny Wilkinson and Andrew Flintoff . As younger, uninhibited, uninjured men, each of the three had that sense of fearlessness about their eyes, born of supreme natural talent; they shared an absolute faith in the possibilities of their bodies. Now, having each lost seasons and victories and trophies to pain and boredom, there is something more broken about their look. Things did not improve after lunch with George Bartlett lbw to Porter with the first ball on resumption, having previously survived some close calls while stepping across his stumps.