I'm not sure if I believe it yet or not but I've had two emails sent in over the space of two days saying that William McGregor will be getting a statue outside the stadium in recognition for all he achieved at Aston Villa and for setting up the first football league and what that meant to the game in general.

Apparently the source of the rumour is none other than Charles C. Krulak, the new non-executive director of Aston Villa, who according to one of the emails went on to an Aston Villa forum to say hi and thanks for the welcome and support he and Randy Lerner have received in recent weeks.

It would certainly be a deserved statue and one of many I think we should have scattered around Villa Park in recognition of the history and heritage that our club is so proud of.

I'm jumping the gun but they might as well commission a design done for Martin O'Neill and have it sitting somewhere ready to erect when he brings the European Cup back. Cobblers aside, use the form below to tell us who you think should get a statue.

More information is available for William McGregor and Charles C. Krulak.

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Jon House said:

I personally would like to see a statue of Dennis Mortimer holding the European Cup aloft to celebrate our most famous moment.

October 25, 2006

DaveR said:

How about Tony Barton holding up the Cup?

October 25, 2006

michael w said:

How about a statue of David O'Leary - theres nothing more than id like to see than him covered in pigeon crap!!

October 25, 2006

Damian said:

Anymore comments about muppet man getting a statue, regardless of good nature and the appropriateness of him being covered in pigeon crap will be deleted. I think from now on I'm not going to mention his name again and only refer to him as 'the previous incumbent'. The muppet man lives on. I hope he gets the Blues job!

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Max said:

Without a doubt Ron Saunders. He built the team that won the League, European Cup and Super Cup. That should never be forgotten. McGregor was incredibly successful in his time though?

October 25, 2006 | url

Villamumphie said:

Guys & girls ... i'd go to town personnally. I would errect a statue of each chairman with the manager & captain of every throphy winning side going back to the begginning. If for instance you had a Chairman/manager captain who had won muliple throphys then the set should be laid out before them (i'm at work so i can't list examples) ... and yes for all the pain he caused us Douug would have his place behind the likes of Little & Atkinson ... his time is over lets not be bitter ... plus with a setup like this ALL future chairman (and i hope our current chairman is here for a very, very long time) and managers will want to be imoralised in bronze. This would also remind ALL visiting fans what a force Aston villa FC are in the game ... up the Villa.

October 25, 2006

John Lerwill said:

Such commemoration to Wm. McGrgeor is long overdue, but I suggest (and I have long stated this) that equal praise is due to George Ramsay and Fred. Rinder. They were the key men who, in the way the club was run and how it conducted itself, were a model for more than one other club and thus the three gentelemen together did much for the whole of football, not just A.V. As an addiitonal thought - the idea of the League was not McGregor's. It was he, however, who took the bit by the teeth and organised its implementation.

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