Villan, Kennedy and Barlow would have completed the perfect deal.
My old friend Norman Uprichard tells me he gets the occasional invite to his former club Portsmouth home games, he was there last season when Villa were playing, and he and his old pal from his playing days with N Ireland Villa legend Peter McParland, were cheered to the echo by both sets of fans.
Norman told me it was worth the effort, [as his old pins are almost gone], just to hear that mighty roar, unlike McParland still fit enough to have his round of golf, Peter now lives in Bournemouth and Norman in Hastings, the old players of my youth are very few now.