Stoke City: Pulis reveals his Villa 'heroes' – past and present
by Martin Spinks
A VILLA VIP has been invited to the big game at the Britannia tomorrow ... by Stoke boss Tony Pulis.
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TARGET: Tony Pulis has told his players he wants them to better last season's top flight points haul.
Peter McParland is part of Aston Villa folklore after scoring both goals in their 2-1 win over Manchester United in the 1957 FA Cup final.
The former Northern Ireland international is almost as famous for the shoulder charge that left United keeper Ray Wood with a broken cheekbone in an era when men were men.
Now in his mid-seventies, McParland and Pulis first met several years ago when bumping into one another in their adopted hometown of Bournemouth.
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