The Full Morty: Dennis Mortimer

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It would be while playing for St Joseph’s, a local Sunday League side, that Thompson was brought to the attention of Shankly’s Liverpool. The team’s manager, Jimmy Gamble, was a steward at Anfield and he had invited one of the club’s scouts to come and watch Phil in a game, an invite to train with the club on Tuesdays and Thursdays would soon follow.

Thanks to his long-standing connection with the British football industry, including time spent as the director of coaching in the Midlands for the Professional Football Association, Mortimer has a wealth of knowledge and an intimate insight into the world of professional football; his work as a football speaker allows him to share his thoughts and experiences with like-minded audiences whilst, in his capacity as a coach and director, Mortimer has helped to develop some of the UK’s best young footballers. Match results Under-18 1960–1970". England Football Online. Chris Goodwin and Glen Isherwood. 2 August 2021 . Retrieved 24 July 2022. CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE: Aston Villa legend Peter Withe recalls European success as 40th anniversary approaches As the ball left the extrovert Liverpudlian’s foot after 67 minutes, the celebrations began in this port at the mouth of the Rhine.

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We met with his future wife Jan in the ATV social club. Jan is the sister of Linda, who worked in our newsroom, so it was a good place to choose. I will always recall his welcoming style and Liverpool accent. I knew he was a player with a good future but of course neither of us would know what great professional times lay ahead for both of us. There's no closer community, when people would fall on hard times, people from Kirkby stepped forward."

Dennis Mortimer was Aston Villa’s most successful captain in the club’s greatest team which became English champions in 1981 and then won Europe’s greatest club competition a year later – the European Champions Cup. And then there is Tony Barton, full manager for not quite two months, who stood for a second alone in the middle of the stadium while the chanting Villa fans greeted his 12 heroes, put his hands to his eyes and wept.

Dennis Mortimer raised the famous silverware into the night sky in Rotterdam after leading the side to glory against Bayern Munich in 1982. It needed two hands to lift it – it wasn’t like the league championship trophy from the year before, which you could lift with one,” said Mortimer, who was Villa’s longest serving player when they faced the German champions in Feyenoord's stadium. The Villa fans are talking about beating Albion and Blues as being their season. But that's not good enough," he complained. The closest he got to an England cap was when he sat on the bench for the Home Internationals with Scotland and Wales in 1981. Aston Villa, champions of Europe. Those five words say everything about five rounds of victories in this most prestigious of club competitions.