The FA Cup Final thread Starring Villa V Arsenal.

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prestonibbo_mcfc said:
Thught he played for Wolves & Everton ;-)
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From Wikipedia:

Gray started his professional career as a player with Dundee United where he scored 46 goals in 62 appearances.

In October 1975, at the age of 19, he moved south to Aston Villa (newly promoted to the First Division) and won England's golden boot in 1976/77 with his tally of 25 league goals. His 29 goals in the following season earned him the PFA Young Player of the Year and PFA Players' Player of the Year awards (a historic double not repeated until Cristiano Ronaldo won both awards 30 years later and Gareth Bale won both in 2013). At the time he was the youngest player to earn the Players' Player of the Year award, and the first player to win more than one of the official three player of the year awards in the same season.

Gray then moved to Villa's local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in September 1979 for a then-English record £1.5m. After scoring the winning goal for Wolves in the 1980 League Cup final, he remained with the club through their relegation in 1982 (despite interest from Manchester United) and promotion a year later.

Wolves bought Gray from the proceeds of their sale of Steve Daley to us plus another £50 000 or so.
 
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