{"id":716858,"date":"2026-07-29T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:27:13","slug":"aston-villa-still-honouring-neil-cox-deal-in-seats-35-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716858\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa still honouring Neil Cox deal in seats, 35 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cox was an up-and-coming defender who had made just 17 league appearances for Scunthorpe when he moved to Villa Park in 1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, the fee was a record for the Iron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Decades on, when some old seats needed to be replaced at Glanford Park this summer, Julie Taylor, a liaison officer for the club, was able to recall the finer details of the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I heard Villa were revamping their stadium,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I called their secretary and asked, &#8216;Is there any chance we could have some seats, 35 years later, after selling Neil Cox to you?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He said, &#8216;Yes, we&#8217;re just going to throw them out&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cox was an up-and-coming defender who had made just 17 league appearances for Scunthorpe when he moved to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}