ASTON VILLA are mourning the demise of membership document look maker Charlie Aitken.
The Scottish former left-back has died aged 81, having performed 660 video games for the Midlanders from 1959-1976.
Tributes are being paid to Charlie Aitken, who was with Villa for 17 years earlier than ending his enjoying days at New York CosmosCredit score: 2019 Simon Stacpoole/Offside
This photograph from 1969 reveals Aitken a decade into his superb spell at Villa
A membership assertion learn: “Aston Villa is deeply saddened to study of the passing of club-record look holder Charlie Aitken, who has died on the age of 81.
“The ideas of everybody on the membership are with Charlie’s household and associates at this extremely troublesome time.
“Charlie established a Villa document which can nearly actually by no means be damaged. Throughout 17 years with the membership, he made a complete of 660 appearances – 657 begins plus three in its place.
“To offer a sign of the magnitude of his achievement, the following two highest Villa appearance-makers are the membership’s document scorer Billy Walker with 531 and European Cup winner Gordon Cowans on 527.
“Aitken additionally mirrored the membership’s fluctuating fortunes from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies, making the journey from the outdated First Division to the Second to the Third – and again once more – between 1967 and 1975.
“In addition to representing Villa in three completely different divisions, he additionally performed within the FA Cup, the League Cup, the Charity Protect and the UEFA Cup – a formidable portfolio for somebody who attended a rugby-playing faculty the place soccer was frowned upon.”
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