Why Donald Trump had a chuckle about Aston Villa’s Doug Ellis
With the US election concluded and Donald Trump back at the White House we take a look back at a funny moment involving Donald Trump and a comment made on live TV about former Villa chairman Doug Ellis
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With Donald Trump once again named as President Of The United States, you can perhaps forgive the Republican for forgetting all about the Rumbelows League Cup in 1992.
The incumbent US president was still in his 40s – minus the tan and bleached hair – when he was invited to do the cup draw alongside Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves, better known as Saint and Greavsie.
The pair shot to fame in the late 80s for their comedy-led football punditry shows on ITV between 1985 and 1992. Prior to their TV show ending, though, the duo managed to pull off a bit of a coup by getting Trump to do the League Cup quarter-final draw live from his Trump Towers boardroom.
Then-Football League secretary David Dent oversaw the draw with Greaves picking the home teams and Trump picking the away sides.
“I told you, didn’t I,” Greaves said with a smile during the clip that emerged overnight, making reference at landing Trump to conduct the draw.
The camera then panned to Trump smiling awkwardly after before Greaves shook hands and complimented Trump’s office, while adding how it reminded him of a certain Doug Ellis’s back at Villa Park.
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“This is some pad you’ve got here, isn’t it,” the brilliant Greaves said with a smile. “I tell you this is beautiful. I haven’t seen a boardroom like this since I was in Doug Ellis’s at Aston Villa.”
That very Villa comment made Trump cackle with real amusement, almost as if he’d previously sat in Ellis’s office in B6 himself.
So, as Greavsie used to say, it’s a funny old game.
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