At last, a Villa player. I was pretty good, waiting till number 16 to get one of our lads up there, wasn't I? After starting his career as a kiddie at Norwich, Dion arrived at Aston Villa via Cambridge, Manchester United and Coventry.
He arrived at Aston Villa in the Autumn of 1998 for £5.75m. In his first 3 games for the club, he would score 7 goals including a memorable hat-trick against Southampton in only his second game for the Villans. In December 1999 whilst playing for Villa against Sheffield Wednesday, he sustained a life threatening broken neck as a result of which he permanently has a titanium plate holding three neck vertebrae together. In April 2000, a week after returning to the team, he helped Aston Villa reach their first FA Cup final in 43 years (the result of which we will gloss over) scoring in the semi-final shoot-out with Bolton. Having regained his fitness, Dublin remained on the Villa payroll until 2002. Faced with competition for a first team place by Juan Pablo Angel and Peter Crouch, Dublin spent several weeks on loan at Millwall. Returning to Villa, he found himself again a first choice striker, partnering Darius Vassell up front.
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