Former Aston Villa striker Gary Shaw, who won the European Cup with the club, dies aged 63 from injuries sustained in a fall.
Shaw came through the youth ranks at his boyhood club and went on to score 79 goals in 213 games for Villa.
"He passed away peacefully earlier today surrounded by his family, who asked Aston Villa to release a statement on their behalf. The former England Under-21 striker also played for Blackpool, Walsall, Kilmarnock and Shrewsbury Town. Shaw finished Villa top scorer in 1979-80, but it was Ron Saunders' signing of Peter Withe, already a league title winner with Nottingham Forest, as his strike partner up front that transformed Villa.
And, although the goals comparatively dried in the league the following season as Shaw missed 16 games through injury, he and Withe both scored three times each en route to beating Bayern Munich 1-0 to win the European Cup in Rotterdam. Other than scoring in the two-leg European Super Cup win over Barcelona the following season, that night in Rotterdam turned out to be the highlight of Shaw's career when, in September 1983, he sustained the knee injury that ultimately ended his career.
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