Yet when he came back to Villa twoyears' later and then, 12 months down the line, switched to his former club's city rivals, his form was good enough to keep him among the top five keepers in the Premiership.
Roosevelt remarried twoyearslater and moved into a home he had built on Long Island, in New York, yet he credited his time at the ranch with deepening the love and respect he had for nature that helped make him an early champion of conservationism.