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Game #105

Aston Villa

5-4-7, 14 PTS

Friday, 26 December 1890

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Drew

8th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨

Football League

Sunderland

5-4-6, 12 PTS*

Wellington Road, Perry Barr

Attendance: 6,000

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

Aston Villa

0-0

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Sunderland

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

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MATCH TIMELINE

Friday, 26 December 1890

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Sunderland
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Sunderland

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

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ON THIS DAY

Friday, 26 December 1890

  • Villa face Sunderland for the first time in competitive football, Sunderland become the 30th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football and the first new opponent Villa have faced since playing South Shore 20 games previously.

  • Villa make it successive draws under George Ramsay.

  • Midfielder James Connor made his final appearance for Villa aged 23 before moving on to today’s opponents Sunderland. 

  • Forward Albert Allen made his final appearance for Villa aged just 26 before retiring from football due to illness.

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 OL Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1887-90 | 🕒 56 | ⚽ 34 | 🔥 8 | #46 |
🔴 B James Connor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1890 | 🕒 4 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | #62 |

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Aston Villa

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1886–87

Sunderland

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

Aston Villa

Sunderland

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Sunderland

Previous 5 vs. Sunderland: None

Sunderland

PREVIOUS MATCH

None
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Sunderland

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1890-91 |
Matchday | #16 |
League Match | #16 |
Manager Game | #79 |
Saturday, 26 December 1890

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🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 1886-1926 led Management Committee
Referee: Cooke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1890-
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1899

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 79 | 🟩 | 37 🟨 17 🟥 25 | 1.62

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1899

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Cooke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1890-
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

None

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

In two changes from the side that drew with Blackburn, James Connor and Gershom Cox return as Walter Evans and Jack Burton drop out.

Starting XI Average Age:
| 25.33 |

Oldest Player:
HB Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.82 |

Youngest Player:
HB George Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 19.91 |

Referee
Manager

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

MANAGER

George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1899

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B Gershom Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B James Connor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔴 |
HB Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB George Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB James Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
OR Albert Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
OR Jimmy Cowan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
OL Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
OL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Tom McKnight | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Tom Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Sunderland

GK Ned Doig | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
B Tom Porteus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B John Oliver | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB Andrew Wilson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB John Auld | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB John Murray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F John Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F John Harvey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F John Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F John Scott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F David Hannah | 🇬🇧 |

Line Ups

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Substitutes

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

SQUAD STATS

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Villa XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

SQUAD STATS

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Sunderland XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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None

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

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MATCH QUOTES

"A thick mist gradually increasing rendered the latter part of the game far from interesting, so that when the whistle sounded the end without either side suffering a defeat, the partisans of either team were not displeased."
Quotes

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

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MATCH REPORTS

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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*Birmingham Daily Post*
Saturday, 27 December 1890

ASTON VILLA V. SUNDERLAND These teams met at Perry Barr, in the presence of about seven thousand spectators. The appearance of the northern team was looked upon with great interest in local football circles, and the exposition they gave of a passing game reflected a considerable credit upon them. An accident which occurred about midway through the second half robbed the visitors of some of their attacking force. Smith had the misfortune, in kicking the ball, to strain some of the muscles of his right leg, and was unable to take any further part in the game. The visitors in the first half played from the Wellington Road goal, and were very quickly near the Villa, goal. Smith and Harvey, on the right wing were responsible for a lot of good work, and they were admirably supported by the backs. A few minutes’ play, however, proved that the ground was in a bad condition for the players, being very slippery, although the greater portion of the snow had been removed. Many good chances in the early part of the game were lost, mainly on account of the state of the field and the Villa forwards were particularly noticeable for their mistakes. Although the visitors did not have matters all their own way, they did most of the pressing. The forwards passed with wonderful neatness, and being well-fed by the backs they were enabled to make, stubborn attacks. One feature was, however, plainly observable-in front of goal their kicking generally was weak. The slippery ground was responsible for many fouls, some of them being in an unpleasant closeness to goal. Warner proved himself a good custodian on more than one occasion, and frequently, accomplished what might have been expected of the backs. Albert Brown made one of the best runs of the match but the final shot, though well aimed, passed on the wrong side of the post. Devey put in a lot of good work, and Cox more than once relieved the pressure when it was most threatening. The visitors showed decidedly the better combination up to half- time, and for the most part played an aggressive game but weakness immediately in front of goal marred the beat efforts of the forwards. When the interval was reached no score, had been made. On restarting the visitors led off with a brisk attack, and for some time Warner and the backs were busily engaged in defending their goal. At last Cox relieved the pressure, and Brown getting possession, passed across to McKnight, who in turn a passed to Hodgetts. In this order a, capital run was made, but Hodgetts lost the ball by slipping as he was about to make a return to McKnight. The visitors again made an attack on Warner's charge, and for fully five minutes the fortune of the Villa seemed in great peril. The ball was at length got away, and Hodgetts once more attempted, with the aid of McKnight, to score. The effort was fruitless, and a thick mist gradually increasing rendered the latter part of the game far from interesting, so that when the whistle sounded the end without either side suffering a defeat, the partisans of either team were not displeased. To sum up, it must be confessed that in passing the visiting forwards showed themselves superior to their opponents and had played a thoroughly sound game.
Reports

🟨 26 Dec 1890, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Wellington Road

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