Game #2529

Aston Villa

11-4-18, 26 PTS

Saturday, 21 March 1959

Won

20th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division One

Luton Town

9-9-11, 27 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 27,401

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

Aston Villa

3-1

Luton Town

Scorer(s) | Les Smith (pen) | 63' | Gerry Hitchens | 70' 85' |

Assist(s) | None

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 21 March 1959

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 21 March 1959

Joe Mercer's Villa record successive League wins for the first time under his leadership and for the first time since April 1956 to make it eleven wins, four draws and eighteen losses in thirty three division one games as the change in leadership begins to show progress with nine games left to play.

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 18 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Bolton, Burnden Park

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟥 27 Mar 1959, Villa 2-3 Spurs, White Hart Lane

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1956-57

Luton Town

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Luton Town

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. Luton: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Luton Town

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟥 1 Nov 1958, Villa 1-2 Luton, Kenilworth Road

Luton Town

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 23 Sep 1964, Villa 1-0, Luton, Kenilworth Road

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1958-59 |
Matchday | #39 |
League Match | #33 |
Manager Game | #19 |
Saturday, 21 March 1959

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Sandy Griffiths | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abertillery, -1959
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers

Timeline

On This Day

Trophies

Matches

Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 16 | 🟩 | 9 🟨 1 🟥 6 | 1.75

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Sandy Griffiths | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abertillery, -1959
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

Sandy Griffiths

CARDS

None

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Joe Mercer names the same line up for the fifth consecutive game.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.83 |

Oldest Player |
F Johnny Dixon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 35.30 |

Youngest Player |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 24.47 |

Referee

Manager

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Aston Villa

GK Nigel Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Peter Aldis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Doug Winton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
W Les Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Jackie Sewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Johnny Dixon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Syd Owen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Luton Town

GK Ron Baynham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Ken Hawkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Terry Kelly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Seamus Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
M Dave Pacey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Bob Morton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ken Groves | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Billy Bingham | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
W Jimmy Adam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F George Cummins | 🇮🇪 |
F Allan Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Substitutes

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

	Game	Start	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red
GK Nigel Sims \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|

FB Peter Aldis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

FB Doug Winton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

W Les Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

F Jackie Sewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 |

F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

F Johnny Dixon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

	Game	Sub	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red

UNUSED

	Unused

Squad Bios

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

SQUAD STATS

Luton XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

None

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

Tables & Programmes

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

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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🟩 21 Mar 1959, Villa 3-1 Luton, Villa Park

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