Game #2590

Aston Villa

3-0-2, 6 PTS

Saturday, 3 September 1960

Won

9th (+2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division One

Everton

2-0-3, 4 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 32,864

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

Aston Villa

3-2

Everton

Scorer(s) | Gerry Hitchens | 9' | 15' | Bobby Thomson | 41' |

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 3 September 1960

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 3 September 1960

Joe Mercer's Villa make it successive League wins in the top flight for the first time this season and the first time since March 1959. As a result Villa make it three wins, all at home, and two defeats, both away, on their return to the top flight with thirteen goals scored and fifteen conceded. Villa's latest win is just their thirteenth in thirty three top flight games under Mercer.

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 29 Aug 1960, Villa 2-1 West Ham, Villa Park

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 7 Sep 1960, Villa 1-1 Cardiff, Ninian Park

Aston Villa

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

Everton

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1938-39

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Everton

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. Everton: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

Everton

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟥 28 Mar 1959, Villa 1-2 Everton, Goodison Park

Everton

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 22 Mar 1961, Villa 2-1 Everton, Goodison Park

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1960-61 |
Matchday | #5 |
League Match | #5 |
Manager Game | #80 |
Saturday, 3 September 1960

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Archie Murdoch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, -1960
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers

Timeline

On This Day

Trophies

Matches

Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 77 | 🟩 | 41 🟨 14 🟥 22 | 1.78

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Archie Murdoch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, -1960
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

Archie Murdoch

CARDS

None

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Joe Mercer names an unchanged line up and has now played the same team for the fourth time in five games.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.49 |

Oldest Player |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.23 |

Youngest Player |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 23.47 |

Referee

Manager

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Aston Villa

GK Nigel Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB John Neal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 | 🚑 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Johnny Carey | 🇮🇪 |

Everton

GK Albert Dunlop | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Alex Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Tommy Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brian Labone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jimmy Gabriel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Brian Harris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tommy Ring | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Derek Temple | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Bobby Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Jimmy Harris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Roy Vernon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Substitutes

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, 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

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, 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 Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

FB John Neal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 |

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

	Unused

Squad Bios

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

Villa XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

SQUAD STATS

Everton XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

Injury | 1 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

Tables & Programmes

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

MATCH REPORTS

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🟩 3 Sep 1960, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park

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