Game #2596

Aston Villa

5-1-5, 11 PTS

Saturday, 1 October 1960

Lost

10th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥

Division One

Leicester City

4-2-5, 10 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 29,623

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-3

Leicester City

Scorer(s) | Peter McParland | 53' |

Assist(s) | Gerry Hitchens | 53' |

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 1 October 1960

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 1 October 1960

Joe Mercer's Villa lose their 100% home win record as they are defeated at Villa Park for the first time in six. As a result, Villa make it five wins, all at home, a draw and five defeats, four away, in eleven games following their return to the top flight. Meanwhile, goalkeeper Kevin Keelan made his final appearance for Villa aged 19 before moving on to Stockport County in April 1961. Keelan played for Villa in 1959-60 and 1960-61 making five appearances.

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 GK Kevin Keelan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1960 | 🕒 5 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | #478 |

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟥 24 Sep 1960, Villa 2-6 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 8 Oct 1960, Villa 2-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

Aston Villa

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

Leicester City

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Leicester City

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. Leicester: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Leicester City

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟥 4 Apr 1959, Villa 1-2 Leicester, Villa Park

Leicester City

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟥 19 Apr 1961, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Filbert Street

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1960-61 |
Matchday | #11 |
League Match | #11 |
Manager Game | #86 |
Saturday, 1 October 1960

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Harry New | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Portsmouth, 1960-1975
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥

Scorers

Timeline

On This Day

Trophies

Matches

Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 83 | 🟩 | 43 🟨 15 🟥 25 | 1.73

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Harry New | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Portsmouth, 1960-1975 🆘
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
🆘 Probably should have awarded Villa a penalty, maybe two, whether it would have made any difference is a moot point given the performance.
Previous 5: None
Last Match: Nome
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

Harry New

CARDS

None

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Kevin Keelan, Peter McParland and Pat Saward replace Nigel Sims, Harry Burrows and Alan Deakin.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.97 |

Oldest Player |
M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 | 32.15 |

Youngest Player |
GK Kevin Keelan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.75 |

Referee

Manager

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Aston Villa

GK Kevin Keelan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
FB Doug Winton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB John Neal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Terry Morrall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Matt Gillies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Leicester City

GK Gordon Banks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ian King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Tony Knapp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Frank McLintock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Richie Norman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Colin Appleton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Howard Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Gordon Wills | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Ken Leek | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F Jimmy Walsh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Albert Cheesebrough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Substitutes

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, 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

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

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

LB Doug Winton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

FB John Neal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CB Terry Morrall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 |

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

	Unused

Squad Bios

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

SQUAD STATS

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

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

Injury | 2 |
W Jimmy Adam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
GK Nigel Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

Tables & Programmes

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

MATCH REPORTS

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🟥 1 Oct 1960, Villa 1-3 Leicester, Villa Park

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