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Game #2637

Aston Villa

16-9-14, 41 PTS

Saturday, 15 April 1961

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Won

8th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩

Division One

Preston North End

10-8-21, 28 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 25,703

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-0

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Preston North End

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Assist(s) | Gerry Hitchens | 59' |

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 15 April 1961

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Preston North End
🟨 | 55' Booking, Gerry Hitchens
⚽ | 59' Goal, 1-0, Bobby Thomson, Assist by Gerry Hitchens
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Preston North End

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 15 April 1961
  • Villa beat struggling Preston in a bad tempered game to climb back to 8th in the table.

  • Joe Mercer's Villa enjoy a relative holiday as they have a five day gap between games but they still play their eight game in twenty two days to make it sixteen wins, nine draws and fourteen defeats in thirty nine games following their return to the top flight.

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

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

Preston North End

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League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1937–38

FIXTURE HISTORY
Preston North End
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Previous 5 vs. Preston:🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩

League 🕒 86 | 🟩 46 | 🟨 9 | 🟥 31 | ⚽ 162 | 🥅 128 |
FA Cup 🕒 7 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 2 | 🟥 3 | ⚽ 8 | 🥅 10 |
League Cup 🕒 2 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 6 | 🥅 4 |

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

Preston North End

PREVIOUS MATCH
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Preston North End

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1960-61 |
Matchday | #52 |
League Match | #39 |
Manager Game | #127 |
Saturday, 15 April 1961

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🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Ken Aston | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Colchester, 1957-1963
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

🕒 124 | 🟩 | 60 🟨 29 🟥 35 | 1.69

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Ken Aston | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Colchester, 1957-1963

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Ken Aston | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Colchester, 1957-1963
🕒 5 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 3 | 🆘 : 0
🕒 5 | 🟩 40% | 🟨 0% | 🟥 60% | 🆘 : 0%
Cards 🟨 1 | 🟥 0 | 0.20 |
Penalty ⚽ 0 | 🥅 1 |
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Gerry Hitchens

CARDS
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🟨

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Harry Burrows, Bobby Thomson and Jimmy McMorran replace Vic Crowe, Peter McParland and Ron Wylie.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.70 |

Oldest Player |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.85 |

Youngest Player |
F Jimmy McMorran | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 18.47 |

Referee

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Gordon Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔥 |
F Alan O’Neill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Jimmy McMorran | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Cliff Britton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Preston North End

GK Fred Else | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Willie Cunningham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Tony Singleton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M John Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M John O’Neill | 🇮🇪 |
M Frank O’Farrell | 🇮🇪 |
M Johnny Fullam | 🇮🇪 |
W Les Dagger | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Peter Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Derek Mayers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Alec Alston | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

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Substitutes

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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

SQUAD STATS
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Preston XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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Injury | 4 |
FB John Neal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 |

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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🟩 15 Apr 1961, Villa 1-0 Preston, Villa Park

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