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Game #2739

Aston Villa

12-7-18, 31 PTS

Saturday, 4 May 1963

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Lost

17th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥

Division One

Nottingham Forest

15-8-15, 38 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 23,927

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-2

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Nottingham Forest

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 4 May 1963

🟢 | 1' Debut, Lew Chatterley
🥅 | 22' Goal, 0-1, (Nottingham Forest), Len Julians
🥅 | 41' Goal, 0-2, (Nottingham Forest, pen), Colin Addison
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-2 Nottingham Forest
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-2 Nottingham Forest

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

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 4 May 1963

  • Villa collapse to 17th in the table as they are defeated for the eleventh consecutive League match. The game itself follows the usual pattern... Villa create chances, take none of them, the opposition do and the game is contained with ease to send Joe Mercer's men to defeat. With their next game in just 3 days coming against second from bottom Manchester City a win to stop the rot couldn't come at a more important time.

  • Joe Mercer's Villa lose eleven successive League games for the first time in the club’s history. Villa’s latest fixture is their eleventh in thirty seven days after their wildly interrupted season delivered the inevitable fixture list congestion in the final two months of the season. As a result, Villa make it twelve wins, seven draws and eighteen defeats in thirty seven division one games so far this season as a campaign of such promise before the fixture interruption comes completely off the rails and sets a record for failure that no-one could or would have predicted. Meanwhile, midfielder Lew Chatterley made his Villa debut after joining from school football in July 1961.

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Lew Chatterley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #498 | Youth team promotion

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61

Nottingham Forest

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1958-59

FIXTURE HISTORY

Nottingham Forest

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Previous 5 vs. Forest: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

League 🕒 56 | 🟩 28 | 🟨 11 | 🟥 17 | ⚽ 109 | 🥅 76 |
FA Cup 🕒 8 | 🟩 4 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 3 | ⚽ 16 | 🥅 10 |

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

Nottingham Forest

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Nottingham Forest

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1962-63 |
Matchday | #46 |
League Match | #37 |
Manager Game | #229 |
Saturday, 4 May 1963

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🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Les Tirebuck | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Halifax, 1956-1963
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

🕒 226 | 🟩 | 104 🟨 47 🟥 75 | 1.59

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Les Tirebuck | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Halifax, 1956-1963

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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None

CARDS

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None

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

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Derek Dougan and Lew Chatterley (debut) replace John Sleeuwenhoek and Alan Baker as Joe Mercer attempts to end a record setting run of ten consecutive League defeats.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.14 |

Oldest Player |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 31.28 |

Youngest Player |
M Lew Chatterley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.22 |

Referee

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

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Aston Villa

GK Geoff Sidebottom | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Gordon Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Lew Chatterley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tommy Ewing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Derek Dougan | 🇬🇧 |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Andy Beattie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Nottingham Forest

GK Peter Grummitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Dennis Mochan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
D Doug Baird | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Bob McKinlay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB John Winfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Trevor Hockey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Billy Cobb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M John Quigley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Colin Addison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Dick Le Flem | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Len Julians | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

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Substitutes

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, 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

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

SQUAD STATS

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

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

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Injured | 2 |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟥 4 May 1963, Villa 0-2 Forest, Villa Park

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