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Game #2783

Aston Villa

10-8-15, 28 PTS

Friday, 28 February 1964

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Lost

16th (-1)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

Division One

Everton

16-8-8, 40 PTS

Goodison Park

Attendance: 50,092

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

Everton

4-2

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🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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MATCH TIMELINE
Friday, 28 February 1964

⚽ | 6' Goal, 1-0, Harry Burrows, Assist by Phil Woosnam
🚑 | 30' Player injured on field of play, Geoff Sidebottom
🚑 | 32' Ron Wylie kicked in stomach, ripping shirt in half, forced to leave field by referee Hollan
🆘 | 32' Referee Hollan checks Kay's studs after his challenge on Wylie
🟨 | 32' Referee Hollan books Ron Wylie
🚑 | 32' Referee Hollan stretchered off pitch injured after an accidental 'challenge' from an Everton player
🚑 | 32' Linesman H Burns takes over as referee
🚑 | 32' Geoff Sidebottom collapses on field of play
🚑 | 32' Player retires from field of play with injury, Geoff Sidebottom
🚑 | 32' Villa reduced to 10-men, John Sleeuwenhoek takes over in goal
🆘 | 32' Everton Chief Coach Ron Lewin takes over as linesman
🆘 | Play delayed for 6 minutes
🟨 | 'Referee' Burns books Sleeuwenhoek for disputing a free kick awarded to Everton
🟨 | 'Referee' Burns books George Graham
🥅 | 44' Goal, 1-1, (Everton), Dennis Stevens
🆘 | 44' Villa dispute the clearly offside goal for which Everton Chief Coach Ron Lewin had failed to flag
🆘 | 44' Everton Chief Coach Ron Lewin replaced by qualified linesman J D Jones
🕒 | HT Everton 1-1 Aston Villa
🆘 | Villa win a free kick, place the ball, Roy Vernon kicks the ball into touch
🆘 | 'Referee' Burns fails to sanction Vernon
🥅 | 55' Goal, 1-2, (Everton), Roy Vernon
🥅 | 67' Goal, 1-3, (Everton), Alex Young
🥅 | 71' Goal, 1-4, (Everton), Alex Scott
⚽ | 75' Goal, 2-4, George Graham
🚑 | 75' Player injured on field of play, George Graham
🕒 | HT Everton 4-2 Aston Villa

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

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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ON THIS DAY
Friday, 28 February 1964
  • A truly shocking performance from the officials and disgraceful behaviour from Everton on pitch, on the line and on the sidelines, sends Villa crashing to an underserved and highly controversial defeat.

  • Joe Mercer's Villa lose for the first time in five but now have just one win in seven to make it ten wins, eight draws and fifteen defeats in thirty three League games under Mercer.

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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

Everton

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League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1962-63

FIXTURE HISTORY
Everton
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Previous 5 vs. Everton: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥

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

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1963-64 |
Matchday | #37 |
League Match | #33 |
Manager Game | #273 |
Friday, 28 February 1964

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🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Bill Hollan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chesterfield, 1964
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 2-4
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

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

🕒 270 | 🟩 | 118 🟨 58 🟥 94 | 1.53

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

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

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Bill Hollan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Chesterfield, 1964
Replacement Referee: H Burns | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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CARDS
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🆘 Where to start? The original referee Hollan had already lost control allowing increasingly violent Everton challenges to go unpunished which eventually led to both Sidebottom and Wylie having to leave the field of play. Sidebottom permanently with concussion from an Everton challenge meaning Villa were reduced to 10-men with John Sleeuwenhoek playing as emergency ‘keeper. You could explain that away as just bad luck but more questionable officiating was around the corner. Hollan booked Wylie after he had suffered a studs up challenge to the chest by Everton’s Kay. Hollan himself would then leave the field which raised hopes of some normality returning but it was not to be. Hollan's replacement, one of his linesmen, H Burns, proceeded to book two more Villa players for dissent at his decisions before awarding an offside goal to Everton after his own replacement on the line failed to raise his flag. That linesman was a member of the Everton coaching staff, chief coach Ron Lewin. Unsurprisingly the Villa protests were long and vigorous leading to Lewin being replaced by an actual linesman. The damage was, however, already done. Burns then failed to sanction dissent from Vernon despite penalising Villa for the same offence in the first period and to make matters worse awarded that player a soft penalty in the 55th minute, after emergency 'keeper Sleeuwenhoek was deemed to have fouled Vernon who scored from the spot. Before the end of the game both George Graham and Charlie Aitken were on the pitch but injured after more Everton challenges went unpunished. And we haven’t even mentioned the fog that descended on the pitch in the second half.

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

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Gordon Lee and Jimmy MacEwan replace Mick Wright and Kenny Fencott.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.71 |

Oldest Player |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 34.96 |

Youngest Player |
F George Graham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 19.26 |

Referee

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

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Aston Villa

GK Geoff Sidebottom | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 | ❌ |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🚑 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
FB Gordon Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mike Tindall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F George Graham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 | ⚽ | 🚑 |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |

MANAGER

Harry Catterick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Everton

GK Gordon West | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brian Labone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Mick Meagan | 🇮🇪 |
LB Sandy Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Jimmy Gabriel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Tony Kay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Derek Temple | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Alex Scott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Roy Vernon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Alex Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Dennis Stevens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

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Substitutes

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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

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

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

UNAVAILABLE
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Injury | 1 |
CF Tony Hateley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Not Recorded

Unavailable
LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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MATCH REPORTS

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🟥 28 Feb 1964, Villa 2-4 Everton, Goodison

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