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Game #2998

Aston Villa

2-5-7, 9 PTS

Saturday, 12 October 1968

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Drew

20th= (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨

Division Two

Crystal Palace

6-4-4, 16 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 15,876

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Crystal Palace

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🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 12 October 1968

🥅 | 42’ Goal, 0-1, (Crystal Palace), Jack Bannister
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
⚽ | 78’ Goal, 1-1, Willie Anderson, pen
🔁 | Sub off, John Woodward, Sub on, Bobby Park
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Crystal Palace

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

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 12 October 1968

  • Villa draw at home with top eight side Palace but fall to the foot off the table on goal average below Fulham and Carlisle as they share 20th place.

  • Tommy Cummings' Villa now have just two wins in the last nineteen games as they make it two wins, five draws and seven defeats in fourteen division two games so far this season. As a result Villa sit bottom of the Second Division.

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, 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: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61

Crystal Palace

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Crystal Palace

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Previous 5 vs. Palace: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩

League 🕒 3 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 2 | 🥅 2 |
FA Cup 🕒 2 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 9 | 🥅 3 |

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

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1968-69 |
Matchday | #15 |
League Match | #14 |
Manager Game | #60 |
Saturday, 12 October 1968

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🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Tommy Cummings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sunderland, 1967-1968
Referee: George Singleton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Lancashire, 1967-1969
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Tommy Cummings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1967-1968

🕒 60 | 🟩 | 18 🟨 12 🟥 30 | 1.10

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

Tommy Cummings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1967-1968

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: George Singleton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Lancashire, 1967-1969
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: None

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

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Dave Rudge and John Woodward replace Mike Ferguson and Brian Greenhalgh.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.01 |

Oldest Player |
F Peter Broadbent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 35.44 |

Youngest Player |
M Dave Rudge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.74 |

Referee

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

MANAGER

Tommy Cummings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1967-1968

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Aston Villa

GK John Dunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Dick Edwards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Willie Anderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Barrie Hole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Dave Rudge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Godfrey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F John Woodward | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Peter Broadbent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Bert Head | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Crystal Palace

GK John Jackson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB John Loughlan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Jack Bannister | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB John McCormick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Mel Blyth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Roger Hoy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Kember | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Bobby Woodruff | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Colin Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Lazarus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Cliff Jackson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Bobby Park | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for CF John Woodward | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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D Terry Long | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/12

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/12

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 1 |
M Mike Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟨 12 Oct 1968, Villa 1-1 Palace, Villa Park

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