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Game #3134

Aston Villa

1-0-0, 2 PTS

Saturday, 14 August 1971

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Won

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division Three

Plymouth Argyle

0-0-0, 0 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 26,337

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

Aston Villa

3-1

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Plymouth Argyle

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🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 14 August 1971

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Tommy Hughes, Ray Graydon
⚽ | 10’ Goal, 1-0, Geoff Vowden, Assist by Pat McMahon
⚽ | 20’ Goal, 2-0, Pat McMahon, Assist by Geoff Vowden
🥅 | 45’ Goal, 2-1, (Plymouth Argyle), Jimmy Hinch
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-1 Plymouth Argyle
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Pat McMahon, Sub on, Chico Hamilton
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 3-2, Willie Anderson, pen
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-1 Plymouth Argyle

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

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 14 August 1971

  • Villa open their second season in the third division with a comfortable win but midfielder Pat McMahon leaves the pitch on a stretcher after 65 minutes with a dislocated and fractured ankle.

  • Vic Crowe's Villa open the season with a handsome win over Plymouth as winger Ray Graydon made his debut aged 24 after moving from Bristol Rovers for a fee of £50,000 plus forward Brian Godfrey in July 1971. 

  • Also making his bow for Villa was goalkeeper Tommy Hughes, 24, after moving from Chelsea in May 1971 for a fee of £12,500.

  • In less positive news, 25 year old midfielder Pat McMahon left the pitch on a stretcher after 65 minutes with a dislocated and fractured ankle - an injury that would necessitate long term absence and recovery.

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 GK Tommy Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | #552 | £12,500 signing from Chelsea
🟢 W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #553 | £50,000 signing from Bristol Rovers

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

Plymouth Argyle

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Plymouth Argyle

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Previous 5 vs. Plymouth: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨

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

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1971-72 |
Matchday | #1 |
League Match | #1 |
Manager Game | #74 |
Saturday, 14 August 1971

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🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Bob Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ilkley, 1971
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

🕒 74 | 🟩 | 30 🟨 | 22 🟥 22 | 1.51

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Bob Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ilkley, 1971

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Bob Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ilkley, 1971
🕒 1 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | 🆘 : 0
🕒 1 | 🟩 100% | 🟨 0% | 🟥 0% | 🆘 : 0%
Cards 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | 0.00 |
Penalty ⚽ 1 | 🥅 0 |
Last 5: 🟩

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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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

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Vic Crowe hands debuts to Tommy Hughes and Ray Graydon.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.87 |

Oldest Player |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 30.45 |

Youngest Player |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 24.08 |

Referee

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

MANAGER

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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Aston Villa

GK Tommy Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟢 |
D Keith Bradley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brian Tiler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Harry Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Willie Anderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
F Geoff Vowden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Ellis Stuttard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Plymouth Argyle

GK Jim Furnell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Allan Harris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D John Hore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Peter Darke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D David Provan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Steve Davey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Les Latcham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ronnie Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Don Hutchins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Keith Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Jim Hinch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 65' |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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LB Colin Sullivan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, 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

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 1 |
M Bruce Rioch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 14 Aug 1971, Villa 3-1 Plymouth, Villa Park

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