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Game #3199

Aston Villa

6-2-1, 14 PTS

Wednesday, 27 September 1972

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Won

2nd= (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

Division Two

Sunderland

3-4-2, 10 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 29,895

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-0

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Sunderland

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🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 27 September 1972

⚽ | 24’ Goal, 1-0, Alun Evans, Assist by Ray Graydon
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Sunderland
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Ray Graydon, Sub on, Chico Hamilton
⚽ | 86’ Goal, 2-0, Bruce Rioch
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Sunderland

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

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Wednesday, 27 September 1972
  • Despite warnings that they were voting for Ellis Villa over Aston Villa and concerns that power and money were at the root of his ambitions rather than the love and best interests of Aston Villa, Herbert Douglas Ellis, is re-elected as Chairman.

  • On the pitch Villa score against the run of play in a first half where complacency and error led to some of the worst football produced by the side under Vic Crowe. The second 45’ brought improvement, and another goal but despite climbing back to second this was Villa’s least convincing win of the season, indeed it was just as unconvincing as the calls for unity from the rogue Chairman.

  • Vic Crowe's Villa make it six wins, two draws and a defeat in the League so far this season to sit second in Division Two (Played 9, Points 14) behind leaders Sheffield Wednesday (Played 11, Points 15) with two games in hand.

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, 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

Sunderland

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League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1936-37

FIXTURE HISTORY
Sunderland
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Previous 5 vs. Sunderland: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

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

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1972-73 |
Matchday | #12 |
League Match | #9 |
Manager Game | #139
Wednesday, 27 September 1972

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🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Arthur Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ormskirk, 1966-1977
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

🕒 139 | 🟩 | 72 🟨 | 33 🟥 34 | 1.79

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Arthur Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ormskirk, 1966-1977

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

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Vic Crowe names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.60 |

Oldest Player |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 31.58 |

Youngest Player |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.73 |

Referee

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

MANAGER

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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Aston Villa

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Bruce Rioch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
F Geoff Vowden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Alun Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Alan Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Sunderland

GK Jim Montgomery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Dick Malone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Jack Ashurst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Keith Coleman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Dave Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Micky Horswill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Porterfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Bobby Kerr | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M John Lathan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Dennis Tueart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Billy Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Ian Porterfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (M Jimmy Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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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

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, 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

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE
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Injury | 2 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Willie Anderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE
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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 27 Sep 1972, Villa 2-0 Sunderland, Villa Park

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