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Game #3226

Aston Villa

14-10-9, 38 PTS

Saturday, 17 March 1973

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Won

5th= (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

Division Two

Portsmouth

10-9-14, 29 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 18,432

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-0

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Portsmouth

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Assist(s) | Ray Graydon | 10' | 21' |

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 17 March 1973

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Bobby McDonald
⚽ | 10’ Goal, 1-0, Geoff Vowden, Assist by Ray Graydon
⚽ | 21’ Goal, 2-0, Pat McMahon, Assist by Ray Graydon
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Portsmouth
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Portsmouth

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

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 17 March 1973

  • Sometimes in life it’s inevitable that you back the proverbial wrong horse, to do it repeatedly takes some doing but ‘supporter shareholders’ Dennis Barrett and Ken Dykes took it to new levels. 

  • Not content with backing the coup that brought the disaster of Herbert Douglas Ellis into power in 1968, they then petitioned to keep Tommy Docherty in post at the beginning of 1970 despite his reign having taken Villa to the brink of the third tier for the first time in history. 

  • Now though Barrett and Dykes saw fit to go one better and attempt to oust Vic Crowe and Ron Wylie from their posts. 

  • It hadn’t been a vintage season but a first season back in the second tier after two in the third was never likely to be a runaway success - especially after the latest coup of 1972 brought the parsimonious Ellis back to the chairmanship - but that was no barrier to the “experienced petitioners.” 

  • It failed of course and deservedly the pair became a figure of folly but when even Herbert Douglas Ellis asks you to stop for the sake of the club you really should know you are very, very much in the wrong. 

  • Meanwhile, Villa win for the first time in five to remain joint fifth with Fulham, eight points off second place.

  • Vic Crowe's Villa win for the first time in five to make it fourteen wins, eleven draws and eight defeats in thirty three League games. Meanwhile, left back Bobby McDonald made his Villa debut aged 17 after joining from school football in June 1970.

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 LB Bobby McDonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | #563 | 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

Portsmouth

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League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1949-50

FIXTURE HISTORY

Portsmouth

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Previous 5 vs. Portsmouth: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩

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

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1972-73 |
Matchday | #39 |
League Match | #33 |
Manager Game | #166 |
Saturday, 17 March 1973

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🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Peter Baldwin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1966-1973
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
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

🕒 166 | 🟩 | 80 🟨 | 42 🟥 44 | 1.70

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Peter Baldwin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1966-1973

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Peter Baldwin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Middlesbrough, 1966-1973
🕒 4 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 2 | 🆘 : 0
🕒 4 | 🟩 25% | 🟨 25% | 🟥 50% | 🆘 : 0%
Cards 🟨 2 | 🟥 0 | 0.50 |
Penalty ⚽ 0 | 🥅 1 |
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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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

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Bobby McDonald and Andy Lochhead replace Brian Little and Charlie Aitken.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.69 |

Oldest Player |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 32.04 |

Youngest Player |
LB Bobby McDonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 17.94 |

Referee

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

MANAGER

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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Aston Villa

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bobby McDonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟢 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Jimmy Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
F Alun Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Geoff Vowden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Ron Tindall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Portsmouth

GK John Milkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Billy Wilson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Alan Stephenson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Munks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Eoin Hand | 🇮🇪 |
M Norman Piper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ken Foggo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Richie Reynolds | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Bobby Kellard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Nicky Jennings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Ray Hiron | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Ken Foggo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (RB John Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/12

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 4 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
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

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

“I don’t think it [Barrett and Dykes’ petition] deserves any comment. “I just think it’s ridiculous. “If you are bottom for three years then it would be fair, but we have had three progressive years.” Vic Crowe. “There is a certain lack of logic in this petition. “I’ve got confidence in the manager and his assistant and I think they have done a good job. “If they [Barrett and Dykes] think anybody could have taken Villa out of the Third Division I suggest they go to Bournemouth and look at the situation there..” Brian Evans, Shareholder spokesman. “It’s not going as well as one would have liked.” Dennis Barrett
Quotes

🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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🟩 17 Mar 1973, Villa 2-0 Portsmouth, Villa Park

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