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Game #3228

Aston Villa

14-11-10, 39 PTS

Tuesday, 27 March 1973

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Lost

4th= (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥

Division Two

Bristol City

13-11-10, 37 PTS

Ashton Gate

Attendance: 15,634

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

Bristol City

3-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Tuesday, 27 March 1973

🥅 | 24’ Goal, 0-1, (Bristol City), Matt Gillies
🕒 | HT Bristol City 1-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 63’ Goal, 0-2, (Bristol City), Bobby Gould
🥅 | 67’ Goal, 0-3, (Bristol City), Bobby Gould
🟨 | 72' Booking Bobby McDonald
🟥 | 80’ Sending off, Alun Evans
🕒 | FT Bristol City 3-0 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Jimmy Brown
🟨 | Booking, Chris Nicholl

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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ON THIS DAY

Tuesday, 27 March 1973

Vic Crowe's Villa lose heavily at Bristol City and have Alun Evans sent off as they make it fourteen wins, twelve draws and nine defeats in thirty five League games.

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Bristol City

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

Aston Villa

Bristol City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Bristol City

Previous 5 vs. Bristol City: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1972-73 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Match | #35 |
Manager Game | #168 |
Tuesday, 27 March 1973

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🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Gordon Kew | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Amersham, 1966-1977 🆘
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 168 | 🟩 | 80 🟨 | 43 🟥 45 | 1.68

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Gordon Kew | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Amersham, 1966-1977 🆘
Matches Officiated: 2
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
🆘 "Leaned heavily towards Bristol City" and managed to send one off and book three in a game that was "never physical".
Previous 5: 🟩 27 January 1968, Villa 3-0 Millwall, Villa Park.
Last Match: 🟩
Cards: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟥 Evans
🟨 Brown
🟨 Nicholl
🟨 McDonald

None

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Neil Rioch replaces John Robson.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.64 |

Oldest Player |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 32.07 |

Youngest Player |
LB Bobby McDonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 17.97 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

MANAGER

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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Aston Villa

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bobby McDonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Neil Rioch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Bruce Rioch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Jimmy Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Alun Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |
F Geoff Vowden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Andy Lochhead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Alan Dicks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Bristol City

GK Ray Cashley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gerry Sweeney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Donnie Gillies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB David Rodgers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Geoff Merrick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Brian Drysdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M John Emanuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Keith Fear | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gerry Gow | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Tom Ritchie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Bobby Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CB Gary Collier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

Game
Start
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red
GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

Game
Sub
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

UNAVAILABLE

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

Suspension | 1 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟥 27 March 1973, Villa 0-3 Bristol City, Ashton Gate.

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