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Game #3245

Aston Villa

3-5-2, 11 PTS

Saturday, 6 October 1973

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Won

8th (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩

Division Two

Cardiff City

1-5-2, 7 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 24,473

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

Aston Villa

5-0

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Cardiff City

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🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 6 October 1973

⚽ | 5’ Goal, 1-0, Woodruff o.g.
⚽ | 9’ Goal, 2-0, Ray Graydon, Assist by Charlie Aitken
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Cardiff City
⚽ | 61’ Goal, 3-0, Bruce Rioch
⚽ | 69’ Goal, 4-0, Sammy Morgan
⚽ | 77’ Goal, 5-0, Bruce Rioch
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 5-0 Cardiff City

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

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 6 October 1973
  • Villa bounce back from a succession of disappointing performances and results to put Cardiff to the sword at Villa Park with two goals in the first ten minutes before running out 5-0 winners after a second half brace from Bruce Rioch. As a result of their biggest League win since May 1972, Villa make 8th place their own and are just one point off the third promotion slot. 

  • Vic Crowe's Villa win for the first time in seven games to make it three wins, five draws and two defeats in ten League games this season to help them move up to 8th place (Played 10, Points 11) 2 points off Fulham in the promotion places (Played 10, Points 13)

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, 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

Cardiff City

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1926-27

FIXTURE HISTORY
Cardiff City
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Previous 5 vs. Cardiff: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

League 🕒 41 | 🟩 20 | 🟨 5 | 🟥 16 | ⚽ 58 | 🥅 47 |
FA Cup 🕒 3 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 2 | ⚽ 8 | 🥅 5 |

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

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1973-74 |
Matchday | #10 |
League Match | #10 |
Manager Game | #185 |
Saturday, 6 October 1973

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🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Michael Lowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1973–1980
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 5-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩

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

🕒 185 | 🟩 | 87 🟨 | 51 🟥 47 | 1.69

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Michael Lowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1973–1980

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

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Ray Graydon replaces Trevor Hockey for his first start of the season.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.31 |

Oldest Player |
F Geoff Vowden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.47 |

Youngest Player |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.88 |

Referee

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

MANAGER

Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 1970-1974

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Aston Villa

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Jimmy Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Bruce Rioch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
F Geoff Vowden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Jimmy Scoular | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Cardiff City

GK Bill Irwin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Don Murray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
D Philip Dwyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
D Gary Bell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Albert Larmour | 🇬🇧 |
D Leighton Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Bobby Woodruff | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Gil Reece | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F Derek Showers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F Peter King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Andy McCulloch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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D John Impey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, 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

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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Injury | 2 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Trevor Hockey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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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🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"In spite of what seems to be the general opinion we don't set out to play defensively either home or away. “Certainly not at Villa Park for there would be just no point in that at all. What happened out there this afternoon was that we got the breaks for the first time for a long time. And that is so important." Vic Crowe.
Quotes

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 6 Oct 1973, Villa 5-0 Cardiff, Villa Park

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