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Game #3309

Aston Villa

8-6-6, 22 PTS

Saturday, 7 December 1974

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Lost

7th (-1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥

Division Two

Bristol City

8-6-6, 22 PTS

Ashton Gate

Attendance: 13,390

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

Bristol City

1-0

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Aston Villa

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Assists(s) | None

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 7 December 1974

🥅 | 28’ Goal, 0-1, (Bristol City), Jimmy Mann
🕒 | HT Bristol City 1-0 Aston Villa
🕒 | FT Bristol City 1-0 Aston Villa

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

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 7 December 1974

  • Villa’s poor League run continues at Ashton Gate but as the home side played the second half with two injured players. Villa drop to 7th, ten points off the leaders.

  • Ron Saunders' Villa lose in Bristol again to make it eight wins, six draws and six defeats in his first twenty League games as Villa boss. 

  • Meanwhile, midfielder Alan Little made his final Villa appearance aged 19 before moving to Southend United later this month.

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 M Alan Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974 🕒 5 | ✅ 4 🔁 (1) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 | #573 |

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

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: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY

Bristol City

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

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

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1974-75 |
Matchday | #27 |
League Match | #20 |
Manager Game | #27 |
Saturday, 7 December 1974

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🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Brian Daniels | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Essex, 1968-1983
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 27 | 🟩 | 12 🟨 | 9 🟥 6 | 1.67

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Brian Daniels | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Essex, 1968-1983
Matches Officiated: 6
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 23 February 1974, Villa 1-0 Cardiff, Ninian Park.
Cards: None

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

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Ron Saunders names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.71 |

Oldest Player |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 32.62 |

Youngest Player |
M Alan Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.85 |

Referee

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jimmy Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Alan Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Alan Dicks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Bristol City

GK Ray Cashley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gerry Sweeney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB David Rodgers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gary Collier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Geoff Merrick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gerry Gow | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Jimmy Mann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Trevor Tainton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Tom Ritchie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Paul Cheesley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Kevin Griffin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Gerry Gow | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (W Clive Whitehead | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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F Tony Betts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 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

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 4 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Ankle
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Eye
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | Stomach muscle
M Leighton Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Ankle

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

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MATCH QUOTES

“It is incredible that we can play as we did in the second half and yet come away without a point. “In the end, when we started moving the ball around, we had enough of the play to have won.” Ron Saunders. “They’re a negative crowd [at Ashton Gate]. “They picked on Graydon because he was obviously the danger man. “It was only because they were against him, that they were for us. Alan Dick’s, Bristol City manager on his own supporters.
Quotes

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 9 December 1974

Ray Graydon must have mixed feelings about coming back to play in the city where his League career began. In September he was booed off the field even though Villa had just gone down 2-0 to his old club, Bristol Rovers, and on Saturday his determination to save a point earned a chorus of whistles and insults, this time from the Ashton Gate crowd. Graydon’s duel with Geoff Merrick had been the main feature of a match which was otherwise hugely anonymous, and the City skipper’s booking after 64 minutes for taking Graydon in preference to the ball only spurred on the fans in their attempts to upset Graydon and encourage their own team. “They’re a negative crowd.” said Alan Dick’s, City’s manager. “They picked on Graydon because he was obviously the danger man. It was only because they were against him, that they were for us.” City’s crowd problem is a matter for them to worry about. Ron Saunders, Villa’s manager, was only upset by his team’s failure to gain at least one point. “It is incredible that we can play as we did in the second half and yet come away without a point.” he said. “In the end, when we started moving the ball around, we had enough of the play to have won.” Villa appeared slow to realise that with Gerry Gow having gone off after 23 minutes, both Torn Ritchie (knee injury) and Kevin Griffin (badly-bruised ribs) were mere passengers in the second half. Indeed, Dick’s halftime instructions to Griffin were: “If the ball comes near you. Just walk the other way.” Villa, badly missing John Gidman, Sammy Morgan and Leighton Phillips, were the more inept of two poor teams in the first half and conceded a soft goal after 28 minutes when Jimmy Mann headed in a long throw from Paul Cheesley. Villa recovered later, but rarely encroached into the City penalty area and their shots - mainly from the irrepressible Graydon - were from long range
Reports

🟥 7 Dec 1974, Villa 0-1 Bristol City, Ashton Gate

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