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Game #3369

Aston Villa

8-9-9, 25 PTS

Saturday, 17 January 1976

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Drew

13th= (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨

Division One

Newcastle United

10-6-10, 26 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 36,389

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Newcastle United

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🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 17 January 1976

⚽ | 6’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Mick Mahoney
🚑 | 16’ Player retires from field of play with injury, Dennis Mortimer
🥅 | 17’ Goal, 1-1, (Newcastle United), Alan Gowling
🔁 | 22’ Sub off, Dennis Mortimer, Sub on, Leighton Phillips
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Newcastle United
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Newcastle United

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 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 17 January 1976
  • Villa lose Dennis Mortimer to injury early in the game and with the midfield dynamo off the pitch Villa concede an equaliser to leave them 13th in the table.

  • Ron Saunders' Villa make it eight wins, nine draws and nine defeats in twenty six League games following their return to the top flight.

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, 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: 1974-75

Newcastle United

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League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1954-55

FIXTURE HISTORY
Newcastle United
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Previous 5 vs. Newcastle: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥

League 🕒 98 | 🟩 37 | 🟨 19 | 🟥 42 | ⚽ 164 | 🥅 161 |
FA Cup 🕒 5 | 🟩 3 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 2 | ⚽ 16 | 🥅 7 |
Home 🕒 51 | 🟩 28 | 🟨 12 | 🟥 11 | ⚽ 112 | 🥅 55 |

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

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1975-76 |
Matchday | #32 |
League Match | #26 |
Manager Game | #87 |
Saturday, 17 January 1976

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🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Reg Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Norwich, 1976-1979
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 87 | 🟩 | 42 🟨 | 22 🟥 23 | 1.70

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Reg Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Norwich, 1976-1979

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

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

John Deehan replaces Leighton Phillips.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.27 |

Oldest Player |
CB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 33.74 |

Youngest Player |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.46 |

Referee

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK John Burridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 | 🔁 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Gordon Lee (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Newcastle United

GK Mike Mahoney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Irving Nattrass | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Pat Howard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D John Bird | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Kennedy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tommy Cassidy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Geoff Nulty | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tommy Craig | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Alan Gowling | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Micky Burns | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Malcolm Macdonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | M Leighton Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | for M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | F Alan Gowling | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Stewart Barrowclough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, 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

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, 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

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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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UNAVAILABLE
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Injury | 2 |
CF Keith Leonard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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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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🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
“It’s too early yet to say how long Dennis will be out, he has damaged ligaments in his right leg and it is obviously very painful. “When he went off two things happened. First we lost our rhythm and then Newcastle equalised. “We never really regained our rhythm and we lost control of the midfield. It was only in the last 20 minutes of the game when we moved Frank Carrodus into the middle that we started to control things again.” Ron Saunders.
Quotes

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 19 January 1976
An injury to Dennis Mortimer, Aston Villa’s £175,000 signing from Coventry City, in only his fourth game for Villa, not only put a dampener on the carnival atmosphere at Villa Park but highlighted an old problem for his manager Ron Saunders. For Mortimer, who was forced to leave the field in the 16th minute after a collision with Newcastle’s Malcolm Macdonald, stayed off for the rest of the match. His departure heralded a Newcastle revival and emphasised Villa’s lack of depth and strength in midfield. Said Saunders after the game: “It’s too early yet to say how long Dennis will be out, he has damaged ligaments in his right leg and it is obviously very painful. “When he went off two things happened. First we lost our rhythm and then Newcastle equalised. “We never really regained our rhythm and we lost control of the midfield. It was only in the last 20 minutes of the game when we moved Frank Carrodus into the middle that we started to control things again.” Villa started brightly taking the lead is the sixth minute after Newcastle goalkeeper Mick Mahoney turned a cross by Frank Carrodus into his own goal under pressure from Andy Gray. But while Mortimer, playing in only his fourth game for Villa, was receiving treatment on his injured leg, Newcastle hit the equaliser. Alan Cowling was perfectly placed to head home a floated free kick by Tommy Cassidy in the 17th minute. Villa rallied well but despite the efforts of John Deehan who made an impressive comeback, and the brilliant attacking runs of John Gidman, it was Newcastle who took the initiative. Following the example of Tommy Craig’s cool approach in midfield they seemed happy to settle for a point and the pressure was put on Villa to break their tight defence. And in the 61st minute Villa seemed to have done just that but a shot by Deehan which had entered the net was disallowed for offside. As hard running and fierce tackling took over from poise and skill Stewart Barrowclough, who had come on as substitute for Gowling, was booked for a bad tackle on Chico Hamilton and Villa finished having to share the spoils.
Reports

🟨 17 Jan 1976, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, Villa Park

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