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Game #3497

Aston Villa

2-0-0, 4 PTS

Wednesday, 23 August 1978

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Won

1st= (+5)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Division One

Tottenham Hotspur

White Hart Lane

Attendance: 47,892

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

Tottenham Hotspur

1-4

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Aston Villa

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🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 23 August 1978

⚽ | 35’ Goal, 1-0, Allan Evans
🕒 | HT Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 49’ Goal, 2-0, John Gregory, Assist by Dennis Mortimer
🥅 | 60’ Goal, 2-1, (Tottenham Hotspur, pen), Glenn Hoddle
⚽ | 80’ Goal, 3-1, Brian Little, Assist by Gary Shelton
⚽ | 86’ Goal, 4-1, Gary Shelton
🕒 | FT Tottenham Hotspur 1-4 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

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 23 August 1978

  • Villa make it successive 🟩 wins at the start of the season under Ron Saunders 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to take top spot in the early first division table.

  • 16 year old forward Gary Shaw 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 first appearance in the Villa squad after being promoted from the youth ranks.

  • Midfielder Dennis Mortimer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 125th appearance in a Villa shirt and contributes his 🔥 30th assist for the club.

  • Midfielder Gary Shelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ scores his first goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 2nd appearance.

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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

Aston Villa

UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1976-77

Tottenham Hotspur

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UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1972-73

FIXTURE HISTORY

Tottenham Hotspur

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Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥

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

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1978-79 |
Matchday | #2 |
League Match | #2 |
Manager Game | #215 |
Wednesday, 23 August 1978

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🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 215 | 🟩 | 102 🟨 | 54 🟥 59 | 1.67

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Unknown
Cards: 🟨

REFEREE PROFILE

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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None

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

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

John Gregory replaces Andy Gray.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.53 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.55 |

Youngest Player |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.84 |

Referee

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB Gordon Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Gary Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
M John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Keith Burkinshaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Tottenham Hotspur

GK Barry Daines | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Lacy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Don McAllister | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB John Gorman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Osvaldo Ardiles | 🇦🇷 |
M Ricky Villa | 🇦🇷 |
M Steve Perryman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Glenn Hoddle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Peter Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Ian Moores | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Gerry Armstrong | 🇬🇧 |

Line Ups

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Colin Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/12

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 5 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Leighton Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tommy Craig | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Birmingham Daily Post*
Thursday, 24 August 1978

Aston Villa produced their own carnival performance to dampen the rapturous ticker-tape White Hart Lane welcome for Tottenham’s World Cup starts Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa last night. The two Argentinians were received like conquering heroes but Aston Villa soon put them in the shade with their sharp and spectacular soccer. Their first half performance was absolutely magnificent and it was deservedly crowned with a determined 35th minute goal from the impressive Allan Evans. Dennis Mortimer took a corner on the left, Frank Carrodus had his shot charged down and from the rebound Evans drove powerfully into the net. Ron Saunders’ men had a further reward for their fast and incisive play when John Gregory, deputising at centre forward for the injured And Gray added a second goal after 49 minutes connecting with a low eight wing cross from Mortimer at the far post. Tottenham’s fans in the packed stadium were reduced to almost funereal silence at this stage but they erupted when Glenn Hoddle scored from the penalty spot after 60 minutes. The penalty came when John Gidman brought down Ardiles as he for once escaped the close clutches of 19 year old Gordon Cowans, and there could be no argument about the decision. Villa lived dangerously after his with Spurs sensing that they could come back into the game. Villa rather played into their hands, pulling the lively Gregory back into defence. Gerry Armstrong and Ian Moores might well have scored as Villa’s midfield was temporarily surrendered. But they again came back with remarkable resilience with the darting Little making an incredible mess after 66 minutes with only goalkeeper Barry Daines to beat. The elusive striker made amends 14 minutes later, scoring a typically cheeky goal after beating John Gorman and Hoddle after a well struck pass from defence by Gary Shelton. Tottenham players suffered another humiliating embarrassment four minutes from time with Shelton scoring his first goal for the club from close range after a clever passing movement between Carrodus and Gidman. And to complete the Londoner’s agony Peter Taylor was booked for fouling Cowans after losing yet another tussle with the ever improving youngster. Dream Display Cowans had a dream display first keeping Ardiles under tight control and then finding space to keep his forwards moving. Watching England team, Ron Greenwood, could not have failed but to have been impressed with his cultured play. But it was Villa’s all round team work which was really the compelling factor of a thoroughly exciting and entertaining contest. Mortimer, Carrodus and Shelton in only his second First Division game, always took the eye. The defence was solid and sound apart from a brief period after Tottenham’s penalty goal while Gregory and Little always exposed Spurs’ extremely frail defence.
Reports

🟩 23 Aug 1978, Villa 4-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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