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Game #3502

Aston Villa

3-2-1, 7 PTS

Saturday, 16 September 1978

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Drew

5th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨

Division One

Everton

Villa Park

Attendance: 38,636

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Everton

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Assist(s) | Gordon Cowans | 42' |

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 16 September 1978

🥅 | 35’ Goal, 0-1, (Everton), Micky Walsh
⚽ | 42’ Goal, 1-1, Tommy Craig, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Everton
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Gary Shelton, Sub on, Gary Williams 🟢
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Everton

🟨 | Booking, Allan Evans, Tackle

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

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 16 September 1978

  • A quality strike from Tommy Craig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 equalises the score against Everton but Villa are 🟨 held for the second successive League game at Villa Park. 

  • Ron Saunders' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa 🟨 draw at home to make it 🟩 three wins, 🟨 two draws and 🟥 a defeat in 🕒 six division one games so far this season.

  • Right back Gary Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 17 makes his debut in a Villa shirt to become the 598th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #598 | Youth team promotion

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1976-77

Everton

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League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1969-70

FIXTURE HISTORY

Everton

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Previous 5 vs. Everton: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

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

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1978-79 |
Matchday | #7 |
League Match | #6 |
Manager Game | #220 |
Saturday, 16 September 1978

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🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: John Homewood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1967-1978
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

🕒 220 | 🟩 | 104 🟨 | 56 🟥 60 | 1.67

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: John Homewood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1967-1978

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Allan Evans, Tackle

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

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Gary Shelton and David Evans replace Allan Evans and Gordon Smith.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.19 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.62 |

Youngest Player |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.90 |

Referee

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tommy Craig | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Gary Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Gordon Lee (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Everton

GK George Wood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Terry Darracott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Mike Pejic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Billy Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Mick Lyons | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Geoff Nulty | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Martin Dobson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dave Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Bob Latchford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Mickey Walsh | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | for M Gary Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 77’ |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Trevor Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/12

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 5 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F John Deehan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Gordon Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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*Coventry Evening Telegraph*
Saturday, 16 September 1978

Fit again Tommy Craig earned Aston Villa a point with a super 35 yarder against championship challengers Everton at Villa Park today. Craig pounced after the Merseyside outfit had taken an early lead through Mickey Walsh. Villa were twice lucky not to fall behind in the opening two minutes. In Everton's first attack King sent Walsh racing through on the left side and the striker was only a foot over with a 20-yard drive. A minute later, Latchford should have done better when he miscued from six yards after fine work by King and Walsh. Villa’s reply was a fierce first-time shot from Mortimer after fine work by Gray had opened up the Everton defence. Thomas was proving lively for Everton on the left flank but Villa soon began to apply some pressure which sometimes had the Everton defence at panic stations. Everton managed to weather the early Villa storm and then take something of a hold on the game in midfield with King particularly busy. Thomas also gave young David Evans replacing injured Gidman a torrid time and he paved the way for the first goal. In the 35th minute, he went past the young full-back who then fouled him near the corner flag. Thomas swung the free kick towards WALSH who angled his header towards the far post and Rimmer and a defender could only help the ball home. Three minutes before the interval. Villa were level again following a free kick. Mortimer touched the free kick to Cowans who fed the ball to CRAIG. whose first time left-foot drive from 25 yards curled round the wall and inside the post. Halftime: Aston Villa 1, Everton 1. Villa produced a spell of fierce attacking at the start of the second half and were unlucky not to go ahead. McNaught saw a header go flashing wide. Little tried a shot which shaved the post and Everton defender Pejic had to kick off the line when McNaught bustled his way into the goal area with Wood beaten.
Reports

🟨 16 Sep 1978, Villa 1-1 Everton, Villa Park

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