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Game #3566

Aston Villa

Saturday, 15 December 1979

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Won

7th (+2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩

Division One

Tottenham Hotspur

White Hart Lane

Attendance: 30,555

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

Tottenham Hotspur

1-2

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Aston Villa

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🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 15 December 1979

⚽ | 21’ Goal, 1-0, David Geddis, Assist by Gary Shaw
🕒 | HT Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 55’ Goal, 2-0, Gordon Cowans (pen)
🥅 | 76’ Goal, 2-1, (Tottenham Hotspur), Osvaldo Ardiles
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, David Geddis, Sub on, Eamonn Deacy 🟢
🕒 | FT Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 15 December 1979

  • Villa bounce back from their first defeat in twelve first division games to beat Tottenham at White Hart Lane and climb back to 7th in the table.

  • Ron Saunders' Villa win for the first time in four but have now lost just once in thirteen Division One games to make it six wins, nine draws and four defeats in nineteen League matches this season with David Geddis scoring his first goal for the club after 16 games. As a result Villa fall climb back to seventh in the table. 

  • Meanwhile, Eamonn Deacy made his Villa debut aged 21 after moving from Galway Rovers in March 1979.

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 FB Eamonn Deacy | 🇮🇪 |

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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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

Aston Villa

Tottenham Hotspur

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Tottenham Hotspur

Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

Tottenham Hotspur

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Tottenham Hotspur

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1979-80 |
Matchday | #23 |
League Match | #19 |
Manager Game | #284 |
Saturday, 15 December 1979

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🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Brian Hill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kettering, 1978-1995
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 284 | 🟩 | 124 🟨 | 82 🟥 78 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Brian Hill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kettering, 1978-1995
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 3
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 28 August 1979, Villa 2-0 Colchester, Layer Road.
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

None

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Brendan Ormsby and Colin Gibson replace Mike Pejic and Allan Evans.

Starting XI Average Age
| 23.75 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.87 |

Youngest Player |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.08 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kenny Swain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Terry Bullivant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF David Geddis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Keith Burkinshaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Tottenham Hotspur

GK Barry Daines | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Chris Hughton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Paul Miller | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gordon Smith (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Osvaldo Ardiles | 🇦🇷 | ⚽ |
M John Pratt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ricky Villa | 🇦🇷 |
M Colin Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Perryman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Glenn Hoddle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Chris Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | FB Eamonn Deacy | 🇮🇪 | for CF David Geddis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 78' |

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

Substitutes

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CF Gerry Armstrong | 🇬🇧 |

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

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

Game
Start
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

Game
Sub
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

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

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/12

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 5 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Mike Pejic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

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MATCH QUOTES

"No team has succeeded in closing us down the way Villa did. They just did not let us play. They are the best side to come here this season." Spurs manager Keith Burkinshaw.
Quotes

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

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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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*Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 17 December 1979

​If Glenn Hoddle is the saviour of English football - Cymru Am Byth. For Osvaldo Ardiles demonstrated at White Hart Lane on Saturday just how much England still have to learn. Ardiles was unable to prevent Aston Villa running out deserved 2-1 winners but still totally outclassed everyone else on the pitch. Tottenham's little Argentinian midfield player kept his best work until the closing stages perhaps the only flaw in an otherwise marvellous performance and then found that his colleagues were not sharp enough to take advantage of the openings he created. With Hoddle, Lee, Jones and Ricky Villa way below their best, Ardiles and Pratt provided most of Spurs forward inspiration but until the last 15 minutes or so it was seldom enough to trouble unduly Villa's central defenders McNaught and Ormsby. McNaught carried on exactly where he left off last week with another solid display and with Ormsby, deputising for the suspended Evans, his usual efficient self, Lee and Jones were given very Little in the way of time and space. Bullivant, in for Mortimer, looked decidedly useful but without their skipper to prompt and cajole, Villa's midfield, excellent though it was in destroying, offered only occasional bursts of constructive play. Mixed feelings Striker Geddis will have very mixed feelings about the game that saw him end his goal famine. Geddis put Villa ahead in the 22nd minute with a crisp, risIng shot after Little and Shaw had set up the chance. It was his first goal for the club since his £300,000 transfer from Ipswich 15 matches ago but his obvious relief, and that of his team mates, turned sour 12 minutes before the final whistle when he had to be carried from the pitch with knee and ankle injuries. Villa, a yard quicker to the ball than Spurs throughout a game played at a too frantic pace went two goals clear after 56 minutes when Cowans converted a penalty awarded for a rugby tackle by Dairies on Little. They should have increased this lead long before that but some indifferent finishing let them down and, in fact, Spurs would have equalised in the 46th minute had it not been for a spectacular save by Rimmer as McNaught and Gibson watched Lee race on to a Pratt centre. Ardiles - who else - pulled a goal back for Spurs after 72 minutes and the remainder of the game Villa lived as dangerously as a fly in a spider's web. A combination of Rimmer, defensive bodies, goal posts and crossbar helped them to hold on to the two points and leave them with only one defeat in nine away matches. An impressive record that Spurs manager Keith Burkinshaw acknowledged when he said: "No team has succeeded in closing us down the way Villa did. They just did not let us play. They are the best side to come here this season." Just wait until Liverpool hit town, Keith.
Reports

🟩 15 Dec 1979, Villa 2-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane.

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