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Game #3676

Aston Villa

Tuesday, 2 February 1982

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Won

14th (+3)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

Division One

Sunderland

Villa Park

Attendance: 19,916

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

Aston Villa (Champions)

1-0

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Sunderland

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Assist(s) | Peter Withe | 52' |

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Tuesday, 2 February 1982

🔁 | 30' Sub off, Colin Gibson, Sub on, Terry Bullivant
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Sunderland
⚽ | 52’ Goal, 1-0, David Geddis, Assist by Peter Withe
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Sunderland

🟨 | Booking, Brendan Ormsby, Persistent fouling

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Tuesday, 2 February 1982

  • Villa record a narrow, and desperately needed, win over second from bottom Sunderland to climb back to 14th in the table.

  • Villa win for the first time in four League games to make it six wins, seven draws and nine defeats after 22 matches of their title defence. 

  • Midfielder Gary Shelton makes his final appearance in a Villa shirt having played for the club between 1978-79 and 1981-82 making 27 appearances and scoring 8 goals. Shelton moved on to Sheffield Wednesday in March for a fee of £50,000.

  • Gordon Cowans makes his 225th start in a Villa shirt (240 Appearances) to make it W110 D62 L68, 33 Goals and 31 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.75 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 M Gary Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1978-82 | 🕒 26 | 25 (1) | ⚽ 8 | 🔥 3 | 🇺 11 | #594 |

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Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1980-81

Sunderland

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League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1972-73

Aston Villa

Sunderland

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Sunderland

Previous 5 vs. Sunderland: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1981-82 |
Matchday | #35 |
League Match | #22 |
Manager Game | #394 |
Tuesday, 2 February 1982

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🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Brian Martin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Keyworth, 1975-1982
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
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

🕒 394 | 🟩 | 181 🟨 | 106 🟥 108 | 1.64

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Brian Martin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Keyworth, 1975-1982
Matches Officiated: 2
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 14 October 1978, Villa 2-2 Manchester United, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨

None

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Andy Blair, Brendan Ormsby (first start in 17) and Gary Shelton (first start since 8 September 1979) replace Gary Williams, Dennis Mortimer and Allan Evans.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.16 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34.00 |

Youngest Player |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.35 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kenny Swain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Gary Shelton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Andy Blair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF David Geddis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Alan Durban | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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Sunderland

GK Barry Siddall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Joe Hinnigan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Barry Venison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gordon Chisholm | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Jeff Clarke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Shaun Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Rob Hindmarch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Nick Pickering | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M John Cooke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Tom Ritchie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Alan Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Terry Bullivant | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30' |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | LB Nick Pickering | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Colin West | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, 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

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

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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

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, 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§

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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UNAVAILABLE

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 2 February 1982, Villa 1-0 Sunderland, Villa Park.

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MATCH VIDEO

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