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Game #3729

Aston Villa

Monday, 27 December 1982

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Lost

6th= (-1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

Division One

Birmingham City

St Andrew's

Attendance: 43,864

🟥 27 Dec 1982, Villa 0-3 Birmingham, St Andrews'

Birmingham City

3-0

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Assist(s) | None

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MATCH TIMELINE
Monday, 27 December 1982

🥅 | 22’ Goal, 0-1, (Birmingham City), Noel Blake
🕒 | HT Birmingham City 1-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 70’ Goal, 0-2, (Birmingham City), Ian Handysides
🥅 | 77’ Goal, 0-3, (Birmingham City), Mick Ferguson
🕒 | FT Birmingham City 3-0 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Allan Evans, Tackle
🟨 | Booking, Mark Walters

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

🟥 27 Dec 1982, Villa 0-3 Birmingham, St Andrews'

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ON THIS DAY
Monday, 27 December 1982
  • Villa suffer a scarcely believable defeat to their neighbours as a former Villa reserve scores for Birmingham. Villa slump to 6th in the table as their victorious opponents prop up the foot of the table.

  • Tony Barton's Villa, reigning European Champions, fail to score for the ninth time this season as they suffer this shock defeat to lowly neighbours Birmingham to make it 🟩 ten wins, 🟨 a draw and 🟥 nine losses in twenty League games this season. 

  • It's a good day for Villa reject Noel Blake however who scores bottom of the table Blues' first goal to reach the pinnacle of his career just three months after being jettisoned by the European Champions following four appearances for the club. 

  • Goalkeeper Jimmy Rimmer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 34 makes his 287th & final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Swansea City in August 1983. Rimmer won the League title and European Cup with Villa as he cemented his reputation as one of the most legendary goalkeepers in the club's history. Rimmer left with a record of 🟩 W129 🟨 D74 🟥 L84, 🥅 312 Goals Conceded (1.09 per game) and ⛔ 96 Clean Sheets (33%)..

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1977-82 🕒 287 | ✅ 287 🔁 (0) | 🥅 1.09 | ⛔ 33% | 🇺 3 | #589 |

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

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

Birmingham City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1962-63

FIXTURE HISTORY
Birmingham City
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Previous 5 vs. Birmingham: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

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

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FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season: 1982-83
Matchday: #27
League Match: #20
Manager Game: #52
Monday, 27 December 1982

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🟥 27 Dec 1982, Villa 0-3 Birmingham, St Andrews'

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1978-1992
HT Score: 0-1
FT Result: Lost
FT Score: 0-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

🕒 52 | 🟩 | 25 🟨 | 9 🟥 18 | 1.62

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1978-1992

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Allan Evans, Tackle
🟨 Mark Walters

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

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Tony Barton names an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.24 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 34.90 |

Youngest Player |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.58 |

Referee

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MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
RB Mark Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (ex)

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Birmingham City

GK David Coles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Pat van den Hauwe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Kevan Broadhurst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Noel Blake (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
RB David Langan | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Kevin Dillon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Alan Curbishley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ian Handysides | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Mick Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Mick Harford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Byron Stevenson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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CB Jim Hagan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

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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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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

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