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Game #3756

Aston Villa

Saturday, 30 April 1983

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Won

3rd= (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

Division One

Stoke

Villa Park

Attendance: 20,944

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

4-0

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Stoke City

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Assist(s) | Gordon Cowans | 53' | 85' | Dennis Mortimer | 43' | 75' |

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 30 April 1983

⚽ | 43' Goal, 1-0, Gordon Cowans, Assist by Dennis Mortimer
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Stoke City
⚽ | 53' Goal, 2-0, Ken McNaught, Assist by Gordon Cowans
⚽ | 75' Goal, 3-0, Tony Morley, Assist by Dennis Mortimer
⚽ | 85' Goal, 4-0, Allan Evans, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-0 Stoke City

🔁 | Sub off, Colin Gibson, Sub on, Des Bremner

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 30 April 1983

  • Villa hammer Stoke to climb back to joint third in the table with three games to play of the first division season.

  • Villa, reigning European Champions, make it twenty wins, four draws and fifteen losses in thirty nine League games this season under Tony Barton.

  • Gordon Cowans contributes his 100th goal involvement as he strikes his 50th goal and creates his 50th assist in a Villa shirt on his 320th appearance (305 Starts) to make it W149 D74 L97, 50 Goals and 50 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.20 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Stoke

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1971-72

Aston Villa

Stoke

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Stoke

Previous 5 vs. Stoke: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season: 1982-83
Matchday: #54
League Match: #39
Manager Game: #79
Saturday, 30 April 1983

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🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Colin Downey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hounslow, 1977-1988
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 79 | 🟩 | 39 🟨 | 12 🟥 28 | 1.63

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Colin Downey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hounslow, 1977-1988
Matches Officiated: 5
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 4
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 4 September 1982, Villa 0-1 Southampton, The Dell.
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

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🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Dennis Mortimer and Mark Walters replace Peter Withe and Ray Walker.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.02 |

Oldest Player |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.09 |

Youngest Player |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.92 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🔥 |
M Alan Curbishley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Richie Barker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Stoke

GK Peter Fox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D David McAughtrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Steve Bould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Sammy McIlroy | 🇬🇧 |
M Peter Griffiths | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Maguire | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Mickey Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Paul Bracewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Chamberlain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Ian Painter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Brendan O'Callaghan | 🇮🇪 |

Line Ups

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Paul Maguire | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (LB Peter Hampton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, 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

Squad Bios

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, 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

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 30 April 1983, Villa 4-0 Stoke, Villa Park.

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