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Game #3771

Aston Villa

Saturday, 15 October 1983

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Won

8th (+3)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

Division One

Birmingham City

Villa Park

Attendance: 39,318

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-0

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Birmingham City

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🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 15 October 1983

⚽ | 29' Goal, 1-0, Peter Withe
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City
🟥 | 62' Sending off, Colin Gibson
🔁 | 74' Sub off, Tony Morley, Sub on, Des Bremner
💥 | 75' Missed penalty, (Birmingham City), Noel Blake
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City

🟨 | Booking, Dennis Mortimer
🟨 | Booking, Steve McMahon
🟨 | Booking, Colin Gibson

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

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 15 October 1983
  • Thuggish Birmingham resort to fists and butts as they are widely condemned for their "disgraceful' behaviour, meanwhile Villa claim another three points to climb back to 8th in table.

  • A typically embarrassing performance from Small Heath sees the yobbish protagonists being led by two players who couldn't make the grade at Villa. The toe curlingly embarrassing Robert Hopkins and Noel Blake simply highlighted the gulf in class between the two clubs on and off the pitch. 

  • Tony Barton's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa make it 🟩 five wins, 🟨 one draw and 🟥 three defeats in 🕒 nine League games as Peter Withe's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ eighth of the season dispatches near neighbours Birmingham at Villa Park.

  • Colin Gibson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is 🟥 sent off for the second time in his Villa career on his 🕒 157th appearance.

  • Midfielder Des Bremner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 makes his 🕒 200th appearance in a Villa shirt but for the third time in 🕒 6 games it is from the 🔁 substitutes bench.

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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 🥅

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season: 1983-84
Matchday: #12
League Match: #9
Manager Game: #94
Saturday, 15 October 1983

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🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: David Allison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Lancaster, 1980-1997 🆘
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

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

🕒 94 | 🟩 | 46 🟨 | 15 🟥 33 | 1.63

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: David Allison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Lancaster, 1983-1994

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: David Allison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Lancaster, 1983-1994
🕒 2 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | 🆘 : 1
🕒 2 | 🟩 100% | 🟨 0% | 🟥 0% | 🆘 : 50%
Cards 🟨 3 | 🟥 1 | 2.00 |
Penalty ⚽ 0 | 🥅 1 |
Last 5: 🟩 🟩

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟥 Colin Gibson
🟨 Dennis Mortimer
🟨 Steve McMahon
🟨 Colin Gibson

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

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Tony Morley replaces Gary Shaw.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.64 |

Oldest Player |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.15 |

Youngest Player |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.38 |

Referee

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
M Steve McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Alan Curbishley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (ex)

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Birmingham City

GK Tony Coton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Billy Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jim Hagan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kevan Broadhurst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Noel Blake (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🤡 |
LB Pat van den Hauwe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Mick Halsall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Robert Hopkins (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🤡 |
M Tony Rees | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
W Howard Gayle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Mick Harford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 74' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Kevan Broadhurst | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Byron Stevenson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, 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

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, 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

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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
"In 12 years of top class football I have never played in a game where there was so much hate.” Dennis Mortimer.
Quotes

🟩 15 Oct 1983, Villa 1-0 Birmingham, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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