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Game #3837

Aston Villa

6-6-8, 24 PTS

Saturday, 22 December 1984

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Won

15th (+3)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

Division One

Newcastle United

6-7-7, 25 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 14,491

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

Aston Villa

4-0

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Newcastle United

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Assist(s) | Mark Walters | 38' | Colin Gibson | 62' | 85' |

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 22 December 1984

⚽ | 35’ Goal, 1-0, Allan Evans (pen)
⚽ | 38’ Goal, 2-0, Paul Rideout, Assist by Mark Walters
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle United
⚽ | 62’ Goal, 3-0, Paul Rideout, Assist by Colin Gibson
🔁 | 80' Sub off, Steve McMahon, Sub on, Didier Six
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 4-0, Paul Rideout, Assist by Colin Gibson
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-0 Newcastle United

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

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 22 December 1984
  • Villa record their second win in three months as they score four as Paul Rideout wins a penalty and scores another three to push Villa to 15th in the table.

  • Graham Turner's Villa record their biggest win of the season to date as the win for the second time in three games to make it six wins in twenty League games, whilst losing eight.

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, 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

Newcastle United

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1954-55

FIXTURE HISTORY
Newcastle United
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Previous 5 vs. Newcastle: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥

League 🕒 104 | 🟩 40 | 🟨 20 | 🟥 44 | ⚽ 175 | 🥅 169 |
FA Cup 🕒 5 | 🟩 3 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 2 | ⚽ 16 | 🥅 7 |
Home 🕒 54 | 🟩 31 | 🟨 12 | 🟥 11 | ⚽ 120 | 🥅 56 |

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

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1984-85 |
Matchday | #23 |
League Match | #20 |
Manager Game | #23 |
Saturday, 22 December 1984

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🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1984-1986
Referee: John Hough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Macclesfield, 1974-1985
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

🕒 23 | 🟩 | 8 🟨 | 6 🟥 9 | 1.30

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

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

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: John Hough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Macclesfield, 1974-1985

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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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

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Steve McMahon replaces Alan Curbishley.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.21 |

Oldest Player |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33.34 |

Youngest Player |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.99 |

Referee

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

MANAGER

Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Paul Rideout | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Jack Charlton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Newcastle United

GK Kevin Carr | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Malcolm Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Neil McDonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jeff Clarke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Anderson | 🇮🇪 |
LB Kenny Wharton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Pat Heard (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gary Megson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David McCreery | 🇬🇧 |
W Chris Waddle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Ian Baird | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | W Didier Six | 🇫🇷 | for M Steve McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 80' |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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CF Peter Beardsley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 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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🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES
Quotes

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 22 Dec 1984, Villa 4-0 Newcastle, Villa Park

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