Game #3861
Aston Villa
Saturday, 17 August 1985


Lost
21st
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Division One
Manchester United
Old Trafford
Attendance: 49,743
🟥 17 Aug 1985, Villa 0-4 United, Old Trafford
Manchester United
4-0

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | None
🟥 17 Aug 1985, Villa 0-4 United, Old Trafford


MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 17 August 1985
🔁 | 35' Sub off, Colin Gibson, Sub on, Darren Bradley
🕒 | HT Manchester United 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 47’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester United) , Norman Whiteside
🥅 | 49’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester United), Mark Hughes
🥅 | 74’ Goal, 0-3, (Manchester United), Mark Hughes
🥅 | 82' Goal, 0-4, (Manchester United), Jesper Olsen
🕒 | FT Manchester United 4-0 Aston Villa
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
🟥 17 Aug 1985, Villa 0-4 United, Old Trafford

ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 17 August 1985
Villa open the season with a 🟥 heavy defeat under Graham Turner 🏴 as old boy John Gidman 🏴 does the damage, creating two goals for United in their stroll.
Graham Turner’s 🏴 Villa had now 🟥 lost three successive games conceding six, and scoring once.
Further entrenching the bizarre and destructive transfer policy under Chairman Herbert Doug Eliis, centre forward Andy Gray 🏴 makes his first appearance for Villa aged 29 since rejoining from Everton in July 1985 for a fee of £150,000.
Gray 🏴 had been Villa’s leading scorer under Ellis’ previous tenure as Chairman before being sold in 1979.
Confusingly Gray’s 🏴 age, 29, was past that of a series of league and European Cup winning players who had been sold by Ellis (Ken McNaught 🏴, 28, David Geddis 🏴, 25, Tony Morley 🏴, 29, Eamonn Deacy 🇮🇪 25, and Gordon Cowans 🏴, 26) and was considerably older than Villa’s now departed leading scorer for the previous season Rideout 🏴 (20).
As a result, despite claims to the contrary, there was little evidence that it was the restructuring of an “ageing” squad that caused those players to be sold under Herbert Douglas Ellis’ chairmanship.
Forward Gary Shaw 🏴 makes his first appearance for Villa since February 1984 due to injury.
Centre back Brendan Ormsby 🏴 makes his 🕒 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (121 Starts)
🟥 17 Aug 1985, Villa 0-4 United, Old Trafford

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
Manchester United


European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1984-85