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Game #3904

Aston Villa

Saturday, 15 March 1986

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Drew

20th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨

Division One

Nottingham Forest

City Ground

Attendance: 12,933

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

Nottingham Forest

1-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Paul Elliott | 72' |

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 15 March 1986

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Steve Hunt, Andy Blair
🕒 | HT Nottingham Forest 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 62’ Goal, 0-1 (Nottingham Forest, pen), Nigel Clough
⚽ | 72’ Goal, 1-1, Mark Walters, Assist by Paul Elliott
🔁 | 80' Sub off, Gary Shaw, Sub on, Paul Birch
🕒 | FT Nottingham Forest 1-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Steve Hodge, Foul

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 15 March 1986

Graham Turner’s Villa end a run of two defeats but now have just five wins in thirty one Division One games and fifteen defeats. Meanwhile, both Andy Blair and Steve Hunt made their first appearances after rejoining the club from Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion respectively. Blair, 26, was signed for £100,000 having been sold to Wednesday in August 1984 for £60,000, whilst Hunt, 29, cost £90,000 after Villa had sold him to the New York Cosmos in June 1977 for £26,000.

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Andy Blair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
🟢 W Steve Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Nottingham Forest

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1979-80

Aston Villa

Nottingham Forest

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Nottingham Forest

Previous 5 vs. Forest: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1985-86 |
Matchday | #44 |
League Match | #31 |
Manager Game | #90 |
Saturday, 15 March 1986

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🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1984-1986
Referee: John Moules | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Essex, 1981–1993
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 90 | 🟩 | 28 🟨 | 27 🟥 35 | 1.23

Villa Career Form:

Mid Table

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: John Moules | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Essex, 1981–1993
Matches Officiated: 4
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 3
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 9 March 1985, Villa 2-2 Norwich, Carrow Road.
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨

None

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Gary Shaw, Andy Blair (debut) and Steve Hunt (debut) replace Paul Birch, Dean Glover and Paul Kerr.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.48 |

Oldest Player |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 30.31 |

Youngest Player |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.22 |

Referee
Manager

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

MANAGER

Graham Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1984-1986

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Paul Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Blair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
M Steve Hodge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Brian Clough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Nottingham Forest

GK Hans Segers | 🇳🇱 |
LB Brett Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Des Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Fleming | 🇬🇧 |
M Gary Mills | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Bowyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Clough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Dave Campbell | 🇬🇧 |
M Neil Webb | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Colin Walsh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Gary Birtles | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Colin Walsh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (M Johnny Metgod | 🇳🇱 |)

Substitutes

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

Game
Start
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
132
131*
0
0
49
35
48
181
38
2
0

SUBSTITUTES

Game
Sub
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/12

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

UNAVAILABLE

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Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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MATCH QUOTES

"Obviously, we need to collect every possible point. "But we must now just take each game as it comes and try to claim maximum points." Graham Turner.
Quotes

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟨 15 March 1986, Villa 1-1 Forest, City Ground.

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