Game #3966
Aston Villa
Saturday, 9 May 1987


Lost
22nd (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Division One
Manchester United
Old Trafford
Attendance: 35,179
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
Manchester United
3-1

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | Stuart Ritchie | 73' |
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford


MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 9 May 1987
🟢 | 1’ Debut, Bernie Gallacher
🕒 | HT Manchester United 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46' Sub off, Andy Gray, Sub on, Stuart Ritchie 🟢
🥅 | 55’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester United), Clayton Blackmore
🥅 | 64’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester United), Mike Duxbury
🥅 | 65’ Goal, 0-3, (Manchester United), Bryan Robson
⚽ | 73’ Goal, 1-3, Paul Birch, Assist by Stuart Ritchie
🕒 | FT Manchester United 3-1 Aston Villa
🟨 | Booking, Simon Stainrod, Foul
🟨 | Booking, Dean Glover, Foul
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
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford

ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 9 May 1987
Villa finish bottom of the first division, relegated ten points off safety something that had appeared inevitable since the early days of the Graham Turner 🏴 regime three seasons earlier.
Villa had won just three times in thirty two games, losing eighteen
Villa's final defeat of the season is a heavy defeat at Old Trafford falling 0-3 behind in ten second half minutes.
In an unpleasant irony the goalscoring burst is started by Colin Gibson 🏴 one of the many trophy winners jettisoned by the club under Herbert Douglas Ellis’ incompetent and damaging chairmanship.
Chairman Herbert Doug Ellis’ predictably disastrous policies led Villa directly to this position - relegation to the second tier just five seasons after being crowned Champions of Europe.
Ellis was culpable in gutting the League and European Cup winning team and replacing it with lesser talents; selling players who performed well even in this fallow period; and his continued selection of poor managers that fitted his policy rather than the club's needs.
If anything summed this up any better it is hard to think than a record of fourteen wins in the last sixty nine League games losing thirty three under Ellis’ men Graham Turner 🏴 and Billy McNeill 🏴.
Left back Bernie Gallacher 🏴 20 makes his debut in a Villa shirt after graduating from the youth set up to become the 643rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Midfielder Stuart Ritchie 🏴 18 makes his sole appearance for Villa as a substitute after graduating from the youth set up to become the 644th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Ritchie 🏴 left for Crewe Alexandra in June 1987 without making a further squad appearance.
Inevitably though Villa would face life in the second tier without a raft of players.
Left back Tony Dorigo 🏴 21 makes his 135th and final appearance for Villa (130 Starts) before being sold to Chelsea for a fee of £475,000. Dorigo left with a record of 🟩 W38 🟨 D41 🟥 L56, ⚽ 1 Goal and 🔥 7 Assists.
Centre forward Andy Gray 🏴 31 makes his 210th & final appearance in a Villa shirt before being sold to West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £8,000. Villa had bought Gray for his second spell with Villa two years earlier for a fee of £150,000 from Everton but it was not to prove a success with 9 goals in 69 games however Gray 🏴 will always be fondly remembered for his early spell with the club starting as a 19 year old revelation becoming one of the most feared strikers in a generation before off field turmoil soured his final season with Villa leading to his premature departure aged 23 in 1979.
Gray 🏴 left with a record of 🟩 W79 🟨 D63 🟥 L68, ⚽ 78 Goals and 🔥 29 Assists.
Midfielder Phil Robinson 🏴 made his final appearance for Villa aged 20 before moving on to Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of £5,000 in July 1987. Robinson had made his debut for Villa in the 1986-87 season and made 3 appearances, scoring once.
Centre back Dean Glover 🏴 23 makes his 39th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (36 Starts) before moving on to Middlesbrough for a fee of £50,000 in June 1987. Glover left with a record of 🟩 W9 🟨 D12 🟥 L18, ⚽ 1 Goal and 🔥 1 Assist.
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford

DEBUT APPEARANCES
🟢 LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴 | #643 | Youth team promotion
🟢 M Stuart Ritchie | 🏴 | #644 | Youth team promotion
FINAL APPEARANCES
🔴 M Stuart Ritchie | 🏴 | 1987 🕒 1 | ✅ 0 🔁 (1) | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 1 | 🇺 0 | #644 |
🔴 LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴 | 1984-87 🕒 135 | ✅ 130 🔁 (5) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 7 | 🇺 2 | #628 |
🔴 CF Andy Gray | 🏴 | 1975-87 🕒 210 | ✅ 206 🔁 (4) | ⚽ 78 | 🔥 29 | 🇺 0 | #578 |
🔴 M Phil Robinson | 🏴 | 1987 🕒 3 | ✅ 2 🔁 (1) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 0 | #641 |
🔴 CB Dean Glover | 🏴 | 1984-87 🕒 39 | ✅ 36 🔁 (3) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 1 | 🇺 9 | #625 |
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
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 1986-87 |
Matchday | #51 |
League Match | #42 |
Manager Game | #1 |
Saturday, 9 May 1987
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🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
MATCH SUMMARY


Manager: Frank Upton (Caretaker) | 🏴 | Atherstone, 1986
Referee: Ray Guy | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1982–1987
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD

Frank Upton | 🏴 | Caretaker
🕒 1 | 🟩 | 0 🟨 | 0 🟥 1 | 0.00
Villa Career Form:
Relegation
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Ray Guy | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1982–1987
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 2 November, Villa 2-0 Oxford, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
CARDS

🟨 Simon Stainrod, Foul
🟨 Dean Glover, Foul
CARDS

None
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford

TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Nigel Spink, Simon Stainrod, Phil Robinson (first start) and Bernie Gallacher (debut) replace Kevin Poole, Gary Williams, Paul Elliott and Tony Daley.
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.50 |
Oldest Player |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴 | 31.46 |
Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴 | 19.67 |
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
MANAGER
Frank Upton | 🏴 | Caretaker

Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴 | 🟢 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴 | 🔴 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 |
CB Dean Glover | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔴 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Phil Robinson | 🏴 | 🔴 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴 |
W Steve Hunt | 🏴 |
CF Andy Gray | 🏴 | 🔴 | 🔁 |
CF Simon Stainrod | 🏴 | 🟨 |
MANAGER
Alex Ferguson | 🏴 |

Manchester United
GK Gary Walsh | 🏴 |
LB Arthur Albiston | 🏴 |
LB Colin Gibson (ex) | 🏴 |
LB Clayton Blackmore | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CB Kevin Moran | 🇮🇪 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
CB Billy Garton | 🏴 |
RB Mike Duxbury | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Bryan Robson | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Norman Whiteside | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
CF Peter Davenport | 🏴 |
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Stuart Ritchie | 🟢 | 🔥 | 🔴 | for CF Andy Gray | 46' |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Norman Whiteside | 🇬🇧 | (M Jesper Olsen | 🇩🇰 |)

🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

None
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

None
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
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UNUSED
Player | 🇺 |
---|---|
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/12
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/12
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE



MATCHDAY PROGRAMME


🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford


MATCH QUOTES
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford


MATCH REPORTS
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Monday, 11 May 1987.
🟥 9 May 1987, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford

