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Game #3967

Aston Villa

Saturday, 15 August 1987

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Drew

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

Division Two

Ipswich Town

Portman Road

Attendance: 14,580

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

Ipswich Town

1-1

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Aston Villa

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🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 15 August 1987

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Steve Sims, Kevin Gage, David Hunt
⚽ | 29’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Chris O’Donnell
🥅 | 37’ Goal, 1-1, (Ipswich Town), Nigel Gleghorn
🕒 | HT Ipswich Town 1-1 Aston Villa
🕒 | FT Ipswich Town 1-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Mark Walters, Late tackle
🟨 | Booking, Neale Cooper, Ungentlemanly conduct

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 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 15 August 1987
  • Graham Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 takes change of Villa for the first time, after leaving First Division Watford - a team he had taken to ninth in the top flight the previous season - to take over freshly relegated. poorly resourced and run Villa under the dismantling regime of Herbert Douglas Ellis.. 

  • Villa open their second division campaign with a draw at Portman Road despite dominating as Simon Stainrod 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 misses a hat-trick of opportunities.

  • Graham Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 embarks on a major restructure of the club to remedy the multiple poor decisions on and off the pitch since Chairman Herbert Douglas Ellis took over the club after the European Cup triumph in 1982. 

  • Midfielder David Hunt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 28 makes his debut in a Villa shirt after moving from Notts County 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in June 1987 to become the 645th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Central defender Steve Sims 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 30 makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Taylor's former club Watford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in June 1987 for a fee of £50,000 to become the 646th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Right back Kevin Gage 23 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his debut in a Villa shirt after moving from Wimbledon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in July 1987 for a fee of £110,000 to become the 647th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #647 | £110,000 signing from Wimbledon
🟢 CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🟢 M David Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

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

Ipswich Town

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1980-81

FIXTURE HISTORY
Ipswich Town
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Previous 5 vs. Ipswich: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥

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

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1987-88 |
Matchday | #1 |
League Match | #1 |
Manager Game | #1 |
Saturday, 15 August 1987

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🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1978-1992
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 1 | 🟩 | 0 🟨 | 1 🟥 0 | 1.00

Villa Career Form:

Relegation

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1978-1992

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Mark Walters, Late tackle
🟨 Neale Cooper, Ungentlemanly conduct

CARDS
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None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

New boss Graham Taylor hands debuts to Kevin Gage, Steve Sims and David Hunt.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.78 |

Oldest Player |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.14 |

Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.93 |

Referee

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
CB Neale Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Simon Stainrod | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

John Duncan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Ipswich Town

GK John Hallworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Frank Yallop | 🇨🇦 |
D Chris O'Donnell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
D Ian Cranson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Graham Harbey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Brennan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Romeo Zondervan | 🇳🇱 |
M Nigel Gleghorn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Jason Dozzell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Neil Woods | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F David Lowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | D Chris O'Donnell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Mick Stockwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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W Steve Hunt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Burke | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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M Simon Milton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/13

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/13

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

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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🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH QUOTES
“The first thing we have to establish is that we are going to be a hard side to beat. “I think we showed signs today. “It might not have looked particularly pretty. “But if we had scored a second goal at the right time, as we should have, then I believe we would have won comfortably.” Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟨 15 Aug 1987, Villa 1-1 Ipswich, Portman Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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*Birmingham Weekly Mercury*
Sunday, 16 August 1987
GRAHAM TAYLOR’S new look Aston Villa came within inches of marking their return to the Second Division with victory at Portman Road yesterday. Only the width of post prevented Simon Stainrod from heading a 77th minute winner Ipswich Town happy about their late let-off. It was still a smart Division Two return for Villa after their proud 12 year stay in the First Division. They certainly deserved their point against the East Anglian outfit only just missed out in the Second Division play offs last season. Villa played with tremendous discipline and determination and they made a dream start with Kevin Gage, their new £110,000 full back from Wimbledon forcing the opening goal after 29 minutes. Gage crossed powerfully from the right and Ipswich defender Chris O’Donnell turned ball own past bemused goalkeeper Hallworth. But Ipswich hit back with a clever equaliser minutes later from Nigel Gleghorn after brilliant right wing cross from new winger David Lowe. Villa might well have been three up by interval if their finishing had matched their quick approach work towards their opponents penalty area. Unsettled winger Mark Walters hooked a close range effort over the bar from four yards. Paul Birch forced a save from Hallworth and Stainrod dallied too long losing another opportunity before the interval. But it was a different story afterwards with Ipswich changing their tactics and pushing Jason Dozzell more forward to assist strikers Neil Woods and Lowe. Acting skipper Steve Sims was forced to sort out one or two tangles in Villa’s defence but they survived the Ipswich rally and then came back strongly themselves. Stainrod’s header after brilliant run into the area and cross to the far post should have sealed it. The chunky striker seemed to meet the ball perfectly but then held his head in his hands as he saw his effort crash against the post. Stainrod, showing neat control and vision still found time to curl another shot over bar with Villa sensing that victory was in their grasp.
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