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Game #3997

Aston Villa

12-10-4, 46 PTS

Monday, 28 December 1987

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Drew

3rd (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨

Division Two

Huddersfield Town

4-8-14, 20 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 20,948

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Huddersfield Town

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Assist(s) | Kevin Gage | 30' |

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Monday, 28 December 1987

⚽ | 29’ Goal, Paul Birch, Assist by Kevin Gage
🥅 | 32’ Goal, (Huddersfield Town), Duncan Shearer
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Huddersfield Town
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, Warren Aspinall, Sub on, Alan McInally
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Huddersfield Town

🟨 | Booking, Garry Thompson, Wild tackle
🟨 | Booking, Mark Walters, Kicking out
🟨 | Booking, Warren Aspinall, Late tackle
🟨 | Booking, Andy Gray, Tussling

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

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Monday, 28 December 1987

  • Villa are held for the third consecutive game but climb back to third in the second division, three points off the top, as a notoriously poor referee, Paul Danson, loses control.

  • Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa end 1987 with three successive draws but had now lost just once in twenty Division Two games, winning eleven. 

  • Winger Mark Walters 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 23 makes his 225th & final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Glasgow Rangers later this month for a fee of £615,000. Having graduated from the Youth Team, Walters played for Villa between 1982 and 1987 leaving with a record of 🟩 W86 🟨 D56 🟥 L83, ⚽ 48 Goals and 🔥 7 Assists across his Villa career.

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-87 🕒 225 | ✅ 207 🔁 (18) | ⚽ 48 | 🔥 37 | 🇺 14 | #618 |

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

Huddersfield Town

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1925-26

FIXTURE HISTORY

Huddersfield Town

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Previous 5 vs. Huddersfield: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

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

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1987-88 |
Matchday | #31 |
League Match | #26 |
Manager Game | #31 |
Monday, 28 December 1987

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🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Paul Danson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leicester, 1987-2005
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

🕒 31 | 🟩 | 15 🟨 | 10 🟥 6 | 1.77

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Paul Danson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leicester, 1987-2005
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Garry Thompson, Wild tackle
🟨 Mark Walters, Kicking out
🟨 Warren Aspinall, Late tackle
🟨 Andy Gray, Tussling

CARDS

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🟨 Ian Bray
🟨 Ian Banks
🟨 Malcolm Brown

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

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Andy Gray replaces Mark Lillis.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.97 |

Oldest Player |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.51 |

Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.30 |

Referee

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Andy A Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔴 |
CF Garry Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

MANAGER

Malcolm Macdonald | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Huddersfield Town

GK Brian Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Simon Trevitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ian Bray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CB Graham Mitchell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Walford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Simon Webster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Chris Hutchings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Banks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Graham Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F David Cork | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Duncan Shearer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Warren Aspinall
| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 60' |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | CB Ian Bray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (RB Malcolm Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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

Squad Bios

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/12

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

"These offences concern me because they may affect promotion. “But they concern me a good deal more because they should not be part of the game. “I do not want Aston Villa represented in this way." Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟨 28 Dec 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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