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Game #3997

Aston Villa

Monday, 28 December 1987

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Drew

3rd (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨

Division Two

Huddersfield Town

Villa Park

Attendance: 20,948

🟨 28 December 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 December 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

🟨 28 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Monday, 28 December 1987

Graham Taylor's Villa end 1987 with three successive draws but had now lost just once in twenty Division Two games, winning eleven. Meanwhile, Mark Walters made his final appearance for Villa aged 23 before moving on to Glasgow Rangers this month for a fee of £615,000. Walters played for Villa between 1981-82 and 1987-88 making 219 appearances and making 47 goals.

🟨 28 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-87 | 🕒 225 | 207 (18) | ⚽ 48 | 🔥 35 | 🇺 14 | #617 |

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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

Aston Villa

Huddersfield Town

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Huddersfield Town

Previous 5 vs. Huddersfield: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩

🟨 28 December 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 December 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
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 31 | 🟩 | 15 🟨 | 10 🟥 6 | 1.77

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🟨 28 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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

🟨 Ian Bray
🟨 Ian Banks
🟨 Malcolm Brown

🟨 28 December 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
Manager

🟨 28 December 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 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 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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

SUBSTITUTES

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

Substitutes

🟨 28 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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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

🟨 28 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

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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 | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
205
204*
0
1
73
60
72
282
56
3
0

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟨 28 December 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 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟨 28 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟨 28 December 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 December 1987, Villa 1-1 Huddersfield, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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