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Game #4016

Aston Villa

Monday, 2 May 1988

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Won

3rd (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

Division Two

Bradford City

Villa Park

Attendance: 36,423

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

1-0

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Bradford City

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Assist(s) | Kevin Gage | 23' |

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Monday, 2 May 1988

⚽ | 33’ Goal, 1-0, David Platt, Assist by Kevin Gage
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Bradford City
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Bradford City

🟨 | Booking, Allan Evans, High tackle
🟨 | Booking, Garry Thompson, Late tackle

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Monday, 2 May 1988

Graham Taylor's Villa win successive games and have now lost seven in thirty seven League games winning twenty one with automatic promotion just one result away with one game to play.

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

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

Bradford City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1910-11

Aston Villa

Bradford City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Bradford City

Previous 5 vs. Bradford: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1987-88 |
Matchday | #50 |
League Match | #43 |
Manager Game | #50 |
Monday, 2 May 1988

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🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rutland, 1983–1991
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
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

🕒 50 | 🟩 | 26 🟨 | 11 🟥 13 | 1.78

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Jim Ashworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Rutland, 1983–1991
Matches Officiated: 2
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 19 September 1987, Villa 1-0 Huddersfield, Leeds Road.
Cards: 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 🟨

None

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Steve Sims, Alan McInally and David Platt replace Martin Keown, Tony Daley and Mark Lillis.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.01 |

Oldest Player |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 31.58 |

Youngest Player |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.65 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Steve Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Warren Aspinall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Garry Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |

MANAGER

Terry Dolan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Bradford City

GK Paul Tomlinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Brian Mitchell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Gavin Oliver | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB David Evans (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Lee Sinnott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Karl Goddard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Stuart McCall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Mick Kennedy | 🇮🇪 |
CF John Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Ron Futcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | LB Karl Goddard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (F Mark Leonard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Gareth Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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M Greg Abbott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, 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 | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
224
223*
0
1
84
61
79
303
62
3
0

SUBSTITUTES

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

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, 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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/13

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, 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

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“A professional performance. “Instead of dying we are in the play-offs even if we have dragged the results out.” Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟩 2 May 1988, Villa 1-0 Bradford, Villa Park.

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