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Game #4035

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 23 November 1988

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Lost

2nd Round

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Simod Cup 2nd Round

Derby County

Baseball Ground

Attendance: 10,056

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

Derby County

2-1

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Aston Villa

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🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 23 November 1988

🥅 | 3’ Goal, 0-1, (Derby County), Gary Micklewhite
⚽ | 42’ Goal, 1-1, Alan McInally
🕒 | HT Derby County 1-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 47’ Goal, 1-2, (Derby County), Gary Micklewhite
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, Allan Evans, Sub on Andy Gray
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Bernie Gallacher, Sub on, Tony Daley
🕒 | FT Derby County 2-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 23 November 1988

  • Villa lose in the latest incarnation of the Full Members Cup.

  • Villa lose a second successive game against Derby and their third successive defeat under Graham Taylor.

  • Gordon Cowans makes his 375th appearance in a Villa shirt (359 Starts) to make it W170 D89 L116, 53 Goals and 60 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.32 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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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

Derby County

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1974-75

Aston Villa

Derby County

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Derby County

Previous 5 vs. Derby: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #18 |
Manager Game | #69 |
Wednesday, 23 November 1988

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🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Tom Fitzharris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 1981–1993
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
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

🕒 69 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 18 🟥 18 | 1.70

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Tom Fitzharris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Bolton, 1981–1993
Matches Officiated: 4
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 3
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 29 August 1987, Villa 1-2 Hull, Boothferry Park.
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

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🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Not recorded

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.65 |

Oldest Player |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 32.11 |

Youngest Player |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 21.66 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Garry Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Arthur Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Derby County

GK Peter Shilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mel Sage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Paul Blades | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Mark Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Mike Forsyth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Geraint Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Trevor Hebberd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gary Micklewhite | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
W Ted McMinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Dean Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Paul Goddard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Andy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 60’ |
🔁 W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 80’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Paul Goddard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Steve Cross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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LB Nick Pickering | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/13

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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MATCH QUOTES

"Never mind Graham, it's only the Simod Cup.” Graham Taylor replied: "I do mind. We're not going to win the League, are we?”
Quotes

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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MATCH REPORTS

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Thursday, 24 November 1988

Villa's pride was dented again last night as Derby County ruthlessly dismissed them from the Simod Cup. For the second time in four days Graham Taylor's ambitious newcomers tested themselves against their old Midlands rivals and found themselves wanting and short on several counts. Three successive defeats and seven goals conceded is evidence enough that a flaw has appeared in the Villa jewel. Their hopes of achieving a top-six place in Division One this season were made to look optimistic, to say the least, as Derby swiftly set about putting the pretenders in their place again. In fact, on the evidence of the two games, Villa will not even finish top of the Midlands pack of Derby, Coventry and Nottingham Forest, let alone challenge the First Division's big boys. Indeed, if you take away the power of Alan Mclnally and the occasional deft touches of Gordon Cowans, Villa were made to look a very ordinary outfit. In one brief period before halftime McInallly even appeared as ff he was waging a one-man war against County and England goalkeeper Peter Shilton. It came after Villa trailed to a daft third minute goal from Gary Micklewhite with the powerful Scot blasting his way past two defenders to beat Shilton with a fearsome 25-yard right-foot drive in the 42nd minute. In the space of the next five minutes Mclnally scuffed an intended left-foot shot across County's goal for a throw-in before unleashing a 20-yard belter which Shilton only just tipped away for a corner. Sadly, Villa had nobody else with the same explosive passion and not even Garry Thompson could find the spark to lift his game as he went in the shop window after turning down £350,000 moves to Oxford United and Wimbledon last week. Apart from narrowly being beaten in a challenge by Shilton, after Kevin Gage had slotted a through ball into the penalty area, one of his only other significant contributions was to get himself booked for a flying two-footed tackle on Paul Blades. But Villa's real problems began and finished in defence with Taylor admitting that they had given away two "sloppy goals" at crucial times. Transfer-listed Micklewhite's first came after Bernie Gallacher had been turned inside out for the second time by tricky winger Ted McMinn before Trevor Hebberd crossed from the right. Paul Goddard lost the ball under his feet and Micklewhite merely had to prod it Into the net. His second two minutes into the second-half was just as messy from Villa's point of view with the winger slipping as he received a ball from Dean Saunders but still managing to get up and turn Chris Price before hitting his shot wide of Nigel Spink. Skipper Allan Evans was tactically removed from the fray in an hour after the big central defender had accidentally collided with Paul Goddard ten minutes earlier. The striker was carried off with a thigh injury which removed half the threat of County's strike force. When somebody said: "Never mind Graham, it's only the Simod Cup," Taylor replied: "I do mind. We're not going to win the League, are we."
Reports

🟥 23 November 1988, FMC, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.

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