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Game #4105

Aston Villa

Saturday, 10 March 1990

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Won

1st (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

Division One

Luton Town

Villa Park

Attendance: 22,505

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-0

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Luton Town

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🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 10 March 1990

⚽ | 29’ Goal, 1-0, Tony Daley
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Luton Town
⚽ | 49’ Goal, 2-0, David Platt, Assist Paul McGrath
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Luton Town

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

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 10 March 1990

  • Villa bounce back from consecutive league defeats to beat Luton and climb back to first in the table two points clear of Liverpool but having played a game more. 

  • Villa win for the first time in three League games to make it sixteen first division victories in twenty one games so far rhis season under Graham Taylor.

  • Meanwhile the Birmingham Evening Mail, presumably with nothing to bitch and moan about Villa, brand fans fickle for understandable top of the table nerves.

  • Gordon Cowans secures his 200th win in a Villa shirt on his 435th appearance (418 Starts) to make it W200 D101 L134, 55 Goals and 76 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.32 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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

Luton Town

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1987-88

FIXTURE HISTORY

Luton Town

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Previous 5 vs. Luton: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

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

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1989-90 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Match | #28 |
Manager Game | #139 |
Saturday, 10 March 1990

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🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: John Martin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Alton, 1978–1993
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

🕒 139 | 🟩 | 65 🟨 | 31 🟥 43 | 1.63

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: John Martin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Alton, 1978–1993
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 3
🟥 : 2
🆘 : 2
Previous 5: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 6 May 1989, Villa 1-2 Derby, Baseball Ground.
Cards: 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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CARDS

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🟨

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

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Gareth Williams and Stuart Gray replace Derek Mountfield and Ian Ormondroyd.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.98 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.61 |

Youngest Player |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.24 |

Referee

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

MANAGER

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1987-1990

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
RB Kevin Gage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stuart Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M David Platt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Tony Daley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Jimmy Ryan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Luton Town

GK Alec Chamberlain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Tim Allpress | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Julian James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Dreyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Tim Breacker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kingsley Black | 🇬🇧 |
M Jason Rees | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Mick Kennedy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ceri Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Kurt Nogan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Iain Dowie | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |

Line Ups

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Jason Rees | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (M Neil Poutch | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | M Ceri Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (CF Paul Gray | 🇬🇧 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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

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

SQUAD STATS

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

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

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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

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

“The conditions [of the pitch which has been underinvested and overused by the Chairman for non-football events] did make it very difficult for us." Graham Taylor.
Quotes

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

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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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*Sunday Independent (Dublin)*
Sunday, 11 March 1990

WORLD CUP hopeful Tony Daley launched Aston Villa back to the top of Division One with a breathtaking contender for goal of the season at Villa Park yesterday. The quicksilver 22 year-old winger celebrated his England B call with a performance that can only enhance his Italian ambitions. And, to the eternal gratitude of Villa after two consecutive defeats, he crowned his audacious display with the 29th minute goal that knocked all the stuffing out of Luton's largely anonymous youngsters. Daley, haring away from just inside the half-way line, dumped Mick Kennedy on his backside. He shrugged off his shirt pulling and then left debut defender Tim Allpress gasping at his phenomenal acceleration. By then Daley was like a blur, but that did not detract from the incisive, acute-angled finish which gave Alec Chamberlain little chance. Bobby Robson's other Villa contender David Platt made certain of the win that puts them two points clear of Liverpool when he comfortably converted his 22nd goal of the season four minutes into the second half. John Dreyer completely misjudged Paul McGrath's high lob to leave Platt in the clear. "It was an exceptional individual goal, the kind that would set any game alight," said Taylor. "But I am sure that Tony is likely to get one a season like that during his career because he has such exceptional pace and the ability to get out of tight situations. "His goal came at an important time for us, because the important "It was a very one-sided game and sometimes it's hard to convert your possession into goals. But I'm quite happy with the result." "Last time we lasted just seven days at the top and I never said anything then, either."
Reports

🟩 10 Mar 1990, Villa 2-0 Luton, Villa Park

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