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Game #4559

Aston Villa

Saturday, 13 March 1999

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Lost

6th (-1)

Last 5 | 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Tottenham Hotspur

White Hart Lane

Attendance: 35,963

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

Tottenham Hotspur

1-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 13 March 1999

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Steve Stone
🕒 | HT Tottenham Hotspur 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Paul Merson, Sub on, Julian Joachim
🥅 | 88’ Goal, 0-1, (Tottenham Hotspur) Tim Sherwood
🕒 | FT Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Gareth Barry
🟨 | Booking, Mark Draper
🟨 | Booking, Lee Hendrie
🟨 | Booking, Steve Stone

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

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 13 March 1999
  • Villa succumb to their third successive defeat under John Gregory and their seventh in eight games in all competitions as they slump to 6th in the table with their early title challenge seemingly gone.

  • Midfielder Steve Stone, 27, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Nottingham Forest for a fee of £7,200,000 earlier this month to become the 734th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Alan Thompson makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (20 Starts) to make it W10 D6 L9, 2 Goal, 3 Assists and 9 Bookings at a rate of a card every 2.78 games so far in his Villa career.

  • Future Villa manager Tim Sherwood scores Tottenham’s winner on 88’ - just as he had done for Blackburn against Villa earlier in the season.

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #734 | £7.20m signing from Forest

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: 1995-96

Tottenham Hotspur

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1990-91

FIXTURE HISTORY
Tottenham Hotspur
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Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

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

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1998-99 |
Matchday | #36 |
League Game | #29 |
Manager Game | #49 |
Saturday, 13 March 1999

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🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Peter Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Loughborough, 1994-2001
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 49 | 🟩 | 26 🟨 | 8 🟥 15 | 1.76

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Peter Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Loughborough, 1994-2001

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Gareth Barry
🟨 Mark Draper
🟨 Lee Hendrie
🟨 Steve Stone

CARDS
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🟨 Les Ferdinand

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

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Dion Dublin drops out with Steve Stone making his Villa debut.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.11 |

Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.00 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18.06 |

Referee

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 |
CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

George Graham (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Tottenham Hotspur

GK Ian Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Mauricio Taricco | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Ramon Vega | 🇨🇭 |
CB Sol Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Stephen Carr | 🇮🇪 |
M Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Allan Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
W Darren Anderton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Les Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Chris Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 67’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Mauricio Taricco | 🇦🇷 | (F Steffen Iversen | 🇳🇴 |)
🔁 | CF Chris Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W José Dominguez | 🇵🇹 |)
🔁 | W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | (W Andy Sinton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Michael Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Darren Byfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Espen Baardsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 15/16

SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH QUOTES
"Graham cited that as he condemned the referee Peter Jones’s “very poor” performance. Villa had an even stronger complaint after only four minutes when Ian Walker could have been sent off after taking out Alan Thompson just outside the area. Admittedly Spurs had a defender covering but it cannot be assumed Jones would have seen that either."
Quotes

🟥 13 March 1999, Villa 0-1 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Saturday, 13 March 1999
*Stone totally outflanked* Tottenham must hope the so-called wide open spaces of Wembley will provide as promising territory for David Ginola as the more familiar flanks of White Hart Lane where the Frenchman flamboyantly plies his trade. Ginola roamed exclusively down the left against Aston Villa, which meant two halves of trouble for Steve Stone, who in this defensive role looked a very expensive debutant at £5.5 million. He looked dazed long before he was booked for a late tackle on his tormentor just past the hour. At least Villa’s dogged newcomer can pass on a few tips to the Leicester man deputed to mind Ginola next Sunday. That could be Pontus Kaamark, the Swedish specialist marker who extinguished Juninho’s flame in this final two years ago. But Stone can also tell Kaamark and Co that often very little comes from Ginola’s generation of chances. George Graham’s improving team have more than one shot in their locker, though that was difficult to discern until Steve Sherwood’s persistence brought the scrambled winner two minutes from time. The first half illustrated the over-dependence on Ginola, whose six unrewarded crosses represented the only avenue of Spurs opportunity. Save for Sherwood’s thoughtful runs - often unseen by his team-mates - both midfields were barren zones. With nothing through the middle, it was back to crosses. One from the impressive Steve Carr brought Villa as much consternation as any of Ginola’s, finding Riccardo Scimeca seemingly shoving Les Ferdinand out of its path in the penalty area. Graham cited that as he condemned the referee Peter Jones’s “very poor” performance. Villa had an even stronger complaint after only four minutes when Ian Walker could have been sent off after taking out Alan Thompson just outside the area. Admittedly Spurs had a defender covering but it cannot be assumed Jones would have seen that either. The £4.3 million Sherwood will be a cup-tied spectator on Sunday; Graham rues the loss. “The run we’ve had is a lot to do with the strength in midfield of Sherwood and Steffen Freund. Sherwood makes good runs. He’s also a winner.” At least Tottenham’s German, like their Frenchman, will be there.
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