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Game #4614

Aston Villa

Saturday, 15 April 2000

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Won

6th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Tottenham Hotspur

White Hart Lane

Attendance: 35,304

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

Tottenham Hotspur

2-4

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Benito Carbone | 69’ | Dion Dublin | 70’ | 74’ |

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 15 April 2000

🥅 | 16’ Goal, 0-1, (Tottenham Hotspur), Steffen Iversen
🕒 | HT Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Steve Watson, Sub on, Mark Delaney
🥅 | 47’ Goal, 0-2, (Tottenham Hotspur), Chris Armstrong
⚽ | 62’ Goal, 1-2, Dion Dublin
⚽ | 69’ Goal, 2-2, Dion Dublin (pen)
⚽ | 70’ Goal, 3-2, Benito Carbone, Assist by Dion Dublin
⚽ | 74’ Goal, 4-2, Alan Wright, Assist by Dion Dublin
🔁 | 89’ Sub off, Mark Delaney, Sub on, Jonathan Bewers 🟢 🔴
🕒 | FT Tottenham Hotspur 2-4 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Alan Thompson
🟨 | Booking, George Boateng
🟨 | Booking, Jlloyd Samuel

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

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 15 April 2000

  • Villa win for the 3rd game in succession to make it 1 defeat in 17 Premier League matches under John Gregory.  

  • Defender Jonathan Bewers, 17, makes his sole appearance for Villa as a substitute aged before signing professional forms with the club in July 2000 to become the 744th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Bewers would not add to his appearances and moved on to Walsall in July 2004.

  • Dion Dublin scores his first goals since his return from injury on his 51st appearance in a Villa shirt (48 Starts) to make it W23 D11 L17, 25 Goals, 5 Assists and 5 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.70 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Benito Carbone contributes his 5th assist in a Villa shirt on his 25th appearance (23 Starts) to make it W13 D6 L4, 9 Goals, 5 Assists, 5 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Goalkeeper Matthew Ghent, 19, makes his 6th and final squad appearance for Villa as an unused substitute before moving on to Lincoln City on a free transfer in December 2000.

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 RB Jonathan Bewers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #744 | Youth Team promotiion

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 RB Jonathan Bewers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2000-01 🕒 1 | 0 (1) | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 6 | #744 |

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: 1998-99

FIXTURE HISTORY

Tottenham Hotspur

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Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

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

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1999-00 |
Matchday | #47 |
League Game | #34 |
Manager Game | #104 |
Saturday, 15 April 2000

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🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Rob Harris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxford, 1994-2002
Kick off: 3.06pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 104 | 🟩 | 53 🟨 | 22 🟥 29 | 1.75

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Rob Harris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxford, 1994-2002
Matches Officiated: 4
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 2 October 1999, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park 🆘
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Alan Thompson
🟨 George Boateng
🟨 Jlloyd Samuel

CARDS

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🟨 Mauricio Taricco
🟨 Chris Perry
🟨 Sol Campbell
🟨 Darren Anderton

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

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Dion Dublin and Alan Thompson return as Julian Joachim and Lee Hendrie drop out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.62 |

Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.09 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.06 |

Referee

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Benito Carbone | 🇮🇹 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🔥 |

MANAGER

George Graham (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Tottenham Hotspur

GK Ian Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Mauricio Taricco | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
CB Chris Perry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Sol Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
RB Stephen Carr | 🇮🇪 |
M Stephen Clemence | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steffen Freund | 🇩🇪 |
W Darren Anderton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 |
F Steffen Iversen | 🇳🇴 | ⚽ |
CF Chris Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | for RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 | D Jonathan Bewers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 | for FB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 89’ |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
GK Matthew Ghent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CF Richard Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Espen Baardsen | 🇳🇴 |
CB John Scales | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Matthew Etherington | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Willem Korsten | 🇳🇱 |

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

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/16

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16

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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

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH QUOTES

“We were grateful to the linesman. “He was 35 yards away to the ref’s 10 and spotted it. “Still, Mr Harris got the minute’s silence for Hillsborough right.” John Gregory piles in on referee Rob Harris once again.
Quotes

🟩 15 Apr 2000, Villa 4-2 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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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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*The Guardian*
Sunday, 16 April 2000

The Tottenham manager George Graham is in hospital with rheumatoid arthritis, apparently on steroids. This match will have done little for his recovery after Aston Villa, from two goals down, scored four of their own in 12 astonishing second-half minutes. It was a Spurs decline within a decline, their run of four defeats in five games taking them into the bottom half of the table and prompting new calls last night for the chairman Sir Alan Sugar to resign. Within minutes of the final whistle, a group of around 150 angry supporters had gathered outside the main gates chanting ‘We want our Tottenham back.’ It had been planned anyway but its intensity was fuelled by a result that looked unthinkable after an hour, with Tottenham coasting thanks to goals by Steffen Iversen and Chris Armstrong and Villa looking a shadow of the side comfortably sixth in the Premiership as well as FA Cup finalists. Then Villa got a break, an assistant referee spotting the handball, missed by the referee Rob Harris, that enabled Dion Dublin to pull a goal back from the penalty spot and spark the remarkable revival. ‘We were grateful to the linesman,’ said Villa manager John Gregory, unlike his counterpart in rude health and due to run the London marathon this morning. ‘He was 35 yards away to the ref’s 10 and spotted it. Still, Mr Harris got the minute’s silence for Hillsborough right.’ It was a moment that showed again the brittle character of this Tottenham team; potentially fluent when things are going for them, usually porous when the going gets tougher. The first hour showed the former, the last half hour was all about the latter. They had the fillip of an early goal, too. David Ginola’s pinpoint cross found the head of Iversen who had only to guide the ball home from six yards. It should have been more before the interval, with Armstrong chipping Stephen Carr’s through ball into David James’s arms before looping an overhead kick on to the bar and Villa looked grateful for the break. The gratitude was short-lived, however, as a minute into the second half Armstrong made amends, this time clipping Carr’s ball round James before sliding home. Then controversy, then amazement, then acrimony. As Paul Merson’s corner came in, Gareth Barry appeared to push Iversen and Ugo Ehiogu headed down for Dublin to shoot goalwards. Iversen’s arm intervened but it took the Villa players’ protests to send Mr Harris to his assistant for the penalty to be awarded. After consultation, Mr Harris also looked about to send off Stephen Clemence but then decided against it, he and the linesman unsure as to the identity of the offender. His indecision upset both John Gregory, who thought Iversen should have been sent off, and the Spurs assistant Stewart Houston, who conceded the handball but lamented the Barry foul. Dublin duly stroked home the penalty and Villa scented reprieve. Soon he had volleyed home the hitherto subdued Benito Carbone’s cross with a brilliant overhead kick and Spurs were reeling. Next, the towering Dublin returned the compliment, heading down for Carbone to drive a curling shot into Ian Walker’s top right corner. Finally, Walker’s 250th Spurs appearance was further spoiled by Alan Wright’s arrow-straight 25-yard half-volley into the goalkeeper’s top left corner. After that, James grabbed Ginola’s shot on his line at the second attempt and tipped over Clemence’s shot but the Spurs’ fans anger was reaching boiling point. ‘It’s not nice but it’s part of football,’ said Houston. ‘We are trying to rectify the problems and we have just got to get out on the training ground and work with the boys.’ He and Sugar might reflect that there are good games to miss.
Reports

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