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Game #4665

Aston Villa

Saturday, 19 May 2001

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Lost

8th (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Newcastle United

St James' Park

Attendance: 51,506

🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

Newcastle United

3-0

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 19 May 2001

🥅 | 9’ Goal, 0-1, (Newcastle United), Stephen Glass
🥅 | 13’ Goal, 0-2, (Newcastle United), Carl Cort
🟨 | 37’ Booking, Mark Delaney
🟨 | 40’ Booking, David Ginola
🟨 | 42’ Booking, Gareth Southgate
🔁 | 42’ Sub off, David Ginola, Sub on, George Boateng
🕒 | HT Newcastle United 2-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on, Dion Dublin
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Steve Staunton
🥅 | 74’ Goal, 0-3, (Newcastle United), Mark Delaney o.g.
🟨 | 81’ Booking, George Boateng
🟥 | 84’ Sending off, Ian Taylor
🟥 | 84’ Sending off, (Newcastle United), Gary Speed
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Alpay Özalan
🕒 | FT Newcastle United 3-0 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

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🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 19 May 2001

  • Villa lose for the first time in 12 under John Gregory as their 11 game unbeaten run comes to a crashing end. 

  • Meanwhile, the infamous group of destabilising wantaway players let Villa down on the final day to leave them 8th at the end of a campaign that had been punctured by the petulant, self centred and disruptive behaviour of a raft of players. 

  • Two England internationals, one in David James, whose career was rescued by Villa and one, in Gareth Southgate, whose career was made by Villa had rocked the Villa boat around the turn of the year demanding moves and destabilising the environment. 

  • Having lost Ugo Ehiogu in a similar fashion at the start of the season James and Southgate covered themselves in no glory whatsoever by biting the hands that fed them. 

  • Whatever their issues with the manager, their behaviour only reinforced the view that it was they not he who was the root cause of the dressing room issues. 

  • That both players came up with laughable excuses to engineer their moves - in Southgate’s case it was to move to a club to “win trophies” only to then rock up on generous contract terms at Middlesbrough - made them only look more like all that was wrong with footballers in the Premier League era. 

  • But although Southgate and James were the highest profile malcontents, they were not alone in causing unnecessary season long trauma in the Villa dressing room with the embarrassing David Ginola, the misguided Julian Joachim, the fractious Alpay Özalan and disloyal Steve Staunton all contributing to a seemingly poisonous atmosphere.

  • Against that backdrop an 8th placed finish was some achievement for John Gregory.

  • Gareth Southgate makes his final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving to Middlesbrough for £8,780,000, yet his antics in 2000-01 stayed far longer in the memory of Villa fans than any contribution on the field. Southgate would go on to manage Boro and lead them to relegation before unfathomably being given the England job within which the mutual distaste between himself and the club that made him was all too apparent.

  • David James makes his 84th and final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to West Ham United £4,320,000. His departure was not universally mourned. Lacking character and with a propensity to err meant statistics aside the team was never going to progress with his presence. For the player the lure of a fresh signing on fee proved irresistible and he left with a record of W33 D28 L23, 84 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.00 goal per game and 27 Clean Sheets (32%) across his 2 seasons with the club.

  • Ian Taylor is sent off for the second time in a Villa shirt on his 254th appearance (231 Starts) to make it W110 D66 L78, 36 Goals, 15 Assists, 46 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1999-01 🕒 84 | 84 (0) | 🔥 0 | 🥅 84 | ⛔ 27 | 🇺 0 | #737 |
🔴 CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1995-01 🕒 242 | 242 (0) | ⚽ 9 | 🔥 4 | 🇺 0 | #706 |

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Newcastle United

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1954-55

Aston Villa

Newcastle United

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Newcastle United

Previous 5 vs. Newcastle: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2000-01 |
Matchday | #46 |
League Game | #38 |
Manager Game | #156 |
Saturday, 19 May 2001

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🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Barry Knight | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1991-2008
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥

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MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 155 | 🟩 | 69 🟨 | 41 🟥 45 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Barry Knight | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1991-2008
Matches Officiated: 5
🟩 : 3
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 1
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 18 March 2001, Villa 0-0 Arsenal, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟥 Ian Taylor
🟨 Mark Delaney
🟨 David Ginola
🟨 Gareth Southgate
🟨 George Boateng
🟨 Alpay Özalan

🟥 Gary Speed

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Dion Dublin, Gareth Barry, George Boateng and Steve Staunton drop out as Juan Pablo Ángel, David Ginola, Alpay Özalan and Lee Hendrie come into the starting line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.66 |

Oldest Player |
W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | 34.34 |

Youngest Player |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.95 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔴 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Bobby Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Newcastle United

GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
RB Warren Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Andrew O’Brien | 🇮🇪 |
CB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Nikolaos Dabizas | 🇬🇷 |
M Stephen Glass | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Christian Bassedas | 🇦🇷 |
W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 🔁 |
M Gary Speed | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟥 |
CF Kevin Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Carl Cort | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 | for W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | 42’ |
🔁 | CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 | M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 64’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Stephen Glass | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (LB Wayne Quinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | (CF Lomano LuaLua | 🇨🇩 |)
🔁 | CF Kevin Gallacher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (CF Shola Ameobi | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Steve Harper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jamie McClen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 2/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16
Homegrown: 2/16

SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16

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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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MATCH QUOTES

“Villa are a massive club who should be up there fighting for the championship. “The club has to take a chance and buy players. We have a great bunch of lads here but a great bunch of lads won’t win trophies. “Newcastle have been nowhere this season and they hammered us. It shows how much needs to be changed for next season. “Give the boss his due; he doesn’t mess about. “I have a lot of respect for him because it doesn’t matter who you are. If you are not performing, you’re off. “David does things in training that can belittle you and he’s better than anybody on his day but you need to wind him up.” Paul Merson.
Quotes

🟥 19 May 2001, Villa 0-3 Newcastle, St James' Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Sunday, 20 May, 2001

*Unsettled Villa broken by Glass* David Ginola’s Premiership days may have ended yesterday on the ground where they started so memorably in 1995. Ginola, once an idol of Newcastle supporters, was substituted by Aston Villa manager John Gregory after only 42 minutes. Asked if Ginola would be at the club for the start of next season, Gregory said: ’Who knows? August is a long way off. He’s under contract, but it’s up to David whether he wants to play for us.’ Gregory was justified in ending Ginola’s involvement, although his timing was questionable. By then, Ginola’s lightweight contribution had offered Nolberto Solano the freedom of United’s right flank and the Peruvian capitalised by setting up a ninth-minute goal for Stephen Glass before supplying a cross which Carl Cort headed in after soaring above David James three minutes later. By the 30th minute, both Gareth Southgate and Paul Merson had harangued Ginola for his lethargy. When Ginola did burst into life, the outcome was a yellow card after he pursued the referee to complain about a tackle. Two minutes later, Gregory lost patience and replaced Ginola, who exchanged angry words with the manager and headed down the tunnel, surely never to appear in a Villa shirt again. At 34, he may not find another Premiership club prepared to accommodate him. Gregory, later warned by police for swearing, said: ‘David wasn’t happy, but I wouldn’t expect anybody to do cartwheels after being substituted.’ Newcastle’s victory - sealed when Mark Delaney scored an own goal in the 74th minute - was only marred by the dismissal of Gary Speed along with Villa’s Ian Taylor after they clashed near the half-way line. Ginola missed the action - he spent most of the second-half outside St James’s Park car park before deciding to return on the team coach. --- *The Guardian* Sunday, 20 May, 2001 *Merson adds to Gregory’s parting woes* Aston Villa refused to go quietly into the summer break. What should have been a low-key season’s end featured the humbling exit of David Ginola, a resounding defeat, the dismissal of the midfielder Ian Taylor and a police warning for the manager John Gregory over foul language. Surely it could not get worse for Gregory, who was happy just to get the game out of the way and head for the beach, when up popped Paul Merson to develop further a theme that has already embarrassed the club this season. Merson is frustrated and angry over Villa’s failure or, as he clearly perceives it, their lack of desire to take the expensive final step that will place them among genuine contenders for honours. He puts a powerful and passionate case. “Villa are a massive club who should be up there fighting for the championship,” he said. “The club has to take a chance and buy players. We have a great bunch of lads here but a great bunch of lads won’t win trophies. “Newcastle have been nowhere this season and they hammered us. It shows how much needs to be changed for next season.” Merson’s criticism is directed at the chairman Doug Ellis rather than Gregory. But the manager’s right to open the Villa cheque-book was not enhanced by the dreadful performances of Ginola and Juan Pablo Angel, two of his more recent signings. Gregory lost patience with Ginola after 42 minutes and Newcastle fans, angry about the player’s criticism of the club and the city after he left them for Tottenham, jeered every slow step of his exit from the pitch he once graced so stylishly. Some, too, thought Gregory’s decision so close to half-time was a needless public humiliation for the Frenchman. But Gregory’s timing was awry in only one respect. He should have ended Ginola’s involvement earlier. Merson and Gareth Southgate angrily tried to fire up Ginola in the opening stages and there was no sympathy for him afterwards. “Give the boss his due; he doesn’t mess about,” Merson said. “I have a lot of respect for him because it doesn’t matter who you are. If you are not performing, you’re off. David does things in training that can belittle you and he’s better than anybody on his day but you need to wind him up.” Ginola was undeniably unwound here, his casual approach enabling Nolberto Solano to set up goals for Stephen Glass and Carl Cort in the first 12 minutes. The Frenchman was moodily signing autographs in the car park by the time Mark Delaney added an own-goal in the 74th minute and an inconsequential scuffle between Taylor and Gary Speed brought their 83rd-minute dismissals. Newcastle’s Bobby Robson, another manager hoping for funds from his board, said: “We must try to bring in some quality players. We will buy the best we can as soon as we can.”
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