Game #2231
Aston Villa
6-7-9, 19 PTS
Thursday, 1 January 1953
Drew
17th=
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨
Division One
Sunderland
12-6-6, 30 PTS
Roker Park
Attendance: 41,821
Sunderland
2-2
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Not recorded
MANAGER
George Martin | 🏴 | 1950-1953
Aston Villa
GK Dennis Parsons | 🏴 |
RB Stan Lynn | 🏴 |
FB Harry Parkes | 🏴 |
CB Frank Moss | 🏴 |
LB Dicky Dorsett | 🏴 | 🚑 | ❌ |
M Danny Blanchflower | 🇬🇧 |
W Colin Gibson | 🏴 |
W Billy Goffin | 🏴 |
F Tommy Thompson | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Johnny Dixon | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Ken Roberts | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Bill Murray | 🏴 |
Sunderland
Mason, Anderson, Hudgell, Hedley, Wright (g), Aitken, Bingham, Davis, Kirtley, Reynolds, Ford (ex) (g).
Manager: Bill Murray.
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟨 1 Jan 1953, Villa 2-2 Sunderland, Roker Park
ON THIS DAY
Thursday, 1 January 1953
Villa are selected to play away from home on New Years Day for the 21st time in the 23 fixtures they have played on 1st January.
Villa had played their first New Years Day fixture in January 1891 and have now played just two home games on 1st January in 62 years.
Villa & Sunderland meet for the 100th time in League football.
Villa get no luck at Roker Park after they are forced to play over an hour with 10 men following Dicky Dorsett's first half head injury and then with just 50 seconds left on the clock Sunderland hit an undeserved last gasp equaliser.
George Martin's Villa open 1953 with a second successive draw and are now without a win in seven as they make it six wins, seven draws and nine defeats in twenty two division one games so far this season.
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