Game #2279
Aston Villa
Thursday, 24 December 1953
Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩
Division One
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Molineux
Attendance: 40,536
Wolves
1-2
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Tommy Thompson | 76' |
MANAGER
Eric Houghton | 🏴 | 1953-1958
Aston Villa
GK Keith Jones | 🏴 |
FB Albert Vinall | 🏴 |
FB Harry Parkes | 🏴 |
CB Frank Moss | 🏴 |
M Danny Blanchflower | 🇬🇧 |
M Bill Baxter | 🏴 |
M Amos Moss | 🏴 |
W Colin Gibson | 🏴 |
F Johnny Dixon | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
F Tommy Thompson | 🏴 | 🔥 |
MANAGER
Stan Cullis | 🏴 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Sims, Short, Shorthouse, Pritchard, Wright, Slater, Broadbent, Swinbourne, Hancocks, Wilshaw (g), Mullen.
Manager: Stan Cullis.
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟩 24 Dec 1953, Villa 2-1 Wolves, Molineux
ON THIS DAY
Thursday, 24 December 1953
Eric Houghton's Villa win for the first time in four to make it ten wins, two draws and eleven defeats in twenty three division one games so far this season.
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