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Game #2378
Aston Villa
Saturday, 21 January 1956
Lost
WDWLL
Division One
Chelsea
Villa Park
Attendance: 22,059
Aston Villa
1-4
Chelsea
Assist(s) | None
MANAGER
Eric Houghton | 🏴 | 1953-1958
Aston Villa
GK Ken Jones |
CB George Ashfield |
FB Peter Aldis |
FB Stan Lynn |
FB Ray Hogg |
M Vic Crowe |
W Norman Lockhart |
W Tommy Southren |
F Johnny Dixon |
F Jackie Sewell |
F Peter McParland |
MANAGER
Ted Drake | 🏴 |
Chelsea
Robertson, Sillett, Wicks, Willemse, Saunders, Dicks, Blunstone (g), Parsons (g), McNichol, Tindall, Stubbs (g) (g).
Manager: Ted Drake.
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟥 21 Jan 1956, Villa 1-4 Chelsea, Villa Park
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 21 January 1956
Eric Houghton's Villa make it consecutive losses, conceding ten and scoring one to record five wins, nine draws and fourteen defeats in twenty eight games this season.
Meanwhile, centre back George Ashfield made his Villa debut after moving from Stockport County in March 1954.
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