Game #2558
Aston Villa
13-5-2, 31 PTS
Saturday, 28 November 1959
Won
1st (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩
Division Two
Scunthorpe United
5-7-7, 17 PTS
Villa Park
Attendance: 37,367
Aston Villa
5-0
Scunthorpe United
Assist(s) | Gerry Hitchens | 34' | Peter McParland | 43' | 79' | Jimmy MacEwan | 62' |
MANAGER
Joe Mercer | 🏴 | 1958-1964
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Sims | 🏴 |
FB John Neal | 🏴 |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴 |
CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 |
M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 | 🔥 |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🔥 |
F Gerry Hitchens | 🏴 | 🔥 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴 |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Frank Soo | 🏴 |
Scunthorpe United
GK Ivor Williams | 🏴 |
LB Jack Brownsword | 🏴 |
CB Brian Heward | 🏴 |
M Len Sharpe | 🏴 |
M Dennis John | 🏴 |
W Jack Marriott | 🏴 |
W Martin Bakes | 🏴 |
F Jack Haigh | 🏴 |
F Peter Donnelly | 🏴 |
CF Barrie Thomas | 🏴 |
CF Harry Middleton | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟩 28 Nov 1959, Villa 5-0 Scunthorpe, Villa Park
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 28 November 1959
Villa face Scunthorpe United for the first time in competitive football, Scunthorpe become the 88th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.
Joe Mercer's Villa continue their extraordinary season as they record a second successive 5-0 win, following on from their 11-1 annihilation of Charlton to make it twenty one goals in three games and thirteen wins, five draws and two defeats in twenty division two games so far this season as their excellent start to life in the second tier continues.
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