Game #3859
Aston Villa
Monday, 6 May 1985
Lost
10th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥
Division One
Luton Town
Villa Park
Attendance: 14,130
Aston Villa
0-1
Luton Town
Assist(s) | None
MANAGER
Graham Turner | 🏴 | 1984-1986
Aston Villa
GK Kevin Poole | 🏴 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 |
CB Dean Glover | 🏴 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M Steve McMahon | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴 |
MANAGER
David Pleat | 🏴 |
Luton Town
GK Les Sealey | 🏴 |
RB Tim Breacker | 🏴 |
CB Steve Foster (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Mitchell Thomas | 🏴 |
LB Mal Donaghy | 🇬🇧 |
M David Preece | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴 |
M Peter Nicholas | 🏴 |
M Emeka Nwajiobi | 🇳🇬 |
CF Brian Stein | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Mick Harford | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Tony Daley | 🏴 | for W Mark Walters | 🏴 | 47' |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M David Preece | 🏴 | (M Wayne Turner | 🏴 |)
🟥 6 May 1985, Villa 0-1 Luton, Villa Park.
ON THIS DAY
Monday, 6 May 1985
Villa lose their penultimate game of the season as they are beaten at Villa Park by Luton.
Villa fail to score for the seventeenth time this season and make it fourteen wins in forty one League games, losing fifteen under Graham Turner.
Gordon Cowans, 26, becomes the latest player forced out of the club by Chairman Herbert Douglas Ellis as he makes his 357th and final appearance of his first spell with Villa before joining Bari in July for a fee of £500,000.
Cowans is the ninth member of the fourteen man League title winning squad that has now been sold by the Herbert Douglas Ellis regime. Cowans played for Villa between 1975-76 and 1984-85 and his departure followed those of Kenny Swain, Ken McNaught, Jimmy Rimmer, David Geddis. Tony Morley, Eamonn Deacy, Des Bremner and Dennis Mortimer.
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