Game #43
Aston Villa
2-1-0, 5 PTS
Saturday, 22 September 1888
Won
2nd (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
Football League
Everton
2-0-1, 4 PTS
Wellington Road, Perry Barr
Attendance: 4,000
Aston Villa
2-1
Everton
Assist(s) | Albert Brown | 2-0 |
MANAGER
George Ramsay | 🏴 | 1886-1899
Aston Villa
GK Walter Ashmore | 🏴 | 🟢 | 🔴 |
B Frank Coulton | 🏴 |
B Gershom Cox | 🏴 |
HB Harry Devey | 🏴 |
HB Harry Yates | 🏴 |
HB Arthur Dixon | 🏴 |
IR Albert Brown | 🏴 | 🔥 |
IR Tommy Green | 🏴 |
IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Albert Allen | 🏴 |
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴 |
MANAGER
William Edward Barclay | 🇮🇪 |
Everton
GK Robert Smalley | 🏴 |
B Alec Dick | 🏴 |
B Nick Ross | 🏴 |
HB John Weir | 🏴 |
HB Harry Warmby | 🏴 |
HB Mike Higgins | 🏴 |
F Robert Watson | 🏴 |
F David Waugh | 🏴 |
F Jack Keys | 🏴 |
F Albert Chadwick | 🏴 |
F George Farmer | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟩 22 Sep 1888, Villa 2-1 Everton, Wellington Road
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 22 September 1888
Villa face Everton for the first time in competitive football, Everton become the 23rd team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.
Villa record their second successive league win and remain unbeaten in three in the inaugural Football League campaign. With Jimmy Warner absent through injury, Walter Ashmore makes his sole appearance for Villa aged 21 after signing from West Bromwich Standard. Walter would move on to Aston Unity FC.
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