Game #1337
Aston Villa
12-8-9, 32 PTS

Saturday, 27 February 1926
7th
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥
GK Cyril Spiers | 🏴 |
FB Tommy Smart | 🏴 |
LB Tommy Mort | 🏴 |
CB Vic Milne | 🏴 |
M George Blackburn | 🏴 | 🔴 |
M Joe Corbett | 🏴 |
W Dicky York | 🏴 |
W Arthur Dorrell | 🏴 |
F Billy Kirton | 🏴 |
F George Stephenson | 🏴 |
CF Billy Walker | 🏴 | 🚑 | ⚽ |
George Ramsay | 🏴 | 1886-1926

Substitutes
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Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Trophy Record
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1919–20
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Injury | 3 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
M Frank Moss | 🏴 |
CF Len Capewell | 🏴 |
Team News
George Blackburn, George Stephenson and Joe Corbett replace Frank Moss, Len Capewell and Jock Johnstone.
Team Stats
Not recorded
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
🔴 M George Blackburn | 🏴 | 1921-26 🕒 145 | ✅ 145 | 🔁 (-) | ⚽ 2 | 🔥 2 | 🇺 - | #283 |

Lost
1-2
🟥 27 Feb 1926, Villa 1-2 Birmingham, St Andrew's
Scorer(s) | Billy Walker | 85' |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline
🥅 | 17' Goal, 0-1, (Birmingham), Briggs
🚑 | Player retires from field of play with injury, Billy Walker
🕒 | HT Birmingham 1-0 Aston Villa
🚑 | Player returns to field of play with injury, Billy Walker
🥅 | Goal, 0-2, (Birmingham), Briggs
⚽ | 85' Goal, 1-2, Billy Walker
🕒 | FT Birmingham 2-1 Aston Villa
Season | 1925-26 |
Matchday | #33 |
League Match | #29 |
Manager Game | #1311 |
Saturday, 27 February 1926

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: George Ramsay | 🏴 | Glasgow, 1886-1926 led Management Committee
Referee: J. V. Pennington | 🏴 | Bury, 1925-1926
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥
Officials
Referee: J. V. Pennington | 🏴 | Bury, 1925-1926
Match Stats
Not recorded
George Ramsay | 🏴 | 1886-1926
🕒 1311 | 🟩 652 🟨 250 🟥 409 | 1.68
Villa Career Form:

Division One
Birmingham City
13-5-14, 31 PTS

St Andrew's
Attendance: 38,231
Tremelling
Womack
Jones
Liddell
Hunter
Dale
Harris
Crosbie
Briggs
Linley
Russell
Billy Beer | 🏴 |

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Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
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Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Opposition Trophy Record
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
On This Day
Villa lose at the team with three names for the fifth consecutive season.
Although injured and forced to leave the field midway through the first half, Billy Walker returns, incapacitated but manages his eighteen goal of the campaign
Villa make it thirteen wins, eight draws and eight defeats in their twenty nine division one matches.
Meanwhile, midfielder George Blackburn made his final appearance of 145 aged 26 before moving on to Cardiff City in July.
Villa lose at the team with three names for the fifth consecutive season to make it thirteen wins, eight draws and eight defeats in their twenty nine division one matches.
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