Game #1387
Aston Villa
17-5-14, 39 PTS

Saturday, 2 April 1927
6th=
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥
GK Tommy Jackson | 🏴 |
FB Teddy Bowen | 🏴 |
FB Tommy Smart | 🏴 |
M Billy Kingdon | 🏴 |
M Frank J Moss | 🏴 |
W Arthur Dorrell | 🏴 |
W Dicky York | 🏴 |
F George Stephenson | 🏴 |
F Billy Kirton | 🏴 | 🔴 |
F Billy Cook | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Billy Walker | 🏴 |
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934

Substitutes
No Substitutions permitted in period
Unused Substitutes
No Substitutions permitted in period
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
Goalkeepers
GK Tommy Jackson | 🏴 |
Full Backs
FB Teddy Bowen | 🏴 |
FB Tommy Smart | 🏴 |
Midfielders
M Billy Kingdon | 🏴 |
M Frank J Moss | 🏴 |
Wingers
W Arthur Dorrell | 🏴 |
W Dicky York | 🏴 |
Forwards
F George Stephenson | 🏴 |
F Billy Kirton | 🏴 |
F Billy Cook | 🏴 |
CF Billy Walker | 🏴 |
Unavailable
Injury | 3 |
CB Vic Milne | 🏴 |
CF Len Capewell | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
Team News
Billy Kirton replaces Alec Talbot.
Team Stats
Not recorded
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
🔴 F Billy Kirton | 🏴 | 1919-27 🕒 260 | ✅ 260 | 🔁 (-) | ⚽ 58 | 🔥 23 | 🇺 - | #273 |

Lost
1-5
🟥 2 Apr 1927, Villa 1-5 West Ham, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Billy Cook | 85' |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline
🥅 | 3' Goal, 0-1, (West Ham United), Victor Watson
🥅 | 13' Goal, 0-2, (West Ham United), Stanley Earle
🥅 | 34' Goal, 0-3, (West Ham United), Johnson
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-3 West Ham United
🥅 | 46' Goal, 0-4, (West Ham United), Victor Watson
🥅 | 73' Goal, 0-5, (West Ham United), Jimmy Ruffell
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 1-5, Billy Cook
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-5 West Ham United
Season | 1926-27 |
Matchday | #37 |
League Match | #36 |
Manager Game | #37 |
Saturday, 2 April 1927

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: A. J. Attwood | 🏴 | Newport, 1926-1929
HT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-5
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥
Officials
Referee: A. J. Attwood | 🏴 | Newport, 1926-1929
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 37 | 🟩 | 17 🟨 5 🟥 15 | 1.51
Villa Career Form:
Top 8

Division One
West Ham United
18-5-12, 41 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 22,413
GK Edward Hufton | 🏴 |
D Jack Hebden | 🏴 |
D George Horler | 🏴 |
CB Jim Barrett | 🏴 |
M Jimmy Collins | 🏴 |
M Albert Cadwell | 🏴 |
W Tommy Yews | 🏴 |
W Jimmy Ruffell | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Stanley Earle | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Joe Johnson | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Victor Watson | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
Syd King | 🏴 |

Substitutes
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Opposition Trophy Record
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Opposition Matchday Squad
Goalkeepers
GK Edward Hufton | 🏴 |
Defenders
D Jack Hebden | 🏴 |
D George Horler | 🏴 |
CB Jim Barrett | 🏴 |
Midfielders
M Jimmy Collins | 🏴 |
M Albert Cadwell | 🏴 |
Wingers
W Tommy Yews | 🏴 |
W Jimmy Ruffell | 🏴 |
Forwards
F Stanley Earle | 🏴 |
F Joe Johnson | 🏴 |
CF Victor Watson | 🏴 |
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded

On This Day
Billy Cook scores for the seventh time in his first eight games for the club butVilla lose 1-5 to West Ham for the second time this season.
Villa lose for only the second time in eleven.
Villa make it seventeen wins, five draws and fourteen defeats in their thirty six division one matches.
Villa fall back to joint 6th.
Forward Billy Kirton made his final Villa appearance aged 30 after scoring 59 goals in 261 appearances since his debut in October 1919 but would remain at the club for another two seasons before moving on to Coventry City In September 1928.
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