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
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1919–20
Matchday Squad:
Injury | 3 |
CB Vic Milne | 🏴 |
CF Len Capewell | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
Billy Kirton replaces Alec Talbot.
Not recorded
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.


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), Watson
🥅 | 13' Goal, 0-2, (West Ham United), Earle
🥅 | 34' Goal, 0-3, (West Ham United), Johnson
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-3 West Ham United
🥅 | 46' Goal, 0-4, (West Ham United), Watson
🥅 | 73' Goal, 0-5, (West Ham United), 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

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: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥
Referee: A. J. Attwood | 🏴 | Newport, 1926-1929
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
🔴 F Billy Kirton | 🏴 | 1919-27 🕒 260 | ✅ 260 | 🔁 (-) | ⚽ 58 | 🔥 23 | 🇺 - | #273 |
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 37 | 🟩 | 17 🟨 5 🟥 15 | 1.51
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
West Ham United
18-5-12, 41 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 22,413
Hufton
Hebden
Horler
Collins
Barrett
Cadwell
Yews
Earle
Watson
Johnson
Ruffell
Syd King | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
