Game #1436
Aston Villa
16-9-15, 41 PTS

Saturday, 28 April 1928
8th=
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
GK Ben Olney | 🏴 |
CB Vic Milne | 🏴 |
FB Tommy Smart | 🏴 |
FB Teddy Bowen | 🏴 |
M Joe Tate | 🏴 |
M Jimmy Gibson | 🏴 |
W Fred Tully | 🏴 |
W Billy Armfield | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Joe Beresford | 🏴 |
CF Pongo Waring | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
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:
None
Fred Tully and Billy Armfield replace Arthur Dorrell and Dicky York.
Not recorded
Villa need two late goals to draw at home by Bolton but they are already perfectly safe from any propect of relegation after their strong recent run.
Villa make it sixteen wins, nine draws and fifteen defeats in their forty division one games.
Villa fall back to joint 8th.
Winger Billy Armfield made his twelfth and final appearance for Villa during which he scored twice before moving on to Exeter City in June 1929.

Drew
2-2
🟨 28 Apr 1928, Villa 2-2 Bolton, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Billy Walker | 80' | Billy Armfield | 84' |
Assist(s) | Pongo Waring | 80' | 84' |
Match Timeline:
🥅 | Goal, 0-1, (Bolton Wanderers), Gibson
🥅 | 28' Goal, 0-2, (Bolton Wanderers), Boston
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-0 Bolton Wanderers
⚽ | 80' Goal, 1-2, Billy Walker, Assist by Pongo Waring
⚽ | 84' Goal, 2-2, Billy Armfield, Assist by Pongo Waring
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-2 Bolton Wanderers
Season | 1927-28 |
Matchday | #43 |
League Match | #40 |
Manager Game | #86 |
Saturday, 28 April 1928

Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: R. Brown | 🏴 | Newcastle upon Tyne, 1928-1929
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
Referee: R. Brown | 🏴 | Newcastle upon Tyne, 1928-1929
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
🔴 W Billy Armfield | 🏴 | 1924-28 🕒 12 | ✅ 12 | 🔁 (-) | ⚽ 2 | 🔥 2 | 🇺 - | #304 |
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 86 | 🟩 | 37 🟨 16 🟥 33 | 1.48
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Bolton Wanderers
16-10-15, 42 PTS

VIlla Park
Attendance: 22,895
Pym W.
Haworth
Finney
Cope
Seddon
Nuttall
Boston
Jack D.
McClelland
Gibson
Murphy
Charles Foweraker | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1925-26
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
