Game #1534
Aston Villa
2-0-0, 4 PTS

Monday, 1 September 1930
1st=
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩
GK Fred Biddlestone | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
LB Tommy Mort | 🏴 |
FB Teddy Bowen | 🏴 |
M Jimmy Gibson | 🏴 |
M Joe Tate | 🏴 | 🔥 |
W Eric Houghton | 🏴 |
W Jack Mandley | 🏴 |
CF Pongo Waring | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Billy Walker | 🏴 |
CF George Brown | 🏴 | ⚽ |
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
Billy Smith names an unchanged line up.
Villa break with the norm and beat regular bogey side Wednesday as Pongo Waring scores his FIFTH goal of the campaign after two games.
Villa's victory over reigning champions Wednesday makes it successive wins at the start of the campaign for Billy Smith.
Villa make it 6 goals in two games.
Villa record their first clean sheet of the campaign and win their first home game.
Villa sit joint first in the table.

Won
2-0
🟩 1 Sep 1930, Villa 2-0 Wednesday, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Pongo Waring | 57' | George Brown | 63' |
Assist(s) | Joe Tate | 57' |
Match Timeline:
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday
⚽ | 57' Goal, 1-0, Pongo Waring, Assist by Joe Tate
⚽ | 63' Goal, 2-0, George Brown
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #2 |
League Match | #2 |
Manager Game | #184 |
Monday, 1 September 1930

Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: Albert Fogg | 🏴 | Bolton, 1923-1935
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩
Referee: Albert Fogg | 🏴 | Bolton, 1923-1935
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
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Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 183 | 🟩 | 91 🟨 27 🟥 65 | 1.64
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Sheffield Wednesday
1-0-1, 2 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 27,622
Brown
Walker
Blenkinsop
Strange
Leach
Smith
Hooper
Seed
Allen
Burgess
Rimmer
Robert Brown | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1929–30
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded