Game #1560
Aston Villa
13-7-6, 33 PTS

Saturday, 17 January 1931
3rd=
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩
GK Percy Maggs | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
FB Teddy Bowen | 🏴 |
FB Tommy Smart | 🏴 |
M Jimmy Gibson | 🏴 |
M Joe Tate | 🏴 |
W Eric Houghton | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
W Jack Mandley | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF George Brown | 🏴 |
CF Billy Walker | 🏴 |
CF Pongo Waring | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934

Substitutes
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Unused 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 | 1 |
GK Fred Biddlestone | 🏴 |
Team News
Teddy Bowen and George Brown replace Tommy Mort and Joe Beresford.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
🔴 GK Percy Maggs | 🏴 | 1930-31 🕒 14 | ✅ | 14 | 🔁 (-) | 🥅 2.07 | ⛔ 21% | 🇺 - | #338 |

Won
3-1
🟩 17 Jan 1931, Villa 3-1 Bolton, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Eric Houghton | 22' | Pongo Waring | 52' | Jack Mandley | 80' |
Assist(s) | Eric Houghton | 52' | Pongo Waring | 80' |
Match Timeline
🚑 | Player injured on field of play, Alec Talbot
⚽ | 22' Goal, 1-0, Eric Houghton
🚑 | 22' Player retires from field of play with injury, (Bolton Wanderers), Jones. Goslin takes on goalkeeping duties
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Bolton Wanderers
⚽ | 52' Goal, 2-0, Pongo Waring, Assist by Eric Houghton
⚽ | 80' Goal, 3-0, Jack Mandley, Assist by Pongo Waring
🥅 | 84’ Goal, 3-1, (Bolton Wanderers)
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-1 Bolton Wanderers
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #28 |
League Matchweek | #26 |
Manager Game | #210 |
Saturday, 17 January 1931

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: Robert Bowie | 🏴 | Newcastle upon Tyne, 1926-1934
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩
Officials
Referee: Robert Bowie | 🏴 | Newcastle upon Tyne, 1926-1934
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 209 | 🟩 | 102 🟨 35 🟥 72 | 1.63
Villa Career Form:
Top 6

Division One
Bolton Wanderers
9-4-12, 22 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 21,950
Jones
Haworth
Finney
Goslin
Nuttall
Wright
Butler
McKay
Blackmore
Gibson
Cook
Charles Foweraker | 🏴 |

Substitutes
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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: 1928-29
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
On This Day
Villa, already dominating, see Bolton lose their 'keeper to injury half way through the first half and the visitors are forced to play with 10 and outfield player Gosling in goal.
Pongo Waring scores his THIRTIETH goal in twenty four games as Villa record a first League victory in three and first in 1931 to make it thirteen wins, seven draws and six defeats in their twenty six division one games having scored SEVENTY FIVE goals more than any other team in the division
Villa sit joint third, four points off leaders Wednesday, but second placed Arsenal have three games in hand.
Goalkeeper Percy Maggs makes his fourteenth and final appearance for Villa aged 24 before moving on to Blackpool in August 1932.
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