Game #1561
Aston Villa
13-8-6, 34 PTS

Saturday, 24 January 1931
3rd
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨
GK Reg Miles | 🏴 | 🟢 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
FB Teddy Bowen | 🏴 |
FB Tommy Smart | 🏴 |
M Jimmy Gibson | 🏴 |
M Joe Tate | 🏴 |
W Eric Houghton | 🏴 |
W Jack Mandley | 🏴 | 🔥 |
F Joe Beresford | 🏴 |
CF Billy Walker | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Pongo Waring | 🏴 |
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 | 1 |
GK Fred Biddlestone | 🏴 |
Reg Miles (debut) and Joe Beresford replace Percy Maggs and George Brown.
Billy Walker scores, Pongo Waring misses an open goal but Liverpool equalise with 5' remaining and Villa are held at Anfield.
Villa make it thirteen wins, eight draws and six defeats in their twenty seven division one games having scored SEVENTY SIX goals.
Villa go outright third in the table but all the clubs around them now have at least one game in hand.
Goalkeeper Reg Miles makes his Villa debut aged 25 after joining from the British Army in November 1930.

Drew
1-1
🟨 24 Jan 1931, Villa 1-1 Liverpool, Anfield
Scorer(s) | Billy Walker | 79' |
Assist(s) | Jack Mandley | 79' |
Match Timeline:
🟢 | 1' Debut, Reg Miles
🕒 | HT Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 79' Goal, 1-0, Billy Walker, Assist by Jack Mandley
🥅 | 85’ Goal, 1-1, (Liverpool), Hodgson
🕒 | FT Liverpool 1-1 Aston Villa
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #29 |
League Match | #27 |
Manager Game | #211 |
Saturday, 24 January 1931

Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: Tommy Crew | 🏴 | Leicester, 1926-1933
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨
Referee: Tommy Crew | 🏴 | Leicester, 1926-1933
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
🟢 GK Reg Miles | 🏴 | #340 | Unattached from the British Army
Final Appearances:
None
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 210 | 🟩 | 102 🟨 36 🟥 72 | 1.63
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Liverpool
9-7-10, 25 PTS

Anfield
Attendance: 30,503
Riley
Done
Lucas
Morrison
Bradshaw
McDougall
Barton
Hodgson
Smith
McPherson
Hopkin
George Patterson | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1922-23
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
