Game #1565
Aston Villa
17-8-6, 42 PTS

Saturday, 21 February 1931
2nd
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
GK Reg Miles | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
LB Tommy Mort | 🏴 |
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
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Unused 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
Trophy Record
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1919–20
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Injury | 1 |
GK Fred Biddlestone | 🏴 |
Team News
Billy Smith names the same line up for a third consecutive game.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
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Final Appearances
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Won
4-0
🟩 21 Feb 1931, Villa 4-0 Birmingham, St Andrew's
Scorer(s) | Joe Tate | 26' | Jack Mandley | 58' | Eric Houghton | 72' | Joe Beresford | 80' |
Assist(s) | Jack Mandley | 72' | Pongo Waring | 80' |
Match Timeline
⚽ | 26' Goal, 1-0, Joe Tate
🕒 | HT Birmingham 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 58' Goal, 2-0, Jack Mandley
⚽ | 72' Goal, 3-0, Eric Houghton, Assist by Jack Mandley
⚽ | 80' Goal, 4-0, Joe Beresford, Assist by Pongo Waring
🕒 | FT Birmingham 0-4 Aston Villa
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #33 |
League Match | #31 |
Manager Game | #215 |
Saturday, 21 February 1931

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: Herbert Mee | 🏴 | Mansfield, 1927-1939
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Officials
Referee: Herbert Mee | 🏴 | Mansfield, 1927-1939
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 214 | 🟩 | 106 🟨 36 🟥 72 | 1.65
Villa Career Form:
Top 6

Division One
Birmingham City
9-8-13, 26 PTS

St Andrew's
Attendance: 49,609
Hibbs
Liddell
Randle
Craigan
Fillingham
Firth
Horsman
Briggs
Bradford
Gregg
Curtis
Leslie Knighton | 🏴 |

Substitutes
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes
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Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Opposition Trophy Record
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
On This Day
Eric Houghton scored his TWENTY THIRD goal of the season as Villa hammer the team with three names to make it six games unbeaten and five wins and seventeen wins, eight draws and six defeats in their thirty one division one games having scored NINETY EIGHT goals.
Jack Mandley contributes his fifth assist in five games.
Villa score four or more for the fourteenth time in 33 games this season, having scored five twice, six three times, seven once and eight once.
Villa now sit outright second, two points ahead of Wednesday and three behind Arsenal who have two games in hand.
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Match Media
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