Game #1568
Aston Villa
20-8-6, 48 PTS

Saturday, 14 March 1931
2nd
Last 5: ๐ฉ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ
GK Reg Miles | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
CB Alec Talbot | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
LB Tommy Mort | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
FB Tommy Smart | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
M Jimmy Gibson | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ |
M Joe Tate | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
W Eric Houghton | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | โฝ | โฝ |
W Jack Mandley | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | ๐ฅ |
F Joe Beresford | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | ๐ฅ | ๐ฅ |
CF Billy Walker | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | โฝ | ๐ฅ |
CF Pongo Waring | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | โฝ | โฝ |
Billy Smith | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 1926-1934

Substitutes
No Substitutions permitted in period
Unused Substitutes
No Substitutions permitted in period
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Trophy Record
League Champions: ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
FA Cup Winners: ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
Last Trophy: 1919โ20
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Injury | 1 |
GK Fred Biddlestone | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
Team News
Billy Smith names the same line up for a sixth consecutive game.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
None
On This Day
Villa take the lead in the first minutes of the game and equal the record goals in a season set by Sheffield Wednesday of 105 goals.
Villa go on to score plenty more as Arsenal are destroyed at Villa Park.
Pongo Waring scores his FORTY SECOND goal in thirty two games
Jack Mandley contributes his ninth assist in eight games.
Villa record seven consecutive victories.
Villa make it twenty wins, eight draws and six defeats in their thirty four division one games having scored ONE HUNDRED AND NINE goals breaking the League record previously set by Sheffield Wednesday.
Villa score four or more for the sixteenth time in 36 games this season having scored six three times, seven once and eight once.
Villa sit two points behind Arsenal in second place but the Londoners retain a game in hand.
Up next is the disgraceful Derby County who inflicted such damage on Villa in the reverse fixture in November in their typical roughhouse fashion.
Starting XI

Won
5-1
๐ฉ 14 Mar 1931, Villa 5-1 Arsenal, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Pongo Waring | 1' | 37' | Billy Walker | 44' | Eric Houghton | 65' | 80' |
Assist(s) | Joe Beresford | 1' | 37' | Jack Mandley | 44' | Billy Walker | 80' |
Match Timeline
โฝ | 1' Goal, 1-0, Pongo Waring, Assist by Joe Beresford
๐ | 13' Player retires from field of play with injury, Pongo Waring
๐ฅ
| 17' Goal, 1-1, (Arsenal), Jack
