Game #1572
Aston Villa
22-9-7, 53 PTS

Tuesday, 7 April 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 Reg Chester | 🏴 |
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)
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 | 2 |
GK Fred Biddlestone | 🏴 |
W Jack Mandley | 🏴 |
Team News
Reg Chester replaces George Brown.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
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Final Appearances
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Won
4-3
🟩 7 Apr 1931, Villa 4-3 Newcastle, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Billy Walker | 33' | 40' | Eric Houghton | 52' (pen) | Pongo Waring | 85' |
Assist(s) | Jimmy Gibson | 33' | Tommy Smart | 40' |
Match Timeline
🥅 | 8' Goal, 0-1, (Newcastle United), Boyd
🥅 | 12' Goal, 0-2, (Newcastle United), Hutchison
🥅 | 14' Goal, 0-3, (Newcastle United, pen), Bedford
⚽ | 33' Goal, 1-3, Billy Walker, Assist by Jimmy Gibson
⚽ | 40' Goal, 2-3, Billy Walker, Assist by Tommy Smart
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-3 Newcastle United
⚽ | 52' Goal, 3-3, Eric Houghton, pen
⚽ | 85' Goal, 4-3, Pongo Waring
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-3 Newcastle United
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #40 |
League Match | #38 |
Manager Game | #222 |
Tuesday, 7 April 1931

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: John Rickwood | 🏴 | Sheffield, 1928-1931
HT Score: 🟥 2-3
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩
Officials
Referee: John Rickwood | 🏴 | Sheffield, 1928-1931
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 221 | 🟩 | 111 🟨 37 🟥 73 | 1.67
Villa Career Form:
Top 6

Division One
Newcastle United
15-5-8, 35 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 29,975
Burns
Nelson
Fairhurst
McKenzie
Davidson
Weaver
Boyd
Bedford
Hutchison
Starling
Lang
Andy Cunningham | 🏴 |

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: 1926-27
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
On This Day
Billy Walker hits a brace to help Villa to a tenth win in thirteen.
Pongo Waring scores his FORTY SIXTH goal in thirty six games.
But Villa find themselves 0-3 down in 14' before an incessant attacking performance wins the game.
Villa make it twenty two wins, nine draws and seven defeats in their thirty eight division one games having scored ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN goals - the most in the division and an all time record in English football.
Villa score four or more for the eighteenth time in 40 games this season having scored six three times, seven once and eight once.
Villa remain second but close the gap to leaders Arsenal to 4 points
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