Game #1573
Aston Villa
23-9-7, 55 PTS

Saturday, 11 April 1931
2nd
Last 5: ๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ฅ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ
GK Reg Miles | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
CB Alec Talbot | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
FB Teddy Bowen | 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 | ๐ฅ | โฝ |
W Reg Chester | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
F Joe Beresford | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
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 | 3 |
GK Fred Biddlestone | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
W Jack Mandley | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
LB Tommy Mort | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
Team News
Teddy Bowen replaces Tommy Mort.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
None
On This Day
Pongo Waring scores his FORTY EIGHTH goal in thirty seven games as Villa record an eleventh victory in fourteen.
Villa make it twenty three wins, nine draws and seven defeats in their thirty nine division one games having scored ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO goals - the most in the division and an all time record in English football.
Villa score four or more for the nineteenth time in 41 games this season having scored six three times, seven once and eight once.
Villa remain second behind leaders Arsenal
Starting XI

Won
4-0
๐ฉ 11 Apr 1931, Villa 4-0 Sheffield United, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Billy Walker | 35' | Eric Houghton | 48' (pen) | Pongo Waring | 80' | 82' |
Assist(s) | Eric Houghton | 35' | Billy Walker | 80' |
Match Timeline
โฝ | 35' Goal, 1-0, Billy Walker, Assist by Eric Houghton
๐ | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Sheffield United
โฝ | 48' Goal, 2-0, Eric Houghton, pen
โฝ | 80' Goal, 3-0, Pongo Waring, Assist by Billy Walker
โฝ | 82' Goal, 4-0, Pongo Waring
๐ | FT Aston Villa 4-0 Sheffield United
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Match | #39 |
Manager Game | #223 |
Saturday, 11 April 1931
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: James Williams | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | Bolton, 1929-1938
HT Score: ๐ฉ 1-0
FT Result: ๐ฉ Won
FT Score: ๐ฉ 4-0
Last 5: ๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ฅ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ
Officials
Referee: James Williams | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง ๓ ฟ | Bolton, 1929-1938
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 1926-1934
๐ 222 | ๐ฉ | 112 ๐จ 37 ๐ฅ 73 | 1.68
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
What they Said
Division One
Sheffield United
13-10-16, 33 PTS
Villa Park
Attendance: 26,952
Smith
Thorpe
Hooper
Gorney
Carrigan
Green
Gibson
Oxley
Dunne
Pickering
Tunstall
John Nicholson | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
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
Opposition Trophy Record
League Champions: ๐
FA Cup Winners: ๐๐๐๐
Last Trophy: 1924โ25
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
League Table

1930-31
Playing Squad


























