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

Saturday, 11 April 1931
2nd
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩
GK Reg Miles | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
FB Teddy Bowen | 🏴 |
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:
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 | 3 |
GK Fred Biddlestone | 🏴 |
W Jack Mandley | 🏴 |
LB Tommy Mort | 🏴 |
Teddy Bowen replaces Tommy Mort.
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

Won
4-0
🟩 11 Apr 1931, Villa 4-0 Sheffield United, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Billy Walker | 35' | Eric Houghton (pen) | 48' | Pongo Waring | 80' | 82' |
Assist(s) | Eric Houghton | 35' | Billy Walker | 80' |
Match Timeline:
⚽ | 35' Goal, 1-0, Billy Walker, Assist by Eric Houghton
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Sheffield United
⚽ | 48' Goal, 2-0, Eric Houghton, pen
⚽ | 80' Goal, 3-0, Pongo Waring, Assist by Billy Walker
⚽ | 82' Goal, 4-0, Pongo Waring
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-0 Sheffield United
Season | 1930-31 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Match | #39 |
Manager Game | #223 |
Saturday, 11 April 1931

Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: James Williams | 🏴 | Bolton, 1929-1938
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩
Referee: James Williams | 🏴 | Bolton, 1929-1938
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
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Final Appearances:
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Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 222 | 🟩 | 112 🟨 37 🟥 73 | 1.68
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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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 | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1924–25
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
