Game #1604
Aston Villa
13-4-8, 30 PTS

Saturday, 30 January 1932
5th=
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥
GK Harry Morton | 🏴 |
FB Tommy Smart | 🏴 |
FB Teddy Bowen | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
M Billy Simpson | 🏴 | 🟢 |
M Tommy Wood | 🏴 |
W Eric Houghton | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W George Stephenson | 🏴 | 🔴 |
CF Pongo Waring | 🏴 |
F George Brown | 🏴 |
F Billy Walker | 🏴 |
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 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: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1919–20
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Injury | 2 |
LB Tommy Mort | 🏴 |
M Jimmy Gibson | 🏴 |
Team News
Teddy Bowen, Billy Simpson (debut) and Pongo Waring replace Tommy Mort, Jimmy Gibson and Joe Beresford.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
🟢 M Billy Simpson | 🏴 | #345 | £1,000 signing from Clyde
Final Appearances
🔴 W George Stephenson | 🏴 | 1932 🕒 4 | ✅ 4 | 🔁 (-) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 2 | 🇺 - | #344 |

Lost
1-3
🟥 30 Jan 1932, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Eric Houghton | 84' |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline
🟢 | 1' Debut, Billy Simpson
🥅 | 18' Goal, 0-1, (Chelsea), Mills
🥅 | 23' Goal, 0-2, (Chelsea), Mills
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-2 Chelsea
🥅 | 69' Goal, 0-3, (Chelsea), Jackson
⚽ | 84' Goal, 1-3, Eric Houghton
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-3 Chelsea
Season | 1931-32 |
Matchday | #28 |
League Match | #25 |
Manager Game | #254 |
Saturday, 30 January 1932
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: G. C. Wenton | 🏴 | Northampton, 1932
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥
Officials
Referee: G. C. Wenton | 🏴 | Northampton, 1932
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 253 | 🟩 | 128 🟨 42 🟥 83 | 1.68
Villa Career Form:
Top 6

Division One
Chelsea
11-1-14, 23 PTS
Villa Park
Attendance: 35,993
Millington
Barber
Law
Russell
O'Dowd
Ferguson
Jackson
Cheyne
Mills
Miller
Pearson
David Calderhead | 🏴 |
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: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded

Starting XI
Match Media
On This Day
Eric Houghton scores a consolation but Villa are beaten at home for only the third time this season
Villa make it thirteen wins, four draws and eight defeats in twenty five division one games this season.
Villa now have four clean sheets in 28 games so far in 1931-32
Midfielder Billy Simpson makes his Villa debut aged 24 after joining from Clyde in November 1931.
Winger George Stephenson makes his fourth and final appearance before moving on to Luton Town in July 1934.
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