Game #1706
Aston Villa
12-6-16, 30 PTS

Saturday, 24 March 1934
17th
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩
GK Harry Morton | 🏴 |
FB Danny Blair | 🏴 |
FB Joe Nibloe | 🏴 |
CB Alec Talbot | 🏴 |
M Billy Kingdon | 🏴 |
M Tommy Gardner | 🏴 |
W Eric Houghton | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Arthur Cunliffe | 🏴 | 🔥 |
F Ronnie Dix | 🏴 |
F Joe Beresford | 🏴 | 🔥 |
F Dai Astley | 🏴 | ⚽ |
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 |
M Jimmy Gibson | 🏴 |
CF Pongo Waring | 🏴 |
Team News
Tommy Gardner replaces Tommy Wood.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
None

Won
2-1
🟩 24 Mar 1934, Villa 2-1 Boro, Ayresome
Scorer(s) | Eric Houghton | 18' | Dai Astley | 50' |
Assist(s) | Arthur Cunliffe | 18' | Joe Beresford | 50' |
Match Timeline
⚽ | 18’ Goal, 1-0, Eric Houghton, Assist by Arthur Cunliffe
🥅 | 34' Goal, 1-1, (Middlesbrough), Yorston
🕒 | HT Middlesbrough 1-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 50’ Goal, 2-1, Dai Astley, Assist by Joe Beresford
🕒 | FT Middlesbrough 1-2 Aston Villa
Season | 1933-34 |
Matchday | #40 |
League Match | #34 |
Manager Game | #356 |
Saturday, 24 March 1934

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934 led Management Committee
Referee: H. E. Hull | 🏴 | Burnley, 1931-1937
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩
Officials
Referee: H. E. Hull | 🏴 | Burnley, 1931-1937
Match Stats
Not recorded
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934
🕒 355 | 🟩 | 174 🟨 61 🟥 120 | 1.64
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Division One
Middlesbrough
13-5-15, 31 PTS

Ayresome Park
Attendance: 13,156
Gibson
Jennings
Stuart
Martin
Griffiths
Forrest
Williams
Bruce
Yorston
Baxter
Warren
Wilf Gillow | 🏴 |

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
Dai Astley scores his twenty sixth of the season as Villa win for the first time in six League games.
Villa make it twelve wins, six draws and sixteen defeats in thirty four division one games.
Villa climb one place to 17th but their first division future still looks fragile.
What they Said