Game #1771
Aston Villa
3-2-9, 8 PTS

Saturday, 9 November 1935
22nd
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
GK Harry Morton | 🏴 |
FB Norman Young | 🏴 |
FB Danny Blair | 🏴 |
M Tommy Gardner | 🏴 |
M Jimmy McLuckie | 🏴 |
M Tom Griffiths | 🏴 | 🟢 |
W Arthur Cunliffe | 🏴 |
W Eric Houghton | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Dai Astley | 🏴 |
F Ronnie Dix | 🏴 |
CF Frank Broome | 🏴 | ⚽ |
Management Committee 1935-1936

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
None
Team News
Norman Young, Frank Broome, Tommy Gardner and Tom Griffiths (debut) replace George Beeson, Jimmy Allen, Jimmy Gibson and Billy Kingdon.
Team Stats
Debut Appearances
🟢 M Tom Griffiths | 🏴 | #361 | £5,000 signing from Middlesbrough
Final Appearances
🔴 W Arthur Cunliffe | 🏴 | 1933-35 🕒 75 | ✅ 75 | 🔁 (-) | ⚽ 13 | 🔥 20 | 🇺 - | #352 |

Lost
2-3
🟥 9 Nov 1935, Villa 2-3 Liverpool, Anfield
Scorer(s) | Eric Houghton | 37' | Frank Broome | 87' |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline
🟢 | 1' Debut, Tom Griffiths
🥅 | 30' Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Hodgson
⚽ | 37' Goal, 1-1, Eric Houghton
🥅 | Goal, 1-2, (Liverpool, pen), Carr
🕒 | HT Liverpool 2-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 54' Goal, 1-3, (Liverpool), McDougall
⚽ | 87' Goal, 2-3, Frank Broome
🕒 | FT Liverpool 3-2 Aston Villa
Season | 1935-36 |
Matchday | #14 |
League Match | #14 |
Manager Game | #2 |
Saturday, 9 November 1935

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Management Committee 1935-1936
Referee: William Walden | 🏴 | Derby, 1927-1936
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 2-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Officials
Referee: William Walden | 🏴 | Derby, 1927-1936
Match Stats
Not recorded
Management Committee 1935-1936
Villa Career Form:
Division One
Liverpool
6-3-5, 15 PTS

Anfield
Attendance: 31,898
Riley
Cooper
Blenkinsopp
Savage
Bradshaw
McDougall
Nieuwenhuys
Balmer
Howe
Hodgson
Carr
George Patterson | 🏴 |

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: 1922-23
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded

Starting XI
Match Media
On This Day
Villa lose a fifth consecutive League game for the first time since September 1919.
Villa lose for the 6th time in 7 games.
Villa are without a win in 7 games.
Villa concede the first goal for the twelfth successive game.
Villa are now without a clean sheet in 20 games.
Villa have now conceded 51 goals in their last 16 games.
Villa remain rooted to the bottom of the table, two points behind Preston and three behind Portsmouth, Everton and Brentford.
Up next is mid-table Chelsea, six points better off than Villa.
Villa make it three wins, two draws and nine defeats in fourteen games.
Midfielder Tom Griffiths made his Villa debut aged 29 after joining from Middlesbrough earlier this month.
Winger Arthur Cunliffe made the last of his 75 appearances for Villa aged 26 during which time he scored 13 goals before moving the other way in December.
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