Game #1904
Aston Villa
4-3-5, 11 PTS

Saturday, 29 October 1938
13th=
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥
GK Fred Biddlestone | 🏴 |
RB Ernie Callaghan | 🏴 |
LB George Cummings | 🏴 |
CB Jimmy Allen | 🏴 |
M Alex Massie | 🏴 |
W Eric Houghton | 🏴 |
F Frank Shell | 🏴 |
F Freddie Haycock | 🏴 |
F Ronnie Starling | 🏴 |
CF Frank Broome | 🏴 |
CF Bob Iverson | 🏴 |
Jimmy Hogan | 🏴 | 1936-1939

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 | 2 |
W Andy Kerr | 🏴 |
F Jackie Martin | 🏴 |
Frank Shell and Frank Broome replace Andy Kerr and Jackie Martin.
For the third consecutive game Villa lose to inferior opposition as a failure to capitalise costs them heavily.
Villa lose for the third successive games to make it four wins, three draws and five defeats in twelve division one games.
Almost as if it was punishment for the embarrassment of losing to their neighbours, Villa collapse to 13th in the table having been 4th three games earlier.
Birmingham remain bottom of the table.
This would be Villa's final game at St Andrew's before Birmingham underwent their fourth name change to add the self styled - and controversially adopted - City to their name during WW2.
The club, originally, and correctly named Small Heath after the district they represented, had felt that the adoption of such a presumptious moniker would deliver them success hitherto completely absent from their history. It didn't, but it did allow generations of supporters of Birmingham's smallest club to claim, however factually, morally and historically inaccurate that they were the true representatives of the city of Birmingham.

Lost
0-3
🟥 29 Oct 1938, Villa 0-3 Birmingham, St Andrew’s
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🕒 | HT Birmingham 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 62’ Goal, 0-1, (Birmingham), Harris
🥅 | 75’ Goal, 0-2, (Birmingham), Brown
🥅 | 84’ Goal, 0-3, (Birmingham), Harris
🕒 | FT Birmingham 3-0 Aston Villa
Season | 1938-39 |
Matchday | #12 |
League Match | #12 |
Manager Game | #104 |
Saturday, 29 October 1938

Manager: Jimmy Hogan | 🏴 | Nelson, 1936-39
Referee: Sydney Clark | 🏴 | London, 1938-1939
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥
Referee: Sydney Clark | 🏴 | London, 1938-1939
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
None
Jimmy Hogan | 🏴 | 1936-1939
Villa Career Form:
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Birmingham City
3-2-8, 8 PTS

St Andrew's
Attendance: 55,301
Clack
Trigg
Hughes
Dearson
Halsall
Richards
White
Jennings
Phillips
Brown J.
Harris
George Liddell | 🏴 |

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