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Game #241

Aston Villa

Saturday, 6 April 1895

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Won

DWWLW

Division One

Burnley

Wellington Road, Perry Barr

Attendance: 4,000

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

Aston Villa (Champions)

5-0

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Burnley

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🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 6 April 1895

[Exact chronological timings not recorded]
Goal, 1-0, Billy Dorrell, Assist by Bob Chatt
HT Aston Villa 1-0 Burnley
Goal, 2-0, Billy Dorrell
Goal, 3-0, Dennis Hodgetts
Goal, 4-0, Charlie Athersmith
Goal, 5-0, Bob Chatt
FT Aston Villa 5-0 Burnley

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 6 April 1895
Reigning Champions Villa’s hammer Burnley but their defence of the title is over with Sunderland six points clear at the top of the standings and just 4 points to play for. Villa sit third in the table with Everton in second place.

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1893–94

Burnley

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY
Burnley
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Previous 5 vs. Burnley: | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟨 |

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1894-95 |
Matchday | #32 |
League Match | #28 |
Manager Game | #215 |
Saturday, 6 April 1895

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🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager | George Ramsay led Management Committee |
FT Score | 5-0 |
FT Result | Won |
Last 5 Games | DWWLW |

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

🕒 215 | 🟩 117 🟨 30 🟥 68 | 1.77

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

REFEREE PROFILE

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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CARDS
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Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Villa make four changes from the team defeated at Bolton with Billy Dorrell, Jimmy Welford, George Russell and Fred Burton returning and Jim Elliott, Jack Reynolds (international duty), George Kinsey and Steve Smith (international duty) making way.

Starting XI Average Age
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Oldest Player |
F Dennis Hodgetts | 31.38 |

Youngest Player |
FB Howard Spencer | 19.64 |

Referee

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

MANAGER

George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

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Aston Villa

GK Harry Wilkes |
CB Jimmy Cowan |
FB Jimmy Welford |
FB Howard Spencer |
M George Russell |
M Fred Burton |
W Charlie Athersmith |
F Dennis Hodgetts |
F Billy Dorrell |
F Bob Chatt |
F Jack Devey |

MANAGER

Harry Bradshaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Burnley

Line Ups

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

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Substitutes

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

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🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
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GK Harry Wilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
SUBSTITUTES
Player
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UNUSED
Player
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Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺

Squad Bios

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

SQUAD STATS
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SQUAD STATS
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🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

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MATCH QUOTES
"Wilkes had very little to do in goal, but he deserves a word of praise for one save which he effected in the second half."
Quotes

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Sporting Life*
Monday, 8 April 1895
ASTON VILLA v. BURNLEY. The Burnley team journeyed to Perry Barr on Saturday to meet the English Cup tie finalists in a League fixture. There was only a very meagre attendance when play commenced, not more than 3,000 spectators lining the ground. Rain had fallen in the morning, but this was superseded in the afternoon by a boisterous gale. The home team won the toss, and chose to play down hill. Villa were without Reynolds and Smith, who were playing for their country against Scotland. M’Knight started the game, and Burnley immediately attacked hotly, but Villa were equal to the occasion, and won a corner, but this, although well taken, proved fruitless. Burnley now gained a lot ground by some very neat passing, but Spencer and Welford again proved very difficult to pass. Hodgetts did some clever dodging, and again took the ball into the visitors’ quarters, giving Devey a really good chance, but being rather slow on the ball, failed to take advantage. The wind was blowing all in the homesters’ favour, and it was not therefore surprising that they had the best of the play, but their bad shooting was again conspicuous, as when they met the West Bromwich Albion recently. Athersmith, Devey and Hodgetts now gave a good exhibition passing, and after some bombarding at the visitors’ goal, Chatt managed to pass the ball through the net, but the referee blew his whistle for a foul off one of the Burnley men, and consequently the Villa only gained a free kick, which was no advantage, and the ball again went into mid-field. The Villa now forced the game, and Chatt cleverly headed a goal just before half-time, when the score stood— Aston Villa, one goal; Burnley, none. When play recommenced, the home team made things pretty lively, and continually bombarded the visitors’ goal, although kicking against a strong wind, and they were now having all the play, and managed to make the final score- Aston Villa, five goals; Burnley, none. The referee (Mr. Shelton) was late in coming the ground, and Mr. E. W. Cox officiated until his arrival. ---- *The Birmingham Daily Post* Monday 08 April 1895 AN EASY VICTORY FOR THE VILLA Now that the Aston Villa have lost all chance of retaining the League championship interest in these contests has declined somewhat, and to this fact, and also to the wretched weather that obtained on Saturday, the smallness of the attendance at Perry Barr may be attributed. There were only about four thousand spectators present. Aided by a strong wind in the first half, the 'Villa Pressed heavily, but, the shooting was very weak and ineffective, thanks to which cause the Burnley goal escaped capture until about five minutes before the interval, when Chatt atoned for any mistakes he might have previously made but getting in a grand centre and Dorrell, meeting the ball put it out of the reach of Smith and into the net. This was the only goal scored before the interval, and considering the strength of the wind against which they now had to play the Villa’s position was not reassuring. The men themselves doubtless realised this, for they played up splendidly in the second half. They showed all-round improvement in their attack, and the consequence was that they were enabled to score four more goal, Dorrell, Hodgetts, Athersmith, and Chatt kicking the ball into the net. The shots made by Hodgetts and Athersmith deserve a special mention, for they were brilliant efforts. The Villa sprinter was the best forward on his side on Saturday, making many fine runs and centring excellently, but Hodgetts put in a lot of clever work. Devey, who played well in the field was sadly wanting in front of goal, whilst Chatt, though uncertain at times in passing, displayed great dash near goal, and shot very well. Dorrell made several good runs during the course of the game, and his centring on the whole was very accurate. Cowan again played finely at centre-half, Russell and Burton working untiringly on the wings and Welford and Spencer gave a capital exhibition of full back play, the former’s powerful kicking against the wind exciting much comment. Wilkes had very little to do in goal, but he deserves a word of praise for one save which he effected in the second half.
Reports

🟩 6 Apr 1895, Villa 5-0 Burnley, Wellington Road

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