Game #2411
Aston Villa
6-6-6, 18 PTS

Saturday, 1 December 1956
13th=
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
GK Nigel Sims | 🏴 |
FB Peter Aldis | 🏴 |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴 |
CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴 |
M Pat Saward | 🇮🇪 |
M Bill Baxter | 🏴 |
W Les Smith | 🏴 |
W Ken O Roberts | 🏴 |
W Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ |
F Johnny Dixon | 🏴 |
F Jackie Sewell | 🏴 |
Eric Houghton | 🏴 | 1953-1958

Substitutes:
No Substitutions permitted in period
Unused Substitutes:
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None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 1919–20
Matchday Squad:
Injury | 1 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 |
Eric Houghton names an unchanged line up.
Not recorded
Peter McParland scores his 6th of the campaign but Villa lose for the first time in four.
Villa make it six wins, six draws and six defeats in eighteen Division One games this season under Eric Houghton.
Full back Bill Baxter makes his final appearance in a Villa shirt having played for the club between 1953-54 and 1956-57 making 108 appearances and scoring 6 goals.

Lost
1-2
🟥 1 Dec 1956, Villa 1-2 Wednesday, Hillsborough
Scorer(s) | Peter McParland | 45' |
Assist(s) | Jackie Sewell | 45' |
Match Timeline:
🚑 | 10' Player retires from field of play with injury, Jimmy Dugdale
🚑 | 15' Player returns to field of play, Jimmy Dugdale
🥅 | 44' Goal, 0-1, (Sheffield Wednesday), Quixall
⚽ | 45' Goal, 1-1, Peter McParland, Assist by Jackie Sewell
🕒 | HT Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 68' Goal, 1-2, (Sheffield Wednesday), Quixall
🕒 | FT Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Aston Villa
Season | 1956-57 |
Matchday | #18 |
League Match | #18 |
Manager Game | #151 |
Saturday, 1 December 1956

Manager: Eric Houghton | 🏴 | Billingborough, 1953-1958
Referee: Stanley Barker | 🏴 | Bexley Heath
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
Referee: Stanley Barker | 🏴 | Bexley Heath, 1956-1957
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
🔴 M Bill Baxter | 🏴 | 1953-56 🕒 108 | ✅ 108 | 🔁 (-) | ⚽ 6 | 🔥 4 | 🇺 - | #435 |
Eric Houghton | 🏴 | 1953-1958
Villa Career Form:
Referee:
Referee: Stanley Barker | 🏴 | Bexley Heath, 1956-1957
🕒 1 | 🟩 0 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | 🆘 : 0
🕒 1 | 🟩 0% | 🟨 0% | 🟥 100% | 🆘 : 0%
Cards 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | 0.00 |
Penalty ⚽ 0 | 🥅 0 |
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Division One
Sheffield Wednesday
7-2-11, 16 PTS

Hillsborough
Attendance: 23,560
McIntosh, Staniforth, McEvoy, Curtis, Gibson, McAnearney, Cargill, Shiner, Finney, Froggatt, Quixall (g) (g).
Manager: Jack Marshall.
Eric Taylor | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1934–35
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded

