top of page

Game #2475

Saturday, 18 January 1958

Attendance: 16,619

Lost

Division One

17th (-1)

Luton Town

DDWLL

Kenilworth Road

Luton Town

3-0

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | None

KEY MAN

PREVIOUS MATCH

NEXT MATCH

MATCH TIMELINE

ON THIS DAY

Eric Houghton's Villa lose to end a run of three successive League games to make it nine wins, four draws and fourteen defeats in twenty seven division one games.

Meanwhile, centre back George Ashfield made his final appearance for Villa aged 23 before moving on to Chester in February 1959.

Ashfield played for Villa between 1955-56 and 1957-58 making 10 appearances.

Aston Villa

Luton Town

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Luton Town

Previous 5 vs. Luton: | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟩 |

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1957-58 |
Matchday | #31 |
League Match | #27 |
Manager Game | #215 |
Saturday, 18 January 1958

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager | Eric Houghton |
FT Result | Lost |
FT Score | 0-3 |
Last 5 Games | DDWLL |

MATCH OFFICIALS

CARDS

Villa

Luton Town

All the matches refereed by:

TEAM NEWS

Trevor Birch and Tommy Southren replace Pat Saward and Les Smith.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.23 |

Oldest Player |
F Jackie Sewell | 31.01 |

Youngest Player |
M Stan Crowther | 22.39 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

Eric Houghton

Aston Villa

GK Nigel Sims |
CB George Ashfield |
FB Stan Lynn |
M Stan Crowther |
M Trevor Birch |
M Vic Crowe |
W Tommy Southren |
F Jackie Sewell |
F Peter McParland |
F Gerry Hitchens |
F Billy Myerscough |

Luton Town

Baynham, Hawkes, Dunne, Pearce, Owen, Morton, Groves, Adam (ex) (g), Turner (g), McLeod (g), Brown. Managers: Dally Duncan, Jack Crompton

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Player Abbreviations:

GK : Goalkeeper

LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back

CB, D : Centre Back, Defender

M, W : Midfielder. Winger

F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward

🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

MATCH STATS

Not recorded

TABLE

2021-22 Matchweek 38.jpg

PROGRAMME

Quotation Marks.png

MATCHDAY QUOTES