Game #2651

Aston Villa

2-1-3, 5 PTS

Saturday, 16 September 1961

Lost

20th (-3)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

Division One

Blackburn Rovers

3-2-3, 8 PTS

Ewood Park

Attendance: 14,000

Blackburn Rovers

4-2

Aston Villa

Scorer(s) | Mike Tindall | 11' | Harry Burrows | 68' |

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 16 September 1961

⚽ | 11' Goal, 1-0, Mike Tindall, Assist by Harry Burrows
🕒 | HT Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 55' Goal, 1-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Ian Lawther
🥅 | 67' Goal, 1-2, (Blackburn Rovers), Ian Lawther
⚽ | 68' Goal, 2-2, Harry Burrows, Assist by Ron Wylie
🥅 | 85' Goal, 2-3, (Blackburn Rovers), Bryan Douglas
🥅 | 88' Goal, 2-4, (Blackburn Rovers), Bryan Douglas
🕒 | FT Blackburn Rovers 4-2 Aston Villa

Not recorded

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 16 September 1961

Joe Mercer’s Villa return to League action to lose to Blackburn and make it two wins, one draw and three defeats in six Division One games this season as the season gets off to a stuttering start. Meanwhile, full back Stan Lynn made his final Villa appearance aged 33 before making the sad trip to Birmingham City in October 1961. Lynn played for Villa between 1950-51 and 1961-62 making 323 appearances and scoring 38 goals.

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟩 13 Sep 1961, Villa 4-3 Bradford, Valley Parade

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 18 Sep 1961, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61

Blackburn Rovers

League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1927–28

Aston Villa

Blackburn Rovers

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Blackburn Rovers

All the matches

Previous 5 vs. Blackburn: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

Blackburn Rovers

PREVIOUS MATCH

🟨 21 Jan 1961, Villa 2-2 Blackburn, Villa Park

Blackburn Rovers

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 3 Feb 1962, Villa 1-0 Blackburn, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1961-62 |
Matchday | #9 |
League Match | #6 |
Manager Game | #141 |
Saturday, 16 September 1961

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Tommy Langdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Darlington, -1961
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 2-4
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 138 | 🟩 | 66 🟨 31 🟥 41 | 1.66

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Full Managerial Performance Statistics

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Tommy Langdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Darlington, -1961
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

Tommy Langdale

CARDS

None

TEAM NEWS

Joe Mercer names an unchanged line up.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.96 |

Oldest Player |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33.27 |

Youngest Player |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 19.39 |

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

Aston Villa

GK Geoff Sidebottom | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mike Tindall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Peter McParland | 🇬🇧 |

MANAGER

Jack Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Blackburn Rovers

GK Fred Else | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Keith Newton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Matt Woods | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB John Bray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ronnie Clayton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Joe Haverty | 🇮🇪 |
W Chris Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Andy McEvoy | 🇮🇪 |
W Bryan Douglas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
F Roy Isherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Ian Lawther | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ | ⚽ |

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

	Game	Start	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red
GK Geoff Sidebottom \| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 \|

LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

FB Stan Lynn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

CB Jimmy Dugdale | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

M Alan Deakin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

	Game	Sub	Goal	Assist	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal Conceded	Clean Sheet	Yellow	Red

UNUSED

	Unused

SQUAD STATS

Villa XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

SQUAD STATS

Blackburn XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Injured | 1 |
F Derek Dougan | 🇬🇧 |

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Media & Commentary

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

EXTERNAL MATCH REPORT LINKS

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AVFC HISTORY MATCH SUMMARY

All square with five minutes to go, Villa concede two and go down against Blackburn and slump to 20th in the table having played two less games than the rest of the League.

MATCH QUOTES

ORIGINAL MATCH REPORT

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Game #2651

Aston Villa

Saturday, 16 September 1961

Lost

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

Division One

Blackburn Rovers

Ewood Park

Blackburn Rovers

4-2

Aston Villa

Scorer(s) | Mike Tindall | 11' | Harry Burrows | 68' |

MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 16 September 1961

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 16 September 1961

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

PREVIOUS MATCH

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

Aston Villa

Blackburn Rovers

Aston Villa

Blackburn Rovers

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

Blackburn Rovers

Previous 5 vs. Blackburn: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

Blackburn Rovers

PREVIOUS MATCH

Blackburn Rovers

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

FIXTURE DETAILS

MATCH SUMMARY

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

🕒 138 | 🟩 | 66 🟨 31 🟥 41 | 1.66

Villa Career Form:

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

MATCH OFFICIALS

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

MANAGER

Aston Villa

MANAGER

Blackburn Rovers

SUBSTITUTES

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED

SQUAD STATS

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

UNAVAILABLE

Media & Commentary

LEAGUE TABLE

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

EXTERNAL MATCH REPORT LINKS

AVFC HISTORY MATCH SUMMARY

MATCH QUOTES

ORIGINAL MATCH REPORT

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