Game #2722
Aston Villa
10-7-6, 27 PTS

Saturday, 19 January 1963
5th (-)
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨
GK Geoff Sidebottom | 🏴 |
FB Cammie Fraser | 🏴 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴 |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 |
F Alan Baker | 🏴 |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴 |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴 |
Joe Mercer | 🏴 | 1958-1964

Substitutes:
No Substitutions permitted in period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions permitted in period
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Matchday Squad:
Injured | 1 |
F Derek Dougan | 🇬🇧 |
Alan Baker replaces Derek Dougan.
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.53 |
Oldest Player |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 | 33.85 |
Youngest Player |
F Alan Baker | 🏴 | 18.59 |
Villa play a League game for the first time in over a month and given the conditions were totally unsuitable to football it had to be questioned why it went ahead. Villa's game was one of only three played and no constructive football was possible as it predictably ended in a no-score stalemate.
Joe Mercer's Villa taste League action for the first time in five weeks and make it ten unbeaten with just two defeats in their last nineteen games to make it ten wins, seven draws and six defeats in twenty three division one games so far in 1962-63.

Drew
0-0
🟨 19 Jan 1963, Villa 0-0 Blackburn, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Blackburn Rovers
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Blackburn Rovers
Season | 1962-63 |
Matchday | #29 |
League Match | #23 |
Manager Game | #212 |
Saturday, 19 January 1963

Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: David Smith | 🏴 | Stonehouse, 1960-1973
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨
Referee: David Smith | 🏴 | Stonehouse, 1960-1973
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
None
Joe Mercer | 🏴 | 1958-1964
🕒 209 | 🟩 | 101 🟨 46 🟥 62 | 1.67
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Blackburn Rovers
7-8-9, 22 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 21,340
GK Fred Else | 🏴 |
RB John Bray | 🏴 |
RB Keith Newton | 🏴 |
CB Matt Woods | 🏴 |
CB Mick McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
M Mike Ferguson | 🏴 |
M Ronnie Clayton | 🏴 |
W Mike Harrison | 🏴 |
W Bryan Douglas | 🏴 |
F John Byrom | 🏴 |
CF Fred Pickering | 🏴 |
Jack Marshall | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes:
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1927–28
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded


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