Game #2728
Aston Villa
12-7-8, 31 PTS
Saturday, 23 March 1963
Lost
7th (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
Division One
Attendance: 22,508
Fulham
Craven Cottage
10-6-13, 26 PTS
Fulham
1-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa, shorn of their undoubted star of the season - Harry Burrows - and their 'keeper, fall to defeat at Craven Cottage. Villa, 7th, face another 6 day break before they face Blackpool but that match at Bloomfield Road presages an absolutely unbelievably condensed fixture list.
Villa are due to play on:
Friday, 29 March 1963
Monday, 1 April 1963
Saturday, 6 April 1963
Tuesday, 9 April 1963
Saturday, 13 April 1963
Monday, 15 April 1963
Tuesday, 16 April 1963
Saturday, 20 April 1963
Monday, 22 April 1963
It is now clear to all that the relatively empty fixture list in March was a serious error of judgement by the FA with Villa likely to still be completing their games in late May. Meanwhile teams above them in the table have played up to three games more than Joe Mercer's side in a more balanced spread of fixtures.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 23 March 1963
🟢 | 1' Debut, John Gavan
🕒 | HT Fulham 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 61' Goal, 0-1, (Fulham), Rodney Marsh
🕒 | HT Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Joe Mercer's Villa play with the usual seven day separation between League outings for the first time since the 15th December as their wildly interrupted season promises major fixture list congestion in the final two months of the season.
Villa fail to score for the fourth time in the last seven and had now lost three in the last six having lost just twice in the previous nineteen games.
As a result Villa make it twelve wins, seven draws and eight defeats in twenty seven division one games so far this season as a campaign of such promise begins to falter under the difficult scheduling.
Meanwhile, 23 year old goalkeeper John Gavan made his Villa debut after moving from Walsall Wood in November 1962.
Aston Villa
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Fulham
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
FIXTURE HISTORY
Fulham
Previous 5 vs. Fulham: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1962-63 |
Matchday | #35 |
League Match | #27 |
Manager Game | #218 |
Saturday, 23 March 1963
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: John Mitchell | 🏴 | Prescot, -1967 🆘
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Joe Mercer | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 215 | 🟩 | 104 🟨 46 🟥 65 | 1.67
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: John Mitchell | 🏴 | Prescot, -1967 🆘
🆘 Refused Villa a penalty when old boy Eddie Lowe blatantly pulled Tommy Ewing down
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: None
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
None
Fulham
None
TEAM NEWS
John Gavan (debut), Jimmy MacEwan and Derek Dougan replace Geoff Sidebottom, Harry Burrows and Bobby Thomson.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.71 |
Oldest Player |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 | 34.02 |
Youngest Player |
F Alan Baker | 🏴 | 18.76 |
MANAGER
Joe Mercer | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK John Gavan | 🏴 | 🟢 |
FB Cammie Fraser | 🏴 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴 |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 |
W Tommy Ewing | 🏴 |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴 |
F Derek Dougan | 🇬🇧 |
F Alan Baker | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Bedford Jezzard | 🏴 |
Fulham
GK Tony Macedo | 🏴 |
LB Jim Langley | 🏴 |
RB George Cohen | 🏴 |
M Eddie Lowe (ex) | 🏴 |
M Johnny Key | 🏴 |
M Alan Mullery | 🏴 |
W Bobby Robson | 🏴 |
W Pat O’Connell | 🏴 |
W Graham Leggat | 🏴 |
CF Rodney Marsh | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Maurice Cook | 🏴 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
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
SQUAD STATS
Villa XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Fulham XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 2 |
GK Geoff Sidebottom | 🏴 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴 |
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
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
DEBUT APPEARANCES
🟢 GK John Gavan | 🏴 |
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
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