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Game #2744

Tuesday, 21 May 1963

Attendance: 17,222

Drew

Division One

15th

Ipswich Town

WLWWD

Portman Road

Ipswich Town

1-1

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | Not recorded

KEY MAN

Bobby Thomson, scored for the second successive game as Villa end the League season unbeaten in three and in 15th place, Tuesday, 21 May 1963.

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ON THIS DAY

Joe Mercer's Villa end the most remarkable of League seasons unbeaten in three having lost twelve of their previous thirteen including a worst ever League run of eleven successive losses.

Villa’s final League fixture is their sixteenth in fifty four days after their wildly interrupted season delivered the inevitable fixture list congestion and required Villa to play once every three days in the final two months of the season.

As a result, Villa make it fifteen wins, eight draws and nineteen defeats in forty two division one games as a campaign of such promise before the fixture interruption had come completely off the rails following a record for failure that no-one could or would have predicted.

That Villa finished 15th in the table, well clear of the drop zone, simply underlined the form they had shown prior to the new year and which made the form of April and May such a shock.

Villa’s season wasn’t over however as they now had a two legged final in the League Cup to look forward to against a relegated Birmingham side as Villa attempted to deliver a trophy in an otherwise barren season and win the League Cup for the second time in three seasons since its inauguration.

Aston Villa

Ipswich Town

FIXTURE HISTORY

Ipswich Town

Previous 5 vs. Ipswich: | 🟥 | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟩 |

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1962-63 |
Matchday | #51 |
League Match | #42 |
Manager Game | #234 |
Tuesday, 21 May 1963

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager | Joe Mercer |
FT Result | Drew |
FT Score | 1-1 |
Last 5 Games | WLWWD |

MATCH OFFICIALS

CARDS

Villa

Ipswich Town

All the matches refereed by:

TEAM NEWS

Tommy Ewing replaces Mike Tindall.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 23.91 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Sims | 31.80 |

Youngest Player |
M Lew Chatterley | 18.27 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

Joe Mercer

Aston Villa

GK Nigel Sims |
FB Gordon Lee |
FB Cammie Fraser |
LB Charlie Aitken |
M Lew Chatterley |
M Alan Deakin |
W Tommy Ewing |
F Ron Wylie |
F George Graham |
F Alan Baker |
F Bobby Thomson |

Ipswich Town

Bailey, Dougan, Carberry, Compton, Elsworthy, Baxter, Leadbetter, Moran (g), Phillips, Curtis, Crawford. Manager: Jackie Milburn.

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

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PROGRAMME

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