Game #2744
Aston Villa
15-8-18, 38 PTS
Tuesday, 21 May 1963
Drew
15th (+1)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨
Division One
Attendance: 17,222
Ipswich Town
Portman Road
12-11-19, 35 PTS
Ipswich Town
1-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Alan Baker | 69' |
MATCH SUMMARY
Shorn of half a team of regulars Villa are the victims of a poor refereeing decision but rescue a draw at Portman Road. Villa become the last club, alongside opponents Ipswich, to complete their League season. Villa would have a 48 hour gap between this and the first leg of the League Cup final against neighbours Birmingham. The cup final opposition by contrast had three additional days recovery time. Regardless of Villa's form, the League hadn't managed the congested fixture list at all well with some clubs facing considerably worse difficulties than others. As a case in point it was already ten days since champions Everton finished their League campaign and the three other clubs involved in the season ending FA and League Cup finals had all finished their seasons earlier than Villa.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 21 May 1963
🥅 | 37' Goal, 0-1, (Ipswich Town), Doug Moran
💥 | Player injured on field of play, Tommy Ewing
🕒 | HT Ipswich Town 1-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 69' Goal, 1-1, Bobby Thomson, Assist by Alan Baker
🕒 | FT Ipswich Town 1-1 Aston Villa
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 neighbours Birmingham 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
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Ipswich Town
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1961-62
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 | 🏴 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: A. J. Sturgeon | 🏴 | Putney, -1963 🆘
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Joe Mercer | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 231 | 🟩 | 107 🟨 48 🟥 76 | 1.6
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: A. J. Sturgeon | 🏴 | Putney, -1963 🆘
🆘 Gifted an offside goal to Ipswich and then doubled down when his decision was rightly protested
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: None
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
None
Ipswich Town
None
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
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 | 🏴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Jackie Milburn | 🏴 |
Ipswich Town
GK Roy Bailey | 🏴 |
D John Compton | 🏴 |
CB George Dougan | 🏴 |
RB Larry Carberry | 🏴 |
M John Elsworthy | 🏴 |
M Billy Baxter | 🏴 |
W Jimmy Leadbetter | 🏴 |
F Doug Moran | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Dermot Curtis | 🇮🇪 |
CF Ray Crawford | 🏴 |
CF Ted Phillips | 🏴 |
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
Ipswich XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injured | 5 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴 |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴 |
F Derek Dougan | 🇬🇧 |
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
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
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