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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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
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
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