Game #2791
Aston Villa
11-12-18, 34 PTS

Saturday, 11 April 1964
17th (-1)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
GK Bob Wilson | 🏴 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
M Mike Tindall | 🏴 |
M Stan Horne | 🏴 |
M Dave Pountney | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴 |
W Tommy Ewing | 🏴 | 🔴 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴 | ⚽ |
Joe Mercer | 🏴 | 1958-1964

Substitutes
No Substitutions permitted in period
Unused Substitutes
No Substitutions permitted in period
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Trophy Record
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Injury | 2 |
GK Geoff Sidebottom | 🏴 |
CF Tony Hateley | 🏴 |
Team News
Mick Wright, Jimmy MacEwan and Tommy Ewing replace Cammie Fraser, Lew Chatterley and Alan Baker.
Team Stats
Starting XI Average Age
| 23.93 |
Oldest Player |
W Jimmy MacEwan | 🏴 | 35.08 |
Youngest Player |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴 | 17.56 |
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
🔴 W Tommy Ewing | 🏴 | 1962-64 🕒 45 | ✅ 45 | 🔁 (-) | ⚽ 6 | 🔥 13 | 🇺 - | #493 |

Lost
3-4
🟥 11 Apr 1964, Villa 3-4 Ipswich, Portman Road
Scorer(s) | Dave Pountney | 32' | 82' | Ron Wylie | 61' |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline
🥅 | 21' Goal, 0-1, (Ipswich Town), Joe Broadfoot
⚽ | 32' Goal, 1-1, Dave Pountney
🕒 | HT Ipswich Town 1-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 61' Goal, 2-1, Ron Wylie
🥅 | 69' Goal, 2-2, (Ipswich Town), Gerry Baker
🥅 | 76' Goal, 2-3, (Ipswich Town), Joe Broadfoot
⚽ | 82' Goal, 3-3, Dave Pountney
🥅 | 89' Goal, 3-4, (Ipswich Town), Billy Baxter
🕒 | FT Ipswich Town 4-3 Aston Villa
Season | 1963-64 |
Matchday | #45 |
League Match | #41 |
Manager Game | #281 |
Saturday, 11 April 1964

Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Roy Harper | 🏴 | Sheffield, 1962-1966
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score:
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 3-4
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
Officials
Referee: Roy Harper | 🏴 | Sheffield, 1962-1966
Match Stats
Not recorded
Joe Mercer | 🏴 | 1958-1964
🕒 278 | 🟩 | 119 🟨 62 🟥 97 | 1.51
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
Division One
Ipswich Town
7-7-26, 21 PTS

Portman Road
Attendance: 11,660
GK Jim Thorburn | 🏴 |
RB Joe Davin | 🏴 |
CB George Dougan | 🏴 |
CB Jack Bolton | 🏴 |
D John Compton | 🏴 |
M Billy Baxter | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Joe Broadfoot | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
W Jimmy Leadbetter | 🏴 |
W Roy Stephenson | 🏴 |
F Doug Moran | 🏴 |
CF Gerry Baker | 🇺🇸 | ⚽ |
Jackie Milburn | 🏴 |

Substitutes
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Unused Substitutes
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Opposition Trophy Record
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1961-62
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded

Starting XI
Match Media
On This Day
Villa contrive to lose to shortly to be relegate Ipswich, a side who had conceded 115 goals. Villa's season was petering out.
Joe Mercer's Villa score three away from home and fail to win for the second time in three as they lose a second successive game to make it eleven wins, twelve draws and eighteen defeats in forty one League games under Mercer.
Meanwhile, winger Tommy Ewing made his final appearance for Villa aged 26 before moving on to Patrick Thistle in July 1964. Ewing played for Villa between 1961-62 and 1963-64 making 45 appearances and scoring 6 goals.
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