Game #2960
Aston Villa
8-2-11, 18 PTS

Tuesday, 26 December 1967
16th (-)
Last 5: ๐ฉ ๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ ๐ฅ
GK Colin Withers | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
RB Mick Wright | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
FB Barry Ansell | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | ๐ข | ๐ด |
M Alan Deakin | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
M Lew Chatterley | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
M Willie Anderson | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
M Tommy Mitchinson | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
M Bobby Park | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ |
F John Woodward | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | ๐ |
F Brian Godfrey | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ |
F Brian Greenhalgh | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
Tommy Cummings | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 1967-1968

Substitutes
๐ | W Johnny MacLeod | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ | for CF John Woodward | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 71' |
Unused Substitutes
None
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Trophy Record
League Champions: ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
FA Cup Winners: ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐
League Cup Winners: ๐
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Injury | 2 |
F Peter Broadbent | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
RB Charlie Aitken | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ |
Team News
Barry Ansell comes in for his debut in place of Charlie Aitken who misses his first game of the season.
Team Stats
Starting XI Average Age
| 23.19 |
Oldest Player |
GK Colin Withers | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 27.78 |
Youngest Player |
FB Barry Ansell | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 20.25 |
Debut Appearances
๐ข FB Barry Ansell | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | #526 | Youth team promotion
Final Appearances
๐ด FB Barry Ansell | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 1967 ๐ 1 | โ 1 ๐ (0) | โฝ 0 | ๐ฅ 0 | ๐บ 0 | #526 |
On This Day
Villa lose to a Cardiff side who are reduce to ten men through injury after 50 minutes and are forced to play with nine for the final twenty.
Tommy Cummings' Villa fail to score for the second time in four games and lose for the first time in five to make it eight wins, two draws and eleven defeats in twenty one League games so far this season. Villa had now lost for the nineteenth time in their last thirty one games, this time managing to do so against a Cardiff side that was reduced to nine men for the last 18 minutes of the match.
Meanwhile, full back Barry Ansell made his one and only appearance for Villa aged 20 after joining from school football in 1965. Ansell would move on to non-League football in 1969.
Starting XI
๐
โ
โฝ
๐ฅ
๐ฉ
๐จ
๐ฅ
Substitutes
None
๐
๐
โฝ
๐ฅ
Sub 2
๐ฉ
๐จ
๐ฅ
None
๐
๐
โฝ
๐ฅ
Sub 3
๐ฉ
๐จ
๐ฅ
None
๐
๐
โฝ
๐ฅ
Sub 4
๐ฉ
๐จ
๐ฅ
None
๐
๐
โฝ
๐ฅ
Sub 5
๐ฉ
๐จ
๐ฅ

Lost
0-3
๐ฅ 26 Dec 1967, Villa 0-3 Cardiff, Ninian
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline
๐ข | 1โ Debut, Barry Ansell
๐ฅ
| 16โ Goal, 0-1, (Cardiff City), Les Lea
๐ | HT Cardiff City 1-0 Aston Villa
๐ฅ
| 51โ Goal, 0-2, (Cardiff City), John Toshack
๐ | 51โ Player retires from field of play with injury, (Cardiff City), Bobby Brown
๐ | 71โ Sub off, John Woodward, Sub on, Johnny McLeod
๐ | 72โ Player retires from field of play with injury, (Cardiff City), David Carver
๐ฅ
| 81โ Goal, 0-3, (Cardiff City), Les Lea
๐ | FT Cardiff City 3-0 Aston Villa
Season | 1967-68 |
Matchday | #22 |
League Match | #21 |
Manager Game | #22 |
Tuesday, 26 December 1967
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: Tommy Cummings | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | Sunderland, 1967-1968
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: ๐ฅ 0-1
FT Result: ๐ฅ Lost
FT Score: ๐ฅ 0-3
Last 5: ๐ฉ ๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ ๐ฅ
Officials
Referee: Unknown
Match Stats
Not recorded
Tommy Cummings | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | 1967-1968
๐ 22 | ๐ฉ | 8 ๐จ | 2 ๐ฅ 12 | 1.18
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
What they Said
Division Two
Cardiff City
7-7-9, 21 PTS
Ninian Park
Attendance: 18,180
GK Bob Wilson (ex) | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
D Graham Coldrick | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ | ๐ |
CB Don Murray | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ |
RB David Carver | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | โ |
LH Brian Harris | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
M Malcolm Clarke | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ |
W Les Lea | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | โฝ | โฝ |
W Barrie Jones | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ |
F Peter King | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |
F John Toshack | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ | โฝ |
CF Bobby Brown | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ | โ |
Jimmy Scoular | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ |
Substitutes
๐ | D Graham Coldrick | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ | (D Gary Bell | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ |)
Unused Substitutes
None
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
None
Opposition Trophy Record
League Champions: โ
FA Cup Winners: ๐
League Cup Winners: โ
Last Trophy: 1926-27
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
League Table

1967-68
Playing Squad

































