Game #2976
Aston Villa
14-4-17, 32 PTS

Saturday, 6 April 1968
14th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨
GK Colin Withers | 🏴 |
RB Mick Wright | 🏴 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴 |
CB Dick Edwards | 🏴 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴 |
M Lew Chatterley | 🏴 |
M Willie Anderson | 🏴 |
M Tommy Mitchinson | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
M Dave Rudge | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
F Brian Greenhalgh | 🏴 |
F Brian Godfrey | 🏴 | ⚽ |
Tommy Cummings | 🏴 | 1967-1968

Substitutes:
🔁 | RB Keith Bradley | 🏴 | for M Dave Rudge | 🏴 | 85' |
Unused Substitutes:
None
None
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Matchday Squad:
Injury | 1 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
Tommy Cummings names an unchanged line up.
Starting XI Average Age
| 23.64 |
Oldest Player |
GK Colin Withers | 🏴 | 28.06 |
Youngest Player |
M Dave Rudge | 🏴 | 20.22 |
Villa make it two games unbeaten but concede a point after Tommy Mitchinson, who had played a superb match otherwise, handled a goal bound shot to concede a penalty and second equaliser. Villa drop one place to fourteenth in the table but increase the gap to the relegation places to six points.
Tommy Cummings' Villa make two unbeaten and fourteen wins, four draws and seventeen defeats in thirty five League games so far this season.

Drew
2-2
🟨 6 Apr 1968, Villa 2-2 Ipswich, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | Tommy Mitchinson | 9' | Brian Godfrey | 31' |
Assist(s) | Dave Rudge | 9' | Tommy Mitchinson | 31' |
Match Timeline:
⚽ | 9’ Goal, 1-0, Tommy Mitchinson, Assist by Dave Rudge
🥅 | 27’ Goal, 1-1, (Ipswich Town), Frank Crawford
⚽ | 31’ Goal, 2-1, Brian Godfrey, Assist by Tommy Mitchinson
🕔 | HT Aston Villa 2-1 Ipswich Town
🥅 | 57’ Goal, 2-2, (Ipswich Town, pen), Ray Brogan
🔁 | 85’ Sub off, Dave Rudge, Sub on, Keith Bradley
🕔 | FT Aston Villa 2-2 Ipswich Town
Season | 1967-68 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Match | #35 |
Manager Game | #38 |
Saturday, 6 April 1968

Manager: Tommy Cummings | 🏴 | Sunderland, 1967-1968
Referee: Arthur Jones | 🏴 | Ormskirk, 1966-1977
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨
Referee: Arthur Jones | 🏴 | Ormskirk, 1966-1977
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
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Tommy Cummings | 🏴 | 1967-1968
🕒 38 | 🟩 | 15 🟨 4 🟥 19 | 1.29
Villa Career Form:
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Division Two
Ipswich Town
17-12-5, 46 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 19,874
GK Ken Hancock | 🏴 |
RB Tommy Carroll | 🇮🇪 |
CB Bill Baxter | 🏴 |
CB Derek Jefferson | 🏴 |
LB Billy Houghton | 🏴 |
M Peter Morris | 🏴 |
M Colin Viljoen | 🇿🇦 |
M Danny Hegan | 🏴 |
W Frank Brogan | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Ray Crawford | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF John O’Rourke | 🏴 |
Bill McGarry | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Made
Unused Substitutes:
F Bobby Hunt | 🏴 |
None
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1961-62
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded


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