Game #3277
Aston Villa
12-14-11, 38 PTS

Monday, 15 April 1974
13th= (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴 |
CB Fred Turnbull | 🏴 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴 |
M Pat McMahon | 🏴 |
F Brian Little | 🏴 |
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 |
F Keith Leonard | 🏴 |
Vic Crowe | 🏴 | 1970-1974

Substitutes:
🔁 | F Alun Evans | 🏴 | for F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | 72' |
Unused Substitutes:
None
🟨 John Gidman, Kick
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61
Matchday Squad:
None
Vic Crowe names an unchanged line up.
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.17 |
Oldest Player |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴 | 31.98 |
Youngest Player |
RB John Gidman | 🏴 | 20.27 |
Villa play for the second time in three days and lose their first must win game of six in order to retain a chance of promotion but such is the congestion in the race that 13th placed Villa are still in the hunt as the maths changes.
Vic Crowe's Villa lose for the first time in seven matches to make it twelve wins, fourteen draws and eleven defeats in thirty seven League games this season.

Lost
0-1
🟥 15 Apr 1974, Villa 0-1 Blackpool, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🥅 | 35’ Goal, 0-1, (Blackpool), Keith Dyson.
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Blackpool
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Sammy Morgan, Sub on, Alun Evans
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-1 Blackpool
🟨 | Booking, John Gidman, Kick
Season | 1973-74 |
Matchday | #42 |
League Match | #37 |
Manager Game | #217 |
Monday, 15 April 1974

Manager: Vic Crowe | 🏴 | Abercynon, 1970-1974
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
Referee: Unknown
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
None
Vic Crowe | 🏴 | 1970-1974
🕒 217 | 🟩 | 98 🟨 | 61 🟥 58 | 1.64
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division Two
Blackpool
15-13-11, 43 PTS

Villa Park
Attendance: 18,351
GK John Burridge | 🏴 |
LB Steve Harrison | 🏴 |
CB Terry Alcock | 🏴 |
CB Glyn James | 🏴 |
CB Peter Suddaby | 🏴 |
LB Bill Bentley | 🏴 |
M Alan Suddick | 🏴 |
M Alan Ainscow | 🏴 |
F Micky Burns | 🏴 |
F Bob Hatton | 🏴 |
F Keith Dyson | 🏴 | ⚽ |
Harry Potts | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
No Substitutions Made
Unused Substitutes:
M John Evanson | 🏴 |
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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1952-53
Matchday Squad:
Not Reported


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