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Game #3286

Aston Villa

1-3-0, 5 PTS

Wednesday, 28 August 1974

Aston Villa

6-0

Hull City

Division Two

Hull City

1-2-1, 4 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 18,973

Won

4th= (+3)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩

Assists(s) | Chico Hamilton | 52' | 70' | 78' |

MATCH SUMMARY

Villa survive another below par first half and the loss from the field of play of John Gidman for five minutes as Sammy Morgan hands them the lead before the interval. The second half starts with a poor refereeing decision as Morgan has a second disallowed and that seems to motivate a previously shot shy Villa to destroy Hull and record their first win of the season and first win under Ron Saunders in fine style - hitting five second half goals to beat Hull 6-0.

KEY MAN

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 28 August 1974

💥 | 15' Player left field of play, John Gidman, Villa down to 10 men
💥 | 20' Player returns to field of play, John Gidman
⚽ | 30’ Goal, 1-0, Sammy Morgan
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Hull City
💥 | 48' Referee John Gough "dubiously" disallows a Morgan 'goal'
⚽ | 49’ Goal, 2-0, Sammy Morgan
⚽ | 52’ Goal, 3-0, Ray Graydon, Assist by Chico Hamilton
⚽ | 70’ Goal, 4-0, Brian Little, Assist by Chico Hamilton
⚽ | 78’ Goal, 5-0, Sammy Morgan, Assist by Chico Hamilton
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 6-0, Chico Hamilton
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 6-0 Hull City

🟨 | Booking, Charlie Aitken
🟨 | Booking, Chris Nicholl

ON THIS DAY

Ron Saunders' Villa win for the first time this season and the first time under his leadership as they make it four games unbeaten thanks to the Sammy Morgan and Chico Hamilton show at Villa Park.

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61

Hull City

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa Vs.

Hull City

Previous 5 vs. Hull: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨

PREVIOUS MATCH

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1974-75 |
Matchday | #4 |
League Match | #4 |
Manager Game | #4 |
Wednesday, 28 August 1974

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: John Hough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Macclesfield, 1973-1986 🆘
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 6-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 4 | 🟩 | 1 🟨 | 3 🟥 0 | 1.50

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: John Hough | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Macclesfield, 1973-1986 🆘
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 1
🆘 "Over-zealous" refereeing booking four and dubiously disallowing a Villa strike.
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

🟨 🟨

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🟨 🟨

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TEAM NEWS

Jake Findlay replaces Jim Cumbes in goal for his first start of the season whilst Frank Carrodus returns in place of Jimmy Brown.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.23 |

Oldest Player |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 32.35 |

Youngest Player |
GK Jake Findlay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 20.14 |

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Aston Villa

GK Jake Findlay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB John Gidman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Ian Ross | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Chris Nicholl | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
FB John Robson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Chico Hamilton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
W Ray Graydon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
F Sammy Morgan | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Terry Neill | 🇬🇧 |

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Hull City

GK Jeff Wealands | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Roger Devries | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Stuart Blampey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Steve Deere | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
RB Dennis Burnett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Malcolm Lord | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Vince Grimes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jimmy McGill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Jeff Hemmerman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Ken Wagstaff | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Peter Fletcher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Jimmy McGill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (W Chris Galvin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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F Bobby Campbell | 🇬🇧 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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None

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/12

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/12

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 1 |
GK Jim Cumbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

MATCH STATS

Not recorded

MATCH QUOTES

MATCH REPORT

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

*Birmingham Daily Post*
Thursday, 29 August 1974

Three-goal Sammy Morgan led Aston Villa to a spectacular first League win of the season last night and at the same time cost the club £12,000 under the terms of his transfer. But even though he also had another ‘goal’ disallowed, the Northern Ireland international was not the only hero of a remarkable second half which saw five of Villa’s goals. Sharing the applause of the crowd was ‘Chico’ Hamilton who fulfilled his potential, at last, by taking a major part in three of the goals and scoring the last. When Villa signed Morgan they paid Port Vale £20,000 and agreed to add another £10,000 If he scored ten goals inside 42 games, plus another £1,000 a goal up to 20. No doubt they will pay up happily for it was only after Morgan had bundled in the first goal, his tenth for Villa, that the rest of the team showed the form their fans’ demand. That Villa should finish in such devastating command looked most unlikely after an initial 20 minutes which saw John Gidman spend five minutes off the field injured and some alarming mistakes by 20-year old Jake Findlay in goal. It was only when Jeff Hemmerman headed against the post after 27 minutes that Villa found the confidence to break away and take the lead. Goalkeeper Jeff Wealands dropped a shot from Brian Little and Morgan fell past Ray Graydon to prod the ball over the line. Three minutes after the interval referee John Hough was the subject of the fans’ anger for dubiously refusing a second goal to Morgan, but he made amends a minute later. Chris Nicholl headed in Hamilton’s corner and when the ball was blocked on the line, Morgan rammed in the rebound. Villa were now in complete control and in the 52nd minute Ray Graydon headed in Hamilton’s cross from the left for No. 3. There was then an 18 minute hiatus before, in the 70th minute Brian Little - abandoned by a defence appealing vainly for offside - pushed home another cross from Hamilton. Morgan’s hat-trick was eight minutes away. Once again the final pass came from Hamilton, on the right this time, and Morgan fought off both his own player, Little and Wealands to score Villa’s fifth. There were just five minutes left when Hamilton ran through on his own to earn some reward for his first class approach work. The only sour notes were provided by the over zealous Mr Hough for booking Villa’s Charlie Aitken and Nicholl and Hull’s Malcolm Lord and Steve Deere - the latter for being over possessive about the elusive Hamilton’s jersey.

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