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Game #3559

Aston Villa

Saturday, 27 October 1979

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Drew

13th (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨

Division One

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Molineux

Attendance: 36,267

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

Wolves

1-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Dennis Mortimer | 44' |

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 27 October 1979

🟨 | 7’ Booking, Allan Evans, Dissent
🟨 | 14’ Booking, Dennis Mortimer, Dissent
🥅 | 15’ Goal, 0-1, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Andy Gray
⚽ | 44’ Goal, 1-1, Gary Shaw, Assist by Dennis Mortimer
🕒 | HT Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa
🟥 | 60’ Sending off, Brendan Ormsby
🟥 | 60’ Sending off, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), John Richards
🕒 | FT Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 27 October 1979
  • Villa extend their unbeaten League run to six games but are held at Molineux as young Brendan Ormsby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is 🟥 sent off alongside Wolves' Richards.

  • Ron Saunders' Villa make it 🟩 three wins, 🟨 six draws and 🟥 three defeats in twelve League matches this season as they climb to 13th place in the table.

  • One game after ⚽ scoring his first League goal for the club, forward Gary Shaw 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ scores his second on his 🕒 10th appearance (9 Starts).

  • Centre back Brendan Ormsby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is 🟥 sent off on his 🕒 8th appearance in a Villa shirt (6 Starts).

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1976-77

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1973-74

FIXTURE HISTORY
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Previous 5 vs. Wolves: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

Wolverhampton Wanderers

PREVIOUS MATCH
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Wolverhampton Wanderers

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1979-80 |
Matchday | #16 |
League Match | #12 |
Manager Game | #277 |
Saturday, 27 October 1979

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🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Birkenhead, 1974-1982
Referee: Derek Lloyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worcester, 1977-1979
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

🕒 277 | 🟩 | 121 🟨 | 79 🟥 77 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Derek Lloyd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worcester, 1977-1979

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟥 Brendan Ormsby
🟨 Allan Evans, Dissent
🟨 Dennis Mortimer, Dissent

CARDS
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🟥 🟨 🟨

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Colin Gibson replaces Mike Pejic.

Starting XI Average Age
| 23.86 |

Oldest Player |
GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.73 |

Youngest Player |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 17.94 |

Referee

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

MANAGER

Ron Saunders | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1974-1982

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Rimmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kenny Swain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔥 |
F Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF David Geddis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

John Barnwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Wolverhampton Wanderers

GK Paul Bradshaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Emlyn Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Derek Parkin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB George Berry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Geoffrey Palmer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Peter Daniel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kenny Hibbitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Willie Carr | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Dave Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Andy Gray (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Made

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Substitutes

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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CB Ken McNaught | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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CF Melvyn Eves | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

Squad Bios

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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Injury | 4 |
M Alex Cropley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Frank Carrodus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tony Morley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Mike Pejic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Not Recorded

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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MATCH QUOTES
"I lost my rag. What really hurts is the fact that I will lose my place through suspension after just getting my big chance." Brendan Ormsby.
Quotes

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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MATCH REPORTS

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)

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*Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 29 October 1979
Former England Youth captain Brendan Ormsby left Molineux on Saturday nursing a broken nose but considerably the wiser after his clash with John Richards which resulted in the pair of them being sent off, writes lAN WILLARS. Ormsby, just 19, and a promising prospect, earned a lot of respect afterwards for the way he accepted his share of the blame for the fracas. "I lost my rag. What really hurts is the fact that I will lose my place through suspension after just getting my big chance." Richards was gagged by manager John Barnwell from making any comment about the explosive 60th minute incident which marred a marvellously competitive 100th local derby between Wolves and Aston Villa. But it goes almost without saying that he most probably regretted his action as well particularly as he now misses tomorrow night's Fourth Round League Cup tie at Queen's Park Rangers. Wolves should, of course, have buried their old rivals in the first 20 minutes with Andy Gray giving his former club-mates a real fright. Gray scored in the 15th minute after Daniel had back-headed a free kick by Parkin and it seemed that Wolves were going to win by a mile. Four booked But Villa suddenly fired into action. It may have been that referee Lloyd stirred them with his finicky and over-fussy handling of the game which saw four players - Wolves' Palmer and Berry and Villa's Evans and Mortimer - booked in the first 35 minutes for offences which really merited only a lecture. Villa achieved their equaliser with 18-year-old Gary Shaw scoring almost on the stroke of half time with a left foot shot which Bradshaw should have saved. So honours finished even and that was just about right on the day. Even England team manager Ron Greenwood looked satisfied and that was no doubt because of the form of his former captain Emlyn Hughes. He had probably his best game since arriving at Wolves from Liverpool.
Reports

🟨 27 Oct 1979, Villa 1-1 Wolves, Molineux

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