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Game #3803

Aston Villa

Tuesday, 13 March 1984

Coventry City

3-3

Aston Villa

Division One

Coventry City

Highfield Road

Attendance: 11,098

Drew

9th (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

Assist(s) | Alan Curbishley | 24' |

MATCH SUMMARY

Villa are held by Coventry at Highfield Road after playing the final 24 minutes with Peter Withe in goal after a serious head injury to Nigel Spink. Coventry equalise late on despite Withe's efforts to leave Villa 9th in the table.

KEY MAN

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MATCH TIMELINE

Tuesday, 13 March 1984

🥅 | 11’ Goal, 0-1, (Coventry City), Gerry Daly
⚽ | 19’ Goal, 1-1, Allan Evans (pen)
⚽ | 24’ Goal, 2-1, Peter Withe, Assist by Alan Curbishley
🥅 | 37’ Goal, 2-2, (Coventry City), Sam Allardyce
🕒 | HT Coventry City 2-2 Aston Villa
⚽ | 47’ Goal, 3-2, Paul Rideout
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Nigel Spink, Sub on, Ray Walker
💥 | 70’ Outfield player in goal, (Aston Villa), Peter Withe
🥅 | 81’ Goal, 3-3, (Coventry City), Terry Gibson
🕒 | FT Coventry City 3-3 Aston Villa

ON THIS DAY

Tony Barton's Villa stop a run of two losses to draw with Coventry despite losing 'keeper Nigel Spink to injury for the last 10 minutes of the match, as a result Villa make it eleven wins, nine draws and eleven defeats in thirty one League games this season.

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82

Coventry City

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

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa Vs.

Coventry City

Previous 5 vs. Coventry: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩

PREVIOUS MATCH

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season: 1983-84
Matchday: #44
League Match: #31
Manager Game: #126
Tuesday, 13 March 1984

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Surrey, 1982-1984
Referee: Danny Vickers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ilford, 1979-1990
HT Score: 🟨 2-2
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 3-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨

MANAGERIAL RECORD

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 126 | 🟩 | 57 🟨 | 25 🟥 44 | 1.56

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Danny Vickers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ilford, 1979-1990
Matches Officiated: 2
🟩 : 0
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 10 October 1981, Villa 1-1 Coventry, Highfield Road.
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

None

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TEAM NEWS

Alan Curbishley replaces Dennis Mortimer.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.17 |

Oldest Player |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.56 |

Youngest Player |
CF Paul Rideout | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.59 |

MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Alan Curbishley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Steve McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Paul Rideout | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Bobby Gould | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Coventry City

GK Perry Suckling | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Steve Jacobs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Sam Allardyce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CB Trevor Peake | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Micky Adams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dave Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Ashley Grimes | 🇮🇪 |
M Gerry Daly | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
F Keith Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Terry Gibson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Dave Bamber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Ray Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for GK Nigel Spink | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 70' |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | F Keith Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Steve Hunt (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/12

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

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M Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

"He [Nigel Spink] had a gash under the eye and was concussed. He wanted to play on. but just had to come off." Tony Barton.

MATCH REPORT

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